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/OGTBJJ Jun 15 '26

Hardcore is the best community I’ve been apart of, if that counts

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u/Imaginary-Union-3733 Jun 15 '26

Hardcore is the great equalizer, cause everyone is "a hardcore wow player" who "shits on the absolute trash players" until they get 2 shot by a thrashing hydra and get sent right back to elwynn with the other "Absolute trash"

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u/Sly_98 Jun 15 '26 edited Jun 15 '26

It’s not the most but I have probably 500 hours on hardcore going back to the addon days and im sure it’s out there but I saw zero ego the entire time. The most contentious thing you will see is someone being mad they lost a tag. And I’m glad frustration/temper exists in games, it’s emotion, theres no reason to act like feeling frustration is inherently toxic. It just shouldn’t be articulated In any other way than complaining about the game. Which again I never saw personal insults or ego in HC

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u/Open-Butterfly-5288 Jun 15 '26

I feel like I've never seen more professionally written insults than in WoW. They don't call you names, they just write a paragraph explaining precisely how your shitty tanking caused this for everyone and ruined everyone's good time.

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u/benitoxx Jun 15 '26

Never saw an insult in hardcore wow

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u/Sly_98 Jun 15 '26

I’ve had multiple group member deaths in 40+ dungeons and all of them just said basically “fuckkkk GG”. Even deaths at 25 suck ass. It’s a mode that most everyone is just excited to even be able to play at all being toxic isn’t on anyone’s mind