Getting the Community back to where it needs to be

[Glorfindel777]

The community has changed. This is a result of several things that has happened since launch.

• The game is six years old. Time alone is usually enough to change the nature of such an open forum. The novelty can only last so long.
• Went Free-to-Play. Massive influx of new players means a massive change in community.
• US and EU under one roof. The merging of two very different communities.
• Changes to the community management. Different people, different moderation.
• Most importantly, the constant changes to the design mentality of the game and how it is being commercialized. For the better or worse, changes to the game changes the community. The forums are just a platform to discuss the game and related subjects. What we talk about and how we talk about it are direct results of our game experience.

I know you are just asking people to be nicer. Yet it's naive to expect the community would "get back to where it needs to be" just through a forced sense of personal responsibility. A masquerade of niceness will only cover things up for a while, and it will just crumble again to reveal how people actually feel.

Bonus: There is also the utter disgrace that is the community website itself... Not just the forums, but everything attached to it. I forgotten to mention this on my first attempt to post, but getting logged out reminded me to add it. Thanks Turbine.

Well. That seems to sum it up. I still would like to see more elaborate posts. When I first started there seemed to be more music and player run events like concerts, artwork, and the like. That would definitely make the game more exciting an interesting to new players. On the other hand, some players that have been here a while DO seem to ostricize "Noob"s and Noops, even on the forums, which may lead to less interaction on the forums with plenty of creative people. I have not got logged out, but this has been auto-saved 4 times in the -make that 5- in the short time it took me to write this. Thank you LotRO!