I interact the problem is I get reported for being too based
Checking the guild Discord is a good recommendation, but in my experience itâs often because most of the activity outside of raiding is happening in cliques.
The only reason cross-realm LFD/LFR (those most damaging kind) ever became necessary is because Blizzard is consistently horrible at managing server populations. If theyâd practiced more restraint with opening new servers and then merged or linked servers that with dwindling populations, single-realm LFD/LFR wouldâve been sufficient which wouldnât have been nearly as bad.
With single-realm LFD, group members have to live with the consequences of their actions since theyâll always be queuing with the same pool of players. They canât act like a total butthat and get away with it because theyâll never see the same players twice like they can with crossrealm.
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Most socializing (in ye olde days) was because things like Ventrilo, Discord, Twitter, etc, didnât exist en masse. So guild chat âwasâ social media.
More likely, people just arenât chatting as much. Social interactions have most shifted to Discord or other sites because the MMO space largely doesnât serve as a good way to chat with others across multiple games.
It was definitely good for a lot of people, but came with a significant cost as well. Such is life though.
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Yes, the automated group-matchmaking systems like LFR are convenient, sure⊠but at what cost? 
Honestly I can totally see the devs back then being âblissfully unawareâ of the consequences stuff like LFD/LFR/sharding/etc would have on the social fabric of the community.
I imagine in their minds (at the time) they were thinking something like âhey, this new LFD concept will make it easier for players to find dungeon groups!â or a similar well-intentioned/warm-and-fuzzy thought process - but they had no way of knowing the unintended consequences until it was too late, and here we are in 2022 where almost no one talks to each other and the âsmall-town feelâ of the community is gone 
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Itâs better than spending hours sitting in a city spamming gen chat looking for a group.
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in game not really they just sit in lfg and queue for m+ or pvp people dont even talk in my guild chat much but there are guilds that use discord.
Itâs not just trade chat and fully automated crossrealm LFD/LFR that are options, you know. Thereâs also the in-betweens of manual group finder UI which players use day in and out to run incredible numbers of M+ keys, as well as single-realm LFD and LFR that are possibilities.
If most people are spending their in-game time doing mind-numbing chores, what is there to discuss?
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Iâm referring to the time before lfd was added. Sitting in a city spending hours looking for a group was not fun. Lfd and lfr isnât perfect but itâs better than that.
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I hear ya man. Iâm very much into the social aspect of MMOs.
Sometimes people just donât want to talk and thatâs okay.
In any case what server are you on? gOLdHaZe#1766 hit me up. I prefer alliance but Iâm open to horde as well.
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The Classic servers are built more around leveling with friends. Retail has been modified to funnel people into the end game as quickly as possible, so youâre not going to find a lot of people to group with while leveling because itâs actually more efficient to just blitz through the content solo.
For LFD maybe yeah, but I have yet to have an LFR experience that wasnât dismal. LFR has easily wasted as much time wiping as I wouldâve spent getting a pre-LFR pug raid and then some.
Yeah nobody communicates anymore itâs like they just donât care to talk to people these days . I was in a guild and try to ask for help and got no answer and we had like 40 something people on and was just dead silents this went on weeks with nobody talking to anybody unless they were whispering with each other is all can figure. So I just left the guild cause I may well be playing myself right.
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Flying evolved the game, not destroyed it. Look at older MMOs - how many of them are still around with no flying?
Truth here
Some guilds have members in the hundreds and only like 15 people on at a time. It is just weird.