It is easier to notice the faults in everything than appreciating what is good. It is much easier to hate the simplest of mistakes than complement the greatest of feat. This has been noticeable in our world today and in the digital world like in MMORPG’s. As this gets more and more frequent each day, the MMORPG community has been considered toxic by a lot of players.
RS 2007 Gold: Voicing Out
There are some people who have little threshold when it comes to toxicity in the community they belong to. It is either they quit and separate themselves from the unbearable negativity or they voice out. Like Rapn3rd from the Old School Runescape Reddit section, he voices out regarding the recent happenings in OSRS:
“I’m at work right now, and I’m looking forward to getting home to play some OSRS, because I love this game. I think sometimes we forget that part.
I see so much anger in the sub today, about Emilyispro allegedly getting a crasher banned, Jagex “forcing” lootshare on us (At the time of writing this it has 62% yes votes) and people complaining about RS3 getting disproportionately more resources despite OSRS having more players and streaming presence.
Honestly, I’m not saying those aren’t issues (well the lootshare one I don’t understand, the mods gives us so much say already, they don’t seem to be forcing it on us), but I think we, like any section of reddit/internet have a tendency to let echo chambers devolve into amplification chambers where an original good point gets ramped up well beyond reasonable and before you know it you have entire threads dedicated to calling out a single streamer who, if we really wanted to punish her, we would simply ignore into irrelevancy rather than keep her name active, somewhat similar to Kim Kardashian.
Anyway, my point in making this is to remind us that we can focus on the good aspects of OSRS too, and maybe acknowledge that it was over 3 years ago when we all voted for this side project that nobody expected to make it this far that has flourished into an incredibly successful niche market. I think we would all do well to try and acknowledge that this game, Jagex/Jamflex and the people in this community aren’t nearly as “shit” as some of us perceive them to be.”
He hit the nail in the head on this one. If you hate something, why not just ignore it? Why keep on talking about it, only increasing hate where you can just divert things away from the issue and let it dissolve. Let go and move on. Another good point is to appreciate the good. This will increase positivity in OSRS and thus make everyone feel that it’s good to be online again.
Right on Rapn3rd! Kudos for voicing out and I hope people begin to think more like you and make OSRS a happy place to stay in.