Yeah, I was paying attention. Five years ago, your team elected an orange-haired sociopath to lead the country, someone who had been a morally bankrupt joke since I was a kid.
And turns out, when you go full Capitol-storming crazy, the other team will go full crazy right back at you, and will still not look like the craziest people on the block (which will still be you).
Or maybe it’s long overdue reminder about the rules following a long downward slide in all of the social aspects of this game.
Our main chat channels are hot garbage and have been for years. Players harass others for their performance, their identities, etc. LFD/LFR, CRZ, sharding - all blamed for a worse social environment in this game than it used to have. There’s probably not a single soul who has played this game in the last ten years who has looked at how players get along in this game and thought, “Yep, this all going great!” Given that the game was apparently being run by a cadre of pervy goons for most of the time that you enjoyed it, a reminder to be decent to other people is not unwarranted.
And, you’re right, they didn’t come out of nowhere. You’ve been agreeing to them since 2004.
If whining about it on a video game forum is the best defense you can muster, they’re already in the city.
And, soon, you will probably be paying them for the privilege of whining at them from outside the city gates.