[00:00] How do you guys generally feel about this genre of MMO that is mainly solo play? Hardcore WoW for the mo- kinda. RuneScape, FF it sounds like I've never played.
[00:13] L, hate it, sucks, terrible. Like, I actually like kinda love it, but all you guys seem to hate it. I wonder why I like it. I have 5-6k hours of WoW and have never rated in the current expansion.
[00:26] Yeah, dude, a lot of people play WoW solo. Type one in the chat if you play WoW mainly solo. Like, of course, you know, you do this and that here and there, but like mainly solo. Like, there are so many of you guys that play WoW solo.
[00:39] Not all the time, but like 90 plus percent of the time, you're logging in and doing your own thing. Making gold, leveling an alt. I've never raided in 20 plus years. Wow, that's crazy. I wonder if there's more people that play WoW mainly solo than play in groups.
[00:53] I don't know. I'm actually just curious. Researchers from Stanford and Xerox PARC tracked 129,000 WoW characters for months, taking a census of five servers every few minutes. And this was 2005,
[01:06] during the absolute peak of This Game Replaces Your Life. And what they found? Most people played alone. Grouping didn't take over until the very last levels. Solo players even leveled about twice as fast. The title of the study is very fitting.
[01:19] Alone Together. Holy crap! This is exactly what we were just talking about! Like I said, I just did a poll. how many of you guys play 90% alone? And it's like the majority of people kind of play WoW alone. Of course, you're going to look for groups now and then and raids,
[01:32] but like a lot of your journey is that solo experience.