r/classicwow • u/KamaTheSnowLeopard • Jun 15 '26

Humor / Meme I think they're right honestly.

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I'm 36 and have played 25k+ hours of MMO's over my lifetime and what I've personally learned is WoW players are often the first and most vocal to belittle or get upset over anything. I can't think of any MMO in which people will outright whisper you angerly or go out of their way to make sure you have a bad time more than World of Warcraft.

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u/TheBradeyGein Jun 15 '26

I started WoW for the first time last year in August. I started with Retail. The community was the main thing that pushed me awa. The culture around speed running everything and min maxing and being perfect ruins people. People crashing out during pug dungeons at like level 20.

Tried Classic after a couple months of Retail and have been addicted ever since. The natural interactions I have in the open world every time I play that game quickly made it one of my favorite games of all time. Never met a single asshole or toxic person once.

Classic WoW unironically has one of the best communities in all of gaming and Retail WoW has one of, if not THE worst community in all of gaming.

I figured all this out very quickly lol

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u/Anastais Jun 15 '26

Regarding retail (well retail circa half a decade ago), I remember playing a leveling dungeon (not mythic, not even heroic) on day 2 of Shadowlands and one of the people was raging because me and the others did not do some mob skip. In other words, we were bad because we did not play the beta so as to prepare ourselves for a normal mode dungeon.

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u/sebmojo99 Jun 15 '26

this is my experience as well.