Quote Originally Posted by Kaoru_Nagisa View Post
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I've been playing for way less years than you but honestly, as we've talked extensively over reddit, it's a feeling I too share and it's sad. I met so many nice people throughout this game that didn't interest me at first, plus the story that, despite having boring parts here and there, fully sucked me in, which surprised me myself.

But then, in my eyes, the glaring issues appeared. The community at large enabling toxic behaviour, most of the self-proclaimed nice and welcoming people being the biggest hypocrites I've seen (especially on this forum and reddit), the playerbases performance seemingly plummeting even further before and during EW, more and more people weaponizing the TOS to police the tone of advice and whatnot. And, at least in this forums case, the moderation enabling this hypocrisy as well.

It's only a few levels for the last 5 classes I gotta level but man, the desire I felt to max them out is completely gone vs the desire I had pre-EW, not to mention the lack of desire to play at all? And I know I'm not alone with this in my FC/circle, as not only the savage raiders but also the casual players like me experience more and more "rinhlettes" during their roulettes and are met with hostility* if they try to help

*someone from my circle was genuinely surprised that I tried to help a struggling tank with advice during stone vigil and didn't just pull more for them, as they've not had anybody tried to help them when they picked up the game over a year ago. Imagine a community so deep down into the enabling behaviour and keeping your mouth shut because saying something is seen as a personal attack that it completely stops giving advice altogether