Seribus wrote:
Cross Realm Bg's/Dungeon's ruined WoW.
You probably mean this in context of the decline of realm communities.
Valid point, but what I think is at least as serious a problem resulting from this is an entire generation of players whose attitude is: "U SAID IM NOT AWESUM? UR IGNORED" They take advantage of the lack of accountability and identity in the system to go from group to group, blaming the equally anonymous randoms they play with for anything that doesn't go as it should.
So ultimately, what you have, is totally unskilled players whose only accomplishment is winning need rolls and buying VP epics, who have no concept of effort or adaptation.
Some people, particularly those who really don't play the game anymore and are out-of-touch with the realities of modern WoW, might say, "Then don't use LFD/BGs".
But that's the problem - this attitude isn't exclusive to LFD or bad random BGs anymore. It has come to pervade the community at large. Trying to form groups from trade (and I have), doesn't accomplish anything, because the majority of the playerbase these days takes the LFD attitude everywhere.
If you ask a question, they will ignore it.
If you give an instruction, something simple, like "mount up and run into this door, right now", they will ignore it.
When something doesn't go as it should, they'll trash talk.
When they are given constructive advice, they'll trash talk.
They will AFK randomly, or more often, they'll just not even try, and only press their buttons sporadically.
People who aren't socially and mentally impaired don't want to play with people like that, so the people who aren't retarded are gradually leaving the game, leaving only this trash behind.
I've largely given up pugging as a result. It's simply not possible to work with this human material. Previously, over the course of many weeks or months, you might see a certain degree of improvement in mediocre players, or they could be motivated to perform better one way or another. But these players just can't be motivated at all. They're used to being able to just do whatever then drop group when they don't get what they want.
This is also a driving force in dismal raid guild recruitment: new players don't have the skills and attitude serious raid guilds need when they lose experienced players to attrition.
Like I said, I firmly believe that a major factor in this kind of behavior is that LFD enables that kind of behavior, and in the long run, it has made it widely accepted, and a lot of newer players simply don't know any other way to behave.
Honestly, lately WoW feels like something out of
Atlas Shrugged.
