Originally Posted by
rad586
Oh yeah, judging the state of community by looking at a small sample of players who got into beta or played on private servers.
I'm sorry, but you're delusional thinking it's the game design that is shaping community. Just look at other communities linked to other games (DOTA2, LoL, CS - to name a few), became toxic AF at one point. And those games barely changed since release.
Games change because their players change. Players swarm the latest Flavor of game modes and developers change their games accordingly.
That's why we have so many battle royal games right now.
That's why we had so many zombie shooters not so long ago.
Claiming the toxic element won't be present in Classic is ridiculous. It's always been there, be it Vanilla, TBC, WotLK or any other expansion.
Why there are stories of Ninja Pullers ? Stories about "evil" GMs "abusing" master looter ?
I remember a player in Vanilla lashing out at me in whispers for daring to post something in general chat (when it wasn't even remotely offensive or linked to him), only to be taken down a peg when mentioning his attitude can get him banned if I wanted to report it.
What I don't remember are those mythical discussions in party chat when running dungeons, in pugs. The only time something like that was taking place was when the group was still waiting for that last player to complete the group and it all stopped once all players were inside.
Anyway, back to what you posted - don't judge how entire community will behave basing it on the small sample of playerbase that just couldn't let go of the old times.