If you are still in need of comms at this point in classic I have bad news for you.
Classic communication and all of the other MMO trimmings were really awesome and fun at launch, now the game is just as businesslike and efficient as retail. No one is out in the world because BGs are the best honor and dungeons are the best gold, if you decide to be the sucker who goes out and actually farms runes or something you never see anyone else, even on capped realms.
The sort of MMO experience you are describing here just doesnāt exist.
What you are describing is less of a product of game design and more of a product of the times.
You have to kinda answer this one yourself. Sure, there are reasons to play this game. Whether or not those reasons mean anything to you is completely subjective. I like collecting mounts and pets, leveling alts, and running old content. For me, those are reasons enough to play!
There are reasons to watch football, but I honestly canāt stand it. Itās incredibly boring, there are far too many players on the field, and I donāt like what happens to NFL players as far as the brain damage, problems later in life, etc.
Conversely, Iāve loved NBA for most of my life.
āBut they just run back and forth and back and forth and backā¦ā
I donāt know, Retail still feels like multi-player with all the players running about.
Until the day where i can truly play alone with no other players in my game, i can finally install all the mods that come with single-player games and play it offline, iām gonna have to disagree with ya.
Yea, and MMO doesnāt mean ābeing forced to group 24/7ā, it just means āYou have a thousand other people playing with you on a single serverā.
**Edit: **I thought They displayed by character on the armoryā¦ but looking at some of my other newer characters, they do show more achievements than this one, and my older toons are moreā¦ selective.
Example: Iāve got Grunty, which is a Feat of Strength from Blizzcon 2009 (The Marine Marine), but not on this toon because she didnāt exist then, (and existed before achievements went account-wide perhaps?) But you can check and see him in my pet collection.
Iāve also got the Violet Proto Drake, but none of the World Event achievements that earn it are showing. But they are just fine on newer toons.
My Stand In The Fire which used to be a Feat of Strength in 2011 when I originally got it from Deathwing killing you in the zone he flew through, on this toon is from 2017 when I went to solo Dragonsoul, (but failed to kill him. Grr.)
Still lookingā¦ so weirdā¦
Edit 2: Iāve got several Allied Race alts, (none are capped yet), but even my newest level 20 shows Theramoreās Fall on 9/17/2012, which is when I did it on the one character I did it on, yet doesnāt show on this one.
Weird. But it is what it is.
As for 1 Ahead of the Curveā¦ so? The only reason Iāve got that on this toon, is because I wanted the mount, and a friend had an open slot. Iām not a current content raider as a rule due to the drama, and mostly because not being someone who regularly raids, I donāt want to let everyone down.
Apparently people have end of expansion amnesia, but there were tons of cooperative moments early in BFA and in WM as well.
As time went on, people branched off to Kul Tiras then Naz/Mech, then got flying and now Forge/Assaults. Itās hard to find groups.
We used to have some epic PvP battles in Drustvar. Groups camping tortollan spots for example.
Itās more SP now. Grinding cloak, Doing assaults for cloak. I can solo Expeditions now.
TL:DR, Iād imagine itāll be super cooperative at SL launch much like Classic launch. Even in Classic Iāve seen fewer people willing to help or even cast a buff on randoms.
The game isnāt making you prefer anything, people prefer differenāt play styles regardless of what the game throws at them. Times change, people change which in turn affects how they see and play the game.
I love generalised statements like that. Well, not so much. It does happen. It happens to me. If I am only on Classic one or two days are week for an hour or so (which is how I play generally) I donāt have time to get to know people and Iām not comfortable with intruding into conversations with strangers. Iām not anti-social, just slightly on the shy side with new people.
So donāt say it can never happen because it does. Classic is not a perfect social environment because people will always be people whatever the game mode.
