u/zAlGore

The whole server seems like the biggest legal cult Ive experienced so far.

You got the racist czech owner niCe, that made his servers throughout the years more unplayable and literally bans everyone without a hesitation for the slightest criticism of his server and blacklisted every modern slang word, you got the asslicking puppet staff team of each respective server that suck each others cocks and wait for niCes approval, sort of like „Notice me senpai“ type shii , but will sell you out faster than whatever if youre ever demoted or kicked out and let’s not forget their bias punishment towards players.

Each one of them have their own interpretation of certain rules and each will punish you according to their own judgement (e.g Admin A sees you mentioned a country and will mute you for mentioning a nationality, which is a rule break, Admin B may see the same but doesnt punish you because it was not used in a negative way). If you point this out openly in a thread, the entire staff team will just band together, berate/insult you for standing up to yourself and warn you not to do it again. If youre unlucky, niCe sees the thread and will ban you for a month for an unright complaint, without having ever read the thread itself. I dont know why they’re feeling like this, some of them have the most broken English but try to sound smart. I personally dont know why the staff even feels themselves, they get paid by niCe through his own game currency tokens for wasting hours and hours of staff work on the server, while he gets all the real money. Once WTLS ends one day, niCe made all that money and the admins just wasted their whole life for nothing at the end and their beloved tokens will be worth nothing.

If the staff dont like you, they will scan the logs and the chat and just wait for you to do anything slightest against the rules so they’re the ones issuing the punishment to you to get their precious tokens. This constant behavior gave them such a god complex, because they hold the power without daddy niCe and all the third world players suck up to them. Let’s not forget the server lags a ton, but niCe and the staff will tell you its not the servers fault, but yours. Crazy, your server is the only game where constant lag occurs for most players. If you try to argue with it, you will get punished.

You wanna go P2W and buy tokens? You pay taxes through the transaction already for a virtual item and niCe made it so dogshit that when you want to sell that virtual item, you have to pay another ingame tax for the trade/transaction?? Man put a cooldown and tax onto everything throughout the years, its worse than EA and Ubisoft combined.

Speaking of the playerbase, let’s be real, the majority of it are third world players with a huge ping and broken English. They dont have any alternates to play with their potato PC so they can only play WTLS and its literally the only community Ive experienced with no backbone against the staff and the owner. They just accept everything shitty about the server and niCe exploits this very well. niCe never caters to the community, but to what feels right for himself.

His FiveM servers are the most questionable thing every, man brought a shitty version of GTA Online to FiveM. Hey moron, if people would want to play GTA:O they go play it and dont play a Temu version of it on FiveM.

Anyway I could go for hours against this server, but you get my point. This server is dying out very slowly anyway, compared to a few years ago, WTLS has less active players. Honestly, the server really needs a competition so the owner gets a reality check.

I hope you enjoyed my bitching and ranting!

I was born and raised in Lower Saxony, and honestly a lot of what we consider “normal” in Germany is pure privilege globally.

Free or very cheap education, strong worker protections, health insurance that actually covers you, unemployment support, public infrastructure that mostly works, these things arent universal standards.

A few years ago I also thought Germany was depressing. But looking back, that had more to do with my own situation than the country itself. Traveling changed that perspective a lot.

I spend time in Japan regularly and have very close friends there. From the outside, many Germans romanticize it as some kind of perfect, aesthetic dreamland. But when you actually talk to people living there the picture changes.

Examples:

- Work culture is significantly harsher. Long hours, less work life balance and taking time off can be socially difficult

- Job security and worker protections are generally weaker than in Germany

- University isnt free in the same way and financial pressure is much higher, especially when you live in a big city like Tokyo

- Social expectations are stricter and theres less tolerance for stepping outside norms.

- Mental health support and open discussion around it are less developed

When I explained how much support exists in Germany like unemployment benefits, healthcare coverage and employee rights my friends there were genuinely shocked and wished they had that too. They told me they just get up work and go back to sleep with almost little free time.

Its a beautiful place to visit but to live? I dont really think so, I think Germany is just a better environment to live in.

(I took Japan as an example because I just keep seeing glaze over glaze all over the Internet and earlier saw a deleted post about it too)

German people complain about taxes, bureaucracy or things not being “perfect“. Yes those criticisms are valid, I mean look at Deutsche Bahn, but they often come from a very high baseline.

Traveling made me realize that Germany isnt perfect but its far from the depressing bleak place a lot of people make it out to be and we should all be thankful for being here.

So back from my experience and opinion, my question is why some people have this mindset that Germany is bleak and depressing and they want to leave?