I couldn't play on a Normal Realm

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Note before reading! This is my personal experience and you are welcome to disagree or agree after you’ve read this post.

I decided to check out a Normal Realm since my friend was playing there. I leveld up through the starting zone and there were loads of people. I mean really, there more Horde players players than I’ve ever seen to Alliance on Argent Dawn EU.

It felt great to have so many more players to play with! More friends I thought to myself! After I left the starting zone there were loads of people all over Orgrimmar no matter where you went. You can always find players everywhere in that city.

And here is where the excitement began tuning down…

After I spent 1-2 hours leveling through Dungeons and LFG, I thought to myself "It’s rather quiet isn’t it"? I saw players literally everywhere but it felt like I was at the supermall or any foodstore. That being said, I pick up the things I am suppose to have and I do my own thing and remain quiet and minding my own business and don’t socialise or interact with anyone around myself since I don’t wanna bother anyone else around me.

I played on the server throughout the entire day, and the Guild didn’t talk either and if they did it was only for the raid that was gonna happen in 5 days.
Everything felt so meta that it was an interesting experience. I log into the game, I do what you are suppose to do without talking with anyone or interacting with anyone else unless I am forced to do so, and then I just log off and do something else.

Like I wrote, I am talking out of my own experience, if this is how players prefer to play the game don’t mind me. This is just my own thoughts I am sharing…however back to the subject.

To begin with, on Roleplayer realms no matter if it’s in the US or EU people interact with each others with every smallest subject there is. It can be from Politics to PC Games to if you can lick your own elbow.

Out of my experience this feels great after you’ve done a raid or M+ and you just wanna hang around and talk with players whom are strangers to you. It’s something that is left in my World of Warcraft Gaming experience since Vanilla Barrens Chat or Westfall Chat.

It also feels great talking with new players so that i don’t isolate myself with the only community I would be in on a Normal server. That being said my guild, but I can only speak from my experience some prefer only to spend their time with a small community and not wanting to interact with others.

The immersion feels a lot different as well in RP Realms, you can see someone RP as an Orgrimmar Grunt or Stormwind Guard walking past you and having a fight with local Roleplayers which makes you feel more immersed into the game. Like the game Witcher or Dragon Age Origins etc.

Trade chat is also a thing that is popular on both Normal/RP Realms the difference is that on RP realms the people who writes there are not bots that are selling boost (Most of the times). People are talking about random things that can sometimes be interesting to read and I mean really interesting.

What I am trying to say is that I don’t think I’ll ever return to a Normal Realm because I believe It would make me quit the game.

But that is just my own personal experience with the difference between a Normal or a RP Realm in this game, and I just wanted to share my own thoughts! Have a good day!

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Interesting post.

The reason no one in my guild talks is we are all on discord and using voice. If you looked at my guild in game it would seems like a barren guild.

No one talking in guild, no one talking in parties or raids and you would think it was rubbish.

However, join our discord and everyone is laughing and joking having a great time with multiple rooms talking.

Things are not always as quiet as they appear in game.

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Great to hear, nice to know its not all quiet then! :smiley:

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Just FYI Argent Dawn is an RP realm and Alliance heavy at that.

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You’ve just discovered the effects of CRZ - for good or for ill. In your opinion ill, in my opinion, too. RP realms don’t have CRZ because there is only one connected realm and Blizzard want to keep RP and non-RP realms separate.

I swear the only reason I’m not on Argent Dawn myself is because none of my friends are. I’ve been there in the past and it is one of the best realms in the game without question.

Argent Dawn is a realm run correctly. Doesn’t really matter whether you like RP or not, it’s still better.

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I always play on RP realms too, def my favourite. People just seem a little bit more willing to immerse themselves in the game. Even if they dont RP as such they tend to have more appropriate names, be respectful of others RPing and just feels abit more mature.

Im one of those who RPs in their head but isnt brave enough to do alot more! I still love coming across random RP encounters ‘in the wild’ though!

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Shame most names are taken there…

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Yes :(…

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I feel exactly like this.

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Could elaborate on this and go a bit deeper?

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Yes, thankfully I am a huge NE Fan so it works for me :)!

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It’s a prettty complex topic, but the long and short of it is that WoW was (and therefore Classic is) fundamentally structured to keep the same players run into each other so that you recognise their names and what they did for you last time you met them, giving you a chance to reciprocate and make friends.

In retail zone population density is deemed more important than meeting the same players often and that means that the players in your world space keeps changing, which in turns means that these multi-relationships do not form.

This results in communities not farming for the same reason that communites are harder to form in a big city than a town. World of Warcraft’s realms were not a technical limitation but rather a deliberate gameplay limitation. The idea is called the town effect by the vanilla dev - it’s an attempt to make you run into the same players often and make it possible for you to gain local fame without making that overly difficult while at the same time keeping the population large enough that you can’t possibly know everybody.

It’s got a big more nuance than this but that’s the jist of it.

So why don’t you see players interacting with each other in fun ways? Because they’ll never meet them again, and if they do they won’t know it. This results in boring or no player interaction which is exactly what you’re seeing.

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