Quote Originally Posted by tekac View Post
I completely agree with this statement. Vanilla WOW was where it was it in regards to community. Mainly because of the huge influx from Everquest IMO. There was a wait period in between EQ and WoW/EQ2 coming out.

The community on Everquest still is amazing, it is such a HUGE difference its not even funny. I have been playing EQ for a few weeks and its astounding. I just got back into multiboxing and now have 5 WoW accounts and I don't feel like talking to anyone because its all hatred. Crap like "WTF U NOOB"

Not only that, people actually go out of their way to attack you (Verbally, not referring to PvP). I've had people just sit in a battleground and do nothing other than insult and call me down to the dirt. I used to get it here-and-there back in Wrath, but it has gotten so much worse in Cataclysm.

It really ruins the experience at times. For example, last week I was doing 5v5's (I quad-box with a separate person healing me) and knocked out 3 of the opposing teams members while still having everyone alive. The last two people alive were two rogues, and they would stealth around the map and grab the shadow sights and instantly restealth. Even if I got to knock them out of stealth, they would just cloak and vanish, so it was a cat and mouse game the entire time. Other members of their team would create characters on my server with offensive names and whisper obscenities to me, all the while saying they weren't going to let me win because I was boxing.

It was clear that what they were doing was harassment, so we opened a GM ticket and explained the situation. The GM watched the rest of the match (20-25 minutes worth) and seen the vulgar whispers I was getting but did nothing to intervene in the match, I was actually in awe. This team had successfully wasted 45 minutes of my night because they were vehemently opposed to my multi-boxing.

What really bothers me is.. the next day we opened another GM ticket for clarification of the situation and we were told they are in fact allowed to intervene in arena matches under those circumstances.