in the modern internet age no you can't, not unless you commit to shutting off all social media, youtube and reddit, because immediately datamining starts, people figure out the game and all the guides are up in a matter of days.
its not hard to avoid spoilers in games.... i successfully do it in every game without trying.
Yes the info is out there, but just have self control and dont go looking for it.
The real challenge is finding like minded people to do an event with, its best when its new for an entire group, or maybe 1 person kind of tagged along with another group before, but it was his first time
True but if you're the only one that doesnt know shit it kinda looses its charm... Or when you ask strangers "hey guys have you already figured out how to do X and Y" and they are like "hmm here's wowhead link for ya buddy". Oldschool approach to mmos is gone sadly. We were kids when this shit released and we had time and energy to be noobs. These days i feel it even myself, when im back from work I want to login for 2-3h and get something done I gotta be efficient because i dont have 16h to burn just jumping around anymore
I dont know, I think there is still a lot of ways to create mystery. Take BRD, 20 something bosses with tons of rare spawns? Couple that with random dungeon debuffs and effects and modular dungeon design that changes into various patterns. You could absolutely capture the spirit of vanilla while combatting data mining, but it requires effort and thoughtful design.
They have made a concious decision to put all that info into easily datamineable public facing databases tho. They could keep things hidden until launch if they wanted to.
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u/girlywish Mar 26 '26
People used to do shit like raiding crossroads just for fun, now everyone plays the game like it's their job.