I honestly don't like to post much stuff here on my FA due to me being so anti social and honestly keeping to myself, but this finally broke me. I really had to post something about this issue. For anyone who knows the game Istaria: Chronicles of the gifted, this game's community is utter trash. This game has that old feel of an MMO back from the 2000s and still keeps it's style and old graphics. The game is completely fine in that aspect and the reason I mainly love it, also the open world is addicting to explore and find all the neat little hidden stuff, but what's left of the community is the sour bottom of a drink. It's the left over pieces of entitled scum that you find running around on any game. I used to play this game several years back and took a bit of a break. When I played I joined in with a new group of people, a mix of all kinds of lower level people playing the game for their first time, with one ancient in the guild, though they weren't on that much. We learned to help each other, including others who wanted to join in on our fun. We not only helped the guild but made sure to build positive relationships with others to help keep everyone in the game, and it lasted for several months till people started to leave due to life complications and generally moving on from the old style MMO. The guild while relatively small at around 20 different people, we made sure to work as a guild was but not focus directly on ourselves only.

It was fun and finally decided to come back, and unfortunately, I saw the same scum that was in the game years ago. This game hasn't changed even in the slightest. I have been constantly bombard by those that think they are better just because they are older in the game. This game is dead, and you want to know why? Because the community is all toxicity. Back when I ran years ago I went for my ROP, and unlike a lot of players, I wanted until my upper 60s, with the same craft level. While I was very capable of doing all the quests, I could not solo the last boss which was designed for a group. This boss is specifically designed for a boss as a GROUP. So what do you do? You obviously ask for a small bit of help, literally nothing big, someone to just help kill one single mob that could hardly do much to them. Guess that's pretty hard when 95% of your community is sitting around and using the game like a glorified chat room. It took many days and eventually someone decided to help, and he had the guts to literally insult me, saying that when he was a hatchling, he did it when we was max level so he didn't need help. I was literally straight insulted and this guy treated me like a kid. I wasn't just looked down on, he saw himself as a higher being compared to me because of his infinite wisdom. Whatever, got it done, blocked the guy afterwards. I had no trouble up until I maxed leveled just recently and been slowly developing scales to match my play style, only to suddenly realize that everything in the endgame is GROUP content. And well, you may argue it's an MMO. Yeah, would make sense, to a game made in 2019. This is a 16 year old game, and it still relies on GROUP content. End content is near impossible solo. You literally cannot reach becoming an ancient without help from others. It would be great if literally 95% of the community stopped being an entitled ass and only helping their guildmates. I mean hell, there are some quests that REQUIRE a biped to make something, and most just straight up ignore you because it's more trouble than it's worth. There is nothing a biped needs, not even money since they are swimming in it. So as a solo player you are stuck on some quests that REQUIRE bipeds and GROUP content. I finally was able to jump into a random group to go and fight a "lesser boss" to complete a quest. I have to admit, this nearly just got me to quit right there and then. A couple ancients laughed because the boss we were fighting was apparently able to be soloed. Yeah, it can be soloed because ancients have quite a few buffs compared to adults (and hatchlings). But it's near impossible to solo your ancient ROP, so you can't ever even reach that point. Nearly all end game content is locked behind becoming an ancient, which is completely locked behind having a tight nit group. It would be great if someone were to stop being entitled to their friends and their friends only, and only helping their guild. Anyway, that boss sucked, I was literally one shot and they didn't even bother reviving me till the entire fight was over, so didn't even end up getting the quest done. Luckily someone gave me the piece I needed, but these ancients are literally the definition of scum in this game. There are several guilds who only help themselves and couldn't even lift a finger to help anyone outside of them.

You want to know why this game is dead and hasn't seen a complete overhaul in 10+ years to stay up with other MMOs? It's because there isn't a playerbase. The playerbase is dead because of the toxicity. And this isn't just me thinking this. I know a few of my friends in the past who have played the game and even a random I met who used to run one of the big guilds years ago. They all claim the same story. This game is dead because all that's left is the leftover at the bottom of a cup.

I'm turning off comments for this, not because I'm afraid of the backlash, but this was a rant for rant purposes. This isn't focused at anyone in particular but the huge chunk of the community that may never even see this. I needed to vent it out, because it's a neat game, but the community has killed it. I swear if FA deletes this because I'm hurting someone's feelings, I'm posting it elsewhere where it can't be deleted. And for whoever plays it, no I'm not looking for help, I can get by just fine, but the game's system is designed around something that this community cannot provide. Also I saw someone calling this stuff out on their forums years back and it was locked straight away for hate. Good way to develop a community, someone calls out an issue and it gets blocked. And that post only reinforced my idea of the community. There were many veterans claiming they knew what was right and only their opinion was right. Its the same people who are left over. Guess you can't upset your only paying customers right? So might as well block anyone against it.