My guildies have become my IRL friends. Last year we had a group vacation together in Vancouver BC, and also a guild group down to Blizzcon.
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Exactly. Yes!
I think the point of the analogy now is like…
If you’re joining local band guild with big egos- it should largely be for social reasons.
It seems to me that everyone interacted with in SoD was preoccupied with parsing. Nobody cares about peripheral/new guild members.
Nobody has any vested interest in teaching someone how to run a dungeon the first time. Help with a question just because or just sit and chat.
Everything feels super transactional in this game. I just think for me personally, the classic nostalgia will never feel the same because i was playing with people I could confidently consider friends.
Yes and no. I met my friends I play with in wow but we’ve met irl over the years and know all about what’s going on with each other.
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Yup. I have a friend who does most of the campaign quests with me each patch and some other friends who enjoy dungeon content.
Panda Remix has been a blast with a group of IRL friends.
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Last time i played with RLF was BFA. I was in a guild during shadowlands, but got burned out on trying to be relevant. My toons are mainly in my own guilds, but i have two toons in different casual guilds, so i could run some low keys if i wanted to. I mainly just do TW or heroic and a bit of LFR, and sometimes world bosses lately.
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I know the people in my guild much better and closer than I know most of my real-life friends.
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Everyone is my friend. Pug Life.
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If my IRL friends didn’t play, I woulda quit this garbage show multiple xpacs ago
Heck probably never woulda played at all
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Hate to respond to negative responses exclusively but it is what it is.
I’m glad to see people in here genuinely maintaining what they would consider real friendships with this game.
I consider this very important. My attempts maybe aren’t as genuine but I also have tried to associate with wow players and there’s something I just am missing, I feel like. Something I don’t bring to the table in a guild?
Anyway yeah. When I was 15 I got nearly 10 other kids to convince their parents to Buy wow subs on their crappy home computers and we all LOVED playing this game like a 25fps slideshow.
I don’t think it’s changed too much these days but you don’t ever see a game ad say anything like ‘bring your friends to azeroth’.
‘Bring your friend and take down the new raid!’.
‘Party up with your closest cohorts and find the epic loot!’
It’s literally just like, the only reason you play with other people is to get YOUR thing. People only run things because they have a reward waiting.
I would literally just run dungeons with people to help and nobody would ever thank me in this game. Real talk.
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Honestly 90+% of my socialization with fellow WoW players is this forum, and I agree that almost everything in game feels transactional (or conditional or so easy we could all just solo it) to some degree. Here, at least everyone is coming for the talking, not usually talking with the intention of doing something else.
In high M+ keys, you can be friendly or social but you know someone is bailing if the group isn’t up to their standards. In raid groups, as you said, so much ego in the way.
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Neither. I play by myself.
Used to play with my husband and a couple RL friends but they all stopped playing. I have no interest in endgame or group content. Solo play is fine with me.
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Lots of words to say nothing.
*looks into the distance*
I used to. In… better days.
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Not any more. Funny thing is the guys I used to play with are still playing, we are on the same server, same guild, we just keep missing each other since we play casually. We are probably gonna play for a couple of weeks after the expansion launches then everyone is gonna get bored, quit for a while, then randomly coming back for a week or two then quitting again.
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Do you consider playing with people who you don’t personally know as anti-social?
This morning.
I’ve sometimes wondered whether I have old friends and acquaintances who play WoW. I’ve never gone out of my way to advertise that I play.
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My main is in a mythic raiding guild and I am in that guild to raid. I post jokes and memes on the disc and do some mythic plus with them, but that’s it.
Some of my alts are in a different mythic raiding guild for the social experience and occasionally to raid, but it’s much more chill.
My best social experiences are with folks on my friends list that I have known for over 10 years, but I do not play with anyone I know IRL.
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All real life friends and family have quit the game and moved on. Very rarely will I see someone log in. Usually for a couple days around a new expansion. 99% of the time, my btag list is all offline though.
The majority of my Warcraft socialization occurs on these forums and not in the game itself.
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A few. Their numbers are dwindling though. That’s ok. This is sort of my hideaway.
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I used to when i first started in Vanilla and BC, but from Wrath till now iv been on my own lol
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