Just to begin with, this is not the average post of General Discussion, where people goes “waaah, waaah, WoW community is mean” because one player insulted them or they were allegedly kicked unjustly. I know plenty of you might be tired or simply indifferent to these kind of posts. And, to be fair, this doesn’t limit to WoW as this can extend to most online communities.
And as many of you know, WoW and many other online communities are ripe with many different kind of players and, as a consequence, there is always the risk of bumping into the well-known bottom of the barrel: flamers, trolls, griefers, etc. I think that a good part of players have assumed that risk while playing the game and many have different way to face it and move on.
This takes us back to the title of the post: How do you cope with the strangers in the many ways you end up dealing with them in the game: M+, PvP, world PvP, raids, LFR, LFD?
if they re toxic in e.g. lfr or random bgs, i dont give them any attention at all. same goes for mythic+. i just make sure i put them on my ignore list and then move on and report if needed.
if they re nice and talking, i might join in or just dont say anything at all again. but im not that social to begin with with strangers.
i dont world pvp anymore, i see warmode as a huge waste of time, so i cope with not enabling it.
i dont pug outside lfr. if i raid, its only with a guild i am in or people i know so i usually dont have to deal with strangers in normal and higher raids.
I’ve been active on the internet for so long and I’ve pretty much gotten use to whatever abuse people throw at me online. Not sure if thats a good thing but after a while I just stopped caring. Opinions and buttholes and everything.
In random groups I do /greet or simply say hi, if nobody responds that’s fine if they do and/or want to chat thats fine too. If people start with their abuse I ignore it or stand up for myself depending on whats going on.
If they abuse others and I can help I usually will.
I don’t do that content.
Gave up on LFR after Rastakhan death.
My favorite content by miles away, TW as well.
Most of the players are aware of the behavior rules.
I feel sometimes they would like to say something, but they prefer not to, which for me is good.
I am just there to test my group skills, mechanics, in a free of stress environment.
I was quite pleasantly surprised, with the TW community this week.
They have been very resilient to people failing mechanics or healers that can’t cope up. We had a healer kicked in one of the dungeons after he asked a minute AFK and made us stood there for ten minutes.
That was as far as it went.
But I am not celebrating.
My two hunters completed their runs, I still have eight characters to go and forty runs to go through.
I am leaving my healers and tanks for last, as I am still trying to memorize the patterns.
As for people complaining here, for their bad experience, it’s only natural.
Life isn’t made of positivity and flowers.
I just accept it as someone venting their frustration as I probably would do the same.
Random peoples words on the internet doesn’t bother me. I’ve never ignored or blocked anyone, because I don’t see the point. Unless someone is actively harassing me, I’ll just deal with them thinking I’m stupid or whatever.
M+: Its their key. Not mine. I couldnt give a rats about them throwing a tantrum. Either they keep playing and finish the key in time or deal with the depletion. I can just join another run afterwards. And if they annoy me too much i can just leave as, once again, its not my key. Given its the leader ofc or a guildie of his, otherwise the leader has to deal with him, not me.
PvP/World PvP: Back when i did random BGs: I followed orders if they were given. If not then i did my own thing. Someone flames it? Oh bohoo, should have typed in /i that you want to do X or Y. His problem, not mines.
Raids: Someone plays the e-peen card? I play mine. Period. If they then still argue about it or have the same size as me or perhaps even a bigger one then i just throw the occasional “its a pug. Deal with it. Make your own group if you want a 100% perfect run”. Playing the e-peen card yourself is extremely effective against pseudo elitists
LFR: Ignore. All of them. Without exception.
LFD: I dont talk there. I dont care if someone throws a tantrum and leaves or whatever. I will just switch to the desktop while the group refills.
yeah, i see it the same way. talking to such people in any content is just a waste of time when you could do something to improve the situation/help the group/concentrate on the content instead.
when someone fails in m+ and people are flaming then my first thought is: what a massive waste of time. stuff happens, just move on and try to time it, do better. but no, people have to waste time and dps by typing.
i mean sure its annoying when someon fails but i usually dont say anything and just keep on doing what im doing. being toxic is so unproductive.
Yesterday we where like 30-40 players waiting for Rustfeather to spawn. While we where waiting, i thought to light up the atmophere and i said in general chat:
" This time i get the mount 100%" .
The first reply i got was:
“I hope you get cancer” .
So imagine from a joke like that it escalated so quicky in just seconds.
In no other MMO i never saw so much toxicity and mean people.
On the other hand I was in full group camping and we all got on the same mount and formed a great big circle. The atmosphere was really good fun, people laughed and joked, used toys etc.
There are rude people everywhere. You can just ignore them. I hope you reported the guy who wished you would get cancer.
That is your choice but you are allowed to report people for that kind of behaviour. Blizzard don’t actually want that kind of behaviour but they don’t know about it if it’s not reported.
Wishing you would get cancer is breaking the Code of Conduct
If someone doesn’t share the same opinion as me in group content, I feel the urge to start a debate about it. Be it about my performance, the group’s performance, the used tactics, the weather, Elune or Ion’s free time activities. If someone starts, I simply can’t stop.
There’s a saying in German: “the wiser gives in” - well I’m not wise.
He would have more luck reporting him through live chat or a ticket and hoping he gets a GM that actually does his job (and hands down we all know alot of GMs are lazy f… that deserve to be fired for their copy/paste attitude without even bothering to read properly. Just had this a couple days ago with my ticket. One GM giving me the same old copy paste garbage, intending to close the ticket. Reopened the ticket. Oh look a propper answer and dealing with my issue and given me information i require (or at least one i can deal with. Even if there was still a bug present, but that was the minor issue)) and promptly punishes the offender.
Just using the report function ingame for language will yied a silence at best. This silence system is as i once said dividing me on my opinion regarding it. At one side i love it because blizzard allows us, as a community, to decide what WE ultimately deem acceptable and what not but on the other hand it causes some things to get away unpunished.
I disagree. A ticket is not the appropriate avenue unless you are dealing with repeated harassment or people finding ways to circumvent the ignore function.
You will get a response from a GM explaining the right click report feature and clog up a system that is already suffering from 7-9 days turnaround time.
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