I Use to be a Blue man , then I went Red

[Nocsucow]

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[Nocsucow]

I miss blue.... but red is more blue than blue except there's no waiting in line and the few min zone/plug/fights just get my heart pumping everytime! !! but I will continue to raid blue when I can because of my pals

[Swish]

what happened to your avatar?

[Vrez ZVyx]

I played on a blue server on live till Kunark... my buddies and I went to pick up Kunark at the game store and the two guys behind the counters started talking about playing to Tallon Zek and how PvP was so much better. They made it sound so great that we all agreed to try it.
I don't remember much about the early days, though I do remember a specific few "gankers" who farmed noob areas. The funny thing is that a good player will eventually outlevel and outplay those scrubs. If you need to vastly outgear and outlevel your opponent to win, it probably says something about your level of skill tbh.

I cant add much to this, aside from saying that the mentality between the players is different.
If you just want to go through content and do it without added risk, you probably wouldn't understand pvp. But if you enjoy conquest, triumph, defending your camp, taking someone elses camp, escaping the perfect ambush, then pvp brings so much more guts and glory.

[Seltius]

I also enjoy the banter and chatter after pvp. It isn't all the trolling and hate tells you see on the forums. It can be a lot of fun to talk to someone more experienced and ask them what you should have done differently. It adds an element that isn't found in video game AI the human element. Or talk about places and things in game and irl that you may not have or may never see. So it isn't the hate you see on the forums honestly I think the forums really hurt both servers with the way they come across to someone who hasn't experienced them.


Example: Killed by Tamtam and we chatted about surfing and where he lives which I have never been. Also about what I should have done as a melee against a druid outdoors. Sorry Tam I figured id use you as an example since I don't have the balance to surf but have always found it amazing.

[feanan]

dear blue people who get mad at these posts.

i used to be just like you! and than I realized, looking at the server pops nightly, that nobody new is going to red anyway, no matter how many times swish posts here.

Frankly, we should encourage people to take swish up on his offer, because it will lighten up blue a bit.

[Star]

I turned on a blue stream one night and it was 30 guys waiting around for a dragon to spawn in wtov that red doesn't even bother to kill.

[QFuzzle]

Dudes, there's nothing "wrong" with either side of the spectrum here.

People can find fun in playing on either server, whether it be exclusively one or switching between the two freely. I have characters on both red and blue.

I find this bashing and belittling of the "other side" to be annoying. Both sides can come up with a thousand analogies as to why it's better to stick to their own server and why the other server is inferior or "worse". To highlight dumb stuff like "On blue you wait, but on red you compete" is total crap. There's waiting and competing on both servers, just to different levels and degrees. Yes, of course the population on red is lower and top heavy, and yes of course you have to wait around and can't kill your opponent freely on blue, but it's silly to sit around and nit-pick at each other in defense of why your server is "better". It doesn't have to be black and white. What's so difficult about appreciating both sides of the spectrum for what they are instead of going out of your way to make others feel bad who enjoy a gameplay style different from yours?

Personally, I've spent a LOT of time on both PvE and PvP oriented games. They both have their pros and cons. It doesn't make either one superior or inferior to each other (some may disagree). It boils down to a matter of the mindset of the player and how each person wants to spend their time (a resource we can't get back). Everybody, and I mean everybody, has a different gaming experience. Transposing your own on top of somebody else's and saying they're wrong to think/feel differently is narrow minded, to say the least.

This back and forth antagonizing, belittlement, passive aggression, and inferior/superior crap is toxic and pointless. I know some people get their rocks off doing this sort of crap, though, so whatever. People need something to argue about (guess that's one reason why the RnF section exist). I kick the dust off my feet at them.

[Seltius]

Originally Posted by QFuzzle [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Dudes, there's nothing "wrong" with either side of the spectrum here.

People can find fun in playing on either server, whether it be exclusively one or switching between the two freely. I have characters on both red and blue.

I find this bashing and belittling of the "other side" to be annoying. Both sides can come up with a thousand analogies as to why it's better to stick to their own server and why the other server is inferior or "worse". To highlight dumb stuff like "On blue you wait, but on red you compete" is total crap. There's waiting and competing on both servers, just to different levels and degrees. Yes, of course the population on red is lower and top heavy, and yes of course you have to wait around and can't kill your opponent freely on blue, but it's silly to sit around and nit-pick at each other in defense of why your server is "better". It doesn't have to be black and white. What's so difficult about appreciating both sides of the spectrum for what they are instead of going out of your way to make others feel bad who enjoy a gameplay style different from yours?

Personally, I've spent a LOT of time on both PvE and PvP oriented games. They both have their pros and cons. It doesn't make either one superior or inferior to each other (some may disagree). It boils down to a matter of the mindset of the player and how each person wants to spend their time (a resource we can't get back). Everybody, and I mean everybody, has a different gaming experience. Transposing your own on top of somebody else's and saying they're wrong to think/feel differently is narrow minded, to say the least.

This back and forth antagonizing, belittlement, passive aggression, and inferior/superior crap is toxic and pointless. I know some people get their rocks off doing this sort of crap, though, so whatever. People need something to argue about (guess that's one reason why the RnF section exist). I kick the dust off my feet at them.

Thank you.

[Swish]

This is an A Grade thread.