They do exist in any community, but honestly - your argument has a bit of a fallacy. By same logic, we could go and venture to say that HIV isn't an issue since it exists in virtually any society. (even though in some societies there's one infected per every 200 000 people, and in others, one for every 5) Meaning that the fact there will always be people who misbehave, doesn't mean the amount of it couldn't be a problem. While you really can't compare BA to such huge games as LoL or CoD, I've generally had a lot more positive experiences with people in other free or small sized games.Rumpelstiltskin wrote:All the complaints about social issues and community are null and void since they exist in any community.
I dont see how people are missing this when they start complaining about some trolling or people behaving badly.
But that aside, bashing new players for being - well - less skilled and experienced, is an issue for a game that is free and relatively small. Such games do not make people want to play them through because they already paid money for them, and such games will always have to excel in some aspect. Compared to modelling, programming, endless game testing, spending a moment to being nice is pretty easy and low on time. And IMHO, it's the minimum courtesy and respect one can on occasion have for a game they play for free.
I think the emphasis was on how it is the reason why people trying out BA aren't staying. Though admittedly there is also quite steep learning curve, but to my understanding finishing BAR and all the other surrouding projects alleviates this problem a great deal.Rumpelstiltskin wrote: This is not the reason why many experienced players left to play other games and its not the reason why BA is losing players.