Looking up old forum posts is a great way to judge

[sammoHung]

The change in the environment here on the forums. If you google something game-related, and get to a forum post about it - and you land on something from like 2016-2020 - you get a combination of helpful advice and light disagreement.


Fast forward to 2023-2025 and every post devolves into arguing, trolling or a combination of both.

Example:

"What weapon is best for Paladin solo?"

2016: Pages of discussion, some light disagreement. One guy says Paladin sucks at solo.

2023+: Two legitimate responses followed by 65 pages of DSM or other likely candidates arguing over minutae, and resorting to character attacks.

Is this a sign of the direction of the internet discussion at large? My gut tells me yes. P99 Forums are ahead of the curve when it comes to public discourse.

It sucks everywhere these days,

[wuanahto]

how fucking bored are you to act like a teenage girl and old social media posts right now?
are you going to statistic out this christmas or something?

[sammoHung]

Originally Posted by wuanahto [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

how fucking bored are you to act like a teenage girl and old social media posts right now?
are you going to statistic out this christmas or something?

are you having a stroke?

[kjs86z2]

the game is dead all that is left is forumquest

[atomicpaul]

starship troopers im doing my part meme goes here

[Jimjam]

Originally Posted by kjs86z2 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

the game is dead all that is left is forumquest

Imo the new meta needs to move to meaningless ranting slop about small guild nonissues tarted up into ai drivel. Who cares about raid pixels in 2026?

[shovelquest]

Cool argument thread you made hypocrite.