I will forever miss You ♥

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I… must admit I never expected this to happen. If I was saying this out loud my voice would probably tremble. I quit this game over 45 times throughout my life, yet this time, I know it is for good.

Yes, there are plenty of people complaining about class design, lore, character arcs, repetitive experience, not enough content, lack of good ol’ fashioned Vanilla aspects… sure, some of those tainted my gameplay experience but it was never nearly enough for me to leave (although… if you just killed off Azshara in some ridiculous non-interesting way… this game would be done for to me too). Anyway… what I’ve always loved about this game the most was lore, visuals (yes, I get excited over retextures, new animations, etc.) and people I could chat with. And I could always re-do content I have always enjoyed doing whenever I felt like it.

But as of late… I must say that even socializing in-game with others has been becoming gradually stressful. Either I am that bad at communicating with others, lacking any common ground with others which would allow me to make new friends, or simply bored by endless and meaningless small-talks I can enjoy way more IRL. STILL, I knew of this for months. I was okay with it… but after tonight… I cannot even describe what a profoundly disgusting, off-putting and hateful individual of low social IQ I have met.

I will just say that I went to support a friend of mine on Argent-Dawn (yes, I actually made some characters there because I naively hoped there would be RP as you can experience it on NA realms) and I was met with doxxing, releasing IRL pictures, random people from various M+ dungeons immediately spamming me that I talk “sh-t”. And I realized this is what my friend was going through for weeks. She was actually terrified to even write a ticket and I really pray she has done that. Sure, I attempted to draw the attention of GM’s but I don’t have any screens nor could I capture some in that situation as I was immensely aggravated. I hope you can understand what a breaking point and what a truly traumatic experience this was for me… that some sick fu-ks do this on a daily basis, laugh at it with their friends and are perceived as the cool people just because they have a decent PvP ranking and appear “tough”. The mindless aggression, stupidity, amount of insults based on progress and not any personal qualities is one of the most distasteful things I loathe in my life.

I will certainly keep up with the story, art and sountracks of this game but I never want to experience what I did tonight, because although it was no exception, this was… quite unspeakably too much. That is why I will not even reply to this thread because I suspect that there will be more than just one individual who will just support the cause of my departure. Phrases like “don’t let the door hit you on the way out” just made me lose the last shreds of hope.

Thank you, World of Warcraft, you have inspired me and you will remain in my memories forever.

Oh, by the way, the best thing about it was that I couldn’t ignore the player. It was technically impossible. Special thanks for never-helping-when-it’s-actually-needed @GM’s.

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I hope you find joy in the other activities you’ll pursue!!

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I get that you’ve had a bad experience. And I’m not sure how you were doxxed (I’d just advise to be very careful with what you share out there about yourself, trust no one online) but if you leave because of people being asswipes, they win. Which is sad.

I meet a lot of new friends in-game farming and camping spawns in old content. I’ve met some great people that way.

I hope you return.

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GL with whereever you find yourself, I agree, just ignore the douches.

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I hope you change your mind and report those people strongly

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Maybe you’re gone, in which case I wish you the best, and hope you find something to fill the gap that WoW will have left.

Or maybe you will recover from the upsetting experience in a day or two, with some distance granting perspective. If so, you don’t need screenshots for reports; the GMs can’t and should not consider them anyway, since they can easily be faked. Just report the in-game chat that happened. Or tell your friend to. Blizzard have no tolerance for any form of IRL harrassment made in-game. If all of this happened outside the game, of course, Blizzard have no jurisdiction.

Either way, just give yourself a few days to settle, and then think about it again.

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Doxxed for playing a game? wth

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So, who are you again?

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Was a post like this really needed?

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oh please have it on.
You two are the most critical here.
It would be amazing.

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Welcome to the majority of the online communities.
Well wait, maybe not welcome anymore, but farewell ? :thinking:

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It was an honest question, I have never seen this poster before and they have 5 posts, seriously, who are you OP, no doubt some alt of a regular poster.

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If you get doxxed by someone online its pretty hard to not get triggered by them, ignoring them in game will not stop them finding anything out about you if they have the right resources or access to information about you from things like social media.

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I can quite agree with Dejarous, someone here is making a serious post about their troubles and you go questioning the background of the person :ok_hand:

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Dont know you but im touched

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Ahh Moritz, about as useful as a trapdoor in a rowing boat as usual I see.

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wrong person.
Dottie.
You hated her

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I only questioned Dotties post, I don’t hate him or her at all.

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but i wanted to see the show off :frowning:

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So you’re going to let the negative experiences outweigh the countless other good experiences you probably had?

You’ve Befriended this girl that was bullied ingame no? that’s one good experience right there.

There are douches and good people every where, but the general rule is really don’t share stuff with strangers unless they are not strangers anymore and you really trust them.

There are Millions of players in World of Warcraft, you’re telling me some bad experiences here and there will make you quit the game as a whole?

That’s in my opinion ridiculous and to me sounds like some heat of the moment anger since you’ve “Quit the game 45 times”.

Besides I never understood why people have to “Go through all the bullying” all you have to do is ignore the players who are being douches to you, and if they do it on alts a report can earn them a pretty harsh punishment, I’m pretty sure we’ve all had death threats and whatnot, I’m not saying you need thicker skin rather I’m saying you need not be bothered with people like that because they exist EVERYWHERE in the world, however there also exists a lot of other good people.

I think you need to review yourself @OP and think honestly, do you really wanna let a couple of internet trolls whom you can easily ignore affect you directly and let their internet shenanigans make you forget all the other good people you have met?

Also if things started affecting you in real life as in ( People hacking, doxing and sharing irl pictures of you ) depending on context ( Yes it matters if you posted some picture of you naked in public and expect it to suddenly disappear then you’re a fool and delusional ) you can probably start taking legal actions.

Now that I’m done with all that, I have to say this because nowadays people seem to be hellbent on the guilty before proven innocent train.

There is the other half of the story missing, which time has proven to be most of the time the poster is making things up for attention or whatever which is kinda disgusting and happens way too frequently, not accusing you but I’m just saying I don’t think we can take your words on it without hearing the other side or getting more information.

Like how did those people on the internet get pictures of you? dox you? find you to bully you?

Also what is the context of this.

You may be a notorious troll for all we know.

The last person from Argent Dawn talking about a similar situation like this turned out to be some sick girl who likes to call random people on the internet daddy and is into some really weird stuff, and turns out most of what she said was lies to get attention, funny because the people she accused showed Actual proof and images of said person in the act, in which said person just deflected as “joking lol”.

People won’t just randomly tell you that you are talking sh-t.

Who knows, maybe GM you contacted wasn’t “useful” because they’ve seen everything and decided that yeah, you do talk sh-t.

Again I’m not accusing you, I’m just saying we need more information than just I got bullied on the internet and the GMs won’t help me and somehow people got my pictures and other information.

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