WARNING!!! This is a rant! Do not read any further if you don’t like rants. (I mean it)
What’s with all the hate?
Are we suddenly in Xoriat??? I have a pretty good feel for the climate on most servers and I see loads of people rage-quitting lately, using profanity towards others in general chat, and generally being rude to one another. Tonight I finally had to log because I was tired of the same guy asking everyone in general chat how many times a day they… nevermind.
Hound Raid not go right the first time? Had a new Bard or Caster or Tank who were not clear about what their jobs were? Oh you guys must SUCK! /quit
Shroud Lag? I have had it! /quit
Shroud Part 1: You guys can’t get these portals down fast enough! /quit
BTW, I have never seen a shroud Part 1 fail because the portals took 30-45 seconds each to come down. I have never seen a Shroud part 1 fail for that matter, even when the caster had no idea what to do and cleric never tossed out a heal.
Shroud Part 2: Party Member A: “Hey… What are you doing bra’? The Orthon is mine… go F-ing find something else to do.” (Oh never ever have I wanted to use my mic more in a raid than at that moment to tell him he was being disrespectful to a female old enough to be his mother.)
Party Member X: “Hey guys! It’s my first time running this quest! Can you tell me where the entrance is?”
Party Member X has been booted from your party.
Party Leader: “Noob”
I am sick to death of hate. We are developing a very BAD reputation. We are thought of as Rude… Arrogant… Jerks… by outsiders looking in. In some cases this is true. I have seen it.
What cheeses me off is that we used to have this fantastically tight-nit community. Sure we had back-biting on the forums, sometimes guild exploded… who doesn’t have that? No matter what, it seemed at the end of the day, we all loved and played the same game. We weren’t “care bears” by any means, but the environment was nowhere near as terse. No wonder the vets are so exclusive with whom they choose to play with. DDO is becoming a jungle with a strong dividing line between the haves and have-nots.
I am wondering if this isn’t a sign of our “growing pains”. I heard or read somewhere that our numbers rival LOTRO. Do larger numbers = larger problems? Do people treat each other this badly in WOW? If that isn’t bad enough, now people are backing-biting one another in xxxxxxx? Yeah…I am not happy about that. There is just nothing like bringing yourself up by putting others down… very very LOW CLASS. I am completely disgusted with that.
My last thought is NOT good. Maybe it’s me. Maybe I have played DDO for too long. I don’t like thinking that. I love this game dearly. I happily live inside the DDO Skinner Box…. But. I hate … well… hate. (Oxymoron?)
Then again… maybe I just had a bad day in DDO. /sigh

















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