If you heard the recent Ion interview, he said if there is something we want to recreate from wow classic is the sense of community.
He even said it to be "inspiring"
(by the way, it felt good hearing Ion say that. This goes to all the haters who told me several times "there is no such thing as more sense of community in classic wow") - Ion disagrees
Sorry for the "gotcha moment"
But how in the world will they acomplish this?
Is it even possible with cross realm tech, no trading, LFG tool, queues, etc?
How in the world will they be able to recreate the "sense of community" of classic with this many tools we have today?
Because, in my eyes, what made the sense of community in classic is the fact we had no tools...so we needed to bond because of it...
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List of things that IMO made for a greater sense of community in Vanilla:
1) Leveling
Mob tagging for your own faction made you want to group up, otherwise you were fighting for resources with your own faction
Also some zones have elite quests OR high density mobs inside houses where is mandatory to group up
2) World Buffs
There are discord communities with schedules for world buffs and the entire server gathers around at the same time in the city to be buffed
3) Professions
You needed to be friends with enchanters and other profession players
4) Raiding
There is no solo queue so you need to be social in order to receive raiding epics
5) Server community
Recognize the same faces, be the servers famous X player for doing/giving X thing
Or be infamous by ganking the other faction in PvP
6) Trading
You can /trade any item with anyone you meet in the world