Lack of social activity within the playerbase

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Hello everyone,

I cannot help but notice out of a good handful of populated MMORPGs that WoW is obviously the most socially awkward and hostile MMO out of all of them. The lack of basic manners in the playerbase is absurd! Is it really that hard to be friendly to one another? clearly not when other MMOs have absolutely no issue with a lack of social activity within the playerbase.

A awfully good example is the treatment new players suffer in LFG, why is it that certain players of our community feel that it is right to throw hostile words and aggression towards someone who you can take 10 seconds out of your time to inspect their gear and their achievements to notice they aren’t a regular in this game. Hell, regular or not every human being on the planet makes mistakes and I for one, who has been playing for 10+ years, make mistakes all the time! We all do. The lack of new player support especially from the regulars is beyond insane. I would happily like to know how many players who have started out the game completely brand new have dropped the game over the treatment they get from other players for simply being new.

WoW’s players have to be the most socially awkward people in the vast majority of MMORPGs. The inability to simply greet a fellow player is such a comment trait in a chunk of the community, not everyone obviously, but the majority. You could argue that other servers are better when it comes to being social
 let’s take for instance, Argent Dawn. The biggest RP realm we have over on EU. While RP realms are grounded on the interaction of other players (how else are you going to roleplay with your fellow player? sign language?) I can sadly say, in my whole personal opinion after years of playing on AD, that it is by far ONE of the most toxic communities on EU. Not the highest, but up there with the list for sure. Why does this have to be the case? I can name a MMO right now that has a amazing RP community with almost zero hate towards them from the average player.

Why does this game continue to have a lack of acceptance when it comes to other people and who they are or what they like? Everyone is different in the world but that doesn’t make you any less of a human being. You are you and you should be loved for who you are. That includes in WoW.

I, personally, find it struggling to make friends in WoW. I cannot say that for everyone, obviously! I do know I cannot be the only one in the community who feels this way. You could argue that the best way for you to make friends would be to join a guild, which isn’t wrong at all! You should totally join a guild and I can say that’s a great -start- to attempting to find other players to play the game along side with, however
 of course, there’s a but here. In my experience, I have never in my life found my “home” guild. Never found a guild that can be open to everything or accepting towards the smallest of matters. I cannot count the amount of times in my experience that I have been whispered hostile remarks because I left due to a problem I see within the guild. Is it so hard to just be friendly? Everyone you see is a human being behind that character.

I’d love to know how this all started, I don’t remember the game being this bad when I first joined WoW as a little kid. I remember making lots of friends just from leveling and joining groups together so we can do a tricky quest. You could say Oh, maybe the game is the reason why! I won’t discredit that for a reason I do believe the game has It’s fair share of blame to this but Is it really the game’s fault why you feel the need to insult someone because they are doing the lowest damage on the meters in a normal dungeon.

Maybe you disagree with me? Maybe I’m overthinking on a issue that I personally have because I take everything to heart. This is just my opinion on the matter, I’d love to hear what other players think of this as a whole, if you agree or disagree.

Just remember to be kind out there in Azeroth. We all could do with a little bit more kindness in the world (of warcraft.)

Thank you for reading. ~

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It really is not at all there is only a very small % that are nasty people . It is a massive generalisation to say otherwise . I have to disagree with you as i have met and continue to meet some really good people in the game .

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You’re free to disagree! This is only my experience but It makes me happy knowing that not everyone goes through the same thing! :slight_smile:

It’s good that people are able to find the friendlier side of this game, I’d love to see that for myself one day.

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I am lucky to be part of 2 great guilds and 2 very good communities filled with so many nice people it is a pleasure to be in them .
There are nasty elements of people in every walk of life sadly but we have to carry on and see the good and deal with the bad by reporting them and ingoring them.
People could take your words to heart and learn a great deal by being more friendly . A little hey ,bye, thanks for the fun and a :slight_smile: could make a difference to somebodys day .

