Have you ever quitted an MMORPG not because of the game but because of the players of that game? Well I have. It was not as enjoyable as when you were ignorant of the community inside the MMORPG. It became as if I didn’t belong there anymore because everything revolved in hatred and it was not a fun place to be in.
Smallishbeans I think is in the same situation but in his case, the subreddit of Old School Runescape is where he finds the negativity of people. People are fueled by hatred and people in OSRS thread is not as optimistic as it was. Let’s find out what Smallishbeans think.
RS 2007 Gold: The Post
“People are always wanting more people to start playing OSRS but if they take one look at this sub they’d think it’s the worst game ever.
For some reason this subreddit isn’t like others where fun and quality posts get upvoted to the top, instead it’s more of a complaint board. On numerous times there have been highly upvoted posts like: ‘why i’m quitting OSRS.’ What the fuck? We’re upvoting people quitting the game?? Surely we should be encouraging them to stay.
Yes the game has some things wrong with it right now like afk splashing and the pretty dodgy poll system. But does every single fucking post have to be about it? Right now 5 of the top 10 posts are complaints about the game/splashing/poll system.
I’m not saying things don’t need to be fixed and we shouldn’t bring them to the jmod’s attention, but cmon, We play this game for a reason, because we love it. You wouldn’t think that though from the shit that is posted on this subreddit.”
Surely, Smallishbeans is not making things up as there are comments agreeing with him. Like this reply by Dhargas:
“I agree with this post 100 %. I’ve played runescape on and off since 2004, due to the EOC introduction I quit playing though. Having heard of the Oldschool I was really excited and played it all summer long with my friend. I quit playing after the summer was over, due to commitment to school, but I still really like the game, so I thought that I needed to keep in touch with the community and keep up to date with what’s going on updatewise.
But this is without a doubt the most hateful community I’ve ever seen, everyone is being rude, the people calling people “fucking idiots” gets upvoted hard and, just as you said the people who complains hard are always the one upvoted.
This has really led me to having less and less interest in the game, today I decided to stop subscribing from this subreddit. I’m sure I’m not the only one who’ve drifted more and more apart from the game due to the hateful community.”
So yeah, the community of Old School Runescape / 2007 Runescape has become more and more hateful, entertaining the negativity prevailing recently and that has been becoming a deterrent for old and new people in the subreddit. Sadder news is that it is not only affecting the subreddit, also in-game. People aren’t logging in anymore because of people becoming spiteful on basically anything. Yeah, pretty sad. Honestly that reason is enough for me to stay away from the subreddit and from the game.