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If you have played 80 hours and only been exit griefed once, do you actually feel you're in a position to tell anyone that "(if XYZ)... You'll find it's not as toxic or as bad...". Your feelings that you "get what you put into it" are sanctimonious illogical: you're making the assumption that others are "putting something different into it," compared to you.

You explained your outlook is based entirely on your personal experience, so please tell us - at what point would your opinion change: playing exactly the same way, but experiencing 10 "griefs?". 20? 10 griefs and 3 times getting shot in the back by a free-kit camper during a world boss event?

It's nice you are having fun, but your experience is the furthest thing from the average experience of someone who only plays solo.

It is unclear how you *know* you're not the only person who feels "this way," but if you did actually read forums you may find there is a *reason* people are putting forth their ideas on how to improve the game. You'd also obtain a sample size larger than 1 - to help assess whether your experience is normal (if you were so inclined). But it seems unlikely that anyone else's experience would factor into your feelings.

Of the forums you did read - to make your assessment about them - how many of the posts were people just randomly advocating for a gameplay change? By your description it sounds like 2 groups arguing about religion or sports or politics - advocating for long-held beliefs. Are there really people who bought the game without knowing it was PvP? And these people are looking for a PvE game with a handful of enemy types lightly scattered across open maps, without any meaningful character or gear progression, nor any endgame loop? That's what is going on on the forums?

Where/how is PvP something that can be "dabbled in" like an option? How are u already playing PvE? Hiding at the edge, collecting moss? That makes sense, and now we all know what we need to "put into it."