User blog comment:DSAirborne240/The Dark Souls Community: My Opinion/@comment-4511886-20160117023957

As the Souls series grows, the quality of its playerbase degrades. It's a sad, but inevitable, truth that affects all communities. Back in the day, the playerbase was far smaller, and Dark Souls was considerably meaner. It made players more connected, because they could relate to each others' struggles.

Now, there are far too many players to have that sort of a community, and it's practically impossible to make any "rules" that the entire community will follow. It's a combination of too many players, and too many people that think they have a say in the matter. The idea of honor on a community-sized scale is dead, honor has become a choice limited to individuals, or small groups, and even then, your definition can be different from mine.

I'm not saying that Dark Souls is getting ruined by its community, but the growth of the series has some clearly positive and negative consequences. And the bigger influx of players indirectly increases the influx of toxic players.

Kudos on referencing one of my favorite Souls quotes, by the way.