Retail: Hey guys it’s okay if you don’t talk but socializing is good and you make friends!
Players: LOL kick this guy because “kick”. Finish the dungeon in 2 seconds gogogogoo.
Classic: LUL scrubs socialize or get out.
Players: Such socializing. Such wow. Best game ever!
Look fellas, the first snapdragon of the season!
yeah that’s about accurate
Yesss! I can finally finish a daily in Nazjatar.
You forgot “Keanu Reeves finished War and Peace, Keanu Reads”.
Then people forget people can literally do everything in vanilla and never socialize with anyone.
Spare me the “Community” and “Socializing” BS.
If you actually wanted to socialize and build a community in retail you would. You don’t, which is why you don’t have it.
Even as a retail-main player it’s hard to deny that socializing with other players in retail has gone out the window. There is almost no reason to speak with other players and make meaningful groups, teams, and guilds anymore. The only thing you can’t do with cross-realm pugs is mythic raid at the start of the tier, and depending on what server you play on you can easily pug mythic raids in trade chat.
I don’t know about you guys but socializing is really hard to do when trapped inside a nutshell.
Are you talking to other players, or Blizzard?
If you consider questing to max level everything, then yeah, you’re right. lol
And you still won’t even be able to do all the quests. Making friends has huge benefits in Classic compared to retail.
While I don’t disagree with you that there’s no “reason”, why does there have to be one? Just do it because you want to do it. I have no issues whatsoever doing groups with people or having fun in my guild, and that’s my own personal experience. Retail doesn’t lack socialization or community at all. The player does.
edit I should say my main’s guild, because for whatever reason I can’t switch forum characters to my main.
This is the truth which people refuse to accept.
Really? because that’s what I’m told Classic is. “It’s the leveling experience, the end game doesn’t matter. It’s the journey not the destination.”
This whole “Communities” thing is overblown.
So in other words, you really have no idea you’re just going by a statement. Gotcha.
Do you guys not talk to your guilds? I’m trying to understand what socializing means in this context. Cause pugging groups is not socializing to me. Talking to my guildies and friends is socializing. Random Joe in my mythic is most likely someone I would never talk to again. He is a means to an end. What happens differently in classic? Does random Joe suddenly become a unicorn and has rainbows above his head making him more social?
Nah, I know exactly whats going on. 
This “Community” thing is overblown.
Ah, someone told you other stuff about what was going on and you formed an opinion on their comments? lol
I always thought it was best to find something out on your own instead of parroting others.
Where… where’d you go?
I didn’t get to hear what you were going to say!
Pugging groups is socializing if you talk.
Guild chat is socializing if you talk.
Random Joe in your mythic is socializing if you talk.
Ultimately communication between people IS CALLED Socializing.
That would require subjecting myself to vanilla wow again.
I’m not going to do that. And even back then, the “Community” thing was overblown, people just look back at anything with nostalgia, if anything the community was -worse- then than it is now.