As far as I'm concerned leftism killed MMOs anyway. Not even directly at first. I played WoW a ton during the Burning Crusade and Lich King heyday, and a huge part of the reason was the community. Sure, there were the screaming insano people that have turned into memes, but that was fairly easy to avoid. The fun part was I could actually play with people that acted like adults. At least young adults, as I was at the time. At some point the maturity level dropped off like a cliff. I suppose many of us older players left, but I tried to go back and one point and it was just brutal. So much of that same of leftist mindset, laziness, entitlement, general whininess, etc. People I didn't want to spend time gaming with.
It was really the same with regular online multiplayer. Sure there was trash talk before, but it was just that, trash talk. Sure it's supposedly all sterilized from their muh race and muh gender, yet for people that are supposed to be so collective and love everyone, they totally suck at forming up any sort of team without being cutthroats against their own teammates.
Lich King is when most of the community died on my server. In particular when they introduced the ability to just queue up to get a group assigned to you.
when they introduced the ability to just queue up to get a group assigned to you.
Precisely this. LFG killed server communities and introduced one of the most toxic aspects to WoW it has ever suffered from.
No longer were players limited to interacting with those only on their server which meant player reputation no longer mattered. Before everyone would know who that ninja looting rogue on the server was, or which huntard caused wipes because they were a shit player [hurr durr all of them because huntards :p]. LFG now meant you'd play with people you've never met or even seen before and possibly never would hear from again. So players started fucking around and causing trouble for groups, casuals would drag down others because they were woefully undergeared/prepared [/Illidan meme] but because there were ways to cheese those gear reqs could still sign up.
LFR in Cata then made it worse with loot begging and even more trolling while dumbing things down to an absurd level.
As far as I'm concerned leftism killed MMOs anyway. Not even directly at first. I played WoW a ton during the Burning Crusade and Lich King heyday, and a huge part of the reason was the community. Sure, there were the screaming insano people that have turned into memes, but that was fairly easy to avoid. The fun part was I could actually play with people that acted like adults. At least young adults, as I was at the time. At some point the maturity level dropped off like a cliff. I suppose many of us older players left, but I tried to go back and one point and it was just brutal. So much of that same of leftist mindset, laziness, entitlement, general whininess, etc. People I didn't want to spend time gaming with.
It was really the same with regular online multiplayer. Sure there was trash talk before, but it was just that, trash talk. Sure it's supposedly all sterilized from their muh race and muh gender, yet for people that are supposed to be so collective and love everyone, they totally suck at forming up any sort of team without being cutthroats against their own teammates.
Lich King is when most of the community died on my server. In particular when they introduced the ability to just queue up to get a group assigned to you.
Precisely this. LFG killed server communities and introduced one of the most toxic aspects to WoW it has ever suffered from.
No longer were players limited to interacting with those only on their server which meant player reputation no longer mattered. Before everyone would know who that ninja looting rogue on the server was, or which huntard caused wipes because they were a shit player [hurr durr all of them because huntards :p]. LFG now meant you'd play with people you've never met or even seen before and possibly never would hear from again. So players started fucking around and causing trouble for groups, casuals would drag down others because they were woefully undergeared/prepared [/Illidan meme] but because there were ways to cheese those gear reqs could still sign up.
LFR in Cata then made it worse with loot begging and even more trolling while dumbing things down to an absurd level.