I have the same experience as Wisdomanlore in WoW. Huge community so it boggles me it is so hard to find anyone helpful. Without my RL friend on Mannoroth, I've yet to receive any help from others. It is a hardcore PvP server and they laugh at you if you admit you are a noob when asking about some aspect of the game.

I then created a character on Gnomeregan so I could actually finish quests without getting ganked every 5 minutes. One guy asked for me for help and was sooo grateful because everyone else does there own thing. He said he had the same experience as me. No one wants to help a new player.

People were so indifferent, I had a quest in Undercity and a lone player around my level waited until I summoned the mob at the Apothecary and when I died, he fought the rest to trap the energy. No, please just let me die instead of teaming up. I did not know what he was there for until I saw him loot the corpses. I sent multiple tells and broadcasts asking for help. Eventually, I figured out the quest but I can't really say anything good about the WoW community based on my experiences.