This was 16/17 years ago, myself my best friend and his brother all discovered WoW and were hooked, we played for hours every day and raided MC/BWL/AQ40 & Naxx Mon-Sun as was pretty much required back in the day, we made a whole bunch of friends, some living in the same country, others abroad.
The hours we would spend just sitting around discussing various things from in game, speculating on upcoming events or just chatting about life in general truly gave us a sense of community.
Fast forward to today and even though the game is alot more connected and the content is easy to access (unless your new trying to get into M+) due to various things I am the last of my friend group still playing WoW and frankly I am lonely.
More often than not I log in, clear the raid each week listen to the voices on discord calling out whatever mechanic (not because i need to hear the mechanic but its just nice to feel a part of something) and then afterwards everyone goes their separate ways and to make things worse, this is as part of a guild.
I fear that as the game became more accessible, player interactions diminished to the extent of maybe getting a “hey” at the start of a dungeon and the only time another word is said is if a mistake is made and more often than not its from a guy who likely just types “…” and guilds are now literally just a nametag under your player name and people tend to look for the cool names rather than the people inside them.
Does anyone else feel disconnected from the world?
Does anyone else feel lonely in an MMORPG?
