And if he just went and played Retail WoW he could have that with LFD and LFR. heh.
Frankly, what boggles my mind is the sheer amount of players SoD has who are like this.
The things they’re asking for, like wanting the game to be easier for solo casual players, or wanting to be able to get into a pug group without having to work for it or whisper another player… these are the things that destroyed any sense of community in Retail WoW and indeed in most other Modern MMOs in general.
A lot of us are here playing this twenty year old version of the game with some extra bells and whistles BECAUSE catering to the solo, casual player is what ruined Retail WoW for us.
And yet, even now, even in this twenty year old game, we still have people baying at the top of their lungs for more solo-friendly game design. Crazy.
I originally started WoW in Wotlk, so 2019 Classic was my first time doing 40 man raids. It was fine. Fun, even. And frankly, I wish BFD and Gnomer would have been 20 man raids from the start because 10 man has been fairly limiting for my group of friends. Glad that Phase 3 will be 20 man, and I don’t mind whether MC is 20 man or not tbh.
What you seem to fail to understand (which is odd because you say you enjoy your guild) is that guilds are the pillars upon which the broader community is built. If SoD starts to de-emphasize guilds, any sense of a community feel to the game will start to die and we’ll start down the same slippery slope that Retail WoW took to its current state, where there’s no semblance of community anywhere to be seen.
Guilds should remain the best way to play SoD, full stop. Joining a guild should be the easiest, most basic advice you can give anyone who is struggling with the pugging scene, because again, being in a guild SHOULD be better than pugging.
Not saying that Blizzard needs to kill pugging altogether and FORCE everyone to join a guild upon login or anything insane like that. But I very much like the current state of the game we have, where being in a guild makes SoD easily twice or more as much fun as not being in one.
Exactly my point. Unless you commit to playing consistently with that group, you’ll find yourself raiding with a new team more than likely or you eat the consequences of not being as committed.
Community exists outside of small cliques but not independent of them. There is no community without the small cliques to fill in the space. Get rid of the small cliques and ‘community’ becomes meaningless.
Which is precisely why GDKP is banned in SoD, as per the developer’s own words. Because it disentivized guilds and killed them in Era, and that isn’t the sort of thing the developers want to encourage in SoD.