Pointing fingers at others

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When you point a finger there are always three pointing back at yourself.

Like I’ve mentioned many, many times before.

Current world of warcraft has been tailored to be heavily focussed on a single player experience. Where only raid and pvp content now requires any form of real human interaction and minimal at best.

World of warcraft is social game, like any mmorpg.
The genre it self is meant to be a social experience not a single player experience.

But the community has been twisted so far apart from one another that everyone’s just minding their own buisness and don’t want to experience the true intent of the game genre. They just want to logon, do their dailies and weeklies and preferably without uttering 1 word to a other human being.

This has been the mentality pretty much starting in Wotlk with the introductory of LFG as we know it today. And each new expansion after that became a more single player linear experience.

Than Activision Blizzard decided to release Classic, great move!
But the anti social mentality has rooted far too deep in the Wow community that classic can’t be experienced in its traditional intent.
For classic had little to no content to offer and survived and became popular because of its community creativity.

What did you think people did for 4 years back in vanilla and tbc? login raid once a week and wait for a reset? They made their own content mount races, costumes parties, weddings, funerals, wallclimbing pvp duels tournaments etc.

Want to know how classic works now?

It’s world chat and trade chat being spammed by you the community itself trying to buy or sell boosts. I remember TBC classic launch… I couldn’t get in to a Ramparts group because people we demanding T3 gear for a 56 green item level dungeon. People only care about their own personal progression, if anyone or any thing is slowing down their progression they’re met with harasments, ignores, death threats etc.

Please spare us your comment: “Gosh Aeldari, I don’t know what you mean! I play with friends, I am very social!” yes you play with tight click of “friends”. You have small exclussive group you clear your required content with. You only socialize with them to a extend because you’re relying on them to get your BiS. New people in to your group? ew no, disgusting! Let’s just invite social in our guild to pretend we’re a big active social guild but only talk to our static raid roster.

These things happen 90% of all the time.

So yeah…

Now Content creators and streamers are moving on to different games like Final Fantasy.
For let’s behonest the only people that did do create social events were streamers…

And now that the game’s available content is SP driven and mediocre people turn their interest else where.

I even mentioned Star Wars The Old Republic having a more active social community than current or classic wow put together. And that’s a 99% single player driven MMORPG.
I actually returned to Swtor for a month last year to see its new content… which I didn’'t manage to clear, wanna know why?

Because I ended up spending all my time having fun with the community rather than playing the liniar single player content.

And that’s something wow has been missing for several years, a proper community.

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Your point was great till you said you did exactly the same you are advocating against in SWTOR and it was so great that you lasted a month.

Good work.

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I lasted a month because I went Eso.
You’re making assumptions that I lost interest in the game or its community.
In fact a large portion of the community and I were playing together in Eso.

besides I alternate between mmorpg’s a few months wow, few months swtor, few months eso I never stick to 1 game 24/7.

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I’m having a great time tbh. I usually get 1 new friend per mythic run or so. We chat or discord during the run, have fun and meet up lateron for more. I think the big issue is the LFD/LFR/LFM mindset. It’s just quick-quick-see-you-never.

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Right, so left and went and played that new MMO exclusively with your bunch of friends in exactly the same veins you are moaning that those do in WoW.

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nope to join 5 guilds and explore eso’s new content. I sitl had swtor installed and stil came back to it every now and than but it didn’t require a subscription unless I wanted to explore its current content.

Try to think outside of the box.

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Ff14 is more a solo game than WoW. It got lfg and lfr and it got a great community. I played it before they blew up their world and I still play it.
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More often than not my times there is spend chatting to ppl.
Community imo got nothing to do with lfg or lfr. Im more social in WoW now than I was before lfg and lfr.
I cant say why Ff14 is more social. Maybe because your encouraged to help new players though mentoring and by having a global newbee/newcomers/returnee chat. If I see a lowlvl asking help for a world boss it litteraly takes seconds before ppl world help.
The community in WoW i never seen be like that.
Dont get me wrong I enjoy playing WoW but the community could need some help.
I dont believe removing features is the answer though

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So you’ve changed your story to suit some sort of false narrative to lecture people about the lack of community and sticking with friends whilst doing exactly the same yourself.

Good work, you’ve trumped yourself within a few minutes.

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People can play the game how they want. If you need to incentivise people to do something in the first place, then clearly they’d rather not do it. There is no right or wrong way to play a game - it’s a game.

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