I'm a Solo Player in your MMo, No I won't go play Skyrim

[Tokali-thrall]

This is so people will stop shouting at everyone to leave the game and play some single player game if they like single player content.

Well I’m going to say something anyways. You’re playing an MMO. You should expect multiplayer content.

[Karckus-turalyon]

What’s wrong with Skyrim?

[Karckus-turalyon]

ESO is pretty good. Been playing that since 2014.

[Mettlebrew-illidan]

Oh yeah itz still Sunday lol

[Belkor-fizzcrank]

I am a mostly solo player these days. I have a lot of fun just puttering around the world doing random stuff.

I do get frustrated with story progression sometimes. Yesterday, I wanted to continue the main warfront storyline where you defeat King Rastakhan. I had to wait an hour and twenty minutes in raider finder - for a group activity I don’t enjoy in the first place. I sucked it up and got it done. Not ideal though. Ah well.

[Vyranti-stormrage]

Speaking of Elder Scrolls, I really need to replay Oblivion and actually get around to playing Skyrim for once.

[Sinrostro-frostmourne]

What I care about is when a solo player claims that they should have every right to everything in this game that people who group up and coordinate together to achieve, without the grouping up or coordinating together

Could you like go away? It’s not what the thread was about at all, so stop trolling and derailing.

[Toddorbert-thrall]

your post brings up an interesting idea: have the game ADD 4 NPCs to join you in a group to run a dungeon instead of waiting 45 min+ (as a dps) at least this way, no single player can be voted out.

[Zeusgodofsky-thrall (Zeusgodofsky)]

Feels amazeing man!

[Hilabigtoes-senjin]

If Blizz cared about solo play they would make single player raid options. Sadly they don’t care about us, and think LFR is enough. I decided to do this expansions raids two expansions from now when I can solo them so I don’t have to stress over learning gimmicky raid mechanics and getting yelled at by jobless boomers in their forties.

[Shadina-gorefiend (Shadina)]

Nope. I have every right to discuss my views in a forum about anything. The topic brought up was regarding a solo player’s experience. To which I said I don’t care about those kinds of things, and I voiced what I do care about. You have every right to disagree with me. But I have every right to voice my opinions on any given subject within a thread.

Edit: and for the record, you are the only one who took issue with what I said. Other people engaged in a conversation and a discussion. Just because you do not like me, or what I say, doesn’t mean you are correct with emotional responses. I do not care about you, or anything involving you. I care about whether or not you are correct. In this case, you are not correct.

[Breakbeat-kilrogg (Breakbeat)]

Hello, I’m here today to educate you on the various reasons someone may choose to play an MMo as a single player game.

What a condescending way to start a thread. I don’t need education from some random WoW forum poster, thanks.

Especially “fake” education on why people make subjective choices.

[Cilest-scarlet-crusade (Cilest)]

I agree with you Op on this. I used to have lots of friends in the game. But they left around BC/wrath. I don’t have any more friends that play this game. As for making new friends, I don’t want to. The community is so different and I deal with social anxiety, so making friends is something I have to force myself. As it is I would like to have a guild horde side for my alts, but I just can’t bring myself to bother four other players and then have some poor sod sit around and pull my alts into the guild. Also would need someone that is not going to steal my alliance guilds bank to pull my alliance alts in. I do have a second account so i can do that by myself… but those four signatures to get that guild up on horde are… I cringe at asking.

[Andros-thaurissan (Andros)]

You people are great.

[Cyouskin-stormreaver (Cyous)]

I’m sure there is other reasons a person may prefer a MMo over a Single player game even though they are a solo player. However these are the ones I am most aware of because they are the ones that fit me personally. So can you please stop telling me to not play an MMo just because I enjoy content that is more of solo player thing such as dailys, world quests, and yes even the Random Dungeons which are basicly solo content because the other 4 guys may as well be npcs cause they don’t say anything.

Nothing wrong with playing solo in an MMO. Lone Wolves are valid.

So long as you aren’t that type of solo player who thinks you should have access to “the best gear” because you spend $15/month, there’s no issue.

And because I know it’s a fun comment – Rewards should be relative to difficulty. Nothing wrong with making alternate gear routes and such. If those alternate routes are comparable if difficulty, then I’m all for that type of content. (I literally mean, you don’t deserve Mythic Raiding gear for 30sec of minimal effort. Mage Tower on launch? By all means, you should get something very special for it.)

[Shadina-gorefiend (Shadina)]

So long as you aren’t that type of solo player who thinks you should have access to “the best gear” because you spend $15/month, there’s no issue.

Well said.

[Brahmina-khadgar (Brahmina)]

In the past, these players didn’t except raid level gear, access to raids and access to dungeons without having to socialize. Modern solo MMO players are plague on the genre, because of their constant demands to make the game more accessible to fit their play style has watered down the game’s social aspects.

I am a current player who mostly solos, and I’ve never asked to have the game cater to my play style. I have occasionally asked that Blizz not remove things I enjoy about the game (such as First Aid and a comprehensive portal hub), but I don’t expect anything, and I’ve never demanded anything.

While I know there are some players who fit this description, I think they’re far less common than their forum posts make them appear.

There have been so many changes over the years to marginalize negative social interactions,

I’m trying to parse this comment out because it seems to be saying that negative social interactions shouldn’t be marginalized. That makes me think it’s saying that it’s perfectly fine to act like a jerk in group content, and anyone who believes people should behave decently when playing with others is a casual solo player who is a “plague on the genre”.

I would personally argue the opposite: That anyone who thinks the anonymity of the internet grants them carte blanche to behave poorly is a plague on gaming overall, whether or not they enjoy group content.

I’m going to assume I’m wrong in my assumption and that you actually don’t think it’s okay to be a donkey butt to other people.

[anon77481220]

Unless you include queued groups as solo content, I doubt there’s that many people who exclusively play solo content in the game.

That’s the issue, people are quick to categorize each other and themselves so they can either marginalize someone or gain support for their own point of view.

What other people do in the game cannot invalidate what you chose to do, only you can do that. If you’re unhappy with your choices in the game, maybe you’re making the wrong choices.

[Zoumz-zuljin (Zoumz)]

What other people do in the game cannot invalidate what you chose to do, only you can do that. If you’re unhappy with your choices in the game, maybe you’re making the wrong choices.

While that’s true, it’s not “them” getting the gear that invalidate harder/group content. It’s the gear being available to them. There’s a difference. I don’t care what someone get, as long as he gets it in a way that seems fair. If a game doesn’t seem fair why play it? Why should we play a casino game instead of a well crafted game? It’s kinda why communist don’t work. If you don’t give good enough rewards to do harder stuff, then people will either leave to better places that reward them better or just not do what’s harder. That’s just human nature.

[Dexterworgen-nordrassil]

If you don’t give good enough rewards to do harder stuff, then people will either leave to better places that reward them better or just not do what’s harder. That’s just human nature.

So basically you are saying all humans are either Lazy or Greedy. Possibly both. Thanks for clarifying.