Are you as clueless as you’re coming off? I’m genuinely curious. I’m not trying to hurt your feelings.
You sincerely think there are never any false bans?
You sincerely think it’s not automated?
Do you play addonless?
Do you have a chat addon?
Do you not realize addons keep chat logs?
Do you not believe me when I say on the 9th day it was reversed?
Bro, I feel like you are trying soooooo hard to be right it’s getting quite pathetic.
I’m sincere when I say, I’m glad I’m social in my community/ discords vs in game. Easy to avoid argumentative people like you that are either mad at the world or need an outlet. You nailed it I’m not your therapist and this really isn’t that deep. Stop foaming. Go make friends.
Any socializing in done through voice. joining random queues is typically quiet, unless something goes wrong then the typing gets vile quick. Though sometimes there are helpful people that type out tips, I do this myself to try and smooth out runs.
I can’t do voice chat, so I don’t socialize much. The game has been this way for quite some time. I don’t particularly care as I’m more interested in what I’m doing than chatting.
It would be nice to join a more text using guild, I’ve tried a few and they were pretty quiet because most people used Discord. So I just created a guild for all my alts to have a large bank. I use the queue and do world quests, I’m ok with that. I treat this a a solo game that I can group with others for group content. If you’re open to Discord, you could likely find a guild that you could run with. I, myself wouldn’t be interested as even if I could hear, I don’t care for voice chat.
So I guess you could in a sense say since WoW players migrate to 3rd party voice chatting, Wow looks socially dead as any socializing is done outside the game.
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I’m totally curious as to what this even means? Care to elaborate?
What I’m told is that over 50% of active Warcraft players are registered under a woman’s name. This is not the case with active Diablo users or other games Blizz sells - but affirmative on Warcraft.
People make communities. Games are just a means.
Go sit in a restaurant and look around. Count how many “groups” of people are interacting and how many are staring at their phones.
Welcome to modern social interaction.
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Ok - so does it matter if they are women or men? I am unsure what that has to do with anything to be honest.
My comment was a response to a woman who said she was harassed in game over the years so the transition from this game being male-dominated to what it is today was pertinent to that.
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I see…well I mean, really someone harassing someone in game really does not matter if they are male or female, they are harassing. I am not sure those unrelated facts mean anything.
Officer, someone shot me.
Thank you, sir, and what was the price of gas in the Exxon station 700 miles away when it happened.
Ummm… Not sure
Well, it used to be 1.10 a gallon back then, not like it is today.
She was being harassed because she is a “she” (at the time a minority and possibly now a majority) so in this case gender really does/could matter.
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That might be true, but regardless the facts are, they are being harassed.
I do think WoW is much more socially dead than it used to be, for sure.
But it’s an ancient game and, to be honest, Blizzard hasn’t really made an effort to modernize or improve the social functions in a long time so that finding people will be easier to play with.
Society as a whole is more socially dead than before.
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Back when I was much younger, I had more time to dedicate to the game. Now I’m in my 40s, and I work two jobs. WoW is only socially “dead” because I can’t dedicate the time to a guild.
Thank you for your post, user Radalpho.
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That may be true.
What I witness (anecdotally) is a lot of people have more social “contacts” but the depth of their relationships has suffered.
If I were to speculate it might be that even the most extroverted person only has so much social energy they can invest… and if they spread it too far it becomes too thin (without depth).
I think Bilbo Baggins said something to the effect of:
"I feel I need a holiday, a very long holiday, as I have told you before…Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: Like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can’t be right. I need a change, or something.”
Thats how I see a lot of people today (in game and out).
Spread too thin.
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I think spread thin has some support for it yes.
I also think that helicopter moms are part of it
Everyone gets a trophy is a part of it
My child does nothing wrong is part of it (as they grow up).
Lack of parenting is part of it
Lack of taking responsibility is part of it
Social media is part of it
Constant dopamine hits are a part of it.
It goes on and on.
There are so many influences to it, it is hard to pin down for sure.
That is why I tend to follow this guideline:
… grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace.
When I focus on the things I can change - life seems to work better for me.
And I feel less “stretched”. 