Aug. 28th, 2019

xyzzysqrl: (Sqrl Barbarian)
So I'm running around Mulgore as my Tauren Shaman and I run into small services hub and town Bloodhoof Village. A bunch of other tauren are there, hanging out in a circle, mooing at each other.

I get close enough to see what's going on and notice they're all in a guild together.

The 'Incognito Furry Guild', as it says over their heads.

Naturally I wander up, find a place in the circle and start mooing too.

They're all wearing blue shirts.
I keep mooing, they keep mooing.
One of them trades me a blue shirt.
I put on the blue shirt.
I get a guild invite.
I accept.

... Moo, I guess!

Man, this kind of thing never happened to me in other MMOs.

(Shh. I'm the best at incognito.)
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[7:19 PM] XyzzySqrl: ... honestly mostly, like... I'm confused by WoW Classic because this is the first time I've seen a theme park MMO operate like a theme park.
People are shouting jokes and encouragement at each other over the loudspeakers.
You get run-by buffs.
People call out rares in chat.
There's a guy selling homemade bags out of a stand.
People forming neat orderly lines to fight bosses.
People agreeing to clump up in GROUPS to fight bosses. Organically.
I just ran through a bunch of caves in a five-man group hunting a boss and it felt like a mini-dungeon.
We all clapped when some dude found a green-quality axe.
If you're having trouble with a fight, a little circle forms up to heal you through it.
A guy just mailed me a decent pair of pants because I finished a pun he made in global chat.

[7:20 PM] XyzzySqrl: I'm torn between "What the fuck is this?" and "Wow everybody's being real nice and trying not to ruin each other's day. ... What the fuck is this, is this still WoW?"

[7:40 PM] XyzzySqrl: .... that said I'm still in the cow starting area. I'm about to leave for the orc/troll "Barrens" land, so I'm expecting to be hit with a fucking wall-to-wall nightmare of Chuck Norris jokes from 2004 and I'll black out and wake up in an hour having uninstalled the game and thrown my PC into the street.



[8:00 PM] XyzzySqrl: ...I'm gonna miss those moos.

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