It attracts bad behavior due to no consequences. Less skilled players i don’t think its much different than any other game. There will always be the try hard, sweat easy, types. But the majority will be casual.
No, they think people who make posts like yours are toxic. Plenty of good, completely non-toxic people play this game “seriously” and are “trying to be good” and are never - not once in their lives - douchebags on the forum.
People who enjoy the game aren’t on the forums whining about the game bro, they are to busy playing the game enjoying it to be visiting a forum.
That’s my point, with the forums, 99% of people here are angry and looking for ways to change the game to suit them or to have the things they hate removed, the people who actually love the game are online and completely oblivious to any forum trolls who think the game is to hard or that their class needs buffing to be playable etc.
Out of all my friends that play WoW, none of them go on the forums, the forums is the main place angry, entitled players go because they think they can argue with people until the game has been changed to into the game they personally want.
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Also known as Korthia badum tsk… it’s flat, it’s the color of dirt, and while it’s called a “city” there’s nothing there…
I respectfully disagree, this is a real phenomenon:
https://www.inc.com/travis-bradberry/14-psychological-forces-that-make-good-people-do-bad-things.html
Do any apply to WoW right now?
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Sorry, what was the definition of a good person in the study that this article was referencing?
Considering that “good person” is not a definable trait (at least one that everyone can come to a consensus on), and literally depends on who you’re asking - the fluff piece article you linked is not fact. This is giving “I do my own research.”
I don’t define a good person as someone who treats people poorly because video games told them to.
So yeah. We disagree for sure.
Someone’s not a good person if they have to say, “Sorry, I can’t do 2s with you because you’ll get one-shot in your gear?”
“Sorry, I can’t bring you to the dungeon because you won’t do enough damage to time it because the set-up you have is terribly balanced.”
Yeah, I said “good people don’t treat people badly” - if literally apologizing and giving a valid boundary (ie your example) makes you a bad person I don’t think we’re even having the same conversation.
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Oh lol that’s fine. I never said anything about treating people badly. But leaving people out of a video game makes me feel like a bad person and I do it often.
I did, and you replied to me telling me you disagree.
What?
You said this and this is what I disagreed with. Good people can do bad things and it doesn’t make them bad. If someone does one bad thing and five thousand good things in a day, I would call that person a good person. Otherwise, you are expecting people to be literally perfect to be a good person and I disagree.
Yeah, and I totally stand by what I said. If a video game makes people treat others badly then they weren’t a good person to start with.
Then you used perfectly reasonable and polite sentences as an example of bad behavior:
Like if you feel bad for setting boundaries for yourself then work on that, but it doesn’t make you a bad person.
I’m talking about being toxic and rude to people as “treating people badly.”
And again, if someone is treating people badly because a video game “incentivizes”/“makes” them do it then they weren’t a good person to start with.
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Lucky you.
WHen I click my ruby red slippers together and go "There’s no place like home "
I end up at work .
I want a refund these shoes suck
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I mean… I’m here. I’m pretty bad.
I never really understood why I came to this forum. I don’t engage with other Blizz forums.
Part of me thinks it’s the fact that I had to research so much information in order to understand the game on a basic level, I was given searches to the forum and it inevitably led to the complaining derivatives of whatever I searched.
I came here, not because I was “bad” at the game, but that the game is literally 5,000 layers deep. I was inexperienced. Anyone can play it superficially, but everyday I find a new layer
Much of this comes from being relatively new and having not experienced 3/4 of it when said content was end game.
As such, new players are given toxic response to inquiries of content because veterans either were frustrated when it was current, missed out, or were unable to complete content because it involved some perceived excessive grind system, favoritism of a class, redoubling on content that they disliked because of catering to a select crowd, etc…take your pick
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I think a better topic is “Why do the wow forums attract so many ridiculous internet trolls”
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Because WoW was originally made at a time where people were able to act out and treat people differently from them like trash with zero to no consequences and still to this day believe everything should be catered to them because they think they’re the default setting.
I know from personal experiences (with having to be on a team that dealt with player disputes for another game) is that it’s a small minority of players who cause most of the issues. 95% of the playerbase is usually fine, but it’s that other 5% that cause most of the issues. A lot of them have self-esteem/insecurity/mental issues and they just act out ingame.
it’s mainly the pvpers, that’s not even a stereotype. they just tend to be more competitive players so they are more mean. any pvp tends to attract toxicity it’s just the territory. i just wish they stopped having relationships with my mom tho.