Where are people encountering these toxic people? Ive been playing since vanilla beta and havent encountered anything so toxic that I felt the need to complain on the forums about it. Perhaps its just subjective. Did you get triggered by someone not saying please or thank you? Did someone roll need on something several years back when they didn’t really need it? Did they say no when you begged them for gold or asked for a dungeon carry or a ride on a two seater mount?
I think they just aren’t looking at the group chat, don’t care, or maybe cant read English.
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Idk what’s going on Lmao
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Interesting that it didn’t show up on the armory search for me, but okay.
Okay. Now we can actually have the conversation. No, I’m not going to nitpick your bonafides further. I believe you were lecturing me about the need for rules and a regulated social community? Something like that? That THAT’S what I pay money for? A carefully curated social experience?
Well, I would say that you would be wrong. But I doubt you’d accept it.
I see. Are the offenders then going to stop paying Blizzard for the service they’re no longer providing then? Because it cuts both ways. And what happens when a purity spiral inevitably occurs and Blizzard’s puritanical players wind up chasing everyone else off? It would seem to me that this is something that would provide diminishing returns both in terms of behavior and monetary profit.
For wanting you to justify my taking the time to respond in long form? Believe what you will.
I’ve done Consumption in Korthia quite a bit. People were almost always willing to wait when it was explained to them that the spawn had to promote itself from a normal spawn to a rare, and from that to a elite rare. Of course you’re going to have some that are convinced they’re right, and some that are just griefing. But… the Latin saying Exceptio Probat Regularum applies.
I don’t think the WOW community is all that toxic, I say a lot of things on here that people don’t like yet I don’t have anyone being so toxic to me that I have to move to another game, so now either you can’t take mean comments or you’re doing something to upset people.
You need people to clear though. So, it’ just a polite thing to do to recognize that.
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Nice, was a fun read even converted.
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I don’t know why you’re making this so much about… you. Maybe I’m misunderstanding you, but to me you look like you have a big problem with rules and see them as a personal attack against your freedom.
I didn’t lecture you, I tried to explain the simple fact that society has rules that NEED to be there so the society can function properly - and those rules are also ingame. Communities need those rules to ensure that things aren’t getting out of hand and everybody behaves like an aggressive caveman. Rules are necessary and not some kind of weird social experiment that prevents people from fun and free development of the individual.
Rules are everywhere and it’s quite obvious what happens to places where rules aren’t enforced at all. It’s visible in the news and a lot of documentarys. And it’s the same in video games. Let people do what they want and they will know no boundaries.
No. For refusing to talk to people based on their WoW character. We’re just talking and discussing now and I really don’t see the point in this moment what my achievements, my gearscore and my collections contribute to the topic of rules in a community now. 
I’m a bit confused about that, that’s all. In a discussion about current raid design and difficulty I would totally understand that, but this is a quite… general topic that doesn’t need that much expertise in gameplay.
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Yeah, but that’s not normal behavior. Games with stricter policies have friendlier communities.
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Just want to add a good experience I had recently. I was doing LFR on my Paladin alt a few weeks back, and nothing was dropping for me. Twice, out of the blue, a random player opened my trade window and gave me a piece of gear! Made my day in game, for sure!
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thank you for coming back after all this time just to post a slap comment at the wow forums . did this worth your $15?
You do realize that the name of the game is “World of WARcraft”? People running around murdering each other and generally being unpleasant and such in a medieval setting? And you’re arguing that we need modern day moral strictures so we won’t be impolite to each other… while we’re running around murdering each other and generally being unpleasant?
Okay. Understand my issue here. There are those who come here from other social platforms in bad faith, who don’t or barely play the game while making demands on how the player base should act. Talking to them is literally a waste of time. So forgive me for being dismissive of you, but that’s really all that was. And my not finding you on the armory when sent there really irked me. But it’s fine. I’m over it.
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Dude, you can’t even brew poisons anymore…
15 is a lot when it comes to posting on the forum and playing a game, but 155 is cheap for 2 mounts.
most other mmo players like that wow is this way because it’s a haven for the toxic crap to flow and all those kinda players just gather here and don’t trash up the other gaming communities
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Vale la pena
Yeah, for some reason WoW seems to attract some of the worst people. What I find the most frustrating on these forums is the people who are deliberately dishonest in their communication.
Good faith discussions are hard to find here.
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you are welcome to leave at any time, nobody invited you back
Uuuh… so because my avatar has the ability to damage the avatar of another player, it’s okay to badly insult, harass and threaten the human beings that are playing this game? What a take. If that’s your opinion then that’s one of the rare times I’m actually lost for words in the forums.
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