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Which MMO has the best social crowd
andrelle
Member Posts: 58
Basically, which MMO can I play that's crowded, where I can meet and play with a bunch of others? I've tried Eve, LOTRO, WoW, even TR. There's not a lot of other players around, that I can see. Just wondering. I play for the social aspect, which made UO quite fun when it first came out, as well as Meridian 59. Thanks for any help!
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Easily - EQ 2.*
EQ 2 has the best community of all the games I have played from EQ 1 years ago to WoW to DAoC to the MMORPGs I currently play.
*Antonia Bayle server
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WoW and fast food = commercial successes.
I neither play WoW nor eat fast food.
I think you can find a group or guild in practically every MMO that fits your playstyle if you look heard enough.
I like the community in Eve. It's a very social game (if you want it to be), yet the population is large enough that it's impossible to know everyone (or for everyone to know you). However, I will say that it can be a little difficult to make those first social connections in game. That's one of the reasons I always recommend Eve University to new players. They'll not only help you with the steep learning curve, they'll also help you get socially acclimated and refer you to corps and people who are doing whatever it is that you want to do in game.
If you want a good community then find a game that was made more for group play vise solo play (and this is coming from someone who likes to solo)
Now granted, most of those types of games are old with dying populations so they are not really options.
Look to Vanguard if you have the system to play it, EQ2 still has a pretty good community even though it has gone very solo friendly, and it is pretty top heavy, and Eve though i hear that is a bit tough to get into (and you already played it)
imo Bounty Bay Online has the friendliest and most mature community. As the game very much relies on group interaction, people are usually very helpful.
From all the MMOs I have played (WOW, EVE, EQ, SotNW), this is thus far the nicest team experience.
I'm not sure of what games most people play now, but after experiencing WoW's community, i would strongly suggest.. that if you do not like being shouted at, insulted or taunted in any manner, WoW is definitely NOT the game for you.
The players who do instances sometimes lose patience, some just quit halfway, making the remaining players fed up, waiting for another member to join will just cost more time, so there's a bigger chance that the party will simply disband as long as one person leaves. Then you'll be all fed up and everything.
However, if you do manage to get into a good end game guild, there's a higher possibility that you may NOT encounter such players, as all guild members tend to help one another.
Also, I would suggest that if you do like end game guilds, WoW is still not a game for you, in order to attain lvl 70, or 80 next year, your still required to run instances, unless there are capped out players or higher level players helping you, other than that, it's a real b****.
Hope my opinion helped! Thanks.
Best - FFXI Online: Great people, grouping was alot of fun and most of us who did group together at one time continued to do so. I even remember that people from other linkshells would help other people all the time.
Worst - WOW: Its sad when you see a group of people hanging out by the main city entrance laughing at by others because they are new to the game, shouting at them, calling people noobs and just being plain rude.
Best: FFXI
Worst: EQ2 PvP Servers
Mediocre: WoW.. I'm in a guild with a bunch of great people and where I am now the community is extremely strong for me in the game. It is almost on par with FFXI. However, that is a rarity in WoW.
Good: EVE
EVE is extremely social, heck I've sat on gate camps playing pod kill trivia games with my alliance mates while waiting for victims.
The secret is...you need a good corporation in a strong alliance.....the game changes entirely for you once that is accomplished.
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whenever i start a new game i usually create a character and play on a RP server if one's available. i'm not a RPer, but i find it keeps a lot of the trash, smacktalkers, and kiddies away just being the fact that it's defined as a "RP" server, and to some people, that's just "gay".
i think finding a like minded group of players is one of the hard parts now. a lot of the games out now have become established and player groups, guilds and alliances have been formed, so you really have to do some networking and give it time until you find a group of people that has your same style and you enjoy.
when considering guilding, i generally interview them as much as they interview me, and never take blind invites. making sure they're what i'm looking for just as much i'm what they want.
but to your question... if you can still play it, Ryzom has by far the best community i've ever seen.
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Its amazing that some guilds actually expand way past the game you first see it in!
I am playing BBO, and I the guild i first joined was TRM, later I found out that this guild is actually a guild that exist in many games. that may be a good way to find out if a guild is good for you. If you have had a good experience with them in one game you may consider joining them in another
Yeah, I liked the vanguard crowd for the most part. Even the guys that ganked me were usually cool afterwards. (FFA server.) That's how I got a guild when I played actually...
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Thanks for the responses! I think I will try Eve again, and use the university as someone suggested. Maybe I'm just not looking or networking hard enough, or getting far enough into the games to find others, too. I've been interested in trying FFXI and EQ2, as well. I'm not sure if I have the system to run, Vanguard, though.
From all the MMOs I tried, EVE has the most mature and best social community.
I also liked the community on City of Heroes Europe, vry social and helpfull.
GuildWars!
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That was a joke. Eve ofc. A community consisting largely of people with a wife and children is the community i prefer.
(before you ask: nope, there are sadly few women in eve.)