Everyone says that it’s a bad thing that WoW is now effectively a single-player game since player interaction is pretty much nonexistent. Allow me to offer you the opposite viewpoint.
Recently I got reminded of something I’ve known since day one: a really big part of the WoW community just sucks.
Almost every interaction is just a toilet drain of rude, condescending and aggressive behavior that comes out of nowhere, incredibly stupid, ignorant and senseless remarks to the point they make you question humankind (once again), and people who will act holier-than-thou and think of themselves as superior to you and just outright insult you for usually tiny reasons, like making one mistake or two in a dungeon below max-level as if their world depends on it. Etc, etc…
These people are total idiots!!
And these people don’t limit themselves and their attitude to just in-game. No sir. From what I’ve seen these people comprise an enormous part of the forums. I check the forums daily and even though I never speak to them myself, I observe their interactions with others and despair.
It’s sad cause these rude and condescending people are usually regulars in these forums, and sometimes this dumb and obnoxious holier-than-thou attitude is displayed by the green texts.
You say “we need interaction”, I yell “don’t come any closer”.
If this is what the community looks like in 2020, I don’t want it. I’ve seen good people too but not often enough.
Maybe that’s why Blizzard designed the game the way they did after WotLK. Maybe they saw the truth and said “ah crap what-”
(I’m saying this on the forums only because I want to avoid the whirlpool of [Redacted] that is Reddit. Not that I expect to have a normal discussion here.)
Player interaction needs to remain in the game simply to make sure there is a possible to do end game, communities wouldn’t feel as bad as they are if servers were stuck to their respective server equivalents.
i.e: argent dawn players only see argent dawn players, so on so forth. Minimizes the ideal world for people to spit hatred at each other at a tip of a hat + faces remain familiar instead of it being “some guy” from x-pve server
Alot of the toxic interactions generally are driven by player desire to do content without stumbling into players who need a hard carry from what I understand but at the sametime the boosting community really needs to GTFO and multiboxers and botters need to go too, more so than boosters
That’s because of shards and cross realm.
Exactly why they made it a solo game and spawned some fools around you will never see again, there can be no community cause there is no social price to pay when you misbehave.
By ending closed servers, Blizzard effectively fostered toxic communities.
So, we do need interactions, but we need closed communities with that, or there is no point.
This is actually exactly why we need more mandatory interaction. The game right now you “click a button you’re in a dungeon” there’s no consequence for behaving like an a-hole.
But if players had to rely on each other they’d need players to want to have them around.
You already rely on players to pop the queue in the first place. Play a leveling DPS, the pains to wait for tanks and healers are something else.
It’s all good, OP. If you want to paint everyone’s personality from their posts and frustrated comments, I do not want you any closer either. Not sure if the MVPs are the condescending ones here.
I still have to travel to the dungeons i do I cant remember last time i encountered someone toxic. Wanna know how? I’ve made friends and joined communities and guild where toxic behaviour is frowned upon. Ppl keep saying the social aspect is dead, and still i have made so many new friends during bfa. It is possible to avoid the toxic ppl if u want to.
Everytime they reduce player interactions the game becomes worse. So removing it completely would be death sentence to game. You have to understand that it is MMORPG and such game without player interactions loses it’s appeal. Fallout 76 is great example how bad can online game be without player interaction.
There is one big problem. WoW as single player game doesnt work and its most boring experience. If you look at other single player rpgs game isnt even close to be fun single player game. In mmorpgs its player interaction and experience what makes game fun. Players is what makes game fun. And if you diminish it game becomes boring and players quit.
Thats why classic even after 15y with is content become such sucess. Players are ultimate content for mmo game.
Interaction would be fun. I mean: I met my best online gaming friends while ‘looking for group’ back when you had to. Nowadays it’s just short banter in the LFD while lvling. It’s different, rushed. The content is too easy so it’s just ‘faceroll here, ding ding ding, bubai’.
I’m assuming you’re speaking for yourself and not for the community as a whole here? Because I do have to disagree.
I’ve always viewed WoW as a single player game because, in my view, it is a single player game as are most MMOs. The way I’ve always seen it is that the only thing that’s different in most MMOs is that there are other players around that you can play with or against if you want to, but you don’t have or need to. As long as you don’t mind missing out on story finales which Blizzard loves wrapping up in illogical raids (illogical because why do that when you’ve soloed the rest of the story?), then you can play WoW entirely alone if you want to. And for me it’s perfect due to many social and medical issues I have, although I respect that solo play isn’t everyone’s idea of fun.
In many ways this does seem a bit harsh but I do have some sympathy with this. A lot of players on here, both in game and on the forums, do seem to enjoy being idiots and trolling, being unhelpful etc. But there are also some who are lovely. I’ve come across both. I think it depends purely on luck whether you find the good or the bad and all I can suggest is be nice to the good and block the bad!
This may be a little off topic but believe me the WoW forum is quite pleasant (if you ignore the trolls) compared to another game’s forum I had occasion to visit recently. I saw a post on there where a player was praising the game for the versatility in things you can do on it but got absolutely roasted by so many other posters for not making it clear that by PVP they were referring to combat! And they were really not nice in the way they roasted this player. I’ve never seen any other forum where it wasn’t a given that PVP meant combat so I felt really sorry for that player!
This was pretty much stated on the back of the Vanilla box. A fact people seem to forget.
“Form Powerful Alliances Play solo or enlist fellow heroes to join forces with you as you negotiate the vast, battle-scarred landscape of a world at war.”
I would link but I’m not allowed -_- you just google it and you’ll find it.
Here is my recent experience with player interaction in the dungeon browser:
Someone fell behind. He seemed to not find the way. Instead of asking for directions or help, he just leaves.
But I strongly disagree that less player interaction removes the toxicity. Players are still toxic. In fact annoyed or toxic remarks are often the only things you hear from players.
I think the lack of player interaction makes this worse aswell. It’s just easier to call someone a noob if you never talked to them before. And with the queue system you’ll likely never see them again.
I cant remember last time i encountered someone toxic. Wanna know how? I’ve made friends and joined communities and guild where toxic behaviour is frowned upon. Ppl keep saying the social aspect is dead, and still i have made so many new friends during bfa. It is possible to avoid the toxic ppl if u want to.