The decline of the community

[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.