Y Friday, February 22, 2008
1:46 am
I love the WoW community. Really. I've been around the internet for a bit, longer than most around our age, and know a little bit here and there.This I can say with utmost certainty. The WoW community? It's without a doubt, one of the most hostile, hateful, spiteful and unhappy communities ever.
Everyday, people whine about this being overpowered, or this being underpowered, or Blizzard lying to them, or feeding them with nothing but empty talk, Blizz being retarded, Blizz this, Blizz that, nerf this, buff that.
Threads in forums move so fast what you see in the first page is banished to second after 5 minutes.
The majority of the posts?
Person A complains about something.
Person B basically tells him to stop whining and run himself into open traffic.
Person C tells Person A he's stupid, retarded and needs help.
D says everyone here was dropped on the head at birth, and that A needs to stop crying. Everything's fine, Learn2Play.
OCCASIONALLY, and I mean VERY OCCASIONALLY, you'll read a semi-helpful thread with people humane enough to actually help and reply with information, of course it's never purely information. You have to throw in personal insults, sarcasm and satire into the mix.
The humour's in a class of it's own, really. For starter's it's chockful of internet memes, but basically humans have just degenerated to the point where insulting each other is actually funny. They poke fun at just about anything, politicians, important events, and religion. Especially religion.
Sample thread.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=4665395921&sid=1
If you can't be arsed to read, it's alright. Here's the condensed version.
Someone asks, if Jesus played WoW, would he play a Paladin?
Everyone replies with extremely condescending replies, basically using Jesus's name in vain.
No one really cares. Everyone just makes joke after joke, and TBH, it's all in bad taste, but it's just so funny.
Someone finally runs along and says "You know, this could be offensive."
What'd he get? Yeah you guessed it.
Someone quoted his post and went "lol." telling him he's an idiot and that what they were doing is okay, before proceeding to make more lulz.
We're talking about a community that goes "Fuck off, don't play WoW. Get off my server, it's laggy enough."
In a way, it's like a big group of grumpy old man. They hate you and there's nothing you can do about it except back away real slow, and disappear from their sights forever.
When people actually say something nice, it's like someone just slapped everyone in the face. Everyone's dazed, confused and in disbelief. Then a random person would just continue the hate, tell the nice person to basically screw of, that he's stupid and things like that and the whole thing continues.
It's fun.
You've got to be part of the community to love it, really. And TBH, it's shaped the way I write this blog. Maybe that's why some people feel a few posts are fun to read. The humour's pretty much the same.
Big shoutout to the WoW community. <3 y'all.
Oh, and GTFO my server.