This is my first forum post, so apologies if I posted this in the wrong place.
I recently started playing WoW (I had bought the game when Burning Crusade was first released, but never really played the game until now) and for me, chatting and meeting new players has always been a massively important part of any mmo. That is what keeps me engaged.
Soon after starting I was introduced to Newcomer chat and I quickly learned that it is a very recent addition - and what a brilliant addition that is. The chatting was very helpful and often fun, the social aspect quickly became one of the most important aspects of the game for me. However, after hitting level 50, I was kicked out of the chat - yet I am still very much a newcomer and donât know or understand over half the stuff going on. However, I can manage learning everything on my own, that is fine, but itâs the social aspect that I lost all of a sudden that truly killed the motivation to play the game.
I tried to join a couple of guilds, but despite the many members, nobody really chats. So, the game started feeling like a single player and although Iâve been trying some dungeons, it doesnât add much of a social aspect to the game when itâs all about rushing through it as quickly as possible with little to no chatting. It appears there isnât much of a
chatting culture in the game, or perhaps Iâve just looked in the wrong places (is there any world which has active zone chats?).
It bothers me that there is no other chat like Newcomer chat, which was very active throughout the day across different worlds too. I donât really like how they limit chatting to certain parts of the world, as they donât seem active - quite dead actually. I wish there was a global chat like the Newcomer chat for everybody to enjoy.
I think you got kicked because you are not considered a newcommer anymore after 50
(maybe just suposition).But my advice is to search for a guilde.When i say search for a guild actually interest yourself in the guild not just join the first one on trade chat.You probably didnât join a Guild you joined a cess-pool bottom of the ocean âGuildâ that have no reason to exist but to mass invite people and rake some gold amounts off the activities they do.
If you want to have a good experience you have to be willing to put some time into researching the guild you are looking for,raiding guilds are unironically the most social guilds.Especially on raid times just need to fiind one at your level.
you can also attempt to make a character on a role play realm type of server those people there tend to be more about having a good chat but maybe you are not into role-playing so that might be bad.
Newcommer chat is one of those half-baked features Blizorg never bothered to finish, you can rejoin as a Guide but requirements are pretty absurd
As mentioned before, join raiding guild, those who also raid mythic are usually the most social, go to wowprogress and look up top guilds in your realm, any decent guild will have description there and raid times etc - would pick one which is at least 10/10 heroic and 3/10 mythic. Find one which fits your time-schedule and apply by messaging their officers
Another thing to bear in mind is that a lot of guild chat happens in voice channels now. Things like Discord make voice chat free for all and allow for a greater range of expression than text chatting. Most of my guild are active on discord for at least part of the evenings and always for raids.
Typing while trying to tank heal or dps is difficult so people prefer to be on voice to talk and it also makes coordinating play in dungeons and raids so much easier.
The chat activity ingame very much depends on a realmâs population. I donât know on which realm youâre playing but would suggest to select one of the more popular realms if you explicitely seek for chat buddies. I think thereâs a thread in this forum for people, who want to make friends ingame, too.
.o(Should probably post there, too at one point⌠)
Usually, the liveliest chats are the general and trading chats in greater cities, where you can ask questions about gameplay any time. In most cases, an experienced player will answer you directly in the public chat or whisper you to respond.
Finding a realmwide casual chat is a bit more difficult and it indeed is never guaranteed that joining a community or guild will offer you a lively chat option. Successfully building up an inter-active guild in WoW is as difficult as starting a good chat group on social media platforms. A lot of people will join eventually but never say a word. Thatâs a phenomenon really worrying me about todayâs online community. âTogether aloneâ is a concept that turns a lot of âsocial platformsâ into feed based ghost cities, where the communication between people is pretty much reduced to liking posts and writing short reaction replies in the comment section.
Many have unlearned how to have a proper conversation with people other than for the purpose of rating their content or getting information. Making personal contact, keeping in touch and having personal conversations is no common practice anymore. And the pandemic made that painfully clear.
My suggestion for you would be to join a role play guild. Those people take much pride in ranting for hours without pause and tell you the whole game lore in a personal novel, even if no one has asked for it. We have some exceptional talents regarding that on the forum. xâ)
What I would suggest here is that youâve probably sampled about 100 people out of over a million players Just because some guilds donât talk doesnât mean all guilds are silent. You just didnât join the ones that suited you.
Or maybeâŚ
âŚthey were chatting outside the game and you didnât notice? My guild discord gets a lot of chatter because people can quietly use it while at work - but in-game chat can be nearly dead unless weâre approaching raid time
This is a good call. Communities are x-realm, so you have access to all of them, and can be in multiple at the same time. Easy to âshop aroundâ and take your time over working out which one(s) fit you best. Look for communities that advertise a discord server, because this is the social glue!
It is, unfortunately the OP seems to be Horde⌠Iâm told Zen Horde are very friendly to newcomers, but I donât know how much banter goes on there.
One way Blizzard could save the social part of the game is by adding a server wide chat channel. People who donât like it can simply leave the channel.
You are completely right and guilds chatting on Discord does not help the matter either because they only interact with other guild members or people on their Discord channel. So they pay no attention to the new guy waving and greeting and jumping and poking his heart out to try and get someone to help them. Guilds may be helpful to guild members but not to new players that do not form part of their guild. Itâs like isolation inside of a supposed accessible community and that lead to a breakdown of communication and a seeming silent community. Being less social in a social game.
As a new player you run into stuff like quests you donât know how to do. Is it better to ask your guild, who most likely is busy doing something else, or the guy next to you who is doing the same thing as you? If you could ask the guy next to you he could help you faster where as your guild would be like âYou want to do what? Where are you again?â. This creates the situation where 2 people right next to each other doing the same content trying to get help from 2 different guilds on their respective Discord channels while both guilds have no idea what they are talking about. Instead if they just talked to each other they could figure it out.
Whenever I see someone doing the same stuff as I am, I invite them. It may be a new player or a lower geared player that might need some help.
To fix this WoW needs to put in localized in-game voice chat. That meaning everyone within a certain range of you in the open world can voice chat with you or in instanced content everyone within the instance can voice chat in-game.
I feel the OP at this bit. I think that the many stuff to be done, and the fact you only need to group up for dungeons, PvP and raids kills the need to find other players to regularly play with. Sure there must be a grind in every game but⌠itâs really a bit much.
And the fast pace of IRL definitely seeps into the game as well, not to mention aging players. Back then everyone easily had 8+ hours a day to play, now itâs even less than 2 or 3 with work, family, girl/boyfriend, studies, and youâd naturally want to get stuff done and progress over stopping for a chat when your free time feels negligible and youâre paying to play since⌠every minute counts.
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Just because some guilds donât talk doesnât mean all guilds are silent. You just didnât join the ones that suited you.
