This is pretty much what a game forum looks like all the time be it launch or 4 years later. You got the trolls and you got the pixies as a friend calls the helpful people lol.
They could be paying us weekly for playing no matter if server is up and you would still have people who dont read or search for answers writing hate posts. And so on.
Ok...lol nevermind. I retract my previous statement and have encounterd these trolls you speak of.
There's no degradation. This is how it always is on any MMO forum.
People that are enjoying the game are doing just that. People that are stuck at work / school / whatever are less inclined to talk about how great the game is since they can't actually play it. And when the servers go down? It gets bad. And when that happens during launch? It gets worse.
Give it time. Although, contrary to your point, I've never seen a community with their head so far up a developer's *** when announcements are made.
Welcome to official MMO forums.
Zhang Mei - Human Driver / Medic for Ascension Union
Alazi Shijan - Castithan Orphan / Rookie Ark hunter. (NPC for now... Not any more. I totally called Castithans being the first DLC race.) (Work in Progress)
Eryn Zaaka - Irathient Freelance Mercenary (Work in Progress)
Any RP related questions, feel free to fire them my way, though I'm not as active as I once was!
An Average Evening - A short fan-fiction.
Need certain orange items. Got stuff to trade!
The only positive thing I can say is that I've seen no death threats yet. When the WoW servers go down unexpectedly people actually do post death threats on the forums. It's quite scary.
There are contructive posts that are not all shiney shiney praise like load out swaps and scope magnification levels for ars and smgs. And I think the community as a whole as discussed them in a civil way and put ideas to each other.
But then there are just the stupid posts that are bleeting on about stuff that wasnt in the game anyone who saw the game play videos or live streams would have known. But no these 10 million rpg elements should be in and also we will now be gods and trion must change their progression system.
These are the posts that get replies from people stating they like the game as it was intended. Its not sucking up its just these people understood what they were buying and dont want borderlands 3.0
Xbox 360 Gamer Tag: Capt S Stirrer
Its been so long since I got an End of the Century stage, Lucky me!
And a fresh newbie enemy to boot. Mega-lucky!
And you are... Giga-unlucky!