When I chose to change where I invest my internet dollars, moving from playing World of Warcraft to this game, I thought at the least the level of discourse and maturity of the people I would be interacting with would be improved. WOW on the whole is overrun with kids, having no age restrictions.
Other than, really, one person, I have found the people I have interacted with here at WTG to be less mature, less courteous, less helpful, and less welcoming of newcomers than on WOW, which is very disappointing. I am not speaking to everyone, I am sure there are a great number of folks here that are wonderful. However, for whatever reason, predominantly the asshats have chosen to denigrate, insult, and harass me without any prior provocation. I have posted a discussion looking at my club progression. No one had to post on it, no one had to read it. But rather than post with observations about the clubs, rather than post any suggestions, all the members of WTG did was post insults and negativity. I posted a request for suggestions to help my putting. All I got in response was smartassery. I do not think I have gotten one cogent, helpful, on-topic reply to anything on these forums. The children post their harassing BS on my profile, so I have to delete some garbage every few days.
I'm an older guy. I have very little tolerance for inane BS, and that is all I have seen from the people here. I have golfed, real and video, most of my life. I have a number of friends who have done the same. My intent was to recommend WTG to them, as it is the best 'game' I have found online. However, if they can expect to recieve the same disgraceful welcome that I have gotten, I see no reason to do that. I'll be sticking around because I love the game. But I won't be interacting with anyone here. I can find elevated discourse on TWO or in WOW trade chat.
To the WGT staff: I've been here a couple of weeks, and spent a couple of hundred dollars. I think I've been a pretty good customer so far. You might want to take a look at how some members of your community treat your good customers, because quite frankly, you have some members that are bad for business. Just from me, they have cost you three other people that would have spent the money I have. I'm already on the hook, so I'll be staying. But I can't in good conscience recommend to my friends a game where some customers treat other customers with the level of disrespect that I have found. After 30 years as a classical chef, I do know one thing. In all the establishments I have worked, if a customer was harassing other customers, we asked that customer to leave. Just sayin...