The official Blizzard forums for Diablo 4 are toxic as hell (pun intended)
The official Blizzard forums for Diablo 4 are toxic as hell (pun intended)
I wanted to get some tips on Rogue and hopefully some build ideas, and holy Tyrael, is that place a cesspool of toxicity. If you havent played the game, from the opinions of the locals you’d had thought this game is the worst thing since WW2, every class is basically unplayable and unless you can steamroll bosses 20+ higher than you in nightmare dungeons, your opinion is basically worthless. Any interesting discussion gets swamped by trolls and unconstructive spiteful comments. I had to stop going there because I felt it actually impacted my enjoyment of the game.
Anyone else had the same experience with the official forums?
Reddit is largely the same. I understand caring deeply for a game, wanting it to be the best it can be, I also have major grips with Blizzard as a company, but damn, D4 released very well, there's no denying that.
2This is actually my biggest reason for using Lemmy, and this community specifically, because it seems much more chill. People on Reddit that are at level cap crying about how much they hate the game. Its ridiculous
2Sadly it is pretty prevalent here too. The vocal minority seem to dominate everything these days.
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Steer clear of the forums, Reddit and Twitter.
The best place for tips is the Diablo Discord.
1And even the Diablo discord has its share of just insanely toxic people
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I think generally speaking game specific communities are toxic. There are a few exceptions (Deep Rock Galactic, Oxygen Not Included) but usually much smaller user base (and/or Indie games). Seems like the more popular the game, the more the vocal fan base is just a bunch of salty sweatlords.
1I think generally speaking game specific communities are toxic.
I wouldn't necessarily say that. What I would say is that online communities have a tendency to bias towards toxic without heavy-handed moderation.
The simple fact is that people who aren't toxic don't want to be around people who are. So if there aren't moderators keeping out the toxic people (or at least, stamping out the attitude specifically) then after a while the only people left in the community with be the toxic ones.
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Tbh the official forum is only good for 1 thing... it's tracking bugs and problems. Most of the people there are pissed because something isn't working and while they wait for responses these people browse the forum. at least this was my experiance
1Sums up my experience of every blizzard forum tbh.
1Yeah, I thought the two subreddits were pretty bad... and then I visited the Battle.net forums. Holy crap.
0Battle.Net forums, regardless of the game, have always been a miserable experience. You have severely pedantic developers and admins. Then you have some of the most neckbearded min/max players on the internet. They will get into squealing arguments over 5pts of DPS on a WOW character build. It is truly an awful place to hang out.
2There was that one guy on the Rogue sub-forums spamming and demanding they unnerf his Twisted Blades build. He even had a catchphrase, like “reFun or reFund”. Unintentionally hilarious.
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