People are getting pretty defensive over stuff. The reality is, tons of people who post on the red forums don't even play the game--they just troll the forums. From what I've seen, very few people that play red actually participate on the forums, only the vocal select few.
Once you're actually IN the server, you can very, very quickly identify who to ignore within about 2-3 days of playing. I only have maybe... 7 or 8 people ignored and their alts and the global OOC chat is immediately fine.
You can largely ignore PVP until you hit end-game content in which the amount of available content is far, far more suited to the number of players on Red than it is on Blue. I think the biggest perks of playing the server are:
- Faster leveling, encouraged grouping
- Less populated zones, it's much easier to
- Global OOC, if you /ignore the few trolls / genuinely annoying people, global OOC is pretty great.
- Grouping and Raiding has a different vibe to it, in raids there's an emphasis on the speed and execution of raids, doing content with fewer numbers and very efficiently. I enjoy this aspect the most I think.
I think the player base is a lot less toxic than you think it is overall once you get into it, it's just like 5-10 people that stand out very, very much from the rest. I'm not entirely sure where the blind, vehement hatred comes from that blue has for red, if anything it's pretty weird and makes that community look a looooot more toxic.
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