Wish I still had my post up full of quotes from the Blizzard founders that had actual quotes from their characters on the everquest forum but sadly it was right click reported away. I would post the video again but instead of getting another 2 day ban for triggering people who don’t like bad words I will just implore people to look up “10 Reasons why Vanilla WoW Is the BEST!” by Classic Winds at around 10 minutes.
After going to this and listening for about 20 seconds after the 10 min mark, tell me where wow would be now if the founders were squelched for their passionate posts way back in EQ long before WoW was a glimmer in their eye?
That’s right, it wouldn’t exist. Moderation is defiantly necessary to a game but so is socialization. Restricting what people say completely limits the social environment and turns the player base into emotionless robots in chat rooms instead of actual characters in this Massively Multiplayer Online experience.
Im not saying people should be allowed to be racists, pedophiles, or hate speech. Im saying that people shouldn’t feel like they are walking on eggshells every time they drop the F word or feel the imminent doom of being banned every time they enter a hostile competitive environment. The game should feel like an escape from reality where you can be yourself because that’s what the original wow community was. Not some highly restricted AI moderated heap of anguish where the real trolls are the ones sitting on their high horse waiting with their 4 other friends for someone to make a comment in trade chat that doesn’t involve trade so they can have him banned for 28 days.