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?

lodion, (edited )
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The Battle.net forums are a shit show, obviously…

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altJazeera,

Sums up my experience of every blizzard forum tbh.

panda_paddle,

I think a lot of people who loved Blizzard North's Diablo series feel held hostage to the new game. They bought it because it's Diablo, not because it's what they wanted to play. So now they hate it and possibly themselves for having supported it. I know I would have been this way if I bought it, so I didn't. I learned my lesson from Diablo 3. I wanted classic Diablo and I was given WoW-lite.

NightSicarius,

Yeah, I thought the two subreddits were pretty bad… and then I visited the Battle.net forums. Holy crap.

Jyrdano,
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There 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.

sota2077,

Battle.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.

50gp,

unfortunately companies really dont want to moderate official forums and they all usually end up becoming passive aggressive at best

just need few toxic power users skirting the rules and mods not bothering to deal with that

dbtonez,
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you should not go to the Diablo 2 forums on bnet either XD

mother,

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.

Goronmon,

I 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.

falsem,

I'd say it's mostly games that attract super competitive types. I think they feel a lot of pressure to compete and get stressed out about any obstacle or inconvenience that they think prevents them from doing that so lash out about it. Offline single player only games seem to have this problem less frequently.

Tolstoy,
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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

elroon,

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.

mother,

This 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

MooNinja,

Sadly it is pretty prevalent here too. The vocal minority seem to dominate everything these days.

zombie_kong,

Steer clear of the forums, Reddit and Twitter.

The best place for tips is the Diablo Discord.

WindoLicker,

And even the Diablo discord has its share of just insanely toxic people

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