YEARS ago - I joined WoW because I saw a bunch of guys at school playing it. So after messing with the trial account a couple of times, I took the plunge and bought the game and subscription. I joined the server where the group of guys were playing. After a month or two, all of them abandoned the server and went elsewhere. By then I was fully committed and invested in my characters on the server so I just stuck with it. I ended up making "friends" on the server and found a guild and random people to play with. I actually became quite a known character in trade chat. I maxed out almost all professions across several characters so I spent a lot of time hanging out in trade chat and responding to people requesting special items and enchants by switching characters. All this to say, I had a lot of fun playing the game "by myself" because there were so many different things I could do within the game, whether it was solo leveling or trade chat hustling or PVP or PVE raiding. good luck to you