There’s literally nothing worth talking about in an LFD/LFR.
You’re there to get in complete and get out… 9/10 times if I manage to add anyone to friends list I had fun with I still never see that person again. So there’s no point to socializing.
That’s what a guild is for but tbh the only time we hang out is raid time xP
This is a cultural thing, we have become self isolated.
Yes,…its 100% the players. The devs arent in the game playing it…WE are. WE decide how we behave in game. The only thing blizzard can really do is make rules to govern that behavior.
If youre watching any other threads here, you can see one thread ive posted a lot in where they are justifying bad PLAYER behavior, insisting that because Blizzard ALLOWS their mistreatment of other players, then its BLIZZARDS fault, not their own.
THAT is the mentality youre dealing with here with some. Its never their fault they behave like they do. Its someone elses fault IF they find any fault in what they do and say at all, that is.
People are who they are. What you see them project in game is who they are in life.
Misery projects misery.
You can see it right here on this forum. you can read down thru a thread and tell who you’d like to be involved with in game, and who you’d avoid like the plague…in most every case. (though admittedly I made the mistake of reading some twitter pages by a few in here and was disgusted at what I saw. Some serious bigotry and racism that you’d never guess based on their posts in here)
What you see in game is who we are.
Im abrasive, arrogant, overly aggressive in real life and Im certain I come off that way in here.
What you see is what you get.
Point is, dont be surprised when you see human players behaving like the human beings they are.
Oddly, I’ve gotten a rez every time in remix. Probably more often than in retail lfr lol
thats how i got all my needed allied races done back then. i also switched from prot to ret cause i was to scared i would f up as a tank and kept saying to myself please dont let my dps suck or they will all explode on me and i will never get this done 
thankfully we ran the place over and that day(think it was motherload) and i seen that rush rush rush mentality all over them as they litterly pulled everything in site whole run. i dont dungeon or raid because i have extreme anxiety so that was the 1st time i seen the rush mentality i read about in forums.
i was soooo nervous that my dps was gonna suck that run and they would rage on me for it but noone said a word the entire run. didnt have dps meter going so no clue if i did well or if they even cared. i was just happy i got out of that without drama.
im a overly shy and believe or not extremely anti social person. its very hard for me to be around others on any capacity but i do try to help everyone i pass by hoping to better their day 
Admittedly I’m more like a cat, sometimes I just do things to get a reaction, otherwise I’m cuddly adorable.
Sad, but true.
I think it’s just the uncertainty of the world, has everyone stressed out.
People can’t just pretend things are gonna be okay, because for the most part, we don’t know that anymore lol.
people in general suck
not just in the game
outside in the real world too
lol.
yeah, quite a number of you in here seem to be very good folk who I think Id really enjoy knowing in real life.
Is it true? I don’t see how the store has anything to do with the community when every game has a store, including the one the OP is going to and their store is like 10x bigger than WoW’s.
It’s likely a combo of LFD + the game being more fast paced than before. No downtime means no time to talk, and why would you engage in a meaningful conversation if you will likely never see these players again?
Not the in-game store lol, retail stores as a whole.
Just saw a video where a young kid bear-maced several McDonald’s employees for no real reason. I felt so bad for them.
I’ve had to deal with an increase in freakouts at work, lately. Not really sure why, I just am a bit worried lol.
Okay but more importantly, what is there to talk about with four perfect strangers in a dungeon that I’ve done hundreds of times and will only take 10 minutes?
OP are you starting conversations? Are you making the effort to be social? Or are you just hoping someone else does the heavy lifting so you don’t have to?
No it isn’t.
Sitting around Undercity spamming “LF2M Tank and heals” isn’t socializing.
There was more socializing in the dungeon itself.
At least you would see the same names every now and then if you were pugging a fair amount. Abendroth-Zul’jin though, you never saw that one and never will again.
Ohhh my bad. Yeah I read that as “the retail store” not “a retail store.”
Sorry!
I don’t really know if its wow itself but gaming in general has become a lot more restrictive with speech. The banter people remember would get a lot of people banned now. There is also the issue of the types of players being mixed far more often.
In tbc and earlier players of similar skill level grouped together more often and didn’t mingle with players of earlier difficulties often.
Final fantasy side steps this by being a far less complex and easier game. Isn’t a bad thing but it fosters a different community over the more completive one wow fosters.
That is the definition of socializing. You post ads, someone whispers, you invite. There’s a direct interaction from start to finish. That little bit of interaction goes a long way. Someone gets manually invited and they are more likely to say hello.
With LFD/LFR you click a button and it puts random people together. There’s zero interaction required.
“Was more” because of what I stated above.
This thread is kinda funny. Still blaming others when its you all. And it always has been. Who would want to socialize with such insufferable people. Its like a mystery or something. Your just getting exactly what you begged for.
You would learn to guess if you remember that:
Alliance Posters have hateful souls, a defect of their being, and are guilty of everything you ever thought was awful in this world.
Then you won’t be shocked by their social media posts.
I mean I remember this stuff going on back in tbc and wotlk when they were new. This behavior isn’t new.
I have noticed I get more conversations when I talk to people, especially those rare occasions I tank a pickup heroic. I try to be friendly in game and I’m generally met with friendly attitudes in return.
Maybe I’m just lucky. Maybe MG is just a better community. Sorry you had some bad player experiences, it sucks.
Eta: as for people bantering less because they’re more likely to get banned, I do feel like blizzard has been a lot less tolerant of abusive behavior in game. Maybe we’re seeing less communication because the toxics have been bopped on the nose often enough they finally learned to keep rules breaking behaviors in check.