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It would seem that you have joined some guilds but not found them to your liking, it helps if you are clear in what you are looking for eg. raiding progression/social/pvp/rp. I do believe there are nice guilds, but finding the ‘right fit for you’ can be challenging. If you feel that something is not a good fit for you and decide to leave, you should never be subjected to hostile whispers, put such people on ignore :slight_smile:

Have you seen this thread

https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/post-if-you-want-to-make-some-in-game-friends-pt3/8983/338

It may be worth putting some information about what you like, when you play etc. and seeing if you can find some friends with a similar outlook to yourself.

Although I would agree with you that you do get hostility in WoW, there are nice people also, so don’t give up.

I hope you find what you are looking for, good luck and take care of yourself.

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From pug pictures, yes, WoW has become a game like LoL, where generally only time people talk is to flame at each other.

From guild picture, it is social as long as you are in active guild. Lot of people tend to forget that forming a guild and raiding with your guild was the fundamental game design.

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What if the character I’m playing as is evil and toxic? It’s my characters personality to tell others how stupid they are, not mine :slight_smile:

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Nope! But thank you for sharing, I’ll give it a look!
Thank you for your responce, I very well could of been very unlucky in the guild searching department, I hope I find the right place for me soon! I get so jealous when I see guilds doing fun things together.

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Do you check the guild/community recruitment threads as well?

It’s worth checking them out as people tend to give a description of the guild and what they aim for. Plus you can always have a chat with the Guild Leader or an Officer first to get an idea of whether you think it is right for you :slight_smile:

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I think I can let that pass from a character pov, characters with a personality are nicer to engage in from a RP perspective. Cookie cutter characters are bleh. :sunflower:

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Name a friendly mmo? One that doesn’t give any benefits of being friendly and doesn’t have any social points system.

I’d say that people in general have changed. When we first played wow it was an amazing social experience, now we’re getting bored of being social. In my case, I now work and deal with people all day long and I don’t want to socialise chilling at home as well.

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From the forum? My realm’s forum hasn’t been active since last year. :cloud_with_rain:

If you mean the non realm bound ones, I haven’t given that a shot. I mean, I’d be down to? I don’t know where those would be though, haha.

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If your realm is not very active, it might be worth a look at some communities :slight_smile:

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Yea
 No you have only to login 2 minutes in Star Trek online and the zone chat there is filled with either political bull crap from MURICA or religious crap that goes on and on and on for days there its way way worse there than in wow.

I have tried lots of other mmo’s and even if wow has lots of hostile players its not like its a unique to wow.

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I don’t know if I’m allowed to name names of such things, I recently joined one with a friend to see what it was like and I don’t see the benefit of the regular players on this mmo being friendly towards others for any other gain but my experience there is what lead me to make this post, to be rather honest.

I completely understand that! We all feel like that sometimes, out of all the things talking is the least I’d want when I’m exhausted. I wish it weren’t the case though, I miss the old days just as much as anyone else does.

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Sorry if we are too busy with daily and weekly chores to talk and too burned out to play the game at all when we are finally done. (I take like a year hiatus at the start of each expansion)

You should blame blizzard for emulating mobile game gameplay for the second decade of the game and after

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Think that was a poor choice of words on my part, wasn’t my intention of saying WoW is the king of toxic MMORPGs. It’s not great but It could be tons better, at least in my opinion.

I’d love to know the mindset of the people who feel the need to behave that way though? Like, I doubt they behave that way irl


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Yea wow could need some hard moderating when it comes to chat but compared to other games that i have played its not even top 10 on hostility scale.

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Players are like old grumpy disgruntled employees who has been abused by their boss and the people around them for years, but just can’t seem to find the courage to leave :sweat_smile:

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Which good handful of populated MMORPGs do u mean? I am very curious about this. I have played a lot of them myself and seen way worse behaviour then in wow tbh, and way less social too.
A small example, go play some WvW in gw2, trust me then u will never complain about this community ever again :slight_smile: