I wanted to make a post about this for a really long time. I always wondered why are people being mean to each other so much on the internet, well in wow.
I don’t really play much more games than wow so I will just talk about wow.
Yesterday after Recful passed away, it was wholesome that people gathered in the Cathedral in Stormwind, it really gave me hope about our wow community but then people were spamming Trade Chat really really terrible stuff, and how they are annoyed that players are doing this and servers are lagging and they were literally saying horrible stuff about someone who just passed away, it honestly made me cry…
This was just an example for yesterday, but I usually pug mythic + or raiding and I feel really terrified because I’m scared if I fail something someone will flame me so much for it. I experienced so much hate just because I failed a mechanic or died somehow, or because I didn’t do much damage. Mistakes happen, everyone makes it, as you probably do, no one is perfect…
I experienced so many people telling me to end my life, and how to do it in steps, which made me cry multiple times. I became really scared when I want to do anything with other people in wow.
I don’t want to say everyone is like this, I also made so many nice friends in WoW! Friends for lifetime! ^^
I just wanted to say:
**No Matter What Someone Did to You in a Video Game, **
** You Don’t Have Right To Tell Them To End Their Life.**
I feel people hide behind their screens, they don’t really seem to consider the things they are spewing out in hatred is being directed at a person.
Some just have an outburst and some who seem more disturbed will go and stalk and hound a person.
Hopefully things like this will make people think how they behave but even on a milder level on the forums we see people repeatedly just attack, insult and be nasty without any provocation.
I’m with you on the mythic plus one, I did a +15 (my own key) even told them at the start I’m usually a healer and don’t normally dps but I’m trying it here. I did similar damage to them but died a few times and omg. The rogue at the end was hurling loads of abuse at me and I’m not even answering back. I just leave and 1 min later the same rogue is whispering swearing his head off at me loads more and the bloody ignore button wasn’t working lol. Eventually it worked but Jesus I ain’t going back in mythic + as a dps again…
I you’re right click ignoring them then it can sometimes take several attempts to make it work.
Its easier to just go into the ignore screen itself and start typing their character name as it sometimes will populate the rest including the server name.
I do think that may be the case, I just don’t know why… I’m also behind a screen, my boyfriend is, and couple of my friends but we never say those things, or even imagine saying them…
But thank you for almost always replaying in my posts! You’re my fav!
I also have a feeling that some people just can’t handle losing. This is way more prelevant in m+ and arena where there is a real “fail state”, rather than just taking longer to complete.
I also think this is becoming worse and worse (might just be feeling though). I wonder if some of it might be due to other content (or other games even) being so easy that losing just becomes something you’re not used to anymore and since you’re not used to it the reason you lose now are obviously the others.
While I have a feeling that this happens more and more frequently I should also point out that there are some incredible patient people, even in mythic+, that rather take their time to explain or help people than complete the dungeon in time.
Yes! I also feel that this happens more frequently!
I remember I started playing in Warlords of Dreanor and I met so many good friends! And it became much harder to make friends now… :c
I remember back in WoD I asked a random person that had lots of HP in Stormwind can he help me with Ahead of The Curve mount, I literally just started playing and was so scared it was going away in a month!
And he helped me in that second he invited me and we pugged it and did it, my gear was bad I was bad but he didn’t care he just wanted to help me.
Hiding behind internet curtain anyone can say anything - cowardly move tbh.
About Reckful - lots of people showed respect in-game as well as out of the game. This makes wow community still better than any game. There are few ignorant people those doesn’t change no matter what - doesn’t deserve my time or attention.
I stopped to play healer for example cause I was doing in my opinion good job sometimes someone died but I was not only heal in the raids but still usually rage was going on me from everyone that I had enough and quitted gameplay with healer meh. Some people are just idk how to call them
