If you could snap your fingers and magically change one thing about the WoW community, what would you ask for?
For the most part it’s not a big problem in my decade+ of playing this game, but there are a small minority of people in this game who have made comments to me and other women like “girls suck at video games”, “get back in the kitchen and make me a sandwich”, etc. And like, whatever, I’ll deal with them, but it’s making me and others feel unwelcome about something we can’t really change about ourselves, and it would be nicer if I just never had to deal with comments or opinions like that at all. I can deal with being called a noob or “git gud”, I can change and improve and stop getting comments like that if I put the effort in, but I can’t just stop being the gender that I want to be to make comments like that go away forever. So it’s definitely what I’d use my one magic snap my fingers and change wish on.
When people throw this garbage at me I tell them I don’t know what they’re talking about because I never learned to read. Being a woman, they said I didn’t need to know how to do that
I wish people would stop complaining about nearly everything they add to the game.
While it can be justified at times, it’s just draining to see every other discussion be full of negativity where we could be directing that energy into more positive endeavours, such as providing constructive criticism and feedback or discussing what we are enjoying, instead of people getting enraged and angry at every little thing, which puts us in a negative light and drowns out the proper feedback Blizzard needs.
I’m reading your post and my brain is finding that what you have written is true. Dangit.
Okay. Well. The forum community is great, but I don’t like being like-gated. The server community was cool when it was alive. Any change I would make would be to bring back the community in the game. I have so so so many friends that used to play and have left for one reason or another. The reasons are usually 90% a problem with what Blizzard has done with the game post-Wrath, and 10% real life time allowed for video games.
For me it would be the min/max mentality. The top players/guilds in the world micromanage every last stat point in the hopes of being the difference in getting a world first. Then the masses follow their lead crying and moaning over how the RNG gods hate them even though they aren’t even getting the most out of their own rotation and might even die in the fire.
Heck, the other day I saw a thread about a guy that wouldn’t take his own guildmate on his mythic because he wanted a specific class because it’s meta.
More attractive ones dating me (“more”, as in “any.”)
Or, face it, not even that attractive at all. In fact, I’d actually probably prefer ones who were twice divorced, used up by life in general, jaded and perhaps with a “bum” leg or something.
If the developers were forced to consider, “the vast majority of reasonable players who will care will absolutely hate this,” in their demented shenanigans, less burning sewage would end up implemented.
I was with you until this: “it’s making me and others feel unwelcome about something we can’t really change about ourselves.” How about “It’s making a generalization that women are substandard, and only good for waiting on men.” That is the real issue with those statements, and it is most definitely gender bias. Report every single person every single time they spew out this nonsense.
All of the negativity and complaining. It’s not very constructive or worth discussing when people literally just say they hate this or that, or the game sucks and is dying, and so on.
Community change: I wish the devs would post more on these forums about updates instead of players having to use Twitter, Instagram, Facebook or third party sites etc. to find out any in game news.
I wish people would stop trashing systems that they are clearly ignorant about.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion of course, but I’m more willing to react positively to feedback from an accomplished person for that specific topic than someone who has never engaged in it. And I imagine the devs feel the same.
It would be the equivalent of me only doing Arena Skirmishes and feeling like my opinion on PvP matters.
