07-10-2015, 02:54 PM
After 10 years of WoW, I know this: what you get out of WoW is what you put into it.
Guilds come and go, as do people. The key thing is that everyone you meet in WoW has one thing in common with you: they play WoW. So you have a common starting point at the very least. Unless you are willing to put in effort into finding and playing with people who share other in-game or real-life interests with you, you'll eventually run out of such people and thus lose incentive to play.
The game isn't fun enough as a solo endeavor to keep anyone interested past the first 3-12 months when it's all new and fresh to them. After all, it's 10 years later and we're still collecting bear asses - kinda hard to get past the core point of the game.
What keeps it fresh and interesting is the people you play it with. (As a side point, this is why I think LFR is bad for the game.)
My happiest memories of WoW are always around the things I did with other people, never the things I did on my own. I continue to make those memories today - I just had a really fun raid week and I have that pumped-up feeling at work simply because my raid team defeated a bunch of pixels that, in the end, means absolutely nothing.
I've uprooted a number of times now and embedded myself in different guilds. Even swapped Alliance to Horde. It's not an easy thing to do; when you meet a whole new group of people there will be some you like and some you don't. But it always keeps things interesting!
Guilds come and go, as do people. The key thing is that everyone you meet in WoW has one thing in common with you: they play WoW. So you have a common starting point at the very least. Unless you are willing to put in effort into finding and playing with people who share other in-game or real-life interests with you, you'll eventually run out of such people and thus lose incentive to play.
The game isn't fun enough as a solo endeavor to keep anyone interested past the first 3-12 months when it's all new and fresh to them. After all, it's 10 years later and we're still collecting bear asses - kinda hard to get past the core point of the game.
What keeps it fresh and interesting is the people you play it with. (As a side point, this is why I think LFR is bad for the game.)My happiest memories of WoW are always around the things I did with other people, never the things I did on my own. I continue to make those memories today - I just had a really fun raid week and I have that pumped-up feeling at work simply because my raid team defeated a bunch of pixels that, in the end, means absolutely nothing.
I've uprooted a number of times now and embedded myself in different guilds. Even swapped Alliance to Horde. It's not an easy thing to do; when you meet a whole new group of people there will be some you like and some you don't. But it always keeps things interesting!
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