Endgame toxicity

[Maikal]

It isn't just the end-game, either. The community as a whole has become more toxic. in my recollection, pre-2.0 had nowhere near the misery or toxicity that seems to be the current standard. Im not sure whether to point at the playerbase or the game design. More likely, it's something else entirely. Maybe it's gaming as a whole and not just MMOs, but people tend to suck nowadays. We really treat each other like crap.

[Asmodaeus]

It isn't just the end-game, either. The community as a whole has become more toxic. in my recollection, pre-2.0 had nowhere near the misery or toxicity that seems to be the current standard. Im not sure whether to point at the playerbase or the game design. More likely, it's something else entirely. Maybe it's gaming as a whole and not just MMOs, but people tend to suck nowadays. We really treat each other like crap.

I haven´t played 1.0 beside from beta, but we all know what it was when it went live and only a handfull of people played it for longer because most could´t stand it. Unlike ARR it wasn´t really popular and with that you had less asshats. ARR is way more convenient. The more convenient the game is, the more muppets will show up. It was the same with with pre - WoW MMO´s. The community which played these games was another one than that who started playing MMO´s after WoW.

So no, I don´t think it´s your imagination. There are way more muppets in this game then 1.0 ever had players.

[Xenos74]

It isn't just the end-game, either. The community as a whole has become more toxic. in my recollection, pre-2.0 had nowhere near the misery or toxicity that seems to be the current standard. Im not sure whether to point at the playerbase or the game design. More likely, it's something else entirely.

Actually the 1.0 community started getting extremely toxic around the time that people started doing optimal speed runs on Dzemael Stronghold for that one bonus chest. Continued to cutters cry with the inclusion of darklight gear, and has only progressively gotten worse and worse.

It really helps to find a group of friends to run content with. I personally find it a bit disgusting that people are shunned from trying new content without first seeing X number of tutorial videos so that they know what they need to do. Part of the fun used to be from learning new content, but those days are mostly gone now