WoW looks like a great game, but the Blizzard player community is horrible. Just look around their forums and you'll see nothing but "l33t, trolling kiddies". The same can be said for previous Blizzard games -- nothing but a bunch of ppl. hanging in the chat rooms spamming, insulting, and generally being troublesome.
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Monthly fee hopefully scare away most of them (or their parents won't pay for them)..
Open beta will probably be really bad when all of them can play for free and maybe not enough servers so it will be overcrowded..
People that are really rude, griefing or annoying in other ways gain a bad reputation very fast in a MMOG and no guilds want them, no teams want them or anything, so I think alot of the Bnet kiddies will learn or be forced to act abit more mature if they want to have any fun in WoW.
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Ok, First of all in World Of Warcraft you will have to accept an agreement "no spam & such". So, if there will be spammers ingame in WoW they will be appealed and problably kicked or something like that.
There is little about kicking spammers on Battlenet in Warcraft 3 and Starcraft. There is little hope for the spammers in WoW.
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I'm sorry, but you must be refering to either the "WoW general" forums, or the b-net forums for their other games. Because you certainly can't be talking about the "WoW BETA forums" I read those regularly, and I've only noticed 2 ppl (who are known for being trollers on the other forums) who are a bad apple in the community. The rest seems like a better than average ballance of quality player/annoying player ratio.
There's always going to be ppl who do things that make your time online more difficult, or just arn't the best to be around. That's what guilds are for, that's what 'friends' are for... I feel myself breaking into song, so I'ma end this post now.
You want a game with a bad community, play any game with open PvP.... SB or Lineage 2... among others... *shudders*
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Blizzards fanbase always stood out to both mature and young gamers, no games kidish or totally adult in content. But I belive a game can be ruined or totally destroyed by its community look at diablo2 I wouldnt dare ever play it agian after seeing what it is today. But even if they make it over they will probally change since mmorpgs arnt a unmonitored RTS game or RPG.
I by myself hate the european chatrooms of wc3
they always writing dirty stuff and dont respect each other.
I think blizzard should include a program with which it isnt possuble to say dirty or even humiliating words to each other.
I really hate these kiddies.
I saw this somewhere but I believe it's universal:
NORMAL PERSON + ANONIMITY + AUDIENCE = FUCK WAD
Oh come on man, that's Penny Arcade.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2004-03-19&res=l
Give them their due credits. It's both true and humorous.
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Although it's a great idea having a community for a game, if I wasn't a representative of an online gaming organization I would never visit any of them. Personally I feel a community should be resourceful and a place for non-antagonizing interaction. I have yet to find an administrative staff that has effectively governed their gaming community.
Forum mods or admin usually wait until posts get way out of hand before banning someone. And chances are, they'll be back with another name unless the IP is perma-banned. Many people post negative criticism instead of constructive criticism, and posts usually end up being off-topic and left alone by mods handling the section.
As far as communities ruining a game... this is my point of view - If you don't get involved with it, there's no possible way it will affect you or the enjoyment of the game you play.
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In response to Cumulative Pi:
Oh wow, flagrant anti-americanism
You do realize that America has one of the greatest ratios of educated (college educated)/ total pop. .... higher than that of any EU country..... at least higher than germany, switzerland, and austria .... etc.
Without America you would be the cruel victims of a despotic regime, or even worse: You would have been exterminated by the Germans or the Japanese.
Americans are generally (average American) more intelligent than the rest of the world (as international tests have proven), so... for every American-bash you concomitantly bash India, China, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, etc.
I doubt that you, yourself, could measure up to an American in terms of IQ.
P.S: Why does America have the best universities in the WORLD if Americans are all so ignorant?
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England has some nice ones too.
England, America, Canada, Australia... one and the same beast....
Oxford all the way
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to be perfectly honest there is very little chance that the monthy fee scaring off little kiddies cos it hasnt done in in swg and neocron.. but the thing about mmorpgs is they are based aroud guilds and/or factions/races which means that u have the ability to have a say on whos in ur guild and just join one with players u like not immature little kiddies with there leet speak
And + u do get some kool people that are part of the blizzard fanbase like me
anyways it shudnt be that bad i hope.... wherever u go there are always bad apples just depends whether u decide to let them get to you
Save a Tree.... Eat a Beaver
There is kids in ALL MMORPG's.
The monthly fees won't scary them. I remember when i was minor, my parents was giving me alot more than 14.99/months. So this is not a problem, get used to kids... and if you can't stand them, most of the MMORPG's has a nice feature called : IGNORE LIST ! Yay!
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Lacks creativity to have one!!!
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(")(") i made a bunny!
I don´t think that matters.....the game will be the best anyway........
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...sorry I was In a hurry so let me fix my misspellings...
I don t want to quote all the shit you ve postet cause its mostly not worth a word...to the cruel nation atm the us seems to be axtremly cruel especially how they trat prisoners of war etc you know (just a side note)... first of all england is in the Eu so what you want with ure economist blablaing ? together the european economy is bigger then the us economy...
Let me give you some little help:
first think what you want to post...then write it down..after this read your post....then rethink what you have written...after this you should just hit the cancel button and stop anoying grown people with your " im 14 and want to write something although I don t understand shit dirt"
people like you are the reason why most people in europe and elsewere think that we american are dumb... stop now...
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FOR THE LOVE OF #*%@$#@'s SAKE STOP FLAMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You've all dropped pretty damn low, ESPECIALY for these threads. The topic is Ruined by Community? Not "Who can be more racist?" or "Who can be a bigger Jack hole?" so please sthu.
I'm suprised this thread hasn't been either deleted or locked by now, especialy with how a majority of the posts lately have had NOTHING to do about ANY topic even CLOSELY relating to WoW.
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