No, you play this game to be social. You don’t get to pick how others play. Some people share your sentiment, others don’t. Just like with RDF there’s differing opinions, but you can’t just drop a blanket statement and herd all players on WoW into your little box you’ve made out of some pre-conceived notion that MMOs require you to interact with others.
I’m speaking for myself, but I bet a lot of other players on HC servers will agree that chat is more poppin and social right now with this influx of HC players than it has been in a while. And it’s not like people refuse to help others. I’ve seen plenty of HC players save someone else from death by pulling 1 of the 3 mobs attacking off of them.
As far as the AH goes, I never understand how people think HC affects their auction house…
“BUT THEY’RE FARMING ALL THE MATS AND NOT POSTING THEM.”
Yeah, that logic would work if there was a limit to supply. If there was a finite amount of light leather in the game, for example, then I could see how it might ruin the economy. If copper nodes didn’t respawn after they were mined, the complaint would make sense. There is literally an infinite supply of materials for a finite demand.
The people using the AH on these “hardcore” servers aren’t missing out on anything. It makes no difference if HC players dont use the AH. If they got rid of HC like a lot of people want, those players just wouldn’t be there to use the AH at all in the first place.
Long story short, I’m going to go buy a tiny violin today to adequately respond to all these HC complainers and their arbitrary reasons for not liking how others play a game that they pay their own subscription for.