The banter is really not the primary problem with the server, its how people cope with how broken the pixels are and how jaded they are. To some degree your right. But honestly. Even on my cleric, I could stand to be in the same zone with the "other side" and we could get along like pals.
The game is stale and certainly the endgame focus on raiding rather then gentlemanly or sportly pvp is not helping though. Even things like the BoTB are colored by it. But this comes from a long standing bravado and machismo that was earned by the participants. If I participated in a BoTB my name is not so well known that I would be trolled or flamed into oblivion on the forums... (Not that cleric BoTB would have any meaning).
But people like Nizzar... (I use his name, because well, he has many gifs, and animations devoted to him) well. They are very much celebrities for all the shit talking and underhanded competitive tactics they used in the past, and present.
So when they fall. They tend to fall harder then your average joe.
The other side of your rant could equally be applied to "bluebies" who come on the board with an opinion contary to 14 years of elf simulator experience and cry about some aspect of the game which needs to be fixed, but is not broken, or go against the opinion of vocal veterans and tend to get roflstomped or laughed into oblivion (hey drakar, item loot is boss, try it before you knock it). But thats life... then again for every douchebag theres at least 10 who try to be cool about it. But hey I am pretty chill and I even loose my shit at some of the retards on these forums a lil (not really) hardly the worst I ever do is call people childish names and /ignore them
So what your seeing in hostile flamewars is really a symptom of deeper problems with the server. I would say playing on the box for awhile and getting comfortable with the way the game works here would illustrate the deeper issues. You cant just log in a few peoples toons and play for a bit. You have to devote time and energy then see how the pieces of the puzzle fall together.
You will understand why people forumquest so hard sometimes then. I say sometimes, because theres exceptions to the rule and I think some people are genuinely nuts =)
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