There are many reasons for this happening, but it would appear they all come down to one simple thing:
Good manners.
yeap... no, not joking at all. Go to a lot of the forums (Not all of them suffer from this, some clan forums are very respectful), and the one thing that strikes you smack bang in the face, is the almost non-existing level of good manners between the users. You find lot of bicthing, whining, slagging, swearing, yelling, back stabbing, overwhelming narcissism (Egotism), lying and utmost, negativity permeates the whole scene like the black plague... and as the black plague would do, it's killing it dead.
It is difficult to diagnose a thing of this nature, we all have our own take on things. And our interpretations differ widely, so I think we need to find one common denominator and to work on that.
The common denominator: The game “Unreal Tournament 2004”. It is the center of this community and it should remain the center of this community.
What we need to do, is to forget about our differences and to begin having fun again with this game. We need to stop trying to prove to anyone else (fellow gamers) that we are better then thou. Need to swallow a few humility pills along with those chill pills and step back and smile a bit more, and not take so seriously some else’s opinion.
How to practically do that? Easy. Be nice! Simple just be nice, say hello, gg, wd, bl, hf, gl! Just be nice to one another man… you don’t have to prove anything to anyone… just have the best game you can, if you loose, it’s OK, you might win next time, if you win it’s OK, you might lose next time. Turn it into a win- win situation. For everyone with everyone.
I strongly recommend to everyone in this community to at least try and get on, to leave out the sarcastic egotism and envy and hate and to just play the game and have fun. Because if we do not do that, if we do not even try, then it’s over for all of us, we become relics of an awesome but forgotten game.
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