@candlesan01: "Not all social games are created equal. In some games you make lifelong friends, and in other games the ""friends"" feel disposable. Let's talk about why, and how to design your game to promote friendship. Project Horseshoe white paper: https://www.projecthorseshoe.com/reports/ph16/ph16r4.htm GDC talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voz6S7ryWC0"
Yet modern wow and even wow forever has killed off proximity. No realms.
2026-11-02 20:05:05
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A Note Played :
Very cool breakdown. I dunno about Horde versus Alliance, though. It may help meeting strangers, but it hurts with playing with friends you already have (and with meeting their friends....).
2026-11-08 14:26:02
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Lise 🏳️⚧️🔻 :
this is why I'm so sad about modern shooters getting rid of dedicated servers, and going exclusively queue based
2026-11-02 23:22:55
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🧀BabyDan🇵🇸 :
Somehow competitive pvp games like hero shooters just dont capture this. So many people you play with and yet it feels lonely and everyone hates their teammate.
2026-11-03 01:41:17
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godnoble :
This was why I objected to the LFG tool. I used to make friends in heroic dungeons. It mattered if someone was good, and we'd do another run together immediately after, or group up the next day. Now it's just an endless stream of strangers focused on getting the content done as fast as possible, and if they suck there's no consequence for them.
2026-11-02 20:39:18
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vivi :
Isn't it sad that these ideas were abandoned later in WoW?
2026-11-03 12:09:14
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DendersNL :
Soooooo……. they designed 1 server with layers. Going completely against rule 1 in wow forever.
2026-11-03 05:58:10
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Hank Mobley :
I've been playing with the same people for 5 years now. Never met them but they are genuine close friends.
2026-11-02 20:21:14
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⛈️ STORMFATHER ⛈️ :
Proximity, time, RECIPROCITY, and values
2026-11-02 21:03:53
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Math :
As an autistic adult, this information is an embarrassing revelation to me. Thank you!
2026-11-02 20:07:56
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Kevin :
and then wow introduced layering and player housing
2026-11-02 23:38:43
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John :
I feel like WoW Forever/WoW Classic’s loot table and distribution is the opposite of this. You fixed it in retail, allowing multiple people to loot the same mob, which allowed reciprocity to thrive. Now we are relegated to fighting for kills and griefing for nodes.
2026-11-02 20:25:20
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owengracecade :
everyone is so glad to have 20 other people to roll on 3% drop chance ^^
2026-11-03 00:03:11
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Fratele :
RIP realms 2004-2026
2026-11-02 20:08:42
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✨ :
you guys made friends in school?
2026-11-03 05:13:41
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YiyaJean :
I'm still in touch with people I met playing Everquest back in 1999-2000. some of the best people I've ever met were through gaming.
2026-11-03 13:45:15
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cookopotamus :
I wish you were working on WoW Forever! It'd be a huge win to have an OG dev guiding new content in the classic world 🫶
2026-11-03 17:48:51
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ana.stazi.a :
Me and a bunch of my guildies met up irl for the first time at Blizzcon this year. It was super fun. We got an airbnb and just hung out.
2026-11-03 12:56:27
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Rosemary's Child :
I know at least two ppl who got married to someone they played with for years on wow
2026-11-02 22:45:34
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Nikolas Panterini :
always interesting content
2026-11-02 20:03:10
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gravity :
when i was a child my parents drilled into my head the fear of internet strangers son now im 25 and still afraid to talk to strangers on discord
2026-11-03 05:52:20
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Matty Petes :
I made some of my best HS friends in OG WoW and OG RuneScape lol
2026-11-03 11:24:23
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realestgoat 🔑🌙 :
it’s infinitely harder to make close friends in multiplayer games today, solely due to how its become so isolated as a result of how big game have gotten in general and how little devs have actually worked to make games feel more sociable within these larger player counts. you have to exclusively queue with someone today to actually feel close to them, you will rarely run into the same people when just randomly playing on any of the big competitive games today.
2026-11-03 06:44:59
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☺️ :
What do you think about the megarealms in WoW Forever? I think the layering/sharping will help a lot with helping the world feel full, but not overwhelmingly so, but I’m worried about losing that realm wide community.
2026-11-02 21:08:03
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