I'm not someone who celebrates many holidays. As we head into the
Thanksgiving/Christmas/New Years axis of festivity, I'm fairly unmoved. I
know people who really like the holidays, who go to buy cheap WOW Gold
to take part in the festivities, but I'm not one of those people and
that means that I end up finding myself standing around deserted capital
cities wondering where all the people went. Why are my dungeon queues
twice as long? Why do I have a queue when I signed up to tank? How can
there be a seven minute queue for scenarios?
Now, since I have terrible insomnia I often play at times when there's
not a lot of people on, but the holidays create days where WoW feels
like a mall that just doesn't know it's closed. I have an easier time
finding people to do stuff with at 3 AM on a normal day than I do at 5
PM around Christmas. Raiding tends to shut down, and even the people who
are on are often just chatting from their phones while getting ready to
devour some hapless turkey. Last year, I spent the holidays running
laps around the Twilight Highlands randomly helping people do the
Crucible of Carnage in-between laps, when there was anyone online to
help.
Strangely enough, despite the somewhat eerie feeling of an Orgrimmar or
Stormwind where nobody knows your name, I do find myself attracted to
the quiet. When I do get into a dungeon or Raid Finder group, the people
tend to be somewhat friendlier. This could purely be perception, but it
seems like the shared respite from an otherwise solitary period brings
groups together. Then again I could just be deluding myself.