What’s wrong with wanting to log in and spend 6 hours collecting herbs?
Why is someone a loser just because they enjoy pet battles?
How can people be offended by a bad player who doesn’t want to burden others with their lack of skill?
I don’t understand why so many players emphatically state that this game is exclusively meant for grouping, socializing, and challenge-seeking.
Personally, I love fishing and archaeology. Those are some of my favorite things to do and I look forward to the way they are expanded in every expansion. Obviously, Shadowlands disappointed me by barely doing anything for fishing and then completely ignoring archaeology.
But I am constantly met with this attitude carried by strangers I meet and people on the forum who actually seem offended when they discover that I don’t group at all and that I avoid challenging content.
Why does that bother anyone? I’m minding my own business and not impacting their experience in the slightest. What do they want from me? To queue for dungeons or BGs so I can get distracted and go AFK at the wrong time and die?
I can’t even change the song on my playlist without getting distracted and forgetting about the game long enough that my character dies. Why wouldn’t people encourage me to play solo? I don’t understand the mindset. It’s almost like pushing M+ and confronting challenges is a dogmatic religion, and the fact that I don’t do it makes me a heretic in some people’s eyes.
Have you experienced hate/negativity from people because you only do lower-end content? Leave your stories here. Or, if you’re one of these weird elitists I’m talking about, feel free to respond and attempt to justify (or at least explain) your behavior.
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Posting in a shreds thread.
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The only people who don’t like the low-end playerbase is the basic, elitist gatekeeper forum-goer.
They’re not even worth acknowledging.
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Remember WoW wasn’t made to be the hardcore players paradise. Back in the day it was casual af, and it sucked in people from all over because other games (EQ, etc) were hardcore…and so punishing they weren’t actually fun. WoW is in a state that is just caddywompus from how it needs to be.
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I personally hate the term ‘casual’ for ppl like me who don’t do m+, don’t do mythic raids or raid pvp.
I play ~8 hours a day, man. Just because I’m chasing rare recipes or pets or mounts rather than mindlessly grinding the same 8 dungeons doesn’t make me a “casual” player, it just means the leaderboards I care about are on dataforazeroth rather than raider. io.
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Theres maybe 3 people total who are mad that you dont do challenging content. The other 99,9999% simply dont care at all.
Maybe youre confusing dislike of “casual” with dislike of some of your ideas that might be born out tof not participating in the content that you want to change?
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But I don’t want to change any non-casual content, because I don’t engage that content, so I don’t care how it is.
This was never about a real issue. that’s not what shreds threads are about.
but yes you’re 100% correct.
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gnarly name dude! right on!
Next topic…
Why the dislike of medium quality players?
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I don’t really care about the where or what the players are doing
I do care about the personality/attitude of a player
Do what makes u happy just keep ur negative bad attitude away from me
I’m here for a good time
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seriously screw those guys. like either be bad or be great…stop trying to be both
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There are people who remember vanilla as being the hardest core of hardcore games. I think that’s partly rose-colored glasses and partly due to the fact that they never socialized outside of the raiders’ clique in their own guild and other guilds like them, so they have zero awareness that there have always been players - the majority - who are not hardcores.
Competitive gaming tends to attract highly intolerant people. Can you imagine an Olympic track star saying that everyone in the world should be willing to do whatever it takes to reach that level? Yet we read all the time that if you’re not in the top .1% of players, you’re doing life wrong. And the game would be way more “successful” if only the top 1% remained.
And then there’s this:
http://www.memorableplaces.com/mudwimping.html
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I am one of those who enjoy pet battles, I have the fourth best collection on my server 
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It’s the hardcore nature often too common in wow that “IF YOU NOT RAIDING MYTHIC FOR 6 HOURS YOU’RE JUST A CASUAL” and parsing that you’re not a “True” wow player if you don’t do these aforementioned things, you’re just a tourist.
It’s a toxic community that’s helped along by extremely abusive game design that punishes everyone for 1 mistake = wipe in mythic, and thus the roots of the toxic community isn’t just “oh its’ wow” it’s that a part of the whole system.
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