I need to get this off my chest as the forum is getting sourer with every day that passes. I’ve been playing this game for nearly 250 days. This forum has been such an amazing help & wealth of useful information to guide me along my quest towards a better team roster but I feel like this good thing is slowly slipping out of our hands.
These day, coming to the forum for various reasons & to find some more information, I feel like all I read about is someone asking for more stuff for whatever reason or a flurry of rage quitting because some players did not get what they wanted after a change in the game or such things. There is a very noticeable sliding trend in the wrong direction in my opinion…which right now I would summarize into “Please, enough about asking compensation for every little thing” & a few weeks ago by “Please, enough with all the rage quitting posts”.
Now, I am not saying that all of these are not legitimate demands or fair enough reactions to things that change, so please do not turn this post into a series of examples of what in your opinion should be fair or not in a circumstance or another. We get enough posts about all of that for you to express yourself under these threads…
The point I am trying to make is that, as a community, I think that we need to feel more aware of some type of social responsibility that we have regarding OUR forum. Although we experience some bumps along the way, I still play this game as I think that overall it is really fun to play (my alliance helps a lot in that category as we are a very social bunch) & is also challenging to compete against the player base for rewards which I sometimes find frustrating but most of the time feel more excited about than anything else (especially while in the middle of a shield hop).
I think that we all need to try & find more solutions or workarounds rather than focus too much on what is wrong with the game. Try to think about how we can all contribute to the community rather than complain. There are so many good contributions out there that I won’t list them all here but the fact & the matter is that it is out there and we need to nurture it more as a group, encourage it to grow rather than go unnoticed. Again, I am not saying that we should not discuss the issues that we experience with the game but I am only trying to say that we can’t lose sight of what this forum is all about in my opinion…the MPQ gamer community!
Helping each other do better is what this should be about. Informing players about a character strengths & weaknesses to allow better decision making for up & coming players, coming up with tools to help manage our rosters & progression, identify trends in character use along with good strategies to overcome some popular teams, techniques to do better in PvP or PvE, advice on how to invest resources efficiently, mistakes not to make, sharing anecdotes on stuff that happen to us that is somewhat unusual, trying to come up with original contributions & so on.
Right now, these discussions seem to be drowning in a sea of other negative things which I am not trying to eradicate but simply balance out to a better overall ratio. Maybe it is just me & how I perceive things as I read this forum on a daily basis but if I was a new player coming to the forum to get some insider information, I am not sure I would find what I want & need or then actually stick around at all to contribute to it which in the end only hurts the community.
Anyway, just my 2 cents in trying to plant a more positive seed our community…awareness is sometimes enough to encourage change.