Name Calling in BG's

PVP Battlegrounds
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Years ago, I was in a group and I noticed a member of said group was making numerous grammatical errors. Some one else on the team proceeded to make fun of those errors calling him retard, dummy, so on so forth.

Turns out after chatting with him, he suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI for you civilians) when he was Iraq.

The person, and I use that term loosely, proceeded to make fun of him and call him stupid, “why the F would anyone want to go to Iraq? F-ing moron.”

A few weeks later, I received some pictures from him, I don’t recall his name, of him attending a Red Sox game after arrangements had been made for his wheelchair to be in a spot where he could enjoy the game.

Now I get that name calling is just part of online gaming, but also people with different challenges in life play this game. And they likely do so to have fun and forget that they may have certain obstacles in life.

YOU. The name caller, the insult-er, the one who makes fun of disabilities and calls people nasty names, you’re the problem with this game.

When you call people nasty things, the only person you impress is yourself. And if you get a kick out of some one making fun some one making fun of autism or any other challenge, you have something wrong with you.

I won’t rant anymore, but is it going to kill you to be nice to some one instead of insulting them?

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Call me what you want I take no offense to anything

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I close my eyes.

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I’m in this boat. My self confidence is highly resilient.

To the op, you can’t ask kids to be adults.

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My buddy had a story…

You see those noobs in the world…doing dumb things and not “playing correctly”. Some call them names and berate them.

Turns out…this one “noob” was running around in the world taking their gear off every time they came across water.

This “noob”, was a 6 (or 8) year old girl that did not want to get her gear wet. :stuck_out_tongue:

You never know who is on the other side.

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classic =D

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Just out of curiosity, what prompted the post now as opposed to then? (unless you did and just felt like reiterating the point)

To me, the level of insults has seemed to go down and I play alliance fergodsake.

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I feel they have gone up as the fun of this game has been taken away

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Wow, I hope you reported them!

They clearly were exploiting and increasing their swim speed by reducing the weight of their carried gear.

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I still have encounters of course, but I’ve also had more cordial encounters with strangers as well. I can’t explain it, maybe just happenstance, luck or whatever.

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I tell it like it is and of people cant handle it blizz gave you an ignore button use it.

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I stick to this concept, if you cant take it dont dish it out ive heard it all with as many games ive done as rogue. Some being mistakes some just being unwanted grief. 95% of the time i dont talk period started enjoying that playstyle when i hit a big learning curve in mop. But when it gets toxic towards me explicatives will eventually fly. 100% agree with OP. Leave people alone and let them enjoy their subscription unless its a suggested change to a spec or an addition to a dps/heal rotation…sthu

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As soon as someone starts calling people names or whining in a BG it is extremely fun to troll them as I agree there is nothing that makes it cool to for no reason other than possibly losing, to make fun of strangers by insulting or calling them names.

So they get it worse back and it’s hilarious to see the reactions.

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So while they think they are trolling you, you think you are trolling them.

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He survived Iraq. I think he can survive internet name calling.

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Well . I can usually make it extremely personal to those with that type of personality disorder. So it’s entertaining either way :-;

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I recall one player in EQ1 back in… 2012 I think it was, who was annoying to end up in groups with (and they hung around good grouping locations LFG a lot). They just did things poorly or foolishly repeatedly, and did not seem to learn from mistakes. They would also often ask poorly formed questions that any simple Google or Alakazam search would tell them.

But it became clear to me they were… operating on a lower intellectual level, if you know what I mean. I never found out exactly what the issue was, but when it became obvious they were doing the best they could manage, not just screwing up from laziness or willful ignorance, I felt the right thing to do was be polite and at a bare minimum just not contribute to making their world a worse one.

And most of the other players there were not actively rude to this player, either. EQ1 Progression servers (it was Fippy Darkpaw) attracted a pretty mature bunch.

Anyway - I recall voicing to a guildmate, that if this was WoW, this poor sod would have had massive amounts of !@#$ unloaded on him, relentlessly. Maybe that was why this player went for EQ1? I mean every MMORPG has it’s toxic community element, but a great many WoW players seem almost incapable of empathising with others, and that is pretty sad :frowning:

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Why did I post? My son was a victim of bullying. I myself am going through a spot in life and I look to WOW to maybe have some fun and get my mind off things.

I’m a disabled vet myself.

Some days the pain is more than I can bear but I know others went through worse.

And this post isn’t per se about the Iraq Vet I spoke of earlier.

Maybe I just get a bad taste in my mouth of people making fun of certain things.

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WoW is the most toxic gaming community I have ever come across.
I’ve been playing since the end of BC, and over the course of the years, have found that no matter how friendly I have been, friends are dang near impossible to make.

I played Final Fantasy 11 and 14, and those were some great folks.
Oh sure, we had our share of toxic people, but I think WoW gets away with it easier because unlike the final fantasy games, you can have a bunch of alts (you can on FF too, but not nearly as easily), and I think the fact that people can hide behind an army of alts, makes it way easier.

There also seems to be lack of any real recourse in WoW, a lot of stuff that shouldn’t be overlooked, is overlooked.
I’ve personally been on the receiving end of some pretty nasty names.
Being a healer, if something goes wrong, I am the first one to hear about it.
I just let it roll off my back, words don’t hurt me anymore (I used to have a boyfriend who would beat and abused me so much, some words on the internet isn’t even remotely hurtful), but I know some people are more sensitive, and it’s not as easy for them to not take things to heart.

I believe in give what you get, so I will never be that person who calls someone out for being less than stellar.

I don’t know that person, don’t know what they are dealing with in their real life, what issues they may have, ect. so I personally refuse to contribute to any pain they might be facing.

I just wish more people would do the same and step away from their keyboard for a moment and consider they are talking to another person.

Sometimes all a person needs is little kindness.
Another healer was getting called out, I sent them a tell and told them they were doing their best, and not to take it to heart.
We are pretty good friends now, and she said I saved her from quitting.
It’s really not that hard to be nice.

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