Do you "identify" with any of the Community Council members?

[Basîl-benediction]

@Sorelai-wyrmrest-accord

The underlying cause is Cross-Realm Play to be honest. I literally don’t know a single person on my server these days. I never see anyone from my server. I want to play the game with people I can build relationships with.

I know I’m Classic-based, but I cover this in a post regarding TBC realms and how I’m very afraid of TBCC turning out the very same way. I’d love ideas on what do to about that and how to better incentivize building meaningful relationships in retail. Most dungeons I run in retail feels a lot like just running with literal bots. If you have ideas on how to fix this in retail I would love to hear it, because it really truly does make me deeply sad.

@Basîl-benediction

The thing that made Vanilla-WOTLK so special to so many people was the sense of community, and the sense of “hey I know that guy/guild/etc” and making friends in the open world. In retail that feeling is basically entirely lost, either with realms like A52 being so obscenely large that you never run into the same person again, or a smaller realm that just gets phase-hopped to who knows where and thus never runs into the same person again. A lot of times in retail I struggle hard to find anyone else from my own guild in the world when we’re in the same zone, even.

@Basîl-benediction

I don’t play an MMO to wade through an endless sea of chatter and spam to be plunked into dungeons and groups where people stop talking. I play an MMO to establish and develop friends and relationships (good and bad.)