I don't know what to make of this.

[Rokke]

But my opinion has, over time, apparently become a minority, and I was oblivious to it.
The gaming principles in MMORPGs have moved away from "let's compromise to be able to help each other" to more of a "don't screw my game, and I won't ruin yours". Now, we can argue until the cows come home about if this change is ethically sustainable or not, and if it stems from the modern society's average person's bigger aversion to build commitment towards others, and we can also write endless poetry about how people are becoming more "me first, if the others don't like it, move away or deal with it"

This is obviously an endless fountain of societal issues and discussions that are not pertinent to a gaming forum. And that wasn't the original intention for the thread either.

Ethics aside: I've learned that the random people I get on groups, don't want anything of me bar "hello" and "bye", the odd meme/joke, and that I don't compromise the success of the content at hand.

So, from now on, I quite simply, will shut up and leave people to their own. I won't bring any more interaction with me than a squadron NPC with a couple of greetings.
I can talk all I want about how sad I am that helping people has somehow become a bad thing, but in the end, I'm me, and not them.

See, now I really wonder if you posted the full "story". The other person had a crap attitude, but yours isn't much better lmao