So, “back in the day”… whenever 80% of the guild would log on to the game, the first thing they would tend to do would be say “hi” - that might be the end to the conversation, but at the very least you would get a hello.
As a returning player, I am not ignorant to the fact we live in a different world from the mid 2000’s, however in a guild I am surprised people wouldn’t at least offer the basic of social etiquette and say hello/BB as they log on/off.
Is this common place now within guilds? Normally social guilds/semi hardcore guilds (with the later being my level of experience) people would still keep that level of social interaction up.
So, am I expecting too much of people in today’s Wow? Or perhaps this comes down to how the officer core project themselves onto the rest of the guild, the people they bring in, and the demands they put on those guild members?
Only, I’m in a guild, and within the guild are some nice people, but they aren’t very social (as described above) and this to me is odd for a “social guild”. Discord is no different - ie, people aren’t replacing that in-game social aspect and simply moving it to Discord instead.
Depends on what sort of guild you are playing with. If it’s one of those massive guilds that just spams invites all the time, then nobody says anything. Guild chat is an old tool as well, most seem to just use discord and even voice chat for that (which I personally hate).
My Alliance characters are all in my own personal guild just now. Been in various guilds over the years but this is where I ended up. I don’t use guild chat as it’s just me, that would be strange.
My Horde characters went into the first guild to invite them, most for faster hearthstone CD and to stop constant guild invites. I tend to not say anything here either as they are just big guilds of randoms.
I spoke with someone on this just the other day. About how quiet guilds are now. The fact that you can read chat history in the guild tabs makes it even more stark. My opinion was that guilds are not interacting with each other as much as they used. I see very few people doing M+. They log for raids and then do the basics. After that they are just playing alts. The game has gone very solo orientated. There is very little benefit in group content without putting a ton of effort into it. Blizzard seem to be missing the mark on what people consider entertainment.
Mostly this People log onto discord first these days and then into the game. By the time they logging in they already greeted and having conversation.
Guild chat is still used by some to ask quick questions or shout out grtz for an achievement or acquisition of items eg mounts etc if shared in the chat.
Thats about the extent it is used for. So yes, social aspects have changed.
Same here, if I read it I`ll reply in kind, but I generally don´t post it myself anymore because scatterbrain.
That said, most of us log on to discord, or back in the day TS, before we even log in to the game, so the “hi” in /g is pretty much superfluous at that point except for reaching the handful that aren´t on comms because they just want to chill for themselves for a bit.
I was in a guild with randoms, message of the day said come to discord. They posted their raid/M+ schedule there with option to apply. Guild chat was usually used to ask others to come to discord. Even if they don’t want to coem to voice, you can properly link stuff there and all.
Joined a social guild before no one was saying a thing despite about 30 people on so I tried getting a convo going. Eventually one of them said why do you keep talking? Yeah left that . As for people on Discord not seeing chat I dont believe that for a second you are literally playing the game looking at the screen. You know where the chat is. Plenty of times I’ve heard people mention so and so just asked you a question in chat and they’ll laugh and say yeah i cba to answer. There only ever seemed to 1/3 of them on Discord and it just caused cliques. If you didnt go on Discord no matter how friendly/helpful and chatty you were you didnt get to be an officer and had little chance of raid spots unless one of the Discord lot didnt turn up then all of a sudden they would appear in Guild chat asking for tanks/healers.
Back then it was 2004, with facebook just being released, most players being 10-20 years old with no experience with social media apart from myspace.
The whole concept of chat was original to most of the people (since most of them were not old enough to be familiar with mirc) and because young people are way more social they tried to make connections.
Now we have chats everywhere and most people that play the game are 20-40 years old. There is no “need” to socialize, since there are plenty of spaces that fill that need nowadays.
I also know that it´s constantly being spammed by multi line MRT-Ready check messages, insufferable “I kicked something, give me a cookie” addons, useless pings, boss emotes, and other things that are actually relevant to whatever my character is currently doing… If you´re actually doing any sort of content save maybe delves, anything someone writes in /g is more often than not pushed out over the top faster than the last spammer’s ad in /services
If I’m mid key/raid etc I’m not going to notice it. But I dont miss conversations on discord because its easier to just pick up and put down as needed.
I’m terrible for noticing whispers in game as well.
People log onto discord first these days and then into the game. By the time they logging in they already greeted and having conversation.