Metal-Beast wrote on May 6
th, 2015 at 11:24pm:
But your diatribe confirms my suspicions of the WoW player base. I had a few Guildees step out and try WoW, they were back within days. They couldn't handle the Backyardigans crowd in WoW's player base.
I can understand that. WOW five years ago was amazing, fun , and had a dedicated core on each server of serveral guilds, each hundreds strong (not a bunch of alts either) that was simply outstanding to raid and group to the point that raid nights were a special day and looked forward to.
These past couple years, the old timers are gone and mostly pissed off (yes Im among them and yes I talked a ton of smack about a care bear expac that turned out to be pretty damn fun to play, but required skill and technique to do well with. The kiddies couldnt get to grips with it and out the window it went like most things unable to be smacked into easy mode), so whats left are welfare cases of kids/loners who expect everything good to be handed to them and the game played in easy mode with one hand.
These people are also not so fun to be around and mostly make you want to gouge your eyes out after trying to group with them a few times.
DDO if it had open resources available and Fing Turdbine wasnt screwing with shit 24/7 would be a viable alternative. I just dont see that changing.
I do have a thick skin btw, and freely admit to being a scrub - i try to learn what I can here and sometimes the info flows freely and helps a lot but a lot of times it doesnt, so its still frustrating. The occasional troll or douchebag poster doesnt bother me though - My real life sucks hard core, so nothing anyone could say on the interwebs could rattle me.
------------- to the other poster:
Yes, btw, I am on ghallanda with my two active characters and in a guild, though for the most part, they and I dont jive but the buffs are too good to pass up.
I figure if I stay and eventually figure out how to be a decent player who isnt a liability to play with, Ill ask to join another, better guild.
If someone out there really wants this game to get better and attract new players, you could do worse than start a blog or a website with information a new player could really use - some helpful guides and what not.
The worst problem is that with something this complex, often you dont even know when you need help, should ask someone something, or are just plain doing it wrong. If you dont know, you dont ask, then you fail and get frustrated and move on.
Thats the point of newbie guides - to help overcome that before it gets to be an issue and DDO doesnt have any.