I have never met more racist, toxic people online. I queue all kinds of toxic games like DoTA and Apex but none of them hold a candle to the types of losers I have met playing WoW. I seriously can't imagine spending every week bound to 24 of these people. It's almost exclusively 4chan NEET types who I have encountered so far. Obviously this can't be every person in the WoW community and yet I haven't met a single person who gives me the impression otherwise.
I'm genuinely curious what the appeal of this game even is because I always hear it's, "the social aspect". This doesn't really make sense to me because I only seem to run into anti-social losers with tiny penis and massive insecurity. I'm not even talking about the absolute cringefest going on 24/7 in STV or ganking in general because yes it's ****ing cringe but what else would I expect? My real concern is just the overall pissant attitude and completely insufferable way people treat each other on this game.
I'm not asking to get carried through the game or have people do **** for me, quite the contrary honestly. I just can't understand the appeal of a "social" game where the vast majority of people running around you would never want to socialize with in your ****ing life. I play games to relax not be stuck in circumstances I have no control over (surrounding myself with ****ters and concentrated negativity/pettiness). If I wanted to be depressed about the state of humanity I would just go on Twitter and avoid the extra window-dressing.
Content? Easy, relaxing, maybe even almost enjoyable. The people required to clear it? Absolute ****ing misery. I'm no fool, I don't wipe or **** up basic mechanics, and have no problem sacrificing some of my time to help out a guildie, etc. So what gives? Is WoW really so boring that the only way to make it fun is to ruin other people's mood? I really don't understand. Surely there has to be something to do in this game besides raidlogging and griefing??? I came here because my friend was excited for WoTLK and wanted to play with me because he knows I'm no clown. All I'm left with is confusion and the feeling that I'll be missing out on absolutely nothing if I choose not to play. There are tons of other things we could do together these days, I was mainly checking the game out just because of how excited he was.