World of Warcraft Community Magazine Issue 10 | Page 43
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WoW. Through the Looking for
Group tool, you can queue for any
5-man dungeon or 25-man raid.
You can hit one button, wait for
a short time, and there you are,
already in the instance. You blast
through the content and leave.
No connections made. More often
than not, no words even typed. I
think this is what makes people
think there isn’t any community
in WoW anymore. It helps
tremendously for those who don’t
have anyone to play with. It also
leaves the chat channels lacking
some since there is no longer
a need to spam them for group
members. I think it is overall
we will all miss him greatly. On
out as I tried to memorialize
a good addition to the game
the following Wednesday, we held
a friend who I had met the
that makes seeing the content
a memorial service for him. There
same way. Here was a group of
and getting through dailies/
were not many people there.
people who felt the same pain,
legendary quests much easier.
It was not extravagant. It was,
sadness, and rage that I felt.
however, a heartfelt service where
Here was a group of people who,
Remember that while you may
those of us in the guild spent
though I have never met and it
not see that interaction too
time together. I realized then,
is possible I will never meet, I
terribly much in Trade Chat
seeing all these people sitting in
consider friends. Some of my IRL
anymore, World of Warcraft still
front of me as I gave my words,
friends even logged onto Horde
has an amazing community.
through all the cynicism, there
characters long forgotten just
You just have to be the one to
was a community in this game
to come support me because
look behind the single-player
unlike anything I had felt before.
they recognized how close you
walls to see the amazing things
can get to people on this game.
this community does and the
friends you can make in this
This was a group of people who
I have never met, yet here they
Blizzard has introduced a lot
were, listening to me cry my eyes
of ways to play by yourself in
world we all live and play in.
By Andrew Spalding
The GameOn Magazine