Why is blizzard encouraging people to not use groups and socialize in a Massive Multiplayer Online game?
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What specifically is your complaint? Which content do you want to see changed, and to what?
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Why is the community so insistent on making it unwelcoming to people who play this game to the point where they would rather be solo?
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Who cares. People who enjoy group content will still do group content, and those are the people you would rather play with anyway.
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Because not everyone wants to group up or socialize with people all the time.
And people who like group content can still do so.
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Just finished raiding with my guild and it was fun. So, what’s the ask here?
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Why are players encouraging people not to group and socialize in WOW through bad behavior? WOW players have a reputation for being jerks in other games. Why would anyone want to be around some of the people posting in this forum? Blizzard designs the came to cater to griefers and jerks and then wonders why they have such an influence on the wow community.
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We have X, facebook, Tik Tok for that now. We not in 2004 anymore, people dont want make friends on a game
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Because they’ve run off the MMO community to the point that group content is just not enjoyable.
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its massively multiplayer. no where does it say it is a massively multiplayer required game
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Because it’s not 2005 and talking to people on the internet is not special anymore.
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barely lasted an hour before self-combustion
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They are appealing to an audience who doesn’t know how.
Blizzard already owns the audience that does know how.
They’re not encouraging. They’re accommodating. I already wasn’t socialising, and now they’re giving me more to do.
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Yeah or like me, who has different work hours during the week than most of my guildies.
… haws OP never quested in this game?
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I’m not so sure about that.
For example, if a new / returning player wants to find a group of players to do M+ or raids with, what would be the best way to go about this?
Back in the day, if you just did PuG groups, you could get to know your server community and would eventually make friends and find a guild to play with.
Nowadays, that doesn’t really happen. You almost always end up grouped with strangers that you’ll probably never see again, unless you make a concerted effort, and most players simply are not going to start adding randos to their friends list after a single dungeon or raid run.
The end result is the game feels alienating, as players have to expend substantially more effort to make friends. If these players eventually leave, they’re not going to be brought back by “more solo content”.
Since Late Legion / BFA, Blizzard has made this whole game revolve around one game mode.
A game mode for small groups of 5 players.
One single game mode that breeds toxicity by design.
One game mode that could be ruined by others (How long till they fixed keys?) while still now, can be trolled.
One game mode that promotes selling carries far, far beyond anything we had before as it’s relegated everyone to nothing but a number in a tooltip while being flash-in-the-pan, 10-13minute arcade style gameplay.
Tell us again why people should want to team with you, given Blizzard, has shown them why they shouldn’t.
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Cause the in-game guild finder and community finder is crusty
Personally, when I returned, I asked in Trade Chat. But… one can always begin here. https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/c/recruitment/guild-recruitment/44
nobody uses communities, but they were added too, to where you can be xfaction, xrealm, xeverything, multiple communities etc. If you still cant find it, there’s no hope.
And how would you know which of these guilds would fit you well? Again, back in the day, you could PuG and find out.
Now…?
I know of the tools, but they are not very good. The Guild Finder is horrendously bad and needs a serious rework. But instead of asking the community what kind of features would help them recruit and make friends, Blizzard bends over backwards to make more and more content solo-able.
Like, OK, sure, fine, but while you are at it, maybe don’t take the players who like playing in group content for granted and just assume “things will work out”? 
Trade Chat on my server, Turalyon, is practially dead. Even Bitcoinmoon stopped posting. 
This kind of brings up another issue as well: despite more of the game being x-realm, there are still realms (like Turalyon) that feel dead. Blizzard needs to get rid of servers and go the megaserver route, like GW2 did (among other things).