Quote Originally Posted by Penthea View Post
Don't believe that tripe about people getting easily offended or wanting to be speech police. I have been playing for over six years and I have never seen either example of those behaviours in the game. You seem to be a polite person who knows how to behave around other people. You have nothing to worry about.
Sadly it does happen, though. Just because you haven't encountered it doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

I was chatting away in party chat with 2 of the 3 teammates in my roulette one day, just random, normal conversation. Talking about what we liked about the instance, favorite jobs, etc. Run going completely smooth. Pace was fine. The talking affected nothing. One of the randoms asked what my favorite healer was, and I said I liked SCH more than the other two because to me, I liked the whole "pre planning" heals and didn't like the reactive nature of WHM, wasn't the healer for me.

Our healer was a WHM, and flipped out at me out of nowhere, saying I insulted their class, accused me of saying they were terrible at WHM, and offended them (Which no one said one word about their play. Why would we? The run was going FINE). They reported me. Nothing happened, because I had screenshots if approached by a GM, but these types of people exist. If they were genuine or a troll, it doesn't matter. I never thought I'd encounter something like that and was completely flabbergasted at it, especially since I like to talk in party chat and BS with people if they talk back. I can do silent runs and just turn on music too, but I'd much rather actually talk to people.

Granted, these types are probably outliers and not the norm, but the fact remains there ARE people like this. Troll or genuine, they are out there.