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This forum's culture is unreal
I joined recently and have been looking around, wandering through threads
And what I've found in these forums is an uncommon civility.
Elsewhere, I've seen new players asking questions left to rot. A few vultures might stalk in and scan the OP with their imperious eyes. Having read little and understood less, they'll scribble out "git gud" at the base of the post before talking to the skies in shrieks of "LUL"s. A new post may gather dust for days, the once bright-eyed noob staring dejectedly at his desecrated thread, before a weary old soul wanders in and offers a link to the relevant wiki, marking off his good deed for the day.
Here, Noobs are given a thoughtful welcome and are quickly made at home -- a much less dramatic process which actually leads to new players who also feel a new connection with the world. "Some stranger took the time to write all that just to help me?" It's powerful to feel like you matter.
The difference in complaint threads is also extraordinary.
There must be a law somewhere that says over 80% of topics on any game-related forum must be a complaint. This forum is no exception. But enter any complaint thread and you will find essay-length theses on exactly the complaint and how it interacts with these millions of skills and you end up almost expecting a citation page by the time you're through reading it. Then, get to the next page, and the responses are on the same level! Back and forth with legitimate statements made on all sides and little to no ad-hominem attacks.
I didn't know this was possible to find on an MMO forum. What happened? Did most of the bad/toxic people just leave?
And what I've found in these forums is an uncommon civility.
Elsewhere, I've seen new players asking questions left to rot. A few vultures might stalk in and scan the OP with their imperious eyes. Having read little and understood less, they'll scribble out "git gud" at the base of the post before talking to the skies in shrieks of "LUL"s. A new post may gather dust for days, the once bright-eyed noob staring dejectedly at his desecrated thread, before a weary old soul wanders in and offers a link to the relevant wiki, marking off his good deed for the day.
Here, Noobs are given a thoughtful welcome and are quickly made at home -- a much less dramatic process which actually leads to new players who also feel a new connection with the world. "Some stranger took the time to write all that just to help me?" It's powerful to feel like you matter.
The difference in complaint threads is also extraordinary.
There must be a law somewhere that says over 80% of topics on any game-related forum must be a complaint. This forum is no exception. But enter any complaint thread and you will find essay-length theses on exactly the complaint and how it interacts with these millions of skills and you end up almost expecting a citation page by the time you're through reading it. Then, get to the next page, and the responses are on the same level! Back and forth with legitimate statements made on all sides and little to no ad-hominem attacks.
I didn't know this was possible to find on an MMO forum. What happened? Did most of the bad/toxic people just leave?
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lol
this another bait thread please go look up Teras old forums community is [filtered] just like every other MMORPG and Tera is known in NA for Elitism and Griefing
And yeah. I just woke up, so there. Your silly derp comment of the day.