We never cared. Perhaps that is our true cruelty to you. We never cared, we never noticed even now we don’t about you. You are less then a shadow.
We care about how the game was changed and what lfr brought about and what it opened up with titanforging and warfronts.
You seem to see raiders as some kind of cabal out to snub people.
The truth is as hard as it will be for you to accept is we never cared.
Oh, I fully understand that. Always did. Fortunately though, Blizzard cared.
Then why go on to some kind of speech about how we wanted to flaunt to you?
You just stated that it was important to us then accepted we don’t care… what one is it?
You never cared about the folks you were snubbing. We had to rely on Blizzard to finally give us a game. You couldn’t be counted on.
I never snubbed anyone. That isn’t what raid guilds are. You prepare yourself apply and if all the boxes are ticked your usually in.
A raid guild without recruits dies.
Gone are the days when the game was shiny and new to everyone, and you were all working together to figure it out and master it.
Those days are gone forever. When your friends moved on, did you befriend the new players who came next, or did see them as people you had nothing in common with?
What you now know about the game means that that sense of community for survival will never return.
It’s not the fault of LFR. It’s not the fault of new players. It’s just part of the life cycle of the game.
I tried to do all of that and there were no guilds on my server recruiting at my available timeframes. I also failed at making the right type of friends that I could run actual content with.
Befriended new players for most of it. Granted I didn’t stray outside of raiding it was what I did back then. Ever since cata there hasn’t been that learning period for new players lfr crushed that.
Cata was the last batch of fresh players who were trained in dungeons to my knowledge barring a few outliners.
Then go to a server with one? This is getting more and more absurd. You are now saying that because when you snapped your fingers 24 players didn’t suddenly appear who raided at your times you were snubbed…
Server transferring never occured to me at the time. Had no idea my server was so bad. I assumed the game was like that all around and I didn’t have any connections elsewhere anyway.
I pretty much agree with the OP, and want to see LFR/LFD expanded upon rather than removed.
OMG… The memories… The memories…
Unless someone is a top player who will always be in demand, there’s no more likelihood that he’ll find the situation he needs on a different server.
Throwing random amounts of cash dollars in the general direction of Blizzard is not a part of the solution.
To be fair, if I had known that was an option at the time, I would have gone for it. Literally all I wanted to be able to do was count on running dungeons and maybe step into some raiding.
What has to happen is to find a guild on another server first. Just paying to transfer before shopping for a new guild is not nearly as likely to be successful.
For instance, I know a lot of players on the forum who have been in a guild that raids the most popular time slot tell players with odd schedules that there are guilds for all hours. And since I read trade chat on the busiest servers and know there are never guild ads for raiding in most time slots, I know their information is either very out of date or never was true.
You see ads for evening raiding and a few for late night raiding. And that’s it.
Well yes. But we didn’t have discords or anything back in the day. If there was a way to scout out guilds on other servers that would even give me the time of day I wouldn’t have known it.
newsflash, there is not one ‘right’ way to enjoy a game. Your way is just one of many.
Oh, the Memories of BC.
Gone are the days of spamming trade in Shattrath, and getting ignored because I played a feral druid.
Gone are the days of fighting with rogues over agility gear as said Feral druid.
Gone are the days of rolling need on cloth because I wanted to heal as Resto druid.
Gone are the days of mindlessly farming primals.
Gone are the days of spamming Alterac Valley BG.
Gone are the days of endless Quel’Danas Dailies.
Gone are the days of “Bring the class, not the player”.
Gone are the days of dungeon quests filling my quest log, and never getting done.
Gone are the days of bigger, more progressed, guilds poaching smaller ones.
Had Wrath been a copy and paste of BC, I’d have been long gone. I’m sure many others would have as well.
I fully remember most of those problems. I’m glad there are others who don’t see BC as some pinnacle of gaming, lol.
Unless you like to play Gnomes, then there’s something wrong with you.