Good morning everyone, especially forum users.
Since the raiding news hit the scene, from the official reveal up until this day, there have been different topics discussed both here and in the Raid/dungeon/fractal subforum. Being it feedback from the BWE3 or discussions about rewards/difficulty etc many of us gave our opinion in constructive arguments, most of us wanting to hit the middle ground.
Middle ground as in understanding the real situation in terms of difficulty, rewards, playtime, party structure etc etc, put possible fears to rest and when problems arise, present them to the devs.
However, over the past days an increasing number of threads and hijacks have occured. A couple of people, most of you know who they are, are aggressively presenting misinformation, false numbers and situations while promoting entitlement, hypocrisy and divide in the community. These persons have their own agenda created by their refusal towards the possibility of something not being accessible for them, not because of a gear-tier, of a difficulty but because of their own stubbornness.
The simple idea of others having fun in an open for all environment with rewards, environment that they do not like is more than enough to create drama, threads after threads and/or hijacking other ones. They do not provide any solid evidence via numbers or simple arguments for their “fear” claims. Instead the result is personal attacks, derogatory generalization for the people that likes raiding and spreading of misinformation that can cause unwanted fear scenarios (see required ascended gear discussions before being proclaimed false).
They only spew their negativity towards exclusivity, difficulty above press #1 to win and towards other members without providing any evidence for their claims other than comparisons to vastly different games, such as WoW and using emotional outburst. Everything in my book makes them extremists that wish to divide the community. As it stands, the GW 2 community has a certain name to hold true to, even though elitism still exist as it would be everywhere, VR or IRL.
The sole idea of the majority liking the raiding system and the game coming together after raiding is released and not becoming the grounds for vile elitism was deemed impossible for them at the begging. Meanwhile, Anet provided us with a testing BWE and blogs of information putting these fears to rest. This situation is not on their liking and they will thus grasp at anything to misinform and create fear-of-raiding and its community.
I urge everyone to ignore these persons and instantly abandon every thread that they start the false claims in (including this one). Be aware they appeal to emotion as their tool (I have a right to express my opinion, I’ve played X and was triggered by elitism, look at that person rage at me after I’ve insulted him, this is the raiding community), everything while providing no numbers, but false claims, misinformation and strawman arguments.
By ignoring them we clear the forum pages of their toxicity, leaving place for healthy conversation from which a communication with the devs is imminent. There will thus, be no place for unfounded fears towards a new type of content and the discussions can then progress at a steady pace with the goal of giving the max amount of info to everyone, so we are all ready, in the end, for the Raiding parts of the game.
This thread should not serve as discussion ground as much as it should serve as an attention towards each and everyone of you. We have a great community. Keep the toxics out. Do not fall into their extremist claims, ignore and move on, abandon when necessary.
Have a good day everyone, and hopefully I will see you in game!
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