These forums are weird

[Renathras]

Not completely true as there are number of people still generally happy about the game that still post here and give out their concerns. I'm one of them. What I think the issue here is all the drama and negative andys diluting the feedback with hot takes, trolling, memes.

Same.

Plenty of people who are positive post here, but the negative Nancies attack them, personally insult them, troll them, then massive upvote the heckling posts. This is disheartening to most positive people, who then simply leave since positive people don't want to deal with that. A few of us have especially thick skin and/or stubbornness so will keep at it despite the cruelty. It doesn't help that there seem to be no moderators here at all to actually tell people to stop behaving that way, so the bad actors act with impunity. I do like freedom of speech, but freedom of rampant insult needs to be tamped down sometime or you get no productive conversation since, when the negative Nancies disagree with people, they stop presenting arguments against them and just start flame/troll/heckle wars to shut them up/down.

And while the negative posters are many and start many threads, including on the same topic (on the liveletter, there were about 5 negative threads, 1 positive, and a few days later, 1 neutral; the 1 positive was brigaded by the negative posters who took it as a personal attack against them to dare posting something positive), they don't share the idea that others should be free to share positive thoughts, and insist it means the positive players are new, ignorant, and/or don't love the game as much as they do. In a bit of intellectual paradox, they insist the only way one can love the game is by attacking it and anyone that does love it with hate and vitriol, and they justify this as they're just tired of "being ignored" so long that they can do whatever they want and it's okay. (It is not, in fact, okay.)

That's why there aren't many constructive or positive posts, despite people happy with the game VERY likely being the majority of the playerbase. As the old saying goes, people happy with the game are playing the game, people unhappy complain about it on the forums. In a game of over 2 million players, a few hundred negative forum posters are a minority. But they've convinced themselves they aren't and so argue from a position of faux authority.

Oh hey...
Its that simple

Same. WoW was my first MMO. While I did flirt with leaving it a few times, at some point, I just decided it was time and left it. I haven't looked back or played it since. If a thing is truly bad and you are choosing to pay money for it, that is entirely a you decision. It means that it isn't an irredeemable mess or the like, as if it was...well, that or you're just a very irrational person to act that way, but not all Humans are rational, so that does check out, I suppose...