This is why we play

Lately I've been playing classic World of Warcraft to get a feel for it and see if I like it before I try and go head-first into WoW Forever fairly blind with some friends. People have told me that World of Warcraft is good, but I haven't personally played it (or really any MMO outside of Final Fantasy 14). I've wanted to see for myself, so I dug in. I've been leveling an undead warlock and recently I've gotten my way to The Barrens. My goal was to kill some planestriders and collect their beaks as proof of my kills so that the population can get back under control or whatever. I wandered around and found another player also on that quest and waved to them. He was a gnome warlock named Borton and waved at me when I walked over. I waved back and invited him to a party. We walked around the area and started spreading our aggro to farm the planestriders and grab their drops. After a few kills he stopped for a second and said "this is why we play". I was taken a bit aback by this. It felt…