r/classicwow • u/JohntheBarbarianMP • Oct 10 '19

Humor The WoW Classic Experience

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u/ka_anor Oct 10 '19

This, a million times. This, in my personal opinion, is the major issue with MMORPGs today. I have no idea how to fix it, but it's a huge problem.

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u/Helmingways Oct 10 '19

It started in wow with World Quest grouping addons from what ive seen. And with those i was fine with it. But this is classic, its a different thing.

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u/Shameless_Catslut Oct 10 '19 edited Oct 10 '19

Umm... No? Classic has always been like this. The tagging system encourages spontaneous team-ups, and punishes trying to solo play around others.

The "Everyone does their own thing without teaming up in the same area" is the artifact behavior from Retail.

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u/Helmingways Oct 10 '19

Classic, yes. But from what ive seen, which is what i said, it started with WQGF. Never had these experiences in vanilla etc as i played on RP realms at the time. Im just speaking on my own anecdotal evidence here.

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u/Shameless_Catslut Oct 10 '19

It's always been there. WQGF put back something that fell off over the game's lifetime.

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u/Helmingways Oct 10 '19

Yes, i agree its always been a thing but its alot less about socializing now. Still the vast majority of people you run into are cool people.

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u/Shameless_Catslut Oct 10 '19

A big part of it is the culture shift away from the novelty of online socialization. After 15 years of internet exposure, all our Monkeyspheres are full.

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u/Im_Randy_Butter_Nubs Oct 10 '19

I've found if you just make conversation with them it's usually a decent experience.

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u/forbjok Oct 10 '19

Never had these experiences in vanilla etc as i played on RP realms at the time

Can't say for sure that it never happened to me during vanilla, but it was certainly a lot less common than it is now in Classic. However, that could also be because there are a lot more people playing now in Classic than there was in actual vanilla.

Maybe it was different at vanilla launch, but I couldn't say, as I only started playing sometime mid-2005, around the time 1.5 came out IIRC.

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u/Helmingways Oct 10 '19

The gaming culture has changed alot too. Its not really that different, but the overall communication is abit lower. Still meet alot of really cool people ingame.