I have been playing MMORPGs for the past 13 years, and over the years, the level of degradation of the chat channels has been steadily increasing. It seems like the more people believe they are not responsible for their actions (or words as it would seem in this case), the worse they become.

Last night on the Valley of Titans server, I believe the human race hit an all time new low. From the second I logged in to the server until the second I logged out (5 hours later, thank you En Masse for bringing Tera to the west), the chat was flying by at a lightning pace.

For every game related question or comment, there were on average ten insulting, degrading, racist, sickening comments.

All night long, it was just one rude insulting statement after another, and it wasn't just one or two people doing it. Sadly, it was a BUNCH of people being as rude and insulting as humanly possible. This was like Barrens Chat on steroids.

People talked about how religion was a joke, and insulted every religion imaginable. They professed about how awesome every evil dictator in history was including Hitler. Racist remarks and comments were flying like crazy the whole night. It was just truly sad.

Is this what the human race has become? Are we really this pathetic that when we are anonymous, we become the most vile scum on Earth?

I came close to just logging out after a few hours of non-stop hate spam, but then I thought no... En Masse does not deserve to lose me as a customer just because the players of their game are horrible people.

I wish there was a server where your statements could get you banned from that server. I would pay MORE to be on it.

Turn it off. I hate shutting myself away from the community, but if it's THAT bad I will without issues.

Really? Look, it's the internet. People will say what they want, when they want. Nothing you do can change that.

On the Jagged Coast server, it wasn't so much racism and all, but more constant trolling.

Most popular:

"WoW was the first MMO."
"Tera sucks. GW2 is better."
"Elin Pedophile Jokes"
"This game will go F2P."

This is coming from people that preordered. What does that say? It means they are trolling and just want to have a laugh. If you fall for it and let it get to you, then you are going to need a huge ignore list.

LOL sounds like a good time!


But for real.. welcome to the Internet, enjoy your stay!


Are you surprised? If you're upset about it then the trolls have won, you have given them their badge of victory by making this post. /realism

I'd suggest leaving the internet until your skin thickens past that of an infant.

Quote: JPsama on 04/20/2012, 06:45 AM - view

Your reply is more proof of how bad the human race has become. "LOL sounds like a good time!", really? Just sad.

And, your whole "/realism" comment. No. This is not realism. If this was realism, these people would be accountable for their statements.

Since it is not realism, these people can say what ever they want, and they do. I am not against "saying what you want". I am just saddened that the "what you want to say" is this vile crap. That is what is disturbing about the whole situation. People WANT TO SAY bad things. It makes them happy to make others sad. That is the problem.

But, as someone said above, I will simply have to turn off chat. It's sad that I will have to remove myself from the community, but what other option do I have to enjoy this game. I will NOT become like the scum to play with the scum. That's not an option. So, I choose to not see the scum.

It's only going to get worse at 12pst today when all the people who are "only here because it's free" login to OBT. I swear a good number of them are people who just want to bash the game and its fans while they have the chance.

If you are willing to download over 25gigs just to troll people, you have issues...

Quote: daays on 04/20/2012, 06:46 AM - view

Leaving the General chat tab was out of the question.

Typical Internet really... see something that upsets you? Keep watching / using it but complain about it.

After noob island cleared, Dragonfall was pretty much doing OKAY area chat wise.

I hate this "toughen up!" mentality. If people are crude, if they are offensive, then there should be some recourse to report them and have your concerns addressed.