When I came back to wow I had some hope for in-game Communities to be a hub for discussion, or connecting over certain topics or activities. I joined a hunter community a few years ago and no one ever posted, so left after a few months. I belonged to another one that was for connecting for raids, and that one saw some action for an xpac or two. But then it died.
Now I have a Community just for my alts to join my alt guilds cross-faction, and that’s a good use for it. But with Discord being so popular, is there really any use for Communities anymore in wow? Do any of you belong to a busy one?
They never really took off. I know a few guilds that tried to create cross mythic pug channels with them but they are unfortunately to cumbersome to moderate so they are almost entirely unused.
1 Like
Right from what I see pug raiding activity went to Discord a while ago. and much easier to use when not in game.
Mostly use it for recruiting Horde folks, and even then, we have folks in the guild who can do that.
2 Likes
There was never any use for them to begin with.
All they did was screw over guild permissions and ranks.
4 Likes
Oh I see, I don’t know anything about that. Were they in competition or something?
Yeah, I do think Discord made Blizzard’s attempt pretty meaningless by most accounts. They were most popular when they were new, but like most things in WoW, as time passed fewer and fewer players engaged with them.
1 Like
No, Blizz was just too lazy to give communities their own set of permissions and ranks. So they butchered guild permissions and ranks, then linked communities into it so they could do it the easy way.
Now… all but three ranks are completely useless in a guild and permissions are botched and bunched up into one huge block.
4 Likes
this is the reality.
communities were a late-to-the-party, poorly implemented feature that didn’t give us a fraction of the tools discord does for managing a community.
3 Likes
Ah I see. I noticed the guild settings tabs are a little clunky, but it’s just me in there with a few toons, mostly for bank storage tabs.
I send my better alts to busier guilds with some action going on
I think I am in one for battle pet collections but might not be. Haven’t seen any chats for a long time.
1 Like
Communities are EXTREMELY popular for pvp. There are dozens of them that have fully maxed members (1,000).
There are some achievement communities too.
1 Like
Regarding pvp communities: That’s really good to know. Maybe I’ll get on board with the premade concept I’ve been railing against for a couple of months lol.
I would think communities would be good for niche content like people who were looking for others to do old content with mandatory grouping or what have you, but I’ve never gotten around to looking at them myself. They’re very useful over in D3 when working on seasonal goals with others.
1 Like
They have their uses. I met most of my guild in one when we were farming TLPD. We strategized how we were going to form our guild.
It’s pretty much dead, now. Only because we are all in the same guild.
However, I know that we have a use for it if we need to start farming TLPD, again. It’s a good way to communicate with others that are not a part of your guild.
I never saw the point in them from day one. I even wondered did players ask for this?
I joined one or two at the beginning to say I checked it out but I don’t believe I was in one longer than two weeks.
Discord is established as the de facto communication platform by any gamer group or guild I’ve ever been part of.
1 Like
I think communities and guilds in general could use a full rework. Especially in the UI. Hopefully they have it planned for one of the upcoming expansions.
Blizz just needs to create a guild / community integration with Discord, so the chat feeds can be shared.
1 Like
Discord is way more useful honestly… because we DO have folks from various timezones, some of them as distant as Australia or South America, it would be nigh impossible to get everyone on the same page without our timezone app, and it also comes with its own translator I’ve added, so no language issues.
Just for those types of features alone Discord is frankly much more convenient for guild communication and socializing.
(Also because there is no Orcish or Common in Discord, because for some reason Blizzard’s inability to put in language learning costs me thousands in gold…)
1 Like
Uh, no. They are not.
the numbers like the crypitc community guild are pretty meaningless because nobody ever talks. Same for RUIN etc.
They are only active in discord.
It is just an useless interface.