You realize "we" are the M+ issue, right?

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@Baeshinj-tichondrius

Except this isn’t whats happening, in this thread or others like it?

The first response to this thread:

@Akston-area-52

I haven’t had one negative or toxic interaction since delves came out.

The second response to this thread:

@Annastasi-proudmoore

I run a lot of keys, many of them have pugs in them. I rarely see toxic behavior.

@Penderghast-stormrage

I rarely see toxic behavior in M+.

@Splints-the-venture-co

If they happen to you often, it can only be because you’re performing so spectacularly bad, and so often, it’s inviting an abnormal amount of criticism.

@Splints-the-venture-co

but still doesn’t happen often unless you are the common denominator.

@Eryndra-wyrmrest-accord

Lets stop using the word “toxic” to describe anything that isn’t sunshine and rainbows. Toxicity is telling the tank to unalive themselves because they didn’t put the council bosses together for cleave damage.

This is what I found from just skimming and from my personal experience in the thread.

I can probably find more, if it’s not enough for you to get the point yet.

@Baeshinj-tichondrius

Instead its OP and others like him proclaiming erroneous nonsense like “M+ is DYING and its poopy community is to blame!” And other such incendiary comments.

Listen man, I understand that we all want to believe that WoW isn’t this toxic community and is instead a bastion of productive online interaction.

But I will remind you that Blizzard, not even four years ago, had to institute new measures and reinforce their Code of Conduct because behavior was so poor.

Whether or not that was an effective move on their part is still up in the air, but I don’t think it’s nothing that even Blizzard felt compelled to do something about it.

EDIT: And let me just say this.

For the average decent player at this game, yes, they are not as likely to witness poorer behavior.

But even if I were to assume the position that bad players are what incites bad behavior, poorer performance is not an excuse to be mean, and we shouldn’t be scapegoating poor performing players as the problem. It is almost a given in any online game that people who aren’t nearly as good as other players will be verbally chastised. That has been true since online gaming was conceived, so let’s please not act like this is a foreign concept.