If you truly enjoy a game, can a “toxic community” make you stop playing it altogether?
I keep seeing people complaining about “the community” and how it’s “the problem”, but I just don’t care.
I’ve enjoyed games with extremely friendly and helpful communities like Guild Wars 2, and I’ve enjoyed games with extremely racist and toxic communities like Mordhau. And then there’s WoW in between.
The community is just not a factor for me. But is it for you?
Only if said toxic community ends up ruining the game by having the devs listen to them instead of every other player e.g. when they added raids in GW2, are increasing world difficulty in ESO and let’s not forget the fiasco of Wildstar.
The community is what you make of it. It’s an online game and people can hide behind their screen and not everyone behaves nicely. The trick is to not really bother with those people.
I don’t really think the wow community has changed. I faced all sorts of horrible interactions with people when I was a new player back in TBC. One of the reasons I always have time for new players is that it was an awful experience for me, so anything I can do to help it be different for others, I will.
The more competitve things get the worse a small percentage will behave. You can either tar everyone with that brush or make your own friends, find a guild, community etc.
So no, people being vile to me did not put me off playing, though it did make me avoid pug content (even regular dungeons were pugs back then).
Not if they don’t affect how I play the game. This is, thankfully, the case for me in WoW.
If they do (if for instance I need other players to be able to play), then yes - depending on the level of toxicity. LoL would be a good example where I found the level of toxicity not worth the enjoyment I got from the game.
Been playing multitude of ques chat disabled since yday so cant say it stops me from playing atleast 
It also prevents me from asking them why are they not focusing objectives that are quite obvious in many of these maps.
If toxicity or something bothers people in game, try the disable chat function from options under social panel. Can always put it back on to chat with friends or when wishes to play with someone.
Im not bothered by anything what anyone can say to me in game as I either report it if it were some personal insults or I didnt even see it if I had chat disabled. And I dont know anyone who would annoy me other than the normal boys bonding over video games banter but its different cause we have known for very long time 
How is a new feature a problem for you?
I don’t like pet battles. I’m not sure why they added them to WoW. But it’s not like their existence takes away from my experience playing the game. I just ignore them.
Not at all, I play League and Val, /fullmute and anoying people are gone.
Though I think toxicity in most games is undermoderated, telling people horrible things should be an instant permanent ban.
IDK why they’re so light on it in most games, including wow.
I mostly stick to solo content or play co-op games with irl friends, to me toxicity is a huge problem in gaming these days, I met some really friendly folks in niche online games, but the large majority seem to be the based and redpilled type gamersTM, in a contest to out edgelord each other and I really cba spending my leisure time in the company of that.
It brought with it a lot of very horrible people and ruined the community.
Not really, i dont really interact with the toxic community since i dont do pugging. I only play with friends.
Nah, I’m cool, hell i don’t even need them to speak at all. Just be quiet and do your job.
In the unlikely case that stuff hits the fan and someone throws a tantrum I just remove myself from unwanted situations.
Can’t be bothered with angry people on the internet anymore.
But honestly, I don’t see how WoW community is so toxic. In almost all my runs I see decent and civilised people.
Nope.
Anything else, Slappy?
Ive met so many people in WoW that are super friendly until you stop saying yes every time they want my help getting something. The community in WoW feels like its in a constant state of take take take until the person has nothing else to give and then they move on to the next sap. It’s reached a point now where im reluctant to help people I’ve only just met and sceptical of their motives when communicating.
Never had that problem in GW2.
Ask not what your community can do for you—ask what you can do for your community.
I guess it depends on how much interaction is required. If social cohesion is necessary somehow, and the majority is behaving as if they are 14 years old (no offence to actual 14 year olds, I’ve met quite a few very polite and friendly teenagers over the years lol), then I’d probably enjoy it less. If I can happily veer around all that, I don’t particularly care.
All the important things we adults know and what the youth dont care about
Not much, since I tend to have a preference for single player games… 
But single players dont have forum to write on right. Isnt best about mmo the fact that its not npcs, but good or bad its humans and bring variations due human factor.
Course they do. Practically all games on Steam has a forum for whatever game outside official forums if they have any.
Idk I only play mmos, I need the variation what humans bring. Like today witnessed ppl do random things all day in blitz. But thats what I mean that youre still here on this forum even if you said to prefer single players.