These forums utterly vex me sometimes. Everyone is so quick to bemoan capitalism and lampoon the rich. Any time Blizzard makes a bad decision like cancelling OW PvE, Releasing Diablo Immortal, Banning Blitzchung, Releasing WoW tokens, or adding battle passes to their games, everyone is quick to jump on the bandwagon of “Blizzard greedy! Greed bad! Down with evil corporate suits! Fire Bobby Kotick!”
But when one of those corporate suits abuses his power and takes it out on his employee’s in petty, vindictive, and spiteful ways, suddenly everyone is like “He signs your paychecks, be grateful.” “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.” “You should respect your boss and be thankful.” “Mess around and find out”.
It’s so jarring and offputting to see people espousing positive social values and promoting change, and then on a dime they’ll switch to accepting the status quo, criticizing anyone who goes against the grain for “not knowing better”. It’s victim blaming at it’s very core.
You see someone making a stand for positive social change, everyone rallies behind them with thunderous applause, but when said person gets fired, everyone pulls a 180º and starts making fun of the guy for not knowing better than to offend your boss.
Why do people act this way? Not sure. As I mentioned in a lengthy response in one of the other threads, I believe these forums have a rampant troll problem of people switching their views on a dime just to be contrarians simply because arguing with people on the internet is what makes them happy, regardless if they agree with who they’re arguing with or not.
Again, you see this all the time. Someone makes a post saying “We need to tone down the diversity in the game” and everyone starts hating on the OP, calling him a bigot/racist/homophobe/transphobe and that we need MORE representation in the game because diversity is good. Then someone different will make a new post saying “We need more diversity in the game” and those SAME EXACT PEOPLE will start hating on the OP, calling him a whiny sjw snowflake, and that we DON’T need more representation, and that things are fine the way they are.
It’s almost impossible to take anyone seriously anymore. One moment everyone is throwing shady at bobby, the next, they’re defending him for firing employees on a whim for petty reasons.
It’s becoming increasingly clear to me that you can’t trust anyone on these forums. Everyone is so negative and miserable that the only way they can make themselves feel better is to just drag down whatever thread they’re in, no matter what the subject is.
I don’t know why I bother anymore.