Social aspect of this game is just dead

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All these people around, and no interaction with players whatsoever, nothing ever changes, old zones became irrelevant , layers and sharding reduced the visible players around, and the ones you see are all to themselves .
This game became a single player with online experience to it, it just feels so dead and pointless to play it now after all these years, you feel alone in this huge world, even with a guild.
Maybe part of it because the game is so easy now, you can level and do quests all solo and feel like invincible god, even when leveling .

Here is a similar post World of Warcraft does not feel like WORLD no more

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That’s funny I like to go sit in Goldshire and watch people duel, sometimes people sit and chat in /say and it’s quite funny. I never see anyone use /gen chat, but my guild is also quite social just not in game.

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We should have zone events and pop-up quests like Guild Wars 2 in order to make old zones relevant and not completely abandoned.

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Even back in Vanilla WoW, you didn’t interact with every last person. People were more likely to interact proactively because there was no cross-realm grouping, Group Finder, Dungeon Finder, or Raid Finder, and they wanted to get a group together for a quest or dungeon.

But there are just as many or even more means to be social now than ever. Start chatting in your trade or guild chat, or whisper someone out in the world. Not everyone will chat back, but you will find some extremely social people. Change guilds if you need to. Join various Discords and communities.

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I’ve met so many people just chatting over whatever mutual interest/activity, from collecting old mogs, rp, leveling alts, arena, battlegrounds, dungeons, etc. :dracthyr_a1: What is it that you’re doing, exactly?

Wow has always had the solo option, but that’s what it is; an option.

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I had fun just last week talking with people while waiting on Nalak to spawn.

I say this everytime someone complains about ‘no social aspects’ of WoW:

“If you are silent, others will be too. If you want interaction, try interacting.”

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You only get out of this game what you put in. So if you aren’t actively trying to be social yourself, don’t expect it to just fall in your lap.

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I don’t care about any of you and if we were guildies I’d definitely still steal your loot even if I didn’t need it.

Get rekt efriend!

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Because Blizzard left the community to ‘moderate itself’, thus no one wants to socialize because of the poor community that this has wrought.

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Yeah, I agree. The world isn’t as lively as it used to be. Warmode is even worse. Also note, it’s the end of the expansion. People fall off around this time, it’s will pick up again when the new expansion gets close. It’s kind of an endless cycle.

Once some one was throwing the sparkle buff around, and trade exploded into Twilight jokes for the entire night. I miss those times.

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Then maybe you should open up to others. You’ll be shocked to see how many players open up in Moonguard.

And don’t use your introvert ego as an excuse.

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Just start talkin, people who are interested will join in. don’t wait for others to start a conversation

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I never remember any point in WoW where this social aspect happened, that is being talked about here, with any regularity.

I feel like when people talk about “social aspect of WoW” they mean a very specific niche definition of it. “Random people I will never see again wont walk up and talk to me, without me having to ever initiate conversation”

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try Era :slight_smile:

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Social communities still exist. You just have to seek them out. You probably won’t interact much with other players in the open world besides some emoting or a brief conversation here or there. That’s just how it is nowadays.

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Era is very toxic. If you speak in LFG or trade chat, there are guilds who will mass report you, no matter how positive or game oriented your comment may seem.

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Have you been there recently or was this experience in the late 2022 to first half of 2023 times?

A lot of the ‘hype train’ players that had come to Era moved on to SoD, so it is quite chill and cozy at the moment on Era.

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I know people have said it before but I also find this game highly social. At first I thought because RP servers, but I can usually chat a nice amount with random pugs if I try to chat.

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Spamming chat to find a group is not interacting.

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Usually if I do talk, people end up reporting me anyway.
so I just stay quiet lol