Just curious who plays solo and why you decided to be a lone wolf. For me it was after being a GM and moving the guild to another server. I ended up selling the guild for multiple reasons and taking a much needed break.
When I came back I found out people I played with quit for different reasons. I started joining guilds just to have people to run dungeons and and do LFR with but the problem was nobody wanted to group up so I started playing solo and have been since.
At the moment I just prefer to play WoW without feeling obligated to. I just got done leveling a warrior to 60 on classic and raiding as a main tank for a few months.
All my “friends” just wanted me to tank for em lol! Once I stopped playing classic they all stopped messaging me haha.
But anyway, at the moment I’d rather just do my own thing and log on whenever I feel like it.
I do. I just had too many terrible guild experiences. I got fed up with drama.
I have been playing solo for most of WoW because I felt I could never trust people to do their jobs and could only rely on myself. It wasnt until this last raid tier in a pug that a GM who was tanking saw I was on his realm and invited me to his guild. I was hesitant and declined his offer at first, but he convinced me to join. They are actually all pretty good players. They arent a mythic level guild, but we can handle heroic raiding and your +15 keys just fine.
And even in the content drought waiting for the next patch there are still plenty of people active. But its still relatively new to me, so I dont know if Ill last years here or bail and go back to solo after an expansion.
I play solo because I got fed up of having to log on at certain times each week to raid.
I like the game but I prefer having a life outside of it.
I like playing solo, and sometimes I play with a friend or two. It depends on my mood really.
I’ve always been a lone wolf… I thought I’d change in WoW but have not been able to. And pugging things isn’t my idea of a good fun WOW experience so after 2 years of not changing anything, I’ve let my sub lapse. It’s kind of sad to be honest.
I’ve always been a lone wolf 'cause it felt better but THAT was D2, D2 LOD and some early CS. In WoW there is only so much I do solo before it feels meaningless so I stayed to gold making and doing the odd lfr or something.
Other people enjoy solo play, I get that… I just don’t… New players even come in, and are raiding in a Guild, enjoying the game so quickly but I can’t seem to break through after 2 years so the lone wolf seems to be throwing in the towel, it is what has ended my time in WoW ironically enough.
These days I have narrow windows of time to play, which makes it hard to coordinate with my friends to do anything together. Also, when leveling, I like to read all of the quests and get into the story. That’s too slow, even for my wife. So solo it is, almost all the time.
Not really a social type I guess. I like doing things at my own pace and whims. The last active guild I was in was during MoP, but even then I still did most things alone, aside from dungeons and such.
It’s just how I roll. I’m not really bothered doing things solo.
Define Solo.
Does it include people who rely on pugs to clear content, since it’s not friends or a guild or some other consistent group?
Does it include people who participate in queued content but not organized raiding, M+, or rated PvP, since you don’t have to know, talk, or really deal with anybody to use Group Finder?
Or do you mean people who literally will not play with anyone else, meaning they’re doing world content and content they can literally solo (mostly old content, but not always) exclusively?
Because that first group probably would include the majority of the playerbase. The second group would reduce the size a ton, especially in BfA where queued content is useless.
That 3rd group is what I consider “solo”, and I imagine it’s the smallest group. But I also feel like there’s WAY more people who play the game in that way than there should be for an MMORPG.
PvE content became so anti-social that I was essentially forced to. These days you not only can’t generally chat up your dungeon mates and have some fun, you can’t even chat them up to let them know not to do something stupid that’ll wipe the group because they’ve straight up turned off chat. Only RP is still really good for socializing.
I’m more social on classic where it’s not like that though!
I pay my sub to have my own fun, not for others to depend on me when they can’t be bothered to not stand in fire.
I’m gonna wager the amount of people who have literally turned off chat is much smaller than you think it is.
I solo do to the community sucks why would i want to join a guild or even a raid guild to hear some 50 year old scream and cry like a kid in a candy store been there done that no thinks not going back in fact if it was not for LFg/LFR - solo que i would not even be playing this game any more
I play only as a duo with my son. I prob would only play once every few months if not for him.
Do you really need a definition after that beautiful essay you wrote? Your definition is anything done alone or unaccompanied.
I have a single friend who I occasionally play with, but other than that I’m a solo player. I was once in a very nice active guild, but they moved to Horde so RIP.
I play solo for several reasons. I like to go at my own pace & on my own time. I like to succeed or fail on my merits. I like not having to worry about other people’s expectations. I like to be the hero.
And why do I play solo in an MMO? Because single-player RPGs take years to produce, whilst this game gets new content & patches on a regular basis. Because I like playing the Auction House. Because I like seeing people in the cities, just not outside of them.
I play solo most of the time. I do occasionally help out fellow guild members with instances and such, though I don’t go looking for group content.
In fairness, that’s how most people treat internet “friends” even when they actually like you and don’t just want you for some purpose. Not playing the same game anymore? You’re basically dead to them.
Kinda crappy but super super common.