What's happened to common courtesy in dungeons?

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That also worked the other way around.
More often than not, you’d meet someone you’d previously done a dungeon with, or something as simple as met in the outside world doing questing. A name or guild you recognize.

Seeing a familiar name often helped on the mood. Nowadays you meet random stranger number 19 for the day when using LFG. Same as yesterday, and last week. I think it kinda forms the mindset of “why bother? You’re never gonna see these people again”.

I can name at least 10 people I met randomly in the outside world and ended up doing either a few quests or dungeons with 10-15 years ago. I can’t for the life of me remember a single name in my last LFG Group.

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If people prefer to be silent or are just very shy its fine.
I would rather some relaxed, fun talk but its ok if there is silence.

Just dont be nasty to others, thats what i do.
Angry Joe trash talking others is toxic and sad, dont be like Angry Joe.

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Problem is there are alot of angry Joe’s nowadays that think that it is normal to act that way so their hello how are you doing is in toxic talk:

  • go you retard
  • you are such a loser basement dweller
  • grow up kid(irony they are kids themselves).

And etc…
that’s what gaming society considers normal these days it’s sad really :worried:.

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I find most groups are silent, occasionally you find a talkative bunch. I don’t mind either way as long as people aren’t abusive.

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Oh gosh, the generation card. Often indicates more a lack of selfreflection than it shows how terrible the new generation is.

Anywayz, I often try to break the silence with a joke. If it doesn’t help, so be it. Just silently doing the dungeon it is (almost preferred).

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It’s disingenuous to say they aren’t different though. Also, its not “terrible”. Just different from how things were in “their” generation.

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Unlikely and not the case so far. But yes we will see.

I played during Vanilla. And for over a week myself and some other Vanilla, TBC and WotLK players are reconnecting with our old realm community for Classic. So far it is a lot of fun gathering all these people on Discord with much nostalgia eapecially since most of us are now in our 30s or 40s. We are eagerly awaiting the release in August.

The community was small and dependant on eachother even outside the own guilds in early WoW. I met so many nice players back then that helped me with my quests, addons, keybinds etc… And in time I returned the favor to the community be it a guildie or not. In early WoW I never had a need for an ignore list since douchebags got socially shunned since the community was not so large and anomonous. I had daily interactions with friendly players. A ton of fun events on the realm as well both RP and PVP.

But there is no point in this anymore because the community outside your own guild is dead since Cata. It’s like most content is designed to play with a bunch of strangers and rushing through the content. My ignore list went from empty to capped from Cata-WoD. There is so much scumbagging it is insane. My current realms rep is so bad many players actually specifically list they don’t want players from Kazzak in the LFG tool.

Classic is not out yet and I am already having fun. But ye maybe it is overhyped. Only time will tell.

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That might be true but they are not the only ones.

We gathered around 12 old school players who said to commit to Classic. About 2 of them are playing in BfA (one on the verge of quitting after 4 guild disbands). The two still active were obviously easiest to find.

We also approached about 20+ players that all quit WoW in hopes they will join on Classic or are in touch with some players we lost contact with. Tbh it feels like most of the pre Cata community quit WoW. Of all the people we know from back then only like 2-3 play BfA.

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I used to talk a lot and ask people who they were doing, but since no one anwsered I’ve reverted to just saying hello.

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I really doubt it will be mainly people who quit ages ago coming back… I think the newer players/current players will be more.

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Most people don’t want to interact now in MMO, they play just to see a number incrementally increase in a database.

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I didn’t say mainly. I am certain a ton of current players will play Classic. But I do think a good portion of players that quit WoW will also be playing.

How big these portions are is impossible to guess at this point.

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It did exist long ago, but the need for communication has been dying over the last few expansions. Now it’s just queue for dungeon and just get it over with. Only thing i’ve seen randoms use the chat about is when one gets loot the other one needs and that can sometime occur after the last boss after a whole dungeon group of silence.

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I’d rather have a fake courteous smile like what you get from a guy in a shop trying to sell you something rather than no interaction or such.
Rather they pretend to be friendly rather than just act like dicks. But maybe that’s just me.

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Luckily classic wil be released so u can lvl in Just a few hours…

Lvling have become easier and easier with every expansion. The only reason i do not like lvling is because i have done it dozens of Times.

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It’s weird when some people can’t even be assed to say “hey” when they personally request to join your M+ group and then you personally invite and greet them.

As for myself, I always say at least Hi when joining a group. Most of the time though, I’m on a voice chat with my friends, so I can’t really pay attention to the ingame chat, not without losing focus.

Never really minded people being chatty, in fact I prefer people who are underperforming, but friendly, over the silent types (not necessarily good players) that explode in your face should one little thing go wrong or when you refuse to trade them your loot, who then can go as far as start a toon on your realm to continue their rambling after you put their man on ignore :joy:

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You keep saying that in many threads, but I did play lots of dungeons in beta and the standard of behavior was in all of the runs far superior to that on live retail.

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This is pretty much the main issue, I admit I’ve stopped trying with random groups to communicate anything.
I can also imagine that’s why a lot of people just act like complete tools because they are like whatever next run different people anyway.

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Here’s the key word :wink:

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I don’t know about you guys. But when I Level iam normaly in a discord with 3-5 Friends, Talking with them.

Where is the point in being social in a low level dungeon ? We all did the dungeon 100 times already. We all know what to do.

Only when someone comes out and ask a question or says he is new, than i see a reason to talk.

Acting high and mighty because you say hello in a dungeon, while sitting alone in your dark room , being proud how social you are , is not impressive at all.

And if the classic community acts ingame like on the forum. Good luck with that.

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