Originally Posted by Able
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Whether or not the OP is being genuine or trolling is pretty irrelevant at this point, they raise a point which many other people can't help but have noticed.
This community has some serious issues, call it toxic, call it cyber bullying, or just people being plain rude. A lot of stuff that we take for granted from a vocal minority of players would be completely unacceptable in real life, or any game run for profit, "hardcore" or otherwise. Even verant didn't allow the kind of abusive language and cyber bullying I see here regularly, in game and in forums, and that was 15 years ago.
Call me a care bear (which isn't true, I've played much more hardcore games than red99.. games in which you lose everything you've done in 100+ hours of gameplay if you die, and people are trying to kill you all the time), call me an outsider (which isn't true, I play on red99 for 6+ hours, 5 days a week), call me whatever. But can you really say you want to be part of a community that accepts, and even encourages, the kind of stuff we see here everyday?
I know I don't, and I know a lot of people in game, who don't post on these forums, who think the same. It's just a shame that the vocal minority feel the need to impose their toxic attitude on everyone else, and that people looking from the outside at this community think we are all like that, or even, god forbid, that we like and encourage it.
I'm ready for the backlash in this thread, the kind that emoteen got earlier. Tell me to GTFO, call me every derogatory term you can use without getting banned, tell me I don't belong here.. but the fact is I do. I play here everyday. If you can't engage with what I'm saying like an adult then I'm pretty sure YOU don't belong here, because the vast majority of people who play here ARE adults, and that majority probably don't want to play with YOU, but just gave up saying that a long time ago.
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03-31-2015, 02:23 PM
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