An interesting contrast between player communities

[Breakbeat]

Coming out of the live letter, Reddit seems to be generally very hype while these forums generally seem to be drowning in misery (and very concerned about teleportation fees).

That's a bit hyperbolic, yeah? I see exactly one thread on 'teleportation fee complaints'; the only other thread on port fees is actually explaining the fees to get past the hyperbole. As for this place 'drowning in misery,' you have got to be looking at different forums .. this place isn't drowning in misery at all.

You sure you didn't accidentally open up WoW General Discussion? That's misery.

This place is positively peachy compared to forums that are truly 'drowning in misery'.

[Rinhi]

That's a bit hyperbolic, yeah? I see exactly one thread on 'teleportation fee complaints'; the only other thread on port fees is actually explaining the fees to get past the hyperbole. As for this place 'drowning in misery,' you have got to be looking at different forums .. this place isn't drowning in misery at all.
This place is positively peachy compared to forums that are truly 'drowning in misery'.

yeah, I question where people see all the supposed misery in the OF
sure, you have some "bad" complaints here and there, but they're super easy to ignore (which quite a few people are seemingly unable to do) but even some of those have valid points and arguments
the only issue I feel the OF has is, aside from TM and friends, is that people are more often than not fishing for likes with their 'funny' dunks on people without wanting to argue, which usually turns the thread into a shitflinging contest more often than not when they could've simply ignored it if they didn't want to argue
reminds me a bit of reddit/twitter in that way, tbh

That's what I see on 4chan and discords at least. I think 4chan accepts the game for what it is the most of any community, the good and bad and ugly of it. Same with FB groups, the smaller the community, the more likely it seems that people will be honest and accepting about things.

4chan is no reddit, but it's far from a small community (way bigger than the OF at least) and I'd love to know what kind of stuff you're on if you think people aren't complaining on the various boards and threads there, way more than the OF does, if they're not posting a sideways looking femra or cat