I’m giving you the opportunity to support your point with actual evidence. Are you unable to?
I gave you actual evidence, go play the game for yourself.
It’s one of the most social MMO’s out there.
LFD didn’t make wow anti-social, the community did.
1 Like
Again, this is not evidence, it is your own opinion.
Try again. So far you are getting an F.
So you give up /shrug.
I don’t need to prove my point any more than I already have. You should show up for future discussions more prepared.
You didn’t prove anything either. At best you found some studies that strongly support your theory.
You haven’t proven anything lol, you listed a couple not even peer reviewed resources.
1 Like
It’s not proof though. I haven’t had time to read all of them myself, but I’ve already found factual errors and contradictions.
Rule 702 – Testimony By Expert Witnesses
It states that an expert’s opinion is admissible if: the expert’s scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will help the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue. the testimony is based on sufficient facts or data.
So an experts opinion is sufficient to be considered evidence or proof in a murder trial, but not sufficient enough to be considered evidence or proof in regards to socializing in a video game.
You guys are hilarious. I’m procrastinating so hard right now, I should be working on a paper for class, but this is just too good. 
TIL College students are expert witnesses.
You must have overlooked all of the sources cited in that paper that included professionals in many fields, including psychology.
I mean, I can write a paper about how spaghetti makes you feel good, there’s some sources out there I know of that show that eating can lead to the release of happy hormones.
Point is, you can “prove” anything if you really want. I just happen to know that other games far more social than wow ever was exist and have LFD/LFR baked in.
It’s just the wow community that isn’t social and people refuse to accept it. WoW became more and more anti-social as the difficulty increased.
Reason those other games are more social is they don’t hold their Elite in as high esteem as wow does. They don’t have the trickle down effect of the elite to casual that wow does.
Okay, go write it and if spaghetti mental disorders ever become a thing I will cite your paper. You are still getting an F because you have not offered any proof to support your claims.
Like I said, go look for yourself /shrug.
Personal, first person experience trumps everything
This game is not social now.
Oh, so you are incapable of proving your point. Gotcha.
Yep I’ll trust my own first person experience over what some random academic says about a game he probably has never even played.
2 Likes
No, youre just too stubnorn to accept it.
With or without lfd, wow is never going to be the social game you think it is.
It’s been twenty minutes, obviously I haven’t read any of the papers in their entirety but so far even these show at worst that RDF was a contributing factor and not even the worst. Garrisons were a much bigger blow to weakening social bonds. And that even with RDF Wrath was still rated highly as far as social connections, about tied with TBC and both lower than Original.
1 Like
What’s funny is, properly implemented housing is social, what wow did was the exact opposite… lol