Why all the hostility?

Maybe I missed something as I haven't been on Guru for awhile but reading some of the questions and subsequent answers there seems to be a lot of people who need to vent.

Given, Anet is not a perfect company, Guild Wars is not a perfect game and a small segment of the community leave a bit to be desired but to answer a newcomer's question with such venom aimed at the above mentioned is really disheartening and unnecessary.

If you're not happy, take your complaint to the appropriate people and if that doesn't work, just take your business quietly elsewhere.

Why make it a downer for everyone else?

misery loves company? not to mention it's the internet.

Some people are born with a less positive side I guess. I like it on the forum and in the game

For teh lulz

Welcome to the internet? That and some people have the need to have their life fulfilled by a game so they treat it as srs bsns.

It's teh interwebs....but your right...people need to take all teh hate over to Sardelac and out of Q&A....I mean comeon even the name screams "VENT HERE"..


@terrible...no she used to say "If you've got nothing nice to say...PUT IT IN ALL CAPS"

Hostility? Where?

But yeah the game has trolls and the forums have trolls too. Its just a given that not everyone is helpful and some people enjoy being jerks.

Whats the old saying mommy used to tell us? If you don't have something nice to say don't say anything at all maybe?

Because they are too damn stupid to realize they can do something else. Really, there is no other reasonable explanation for that. Try to ignore the individuals doing it and maybe try to "edge" them into getting World of Warcraft while remaining helpful to everyone else. With some luck they will enter the pin and never get out.

some people are upset because things arent working, others are upset because things have changed too radically for their pleasure, etc.....
People (some of us) like to play to relax, when things arent right, it messes up are relaxing time---which can make people truly cranky!
They post here about problems the game, that they are trying to relax or enjoy etc, is having and some go way over the edge in their posts.
(and yes some are just trolls--please dont feed them).

And what bothers me is that people don't realize that it is impossible to create a "perfect game". Hell, I'm happy with ANet just because I don't have to pay per month. Basically, by playing Guild Wars, you sacrifice a bit of customer support/updates, but you don't pay, while with WoW, you pay over $100 each year to play a game you already bought. Given that ANet does not charge monthly fees, it is impressive that they are still able to do live updates, let alone, actually keep the servers running.
In my opinion, the biggest problem with all of the complainers is that they blame everything on ANet, even though they are trying the best they can.
Also, when people get mad about skill updates, saying "why not just leave it?" or "it should have been like this!", nobody really considers the amount of testing done in order to keep the game as balanced as possible. And yes, I am aware of all of the skills still unbalanced. But in reality, there are so many skills in the game, and the amount of time needed to balance each one, it would be unrealistic to make every skill as balanced as possible.

Wow... I feel like I could use this to make a Chris Crocker-esque video... "Leave ANet alone!"

I personally would be a lot less jaded if I weren't being punished for playing to have fun. What does take your business elsewhere mean? A lot of people still play because it's free and there still a lot to like about the game. Being quiet is also a lot harder when Anet doesn't speak much about various issues or at least well enough.

If you're playing to have fun the only way you can be punished is when the game isn't fun for you anymore and you are forced to keep playing it.

Back to the topic, though. I've found forums in general, and this one specifically, to be full of uncalled for abuse. A lot of people seem to be suffering from jealous ex syndrome. Things haven't worked out between them and GW so they stalk GW and try to prevent anyone else enjoying it. I've never had an answer, let alone a satisfactory one as to why people keep posting on this forum when they no longer play or enjoy the game. Move on.

I don't see there being a fine line between a noob and someone with no life. But everyone posting seems to be thrown into one or the other categories. A bit sad really.

The again, it may just be that the negative comments stick in your mind. If there are 5 harmless and helpful replies and one abusive and pointless one then you are likely to rememebr the bad one.

My theory is if I do not know you, I do not like you. If I got to know you, I would only hate you more. {... making mental note to add Ambergris to my enemy list of people I dont like} I feel better already.

Well actually its a pretty simple answer. You see, irl, you meet dbags all the time. But typically, irl dbags are shunned, and don't get to voice their dbag thoughts and opinions. On the Internet, and here, dbags get to not only say whatever they want, they are also anonymous! winwin. So they go nuts. They make it a downer because they want to extend what they have to everyone else. They can't do it irl, probably because they get tired of eating knuckles.

I completely don't agree with that. How is that the only way?

because no one is putting a gun to your head forcing you to play guildwars.

I always wondered the same thing... And what i came up with is that people are just to cowardly to let their steam on the street or in the bar, or someplace else where they are face to face with someone. And saying "bleh.. it`s just internet. it`s how things are" is just plain stupid. People make internet whatever it is.

Hahaha, glad I could do that for you.

And how does that have anything to do with your last post or any of mine?

Nobody is brutally forcing me to do anything, but that's not the same as trying, convincing, or grieving players into something.