I’m also a female player and I find it extremely difficult to find other female friends in the game. I had one very close female friend I met through WoW, we were friends for about 6 years before that friendship ended rather recently. It felt one sided anyways. I’m kinda glad it’s over. Anyways, that’s a whole personal can of worms!
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Im trying to learn that. Precisely why I started using the ignore as much as I do in here and in game.
Discussion is great. I learn new stuff in here all the time with it.
But some people just thrive on harassing, stalking and trolling just to get attention and Im finding more and more that its just more productive to ignore them and let them foam at the empty air.
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Ignoring them is best. There are 2 types of people who do this: ones who are going through issues irl, and ones who genuinely find entertainment from upsetting other people. It’s up to you if you want to invest in trying to figure out which of the 2 types that person is, but overall better for your own sake to just ignore them and move on.
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there are a couple of things i have seen regarding people and being social:
1-there are a lot of discords out there where you can socialize, and i suspect there is a lot of that in those servers. I am in at least 6-7 active discords, some arent even from my server, so that may be a factor
2- herne can probably attest to this, but it may also depend on your server whether people are active and speaking to each other. We are on Moon Guard, and honestly, people cant shut up sometimes on this server. if course it may be different on other servers, but that may also be alleviated somewhat with crossrealm guilds too.
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I talk to new people all the time in wow and frequently make new battle tag friends.
The community as a whole is good.
Some players in game are some of the best people Ive ever encountered in life.
I mean, they can be so nice that it helps me rememeber these ARENT NPCs, as some seem to think in here, and helping another player out from time to time isnt a bad thing at all.
The areas where Im sickened by some are generally…
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entitled sorts. Lord, I have so many entitled ones around me that think they are OWED something by everyone else… I certainly dont need that in a video game where Im trying to escape reality lol
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bigoted, racist, phobic trash posted in the chat box nearly every day. I hate that crap in real life and certainly in game.
I think its only a very small minority of players who exhibit that crap, though. I just seem to end up paying more attention to it than all the good players who behave well and go unnoticed.
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isn’t this life itself though ?
I am casual and I am starting to think the same way.
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Maybe it’s because I’m the tank, but I’m usually pretty chatty - even in keys. Some quip or something positive to get folks to enjoy the run. I like chatting and communicating and meeting new people in that environment, so that also helps.
To the thread at large: it takes two to tango. Gotta be willing to chat and make the first “move” sometimes, otherwise everyone may be thinking like this - and not doing anything about it.
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this is the answer. we traded community for convenience when LFD/LFR was put into the game.
now instead of a server community of people you’ll see over and over, it’s the entire playerbase and you have no reason to foster community because you’ll never see those people again.
and cross realm everything just exacerbated that.
note that I don’t think these changes were unnecessary. I just think they had consequences.
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I talk when I’m in a random.
Some folks take the game super cereal and it’s bleh.
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I can indeed testify that MG has a thriving community even in droughts like S4.
hernethehornedhunter is my Discord tag, tell ya all what, we got a growing guild in the MG community and we’d welcome anybody who wants to positively contribute, see the sights, etc. If you’ve got any MG OCs feel more than free to DM me about joining or send a friends request.
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I btagged an enhance shaman a few nights ago after we ran some keys. I got him cleave-killed on the dwarves in Uldaman and at least two other times. I told him I would add “I got him cleave killed :(“ to my friend note. He said he was adding a note, too: “the axe man tank”
I thought it was the coolest thing I’ve read in a while and many “lols” were had.
Unrelated, but I’m not really a good tank.
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LFG happened. Then LFR happened. Then solo players arrived from other games and demanded to be left alone in WoW. Now theres solo raids.
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Feels like people that joined at that time were more committed to the group than they are now. Not only were dungeons typically a bit more of a time commitment but you also had the problem of needing to physically leave the dungeon and go back to town to fill if someone left. So people were more invested in the group, more social, and more likely to use conversation as a way of keeping themselves and others entertained and emotions light.
I would say the instant gratification LFD culture definitely had an influence on it.
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As time moves on, players will change, and the game must change too.
Gaming sessions are more in short bursts, pick up and play is more popular than the long winded sessions. Vets are angry because the game isn’t like it was, and the newcomers are pushing for changes that benefit them. Neither wants to compromise.
A shift in culture is inevitable in a 20 year old game. Keep that in mind next time you question why people are so different than you remember.
Still fascinating and worthwhile to analyze what leads to those shifts and whether or not they are organic or engineered. In the case of MMOs it’s pretty hard to argue that it’s all just a natural evolution.
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Modern wow is pushing for single player experience now. LFG/LFR, war mode, ques, etc. No need for community anymore