there’s no remedy for some people.
be it immaturity, a lack of character, or just being plain unhappy with their own life - i’d say these are (overwhelmingly) the three main reasons why people manifest their frustration into toxicity.
just be glad you’re not in their shoes and don’t give them the reaction they are often seeking.
They kept to themselves and excluded everyone else so they could be “elite”, and it eventually caused the demise of the group. Just my observation.
Wow has changed for the better over the years. We realized the annoyance of RPG elements grew tiresome.
Questing addons/handholding QoL are the future.
This time we’ll prove it on the main stage too and if classic dies then we’ll just all go back to retail. Everyone wins
Maybe a few long death runs will set em straight 
I’m concerned too. It’s like when I read about this on a FB post someone was excited about Barrens chat. i didn’t play Horde back then but I couldn’t help but think that some of the types that are in retail will pretty much desecrate the memory of it for those who remember it fondly. It could go that way with a lot of aspects of this. Hopefully, I am wrong. Hopefully most of those who are into this really want it like it was.
The word “toxic” is so overused, and says more about the person using it than the person/thing they’re trying to label.
I used toxic because i didnt want to say A$$holes
nice bait, 2/10.
Go fishing elsewhere
Did you happen to play the stress test and see all the toxic classic players?
But see? I instantly know what you’re saying when you use this term.
Yeah I played it, Im hoping over time it will weed them out with bad reputations
These forums have shown that classic will have its own toxicity.
So one community is just as toxic as the other one
I dunno, my biggest problem in retail thus far has been derpy groups, not jerk groups. I’ve seen a lot of chattiness about Classic in general and groups, which is refreshing. The people who pop off are clearly trolling so it just rolls off my eyeballs while I’m reading. I’ve never understood why people grant so much power to a total stranger online just by what that person says.
What you likely did was purposely log onto a retail server to poke the bear and then come here to talk about it fishing for likes
Well, to be honest…we did. There were still a lot of jerks in vanilla.
Difference is, many folks spent more time in guild chat and events than players (generally) do today.
It’s unfortunate…but it seems the jerks have ruled online gaming for a lot longer than folks want to remember.
On a server with 5 layers followed by a 10k max pop?
Sorry - not trying to be toxic, but they killed the vanilla small server community going with layering and so few servers.
My whole point to this thread is this. I hope that the toxicity of people in current wow will diminish some degree in classic. Right now, people do not have to worry about their reputation on their realm. That was a huge factor in vanilla. Sure we are going to have layering in the beginning, but thats not going to last forever. P2 will see away with that. I strongly believe that when people want to be a$$holes to other people in classic, their name is going to get out there to everyone else and put on the black list. It happened before, i dont see how it cant happen again.
I only saw toxic players in Classic on the Horde side - in Barren’s chat.
Agreed i’ve played on private servers and a 10k pop is not blizzlike and the community will not be as nearly tight knit.
barrens chat is a whole other ball game lol its free reign there!