it got to the point on retail, where’d i’d isolate trade chat on its own tab because it was just constant blessed blade of the windseeker spam and now its just carry spam
at least while you’re leveling thru duskwood and westfall, all you’ll see is requests for deadmines groups or group quest requests
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One wonders then that if they dislike it so much, why they are continuing to play.
Me, I’ve said it before: for all the so-called nasty/toxic players there are tens of thousands of players who aren’t, who just play the game and are generally decent people.
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You see it as players have gotten more rude.
I see it as players have gotten more sensitive.
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Because its full of retail players.
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That’s half the fun!
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Elaborate?
have you tried not pulling extra/dying to avoidable mechanics
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I returned to this game not to long ago. I have been suspended twice. It seems very one sided as I am not personally an aggressive person. I asked for clarity on the matter but to no avail I was ignored. Not truly sure without evidence I even broke TSA… Now IDC about the suspension as I know for a fact I was most likely defending myself from someone’s yap. SO I was most likely rude. However, Thats why I say its one sided. There is no going back to the chat log to read over the events … No real communication what so ever tbh. Seems if you are horrible person then blizzard want to hear form you lol
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Have you been out on the public roads lately? lol.
the game isnt the problem here…society is.
This game didnt create miserable human beings…they bring that crap into the game with them.
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In many ways people are way more polite than before, there were next to no restriction to what you could say on the internet back then. Just google Tigole forum rant which was Jeff Kaplan (old Blizz dev) and you’d see a major difference. In many ways I understand people that think people are more rude because people sensitivity is way higher nowadays, they get triggered way more easy. And that’s fine to a point because norms change, but you have to compare with what we had before.
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Care to elaborate where you had this experience? I have found most people neutral or pleasant.
People have always been rude. They were rude in vanilla, they’re rude now.
Are we really going back 15 years to blame something? Let me put a crack in those rose colored glasses you’re wearing. People were still rude prior to LFD. I know… 
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It’s the internet. And elon muskrat. and…and…fartbook…
Probably because in RL they are miserable. They wouldnt speak that way in person. Let them keep sending their 
to the air for their “online” win 
I think it’ll eventually die down a bit. Though it might take a while.
Kind of like how it used to be cool to smoke cigarettes, it took a few generations, but eventually people realized that’s a bad idea and so now you don’t see it anywhere near as much. And no one looks up to it or idolizes it.
Unfortunately for a while it was cool, at least among certain age groups it was, to be “edgy” on the internet. To the point even people were self-diagnosing themselves as sociopaths and “dark empaths” for social media points. Mostly though people just liked the smug satisfaction of correcting someone, or putting them down somehow and just playing the part of a high IQ meanbutt. Regardless though, this entire “I’m edgy and I don’t care” nonsense is definitely not cool anymore. It reeks of insecurity and immaturity and most people in those circles have finally started to notice that.
It may take generations but it will die out. Or at least, the social acceptability of it will.
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I feel like there are less rude people now, than way back. Most strangers I happen along are pretty chill.
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This isn’t really a WoW thing. It’s an internet thing. People were “nicer” when playing online and meeting new people was a fun, novel, experience.
When I was growing up my parents used to tell me that the friends I made online “weren’t real friends.” That was a really common sentiment. Now online relationships are viewed as just as valid as in-person ones.
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