Because they’re not here to actually play classic they’re just here to troll a new set of forums.
You’re right. I hardly visit the forums any more because they are so negative. Just came on now to have a look for the first time in a week, and I am ready to leave. Almost every thread is just full of people whining for one reason or another.
As far as I can remember, WoW forums have always been mostly, “hostile”. Then Blizzard pretended they were trying to curve it by bringing out “Real ID”, which in reality was nothing more than a ploy to compete with Facebook and other social media by gaining access and displaying users real life information.
They didn’t care about the gloomy environment that tainted the forums, in fact, many of the moderators that worked for Blizzard and staff were just as toxic as the users (probably why they keep replacing the forums and destroying evidence).
This forum is actually the first place I saw the abbreviation “TLDR”.
I knew what type of user base I was dealing with at that point.
It’s probably a combination of a high fat/sugar/sodium diet and a lack of sun exposure.
I have a theory about this, which recognizes two different types of negative posts in this (and other) forums.
First, there are the posts that deliberately incite anger and negative responses by ridiculing any player that likes feature X or dislikes feature Y, whichever position is contrary to the original poster. Makes heavy use of disparaging comments, pseudo-profanities, and even vague references to the less-than-pristine lineage of those who disagree.
Second, there are posts by those who have seen/read the same arguments on the same subject over and over and over and over and over, and are simply tired of it and can’t tolerate a single iteration of it again. Can display the same literary tendencies described above, usually including “Google is your friend” and/or “There’s a search function for these forums; try using it once in a while.”
Depends on the topic, I guess.
If It’s ya boi I love retail and only came to these forums to suggest something dumb on a non-classic character because the only classic character they have is level 1…
2 Likes
Yes
1 Like
300+ posts over how many years? that’s like 30 posts a year or something. you have 18 in how short a time span?
those are my favourites because you know they don’t have a proper foundation for their claims. its usually people that are just parroting what they’ve heard others say via streamers or reddit. they haven’t actually thought through the reason they even think that way in the first place.
i just keep being civilized with them as they degrade into a frothing mess. i’m not sure why people take them seriously or get offended by them. I just grin like an idiot when i encounter one of these and reply in kind. though it tends to degrade rather quickly and gets old just as quickly.
anyways, everyone can read how they responded and most people will just disregard the post as the garbage it is. there’s very little reason to even respond to them unless you’re twisted like me and get amusement out of them.
its like watching a toddler having a temper tantrum. its cute to watch sometimes.
1 Like
You and me, amigo … you and me.
1 Like
There are two different kinds of people-
- Rowdy boys and the women who like them.
- Sensitive women and the males who are sensitive to them.
No matter what the topic, these two types wont get along. Even if the topic has nothing to do with social issues, just the way people express themselves will irritate the other kind.
It’s a subtle underlayer to every discussion everywhere you go, and many topics reveal the same issue over and over again, where the Sensitives look down on the Rowdy boys with psuedo-intellectualism, and the Rowdy boys treat sensitivity like a disease.
No matter what the topic, these subtle undertones stain everything.
The only problem I see, is that no one has yet decided to split this divide between Horde and Alliance, so none of us ever has to put up with the other in general chat etc.
It seems like the people in the forum aren’t players of the game. They just like the forums.
Right now Classic is brand new (less than a month, phase 1 of 6 phases). Already there are 20 threads here about what comes AFTER Classic- years from now.
Basically that’s it – people want to be game designers. Blizzard doesn’t hire them, so they design games here in the forum, then claim their fantasy games are “so much better than” the real game.
1 Like
Just about everybody in this thread is proving the OP’s point.