• Zoldyck@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    This game used to be social and about working together. They should have pulled the plug years ago.

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      9 days ago

      This content is the lowest common denominator. It is the easiest baby mode raid. You do not get end game gear (except for weird kinda quest rewards you get for beating the last boss on any difficulty). This is literally only there so someone who doesn’t interact with people or cannot physically do the raid for disability or skill can expirance it and see the cutscenes. This is inclusion not erosion.

      There is still a large community around the harder contents and if you want real gear you have to still group.

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        9 days ago

        I almost always played solo because I liked exploring and crafting and doing things at my pace. Whenever I had a group, I felt like I was pressured to move move move and finish as much as possible without absorbing the environments or reading the matching story lines.

        I was able to finish a few of the low level instances, but was rarely able to find a group to run with and thus usually just skipped over any quests that required them. Sure, picking up some legendary gear would be nice, but I would have just loved the option to stroll through these quests on my own.

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      10 days ago

      That’s the part I always hated. It was hostile towards people who liked the lore but didn’t want to group up with some guy named LaserButt4000 who didn’t want to go to the same dungeon as you, but was happy to get your rare loot in a bad roll of the dice.

      Private servers with scaling for dungeon soloing were a godsend. WoW is actually awesome as a single player game. It’s unfortunate the devs never realized that.

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        10 days ago

        I disagree. The social aspect was amazing and actually helped me to be more social irl as well. WoW was never meant as a solo game. Sure, sometimes people stole loot and were annoying as fuck, but that’s part of it, just like irl.

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          9 days ago

          but that’s part of it, just like irl.

          Some people might not want annoying aspects of IRL in their fantasy escapism games involving roleplay…

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            9 days ago

            Good and they made games just for these people. They are called single player games.

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            9 days ago

            Call it whatever the fuck you want but this is like bitching that there is no fishing in counter strike.

            MMOs are built specifically to be MULTIPLAYER and to be SOCIAL. Sitting there alone running dungeons solo is the exact opposite of what an MMO is.

            People like you with that mentality is the exact reason games like WoW have turned into dumpster fires and I want nothing to do with you ruining my games.

            Go play a single player game instead.

            • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              9 days ago

              Fucked that you’re downvoted

              It’s legit a game meant to be played with other people it’s IN THE NAME OF THE FUCKING GENRE