I am astounded...

[Gadzooks]

At how bad the WoW community, as represented on the forums, has gotten.

The crying and sniveling has reached a new low with the idiotic candy bags. One fine example of what's wrong with WoW players is in the CSF forum, with a guy saying he's contacted the media about it.

He's contacting the media.

About random bags of candy.

In a video game.



*boggle*



Is this the future of our culture?

I really wonder what will become of us, with people like this running around.

I *barely* participated in the world event, and my 3 guys all got a couple of bags of candy. Two got the picnic basket.

No Peddlefoot. I'mma gonna sue!!!!


(I know, I know, it's about the drake, and how now they'll have to wait a whole year (OH NOES!!!!) to get one, even though Blizzard never promised they'd get one at all. It's just yet another display of greed and entitlement that makes me lose that much more interest in having anything to do with this game)

[EaTCarbS]

Let them get their drakes, who cares about their E-peen?

We still can farm gold 5 times as fast :P

[Chranny]

I couldn't agree more. I stopped visiting the WoW forums along time ago, there's way to much crying and flaming to have an intelligent discussion. :<

[Yamio]

The people that do this kind of stuff are depressed attention seeking whores looking for a reason to exist IMO. I'm sorry if that sounds callous but it's the truth. Guys like the one you're talking about plays WoW from sunup to sundown and then some! When he's not playing he's thinking about it. If he's a kid then he's thinking about it all the damn time, just like kids do when they're into something. If that was a young adult (or for God's sake a grownup) then shame on him for not getting his priorities straight. Is it too much to ask for someone to find something to do with their time that's not destructive?

For what other purpose would cause someone to WANT to contact the media about something that happens in a video game, (other than a patch that allows you to have sex with in game characters?) Depression. Self Importance. Arrogance. WoW is too much for people with addictive personalities.

[Ken]

I couldn't agree more. I stopped visiting the WoW forums along time ago, there's way to much crying and flaming to have an intelligent discussion. :<

You just have to see the entertainment value in it.

[Yamio]

Entertainment? Yeah, if you like watching some retarded kids get in a fistfight.

Sorry, I couldn't resist. :D

[Frosty]

At how bad the WoW community, as represented on the forums, has gotten.

Gotten? It's been bad since before the game was released. ;)

I remember talking to my friends about how whiny everyone was because they couldn't get an answer about the game...and EVERYONE was 100% sure that they were being singled out to be ignored by the "blues".

[Coltimar]

Yeah, by my recollections it's been this way all along. The paladin's plaintiff cry of "we suck!" (which we did, for ages) and everyone else crying "nerf warlocks!". And every other thing you could imagine to whine about.

[Feardis]

wow forums only represent a small portion of the wow community

[valkry]

Entertainment? Yeah, if you like watching some retarded kids get in a fistfight.

Sorry, I couldn't resist. :D
imo, google that :P

[Tonuss]

Entertainment? Yeah, if you like watching some retarded kids get in a fistfight. Don't underestimate the entertainment value in retarded kids having a fistfight. :)

As for a person threatening to call the media or claiming he did, I would assume that he's just venting. It's easy to lose your cool when something minor goes wrong, and most people regain their composure quickly and are able to get a grip. Other people don't, and it's not until they've vented that they look back and laugh at themselves for overreacting. Of course, if you go nutso in a forum post, your reaction stays there for everyone to see. That's all it is, really. Someone overreacted out of frustration and didn't get a grip until they'd made a nutty forum post.

Or at least I hope that's what it is. If there are people out there who really go that far instead of just saying that they did/will... I seriously hope they do not have ready access to firearms and/or explosives.

[Siaea]

You just have to see the entertainment value in it.Have to agree. What else am I going to do at work?

[elroddo]

I've never frequented the wow forums.The only wow related forums i go to are this one and Elitist jerks, and both have mature respectful users.

[elsegundo]

the little kids that used to play cutesy games like maplestory and flyff have aparently grown up a bit and have invaded wow. unfortunately, not all things grow with age.
but this is only my assumption.

