Get Over Yourselves

My WoW account still has until mid-November before it expires, so I've been trolling around the forums (mostly my old realm forums, but also some of the class forums). Just today, the latest crop of self-centered whiners has popped up in the paladin forums. This whining is a tradition that has a long and proud history in WoW, starting way back when angry warriors flooded a server with level 1 alts and crashed it. Lately, the whiners have been expressing their dissatisfaction with balancing changes (some of them made on a beta, no less) by making the typical assortment of "account canceled" and other whine threads. Then on Saturday, the moderators made a pass through to clean out the crap (I don't know why they bother, but more power to them for trying). Shortly afterward, gems like these started raining out of already swollen tear ducts:

"it would be cool if you stopped deleting my post pointing out blizzard just pulled a blatant bait and switch scam. 3.0 got many to resubscribe/hold on til wotlk, now they nerf paladins all across the board (not just ret) just in time that wotlk will bring many of them back with hopes of rerolling a DK

hide behind your "online content subject to change" tagline, you are still scumbags when it comes to customer service"


"Nothing better to solve a rush of "civil disobedience" than tactics that belong in an Aldous Huxley novel.

1984 must've been a typo."


"Why are you deleting just the posts of people who are upset about the nerfs but yet you do not delete %#!*@**s who come into this forum trolling and fanning the flames? That just shows you do not give a rats ass about the paladin community."

Shut the fuck up and get over yourselves. This kind of selfish whiny bitching is gradually killing the game (more on that Tuesday!), and you totally wipe out any respectability for your position by comparing a deleted post to censorship by a totalitarian regime. You have no free-speech on a privately owned message board, and all your tears were preventing any sort of reasonable discussion from occurring. It'd be nice if Blizzard's moderators would hand out bans for this kind of crap, but just deleting them does a massive service to anyone with a brain who was reading the forums. It wouldn't be so bad if these people would actually quit, but apparently most of them exist to whine, and so they keep paying and posting, their threats growing emptier the more they try to become self-made martyrs.

This is why I'm glad WAR doesn't have official forums. The community is bad enough without a giant, official echo chamber for all the scrubs and children to spout their drivel.