Quote Originally Posted by d0z3rr View Post
Waiting 30 minutes to find a tank, only for the tank to pull like a moron and wipe the group, then everyone leaves and you have to start all over again.
That's only half the picture though. I still talk to people I met during vanilla while out questing or looking for dungeon groups. Added to friends list and later joined a guild together that ended up being a solid raiding guild lasting well into Cataclysm.

Boxing makes things smoother when you want to just get a dungeon finished asap. but I still enjoy the social aspect sometimes. The fact that the only time you ever need to even communicate with another player in a supposed MMO is at the highest level of mythic content is pretty poor design IMO.

Not to mention the impact it has on gameplay. The best PvP I've ever had in WoW occurred organically while out questing. Running into some Horde character who called for help, then I did the same and it ended up with dozens of level 20somethings brawling in Ashenvale for hours. That kind of genuine player interaction is so much more enjoyable than grinding "points" in some instanced BG. Nowdays everyone would be flying over the zone, in a queue or sharded and you're lucky if you see another player.