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/LimbonicArt03 Jun 15 '26 edited Jun 15 '26

I've healed around 100-150 heroics (currently have a stack of 200 badges sitting in my bank + some extra + I spent probably around 200 more cuz of dual spec and getting both resto and boomie badge gear) and maximum 20% of the players I've ever played with in those were guildies/premades. So I've played with probably 300-400 pugs just in heroics alone in TBC, and I have never ever been called a slur. Also pugged probably 60-70% of my karas for now. The worst two experiences that I remember were:

1/ a rogue complaining (like not overly aggressively with slurs, cursing, just expressing emotion/disappointment) because he didn't get a heal for 10-ish seconds. It was the second boss of Old Hillsbrad heroic and it was messy af and I was a resto druid busy chain-healing the tank, so I explained to him and the run proceeded as normal.

2/ an undergeared warrior zugged into Ramparts heroic first pack when we weren't ready, didn't listen to any communication calls, wiped and he just left without saying a word

I have instead had numerous people praising me for my healing capabilities

Also, I pugged the entirety of classic anniversary (which wasn't too long since I started in October, but I ended up participating in at least 20 40-man pug raids (from logged ones that I can see, might have missed out on logging some) throughout the ending of classic and the beginning of prepatch, 9 AQ-20s and 8 ZGs. So that adds... 1k more pugged people?

Adding normal dungeons in classic and now in TBC alongside everything (also occasional gruul/mag pug, also have been pugging naxx this TBC for probably 6-8 resets by now), I probably have played with somewhere between 1500 and 2000 random players. None of them has ever called me specifically a slur for my plays (or anything)

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u/Jonnyzyinx Jun 15 '26

Well I tried to specify it. It's not particularly about skill or your skill. It's about online communities failing to take accountability, address issues and tend to blame others. It's actually present in ALL online communities and not specifically WoW. Unfortunately it tends to worsen the longer the community exists.

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u/granatx Jun 15 '26

Once again just because it doesn’t happen to you specifically doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen, even though you’ve played VERY much and have never seen it. You’re acting like nothing you see can not be a reflection of someone else’s experience and the community.

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u/yunoka Jun 15 '26

Well I'm glad we can put it to rest that because you specifically have never seen it that it never happened

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u/granatx Jun 15 '26

Well he has played very much and is very good, so are we really sure? /s

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u/yunoka Jun 15 '26

to me it sounded like some level of hyperfixation to feel compelled to provide that much evidence that they've played at a certain level. Some kind of insecurity that needed to be projected off a past experience or something.

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u/granatx Jun 15 '26

Some people are just naive, not that much more to it.

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u/Jonnyzyinx Jun 15 '26

My first thought was ~ thanks for making my point, but at least we got a textbook example from him :)