Good morning. I’ve tried to report this in-game repeatedly, but it doesn’t seem to have done anything GM wise.
Trade chat on Wyrmrest Accord is absolutely out of control. I don’t mean the average Murloc+Movie Titles or Thunderfury linking, that happens everywhere and I can deal with that, no problem. RP Guild spam? Can handle that, too.
The problem is that every single time I log into a character in a major city that is in /2, the conversation is ALWAYS, 100% OF THE TIME, about a certain type of 1942 German War Subject Group (the limiter would not let me point out the word) and/or Facism or White Pride/that sort of thing. Every time. Constantly. To the point where people who are trying to change the subject or talk about something else, are getting drowned out by it. Bringing up the question of why people continue to talk about this garbage just gets overlooked entirely.
Frankly, it’s enough to make me leave the channel entirely, and as someone who does their best to use Trade to access guild adverts for in-game business ventures, looking for PUG groups for PvP or PvE, and items for sale/hawking my lockpicking business on my Rogue, it’s frustrating on every level to have to wedge in-game relevant conversation in over these people who apparently have decided that Trade is their personal political/sociological debate forum for all things 1942 German War Subject Group (and how it relates to Republicans and our current government, apparently).
It’s not even like it’s a ‘happens at a certain time’ thing. I log in at 2am, boom, 1942 German War Subject Group talk. Log in at 4 in the afternoon, boom, more 1942 German War Subject Group/Facism talk. Log in at 10pm at night, oh look, more people talking about Trump and 1942 German War Subject Group.
I get that this game has a lot of ‘freedom of speech’ deals, but ffs there has to be something that can be done about this. It’s getting exhausting constantly seeing this stuff take over Trade, and it’s not even like it’s the same people doing it (there’s several people consistently doing it, I report them every time/have put them on ignore because it’s absolutely ridiculous they can’t find something else to talk about, but it never fails, every time I log in it’s the topic of conversation once again?). There’s a ton of different people (or perhaps the same people on alts? Something a GM would know, I wouldn’t, unless I added them to RID and lol not happening).
Please, please, please have someone log in and check this out. It’s a little ridiculous. I’d like to see WoW-related convos or even movie/tv show or anything else but this being plastered in and overwhelming people trying to actually use Trade for Trading. It’s been this way since I transferred to this server several months ago, and it’s getting to be way, way too much. I’ll take people whining over gear drops or calling Alliance garbage in PvP over this mess. I deal with it enough IRL plastered all over every website front-page, talked about by every group of politically-minded people I know. I play this game to get away from this crap, not to constantly have to fight it every time I log in and try to make gold in Trade.