[Knobley]

The only wow related forums i go to are this one and Elitist jerks, and both have mature respectful users.

Hey, watch who you're calling mature and respectful princess!

[Bovidae]

Actually, the lack of candy bags is what drove me to the WoW forums for the first time in many months. It did not take me long to figure out I was not the only one, and Blizz had no intentions of fixing the droprate. I then left the forums and went to wash my hands.

it is too bad that Blizz still implements a minigame with such bad odds, especially since so many people are vying for the meta-acheivement.

[Brandish]

Well. I ran my 57 chars thorugh the V-day event.

It's RNG on top of RNG... which == pita.

If it's one thing I have, it's sample size :)

Large sample size gives me.... quite a selection of anectdotal outlier cases. Like one alt that pressed the gifts of adoration moderately hard and never once received a Silver Shafted Arrow (not the pet, just a bloddy stack of arrows to fire at others). :)

Or like the other alt that barely used 10 tokens and... received 2x Perma-peddles.... LOL



And.. regarding the crying.... they removed the Lovely Black Dress achievement from the meta quest.... but nearly every char received a Lovely Black Dress, if not 5.

[unseen]

Yeah you really have to sift through a lot of crap to find the gems in the forums. I would browse them with some regularity (looking for specs and info spell rotations, for example).

When they started putting ad-spaces up along the sides of the messages regarding warcraft stuff I thought "that is really annoying", but I kept plodding along. Now that they've officially put up revenue generating ads (for dominos, cell providers, etc), I'm not going back. They already have my money, why do they feel the need to generate even more off of visits to the forums? It just seems like bad customer service. At least don't harrass people that log in with their accounts with the ads.

[Stabface]

310% mount for noobs through some year+ long achievements was a bad idea in the first place. Once people get geared out in Ulduar I bet the 10-man raider achievement will be PUG-able by competent people anyhow.

[Tonuss]

I've never frequented the wow forums.The only wow related forums i go to are this one and Elitist jerks, and both have mature respectful users.EJ also has a moderator team that is very strict and very efficient. I like that, it helps them weed out the people with nothing useful to offer, and it forces the rest to stay on topic and only post when they have something to add to the conversation. So when you go there for information, that's exactly what you get.

If Blizzard moderated their forums that way, they'd be a one-stop shop for WoW info instead of almost completely useless.

[noidentity]

I love spending my day sitting in the CS forums. People tend to be pretty helpful there but the real action comes when someone has a complaint about Blizzard on their stances about anything. Anti-multiboxing threads are kinda thinning out though so I get bored. :(

General forums had a decent anti-forum alt thread which was interesting today though. I love posting on my level 0 annoying people.

[Vicker]

Or at least I hope that's what it is. If there are people out there who really go that far instead of just saying that they did/will... I seriously hope they do not have ready access to firearms and/or explosives.

http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/wireStory?id=6160422

[Stealthy]

The candy bag complaint is legitimate IMO - but unfortunately the way some people go about raising issue hurts the argument more than helps it.

For the record, I was trying for the meta achievement on 5 toons, and I basically had them camped by the guards, logging in every hour when I was playing (was playing my Death Knight team otherwise), and I still only managed to get the candy achievement on 3 of the 5 toons. Bad move by Blizz IMO...or they should have kept the event running for longer.

Cheers,

S.

[Simulacra]

(I know, I know, it's about the drake, and how now they'll have to wait a whole year (OH NOES!!!!) to get one, even though Blizzard never promised they'd get one at all. It's just yet another display of greed and entitlement that makes me lose that much more interest in having anything to do with this game)This is why we multibox. The only wow related forum I ever go to is this one. In game I only talk to other boxers or RL friends. I always ignore tells from ppl I don't know and invariably have general chat hidden. So since you know that the wow forums are full to the brim with emotards: don't go. What does it matter what other people think/want/feel entitled too/gripe about to a multiboxer? A multiboxer is a self contained universe of fun. ^^ So ! less time getting pissed at emotards, more time spent playing.