As I have been playing more lately, I have started to notice something positive in the WoW community. I have been focusing on leveling alts and early on I started to notice a lot of people with no heirlooms on so I was curious if they were new. I check their achievement progress and most of them have less than 2000 achievement points.
We have new players starting to play the game again, in numbers I have not seen since early Cataclysm. Some of them are bad at the game, but a lot of them are learning, Iâve even met a few new guildies that are new to the game and starting to learn end game content.
Going into Shadowlands, WoW might finally feel like it is alive again! Hopefully we can keep these new players around because it would be really good for the game.
As long as there is CrZ/Phasing/sharding, youâll never experience anything from the usual.
Itâs the summer, and lots of people still at home⌠so with âShadowlandsâ news circulating people decide to go level etc, other people who finished what they wanted, looking for things to do. And also have âclassicâ players who are trying out retail.
The more new players, the better I agree. But there are plausible reasons explaining the uptick in more people when leveling.
I wish CRZ and Sharding would die in a gigantic dumpster fire. 
These features give the illusion that people are disposable; as youâre unlikely to ever encounter them again.
I absolutely agree with this. Familiarity with your realmâs population as well as the fame/infamy of itâs members make the game much more interesting in my opinion, it makes people talk to each other and their interactions have some small meaning.
Thatâs probably one of the few things I miss from the past iterations of this game.
They could always just mega up the servers and have everyone on a single server, sure youâd still have instancing and sharding (to an extent) but people would know each other a little more.
I agree with this a lot. I wish instead of sharding we got something similar to Classicâs layering. Layering accomplishes the same goal while also keeping the sense of community that MMOs are known for.
CRZ is also a big issue, you see somebody that you will never see again. We used to have this guy named âJImmyâ on Korgath and EVERYONE knew Jimmy. It sucks that this kind of thing is gone.
Yeah I think itâs fair to say that when they introduced CRZ, wow became a much lonelier place.
At this time during any expansion, there are people coming back because of the next expansionâs hype. Iâve talked to quite a few new players, or players returning from a long break. Most of them had very little awareness of specifics about what is coming up in shadowlands.
I would hate it less if half my characters didnât share a shard with Proudmoore. I donât usually gank people who are minding their own business, but if they are from Proudmoore I feel a moral obligation to kill them.
Iâm willing to bet covid had something to do with it.
And why would that be? They are pretty decent people.