I have been levelling a couple of tanks up this week. It may just be bad luck, but the attitudes of some of the players in lower dungeons has been shockingly bad. The nastiness has been a level above anything I have seen ever in wow before. I have never put in so many reports as I have in the last week for people just being abusive. At one point a DK thought it fitting to call someone out using the C word . This was around 4 o clock in the afternoon when kids are about. I have no idea why he was upset with the guy as I was the tank who replaced the guy who was kicked.
Trolling with mob pulling has made me just walk away from a fair few groups, with some very abusive comments sent my way for doing so.
Blizzard really needs to stamp this out as it will stop a lot coming to the game. This sort of nastiness was a reason why I stopped playing this game in the last expansion.
Just as a heads up, masking the swearing is circumventing the language filter and can be flagged/reported and you can be punished. So best to edit it out. We can understand that insults are exchanged without explicitly trying to use the terms
Would be a shame for the discussion to be removed for the sake of some bad words.
Are you talking about random dungeons at cap or levelling? Or both?
I have reached a point where I am no longer shocked by whatever I see players write in-game. I have seen way too much to even pretend that there is hope for this playerbase’s basic communication skills.
By the way, on a slightly unrelated note, I want to say something really important.
Kids. Do. NOT. PLAY. WOW.
That was once upon a time, maybe, when WoW was brand new and outperformed just about every other game released around that time, apart from, maybe, San Andreas.
Kids today don’t have the attention span, or patience, or the copium required for WoW. They have so many options in games that look 1000x better in terms of graphics, colors, details, games that are so much more fast-paced, fun and rewarding and stimulating for their young minds.
WoW provides on -pretty much- none of these levels.
WoW attracts (or used to attract) a very specific demographic. That’s either people like me who googled “Warcraft 3 sequel”, or people who just like MMOs and toxic competition.
This is backed up by the players I meet in game.
While they are immature and some of them seem to actually be pretty terrible people, they still act like adults. Horrible adults, yes, but adults nonetheless.
Kids do not play, World of Warcraft. This is a COLOSSAL misconception that needs to be cleaned up before it is too late.
I’ve been leveling a DK tank and a resto shaman healer lately. Haven’t noticed any nastiness or toxicity. Nobody really talks except the occasional “hello” and “bye”. Even in potentially frustrating dungeons, like LBRS where tanks tend to get lost, people will simply show the way by pinging.
I don’t know why my experience is so drastically different. I play on a German realm, so nearly all of the players in my leveling dungeons are also from German speaking servers. But I have trouble believing that the cultural difference is that stark.
Leveling dungeons are also super easy, even without heirlooms. What do people get upset about?
Human moderators is not silly though. People quickly change behaviour when there are consequences, but the kick button and lack of GMs tends to punish the wrong person… We can do better than this
Don’t hold back on my account…! Fire at will!
