Why all the hate?

While some people never learned to behave themselves online, part of the hate is a backlash against being told one isn't experiencing the loss of fun one is clearly experiencing. They wouldn't bother to post on the forum if they were busy having fun in game, so they did in fact stop having fun somewhere along the line.

Players and devs a like can avoid fueling the backlash by acknowledging they can't tell another player what their subjective experience is. Saying another person should just drop their issues because you personally are not that attached to the concept just fuels that frustration. A little empathy would go farther than trying to win arguments then calling someone unreasoning because winning arguments leads nowhere.

By all means point out that someone's manners are lacking or that they are attacking other players, but acknowledge that they have valid reasons for feeling upset even if you disagree with the expression.

I understand the game needs improvement. It much much better then when it first launch. We didn't have command center that awarded you gear based on chapters. It's fun you can play a boosted person then jump right into the story. These chapters didn't exist when I left. I spent nearly ten hours straight when I got back just playing through the story. While I understand they're is hate and anger, is it really that bad? I think not.

Keep in mind that you are trying to judge someone else's subjective experience, by your own experience. That's not always a one to one comparison. For you might not be that bad, but you also might not see reason for it because the parts of the game you are enjoying haven't been changed in way that stops you from having fun yet. You can't fully judge an experience you haven't necessarily had.

I don't worry about GC because I don't have access to it, I don't want to grind, and it has nothing for me. There is no need to concern myself with it, but I can still empathize with the players that do. I can see how the system undercuts them even if it doesn't undercut me.

This is so incredibly wrong and for some reason this belief seems to be widespread on these forums.

Back in the day when I hardcore raided here, I loved the **** out of this game. I was a mega fanboy AND I went to these forums on the daily. Most of my guild did. We enjoyed all the epeen fights with other raiders on my server forum, class forums to discuss changes, general discussion, etc... pretty much posted in every forum on here.

I was never a white knight, but I was a happy customer and a happy forum-er.

We are talking in the context of posting hate. So are you saying you loved the game then came back to the forum to post hate everywhere? That makes no sense.

edit: you edited your post so now I have to edit my reply.
You understood my reply before editing your post but here:

I was happy with the game and ALWAYS having fun, but sometimes there were little things I didn't like. Nerfs to classes and raids etc. I sometimes posted "hate" aka valid criticism that some people get offended over.

I enjoy forums so I play games while posting on their forums.

Yeah, because the context of the thread was the hate but I suspect that your original post wasn't.

Edited

tl;dr not all people are black and white. People can enjoy some parts of a game and dislike others.

Also there are people who enjoy forums in general. I can be in game waiting on a raid, flashpoint or uprising, putting up items on the market, have nextflix playing and be tabbing out once in awhile to post on the forum. Having fun with certain parts of the game, while complaining aka "hating on" others.

There is a big difference between complaining and the kind of all consuming flood-the-forum-with-complaint-threads hate that comes with major Bioware setbacks. That's usually the "hating" that gets the most backlash from people who don't share the view. To my understanding, that was the kind this thread was about.

To illustrate, you are talking about liking a shirt and complaining about the color and I'm talking about hating a whole clothes line and picketing outside of the shirt company's corporate offices. Those aren't the same or equivalent.

Now if you are the kind of person to picket just because you hate a minor aspect of one facet of the game then that's one thing, but the threads that have been garnering the most attention from both side have have been about major features.

From my experience White Knights don't know the difference. Anything negative = "hate" to them. Dunno if the OP is one, but I still cannot be exactly sure what kind of "hate" he was talking about. The OP is not that clear.

Edit: by the way, im am not a fanboy anymore. I could be considered a hater or whatever because I've lost faith in the devs.