The Official Forums is an EXTREMELY poor example of a "Good Community"

[SturmChurro]

I think a lot of the "angry" takes are because people feel like they aren't heard.

There's been a lot of feedback on multiple things over years, but the english community seems to be sidelined most of the time and getting very little aknowledgement for things they bring up.

This leads to a loop of frustration and eventually people just shouting into void.

Definitely true, to an extent. A silent SE on a myriad of issues. It took them until leading into EW to even mention they were looking into viera hairs, for example, and then apparently when they did address hairs at the start of ShB, that has now become a mistranslation (?). If we had actual cms involved with the community here, I think many would be a lot more positive.

I feel like the forums is a very poor representation of the actual community in the game. If you based it on the forums you’d expect people to be mean spirited, aggressive, and vindictive. But after playing since 1.0 I’ve rarely ever seen people argue or otherwise abuse each other in-game. It happens of course, but the general vibe is nowhere near as volatile as it feels on the forums.

That is because many players are too afraid of getting their actual accounts banned in-game. On top of this being a more discussion oriented platform, rules are skirted here seemingly more regularly, and even if a player was to get permad, I've seen many just laugh it off. I have seen lots - and I mean a lot - of horror stories regarding many players. Whether it be through Discord, Twitter, Reddit, or wherever else.