Frustrating!!

It hasn't always been that way, which is why I'm annoyed. F2P screws up communities!

Pretty much the same thing.

Even assuming for the sake of argument that that's true, without F2P there would be no TOR community at all.

This is quite true...for the most part. I don't feel it ever impacted LOTRO like it does SWTOR, but that's probably largely because lotro wasn't nearly as popular. But overall, I would agree that F2P draws in the filth.

There have been plenty of posts in the LotRO forums complaining of exactly the same thing. It's simply a perception issue.

I play both lotro and SWTOR and I find that lotro's community has always, even with F2P, been friendly. I think there's something about the story and lore and how people are more into role playing with lotro. Maybe that makes people friendlier?

There's also lots of booze in that game, and little dwarf people running around. It's like a fairytale land.

You must play a different version of LotRO. Or maybe you play on Laurelin.

Haha. I'm on Windfola and Elendilmir. They're nice!!!

After I learned how to create and edit my chat tabs, life in SWTOR became much more fun. I usually turn gen chat off on my main tab so that i dont have to read the garbage. I do have a separate tab for that so when i need to see if anyone is looking for a group or help on a similar quest im on ... I can. I am lucky enough to have made a few friends while on SWTOR that i speak with everyday by email and FB. The 4 of us run hard modes every night and all day and night on weekends and we PvP when we want. So I rarely have to look at gen chat. We recently joined a decent guild that sets up OPs on a regular basis, so I dont have to pug hardly at all. I am having so much fun lately just by simply not having to read gen chat and dealing with pugs. So i suggest ... make some friends! Try to find people who are always online. There are plenty of good peeps there, but you might not find them in gen chat! haha

peace

Agreed! Never saw the same type of behavior in lotro that I see every day here. It's gotta have something to do with the setting imo.

Agreed. SW does have an inordinate amount of immature fans. Surprising since SW has sucked big time for nearly 30 years.