The decline of the community

[Awha]

Time to form a full party then. There's a primal that needs slayin'.

And SE said we would not be getting another Ultimate before 6.0.

[Kacho_Nacho]

The community, if anything, used to be more toxic and is less so now because of how much it's grown and appealed to more casual players who are polite.

ERP has always been a thing and if you wanted to avoid any chance of seeing a reference to it you'd have to keep out of main areas. ERP has been a thing in many MMOs so it's natural people with this interest would come to a growing MMO.

I see this in the Novice Network, cities, dungeons and discord regularly. This hasn't changed and if anything has grown.

That was a concern when 2.0 was developed with the cross-world Duty Finder matching system, but it was necessary so people could beat the dungeons and other content.

I would argue that since then, cross-world party finder and world visit have caused people from different worlds to interact more and I come across people I recognise from other worlds in content quite often.

This is a fair point. Anybody in a level 60 or lower area could be young and not old enough to pay a subscription, so they are less likely to be an adult about things.

I agree with this. I see far less toxicity than what the forums gives one to believe. Furthermore, I see less open toxicity than when I first began in the ARR era.

Hell, I had a tank actually apologize to me this past week when they did a wall to wall pull without checking if I could keep up with the healing on a synched 50 dungeon first.

As far as ERP, it's been in every MMO I've played in and we are talking even back when "the web" was just Compuserve and America Online to most people. Just set your boundaries and move on.

The last two pages here are only spam, no discussion, hence post deleted, no point in this.

I've looked over the thread and saw no spam. Perhaps you meant the handful of trolling posts or the fact that the forum was disagreeing with you.

Oh well. I'm certain the topic will be brought up again.

[Equitable_Remedy]

The sky is not falling. The community is fine.

Everyone calm down.

[Vahlnir]

The sky is not falling. The community is fine.

Everyone calm down.

It's when they tell you everything is fine that it is time to run!

[NanaWiloh]

Let me guess the OP got a taste of the communities ugly side? By the responeses also going to say they were not aware of how long the ugly side has been around.

[Alaray]

eh, I still stand by it's nothing very special in terms of MMO communities. WoW's community can be great at times, terrible at other times. XIV's community can be great at times, terrible at other times. Aion's community was terrible at times, and great at other times. So on and so forth.

I can't say it got worse or better; it got better in some ways over time and worse in other ways over time.

Is basically the same as any other MMO community, though, and I think it's important to not develop a weird superiority complex over a game you play.

[MilkieTea]

Aww, I wish I'd seen what was said LOL.

[Saefinn]

Aww, I wish I'd seen what was said LOL.

In short form: the community is on a decline, people used to be so helpful, kind and friendly, but now we have degenerates, like those they were in a party with who talked about their favourite hentai.

Basically degeneracy is the reason this community is so bad now. Not the trolls, not elitism, not bots and so on, y'know the usual stuff that impacts the helpfulness and kindness of people, but because too many people fall into degeneracy.

[SturmChurro]

Community has always been like that, since I started (HW). I still remember brothel ads in shout, one of the constants on the server I started on.

[LianaThorne]

In short form: the community is on a decline, people used to be so helpful, kind and friendly, but now we have degenerates, like those they were in a party with who talked about their favourite hentai.

Basically degeneracy is the reason this community is so bad now. Not the trolls, not elitism, not bots and so on, y'know the usual stuff that impacts the helpfulness and kindness of people, but because too many people fall into degeneracy.

Sounds like the person has never been in a US server and decided to try it. Oh well.