Is there a way to design end game content that doesn't lead to a caustic community?

[Fendred]

Over ten years of playing MMORPGs, one thing that remains constant from every game I've jumped to is the end game community turning hostile to new players after the content has been out for a while. And by new players, I don't even mean those with no experience on a given encounter. They can have the fight practically on farm status, but the second they switch to a new role and mess up even once they turn on even the most skilled of players.

In the back of my mind, I kind of know the answer to the question, but what do my fellow forum dwellers think about it? Is it just a result of the social ineptitude of a few players or is it really incompatible communities clashing with one another?

[Zaels]

Yes. By making every fight incredibly easy that even new and inexperienced players can one-shot the bosses.

Which of course will result in people growing bored of the game quickly due to the lack of challenge and unsubbing.

[rabbitzero]

Yes. By making every fight incredibly easy that even new and inexperienced players can one-shot the bosses.

Which of course will result in people growing bored of the game quickly due to the lack of challenge and unsubbing.

To be fair, during Wrath in WoW, the numbers were the highest, and at least heroic dungeons could be facerolled. Don't know about raids, but heroic dungeons could be done easy and fast, and my dps queues were never over five minutes. Come cata, when they made things harder, numbers dropped and my queues as a dps were close to half an hour. I know correlation doesn't equal causation, but just something i noticed.

[Gilthas]

The anonymity of the internet is what leads people to become jerks online.

You could make a game where all you did was run through fields of flowers holding hands and you'd still get a guy telling you you're doing it wrong.

[Mcshiggs]

The anonymity of the internet is what leads people to become jerks online.

You could make a game where all you did was run through fields of flowers holding hands and you'd still get a guy telling you you're doing it wrong.

Everyone knows you skip through fields of flowers holding hands, running noobs need to go back to WoW.

[Raknar]

Everyone knows you skip through fields of flowers holding hands, running noobs need to go back to WoW.

Omg, you WoW casuals. The term is "frolic".

[Kosmos992k]

The anonymity of the internet is what leads people to become jerks online.

You could make a game where all you did was run through fields of flowers holding hands and you'd still get a guy telling you you're doing it wrong.

I hate to say this, but take a look at Flower for PS3, Vita and PS4...in other words, what you say has more or less been done...

I call the collective disembodied stupidity, immaturity, anger, fear, hatred and downright nastiness that inhabits the Internet the Eye of Moron. Basically collect all those little nasty hive minds, and make them one collective pool of nasty, and you have it.

[Espon]

I don't think I see that that often, and when I do, it's usually just one person flipping out and to me he or she sounds like a big crybaby.

All-in-all, some people are jerks because it's the internet.

[TrystWildkey]

Is there a way to design end game content that doesn't lead to a caustic community?

Sadly.....



(hope the image works >< )

[Thorauku]

Over ten years of playing MMORPGs, one thing that remains constant from every game

You already know the answer OP.