Social aspect of this game is just dead

[Liolang-daggerspine]

@Khronys-aerie-peak

Most happens on discord which I never got into.

discord is a cesspool. Better to avoid it altogether.

[Testoraeu-aggramar (Testoraeu)]

The social aspect died because of toxicity and not because of “easy content”.

WOW still offers a lot of group content, but it is almost impossible to play it with nice people. You are treated as a number on a meter, a stat but not a human beeing.

At Vanilla nobody cared what DPS you had, if your gear was enchanted and with what, if you had the perfect build… People cared about you, your personality.

Even guilds are recruiting mostly after meters and achievements, that killed the social aspect.

[Sphinxyii-lightbringer]

There is no such thing as a civil human being. There is human and being civil by your standard. Warcraft is made of the entire world of humans. Vulgar/genteel, right/left, cat people/dog people, old/young. Anything said in chat will have a group that doesn’t like it. There is no middle ground.

Blizzard just goes by a majority standard. You say cat and there is 10 cat haters, enjoy your suspension. You say I am going to tag this mob and 10 others are trying to tag it, suspension. It has happened and continues to happen.

[Liolang-daggerspine]

@Sphinxyii-lightbringer

There is no such thing as a civil human being.

Wells theres your first problem…if you believe man is an ‘animal’ then you can justify man BEHAVING like an animal.
Stop doing that. lol

@Sphinxyii-lightbringer

There is human and being civil by your standard.

Most of humanity wants to be treated fairly and courteously.
Do that and yeah…we have civility without even trying too hard.

[Sphinxyii-lightbringer]

@Liolang-daggerspine

Most of humanity wants to be treated fairly and courteously.
Do that and yeah…we have civility without even trying too hard.

To what extent? How courteous? How much courtesy is too much? When do I go above and beyond? Show me the line in the sand. Otherwise, its all selective. And for your information I like animals. My name is sphinxy…

The point is people are getting reported for and suspended for things other than offending people. There are people that just like to chat and have to walk on glass to not offend people.

[Unrivaled-laughing-skull]

@Warzug-mankrik

@Culturelle-stormrage

All these people around, and no interaction with players whatsoever,

Yup, welcome to the WoW “community” in 2024 lol

On a more serious note - it is kinda sad how the newer/more recent players think this is “normal”… they have nooooo idea the rich/vibrant social atmosphere us older and og-era players got to experience back in the 2000’s

It was so much fun. Way more social than it is now.

We had Ventrilo, Mumble, Axon and Teamspeak in place of discord too - Always active everywhere.

There’s also a lot of people who follow the usual anthill trend and claim they were there but make themselves look like igsocial bots -claiming the comparison was similar if not equal to keep that cool guy og player persona thing rolling, I guess.

As most know: ‘being there first’ overtook ‘doing it first’ which overtook ‘doing it’, period. Lol. Very easy to buffer self-inclusiveness by claiming YoU wErE tHeRe lIke eerYonE elSe even though it makes you look weird. I digress, maybe a little too deep of an observation.

If they were why did they not know… :>!

I’d love to see a revival of social connections ingame. Put down the bots, ignore the AI and take more breaks from social trainstations (apps), spread out your personality! It’s healthier when you’re investing a lot of time in these environments!

As others have said, too, just start talking if it’s necessary. It’s a long lost art when accustomed to comment chains and blurt-out exchanges. Even being out at the bar with the younger generation is like listening to a reaction youtube video from 4 different directions sometimes.

Culture can be quite a vulture, indeed.

[Liolang-daggerspine]

@Sphinxyii-lightbringer

@Liolang-daggerspine

Most of humanity wants to be treated fairly and courteously.
Do that and yeah…we have civility without even trying too hard.

To what extent? How courteous? How much courtesy is too much? When do I go above and beyond? Show me the line in the sand. Otherwise, its all selective. And for your information I like animals. My name is sphinxy…

The point is people are getting reported for and suspended for things other than offending people. There are people that just like to chat and have to walk on glass to not offend people.

Ifyoure getting suspended, you DID something wrong. end of story.

now…go bother someone else. Ive run out of patience with you

[Adorability-moon-guard]

How much energy do you put out? Even in this age where most game socialization happens in Discords, I have no trouble finding conversations or people to play with.

That being said, sharding does suck and yes, with how irrelevent the old world is, outside DF zones has felt pretty dead.

[Akston-area-52]

23-24 people in a thread about the social aspect of WoW being dead

[Adorability-moon-guard]

Easier to make a post on the forums than say in game “add for future keys?” after a fun group.

[Roaka-fenris]

@Culturelle-stormrage

This game became a single player with online experience to it

But … But … But … you have to group so it’s community based so we can’t cater to the solo-player because we have to group so it’s not single player, ect ect ect …
/sarcasm

[Iyami-wyrmrest-accord]

This is World of WarCraft

[Varnok-thrall]

I already interact with people in the forums, do i really need to in game as well?

[Falyn-stormrage]

I know that was sarcasm I guess

But for people who DO want to group can’t even group in WoW if they missed a week or two of not getting the most up to date item level, since will get declined from random groups

I’m in a good guild so once a while do mythics with them…

…but…outside of joining a guild, for most people its either be on top or if you miss a week or two (like went to the hospital or vacation no longer get invites because your item level is too low compared to everyone else) suddenly you really do find WoW becomes a singleplayer experience with “AI” around you. Joining a guild solves a ton of this, but not that its easy to find a good likeminded guild tbh

[Khronys-aerie-peak]

What kind of a silly reply is that lmao, did you bother to comprehend what I actually wrote

@Liolang-daggerspine

Better to avoid it altogether.

I avoid it 'cause it just isn’t how I got into gaming… never needed it so never felt the need for it so it feels weird now listening to someone breathe in my ear lol

[Peryll-ghostlands]

@Culturelle-stormrage

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

Are you saying we should MAGA?

(Make Azeroth Great Again)

[Liolang-daggerspine]

@Khronys-aerie-peak

I avoid it 'cause it just isn’t how I got into gaming… never needed it so never felt the need for it so it feels weird now listening to someone breathe in my ear lol

Very limited experience with discord on my end…none of it good. lol.

[Leothalis-moon-guard (Leothalis)]

Maybe you need to find a different realm.
One that’s conducive to having a social aspect.

COME TO MOON GUARD.
AND REGRET EVERYTHING.

[Thoradas-stormrage]

@Culturelle-stormrage

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.

I feel your pain. I tried getting somebody to go on fun leveling dwarf themed adventure, nobody.

Spoke to random players to get them to group up, nada.

It’s simple.

Not min-maxing is heavily penalized in this game.

The optimal way to play is alone.

[Akston-area-52]

@Thoradas-stormrage

Not min-maxing is heavily penalized in this game.

It really isn’t.

Just because someone doesnt want to go on a dwarf themed adventure, doesnt mean they are min-maxing.