Best - EQ - No instancing and set guild rotations for bosses... if you tried to do that in WoW GL trying to get everyone to behave.
Worst - L4D2... I know its not an MMO but it is TERRIBLE. Trying to get any meaningful game going as a pug in versus... impossible. Everyone rage quits, kills themselves, or kills teammates...
"They essentially want to say 'Correlation proves Causation' when it's just not true." - Sovrath
The best community I had the luck in finding was in EQ2, Antonia Bayle RP server. Great people, and the RP community made it a great immersion experience.
The worst is my regular MMO, WoW.
Im on a nice guild wich makes it bearable. But with the new random tool ive been finding some real jerks.
And the worst part is that im so into the game already that sometimes I AM a great jerk. Just today, I insulted a priest for letting the tank die. I was an elitist prick, but I realised it and asked for apologies. My... it's getting on my head already O.O
BEST: Rohan: Blood Feud. Very skilled and experienced players who share their knowledge with the n00bs. Also, GMs and mods interact quite a bit with community, including running forum-only contests.
WORST: World of Warcraft. I think the game itself is good, but with a big game comes a bigger number of idiots. Not all of them, but enough to sour the experience for me.
The best for me would have to be a tie between EQ1 and LOTRO. Both communities were helpful and for the most part polite and mature in character (although every game has it's jacka**'s). Even the forums were (are?) full of decent helpful folks (again with the usual exceptions).
The worst would have to be EVE and I say that as an avid current player. The community in-game isn't too bad actually and there are many helpful players in the help chat channel, but the forums are full of pompous, self-gratifying, egotistical jerks to put it bluntly, and they tend to pull the entire community down with them.
The community of wow players just make me sick. People talk trash to eachother, ninja, cuss eachother out in chat, intentionally mess with peoples kills epeen to a huge extreme aka gearscore. People are more rude to eachother in this game then any online rpg i have ever played. What gives? what is causing this? Is there any solutions to fix this problem?
Take the forums for example. In order to get any kind of good information from here you have to wade through the sewer of trolling and counter trolling flaming ect. And blizzard just doesnt seem to care about its community. Why isnt there any kind of moderation going on when people are out and out flaming or being rude to people on the forums?
How do we combat all the negativity goin in within this community? Is there any chance? or is it the way it is now and either deal with it, become like it or leave?
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
Whether you love Turbine's PVE-centric LOTRO or not, it definitely has the friendliest MMORPG community out there from the get go. You will have friend requests, guild invites, and people offering to help from the second you leave the Shire, on your quest to stab little boars, bears, and wolves on your way up to becoming a Nazgûl slayer.
The LOTRO community is hands down the best out there, seemingly comprised of refugees from other games where l33t-dudes and e-thugs have taken over. If you're looking to escape from the cries of “OMFG NOOB your GEARSCORE is too low to group with me!” then you may want to explore the lands of Middle Earth with this game.
Unlike many other games the community in LOTRO really gets into things, and it's very common to see high level characters spending their time literally just helping out lowbies through dungeons and quests, and the real shocker is if you're looking for help or have a question in general chat, you'll likely get it instead of being trolled by half the server.
2)World of Warcraft (THE AVERAGE)
The Pug Zone is not a place for cute little toy dogs, but a place where “pick up groups” will determine your community interaction. You will likely be grouped with the standard denizens these groups seem to attract without fail – a lootwhore raid leader with an e-peen as big as a bus, his e-girlfriend who won't stop complaining, and about 20 people who have no idea what they are doing but will place the blame of any failure on everyone but themselves. Three of the people will go afk for dinner approximately halfway through the boss pull, and come back when it's time for the loot to be handed out (if you are lucky enough to get to that).
This website has the worst community I've ever seen.
No kidding? Thats been my observation as well. This site in general(and some of the forums in particular...) seem to collect the WORST types from all of the games in question. But like much else, you get what you encourage(or allow in this case).
BEST - Ragnarok Online : The people there were really friendly and helpful. You could randomly get friends by walking around towns. Though there occasionally are dull people, mostly when looking for a party.
WORST - Runescape : Most of the people playing Runescape are immature. They don't try to reason at all, it's best to play with your public chat set on Hide, Friends or even OFF. No offence.
Best: Tabula Rasa - you felt almost as if they were your own family, I could talk in general and directly someone answered kindly and it was very seldom I found an immature person.
Worst: Conquer online - everyone kills you for no reason and whine. you need to look pretty hard to find someone who speaks good english. many immature people!
Best community i have ever experienced has to be the one from Final Fantasy XI.
Really doubt there is one better.
Worst has to be between WoW and Darkfall, but I've heard that the community in SWG does nothing but argue and bitch in chat.
Inherited Will, the Destiny of the Age, and the Dreams of its People. These are things that will not be stopped. As long as people continue to pursue the meaning of freedom, these things will never cease to be! - Gol D. Roger
Best: Anarchy Online Test server. Small community, but one big happy family
Worst: WoW..
Interesting example: Some random player shows up and asks for help with creating a guild. He didn't just throw guild charter at me while I'm browsing AH so it's all good I think.. wrong.. very wrong.. I was stupid enough to politely say I don't want to join a guild... next 15 minutes I spent learning interesting new english words that I will never teach to my children.
2 days later, Silithus, that same person, asks for help with quest. I reminded him about that english lesson few days ago, he proceeded to give me another lesson. Ignored.
Trade channel.. I don't spend much time in towns, but god.. that's just horrible
Best:: WoW, yeah there are idiots, but they're outnumbered by actual nice people. Plus haven't been in an MMO that the community stayed in contact and knew about some of the people on the server.
Worst: AoC or WAR. AoC was just constant bitching, warhammer there was no community.
Best - eve online. I enjoy playing with people who are generally more inteliigent than me.
Worst- wow and Darkfall.WoW because its a generic, mass appeal piece of garbage that is bound to bring out the worst of society. Darkfall because it is just a terrible community.
I dont really remember thinking to myself that any game had a bad community except in 1 case, based on over a decade of playing mmo. This because, I have a high threshold for pain and secondly because I dont waste my energy lingering on what I dont like about things, and situations: So I have a few good communities imo, a non existing community and a bad community, but by bad I just mean; not really to my taste and the only game I ever played were I was generelly disgusted by the aproach of a large portion of the playerbase.
Best is EQ1 hands down. Something happens to communities when there is no soloplay or hardly any, and no instances. From EQ1 1999-2003 it was the best community I have been a part of. Guilds raced for nameds, there was a lot of confrontations, codes for conduct within the server communities and just basically a real identity to each server.
Following EQ1 I'd say SWG wasnt too bad untill the NGE turned the community in on itself.
EVE online. I have played this game since 2006. When I take breaks I still read the forums, and keep up with the goings on. It has a very special place in my heart. I think you could read the official forums and enjoy it even if you never played the game LOL.
WOW has very little community as far as I am concerned. Guilds are pretty selfsufficient and have no real need to mingle outside their own community. There is no server community with shared interaction apart from what occurs in the AH, or PUGd raids. The wareffort is over but the way I see it, was the only community building situation ever to have taken place in WOW, and things immedietely returned to normal afterwards; Guilds doing their own thing with little to no intermingling. And absolutely no co dependency, or reason to have confrontations.
But if you base the word community solely on forums, Im not even having the same conversation as you. And then yes WOW does have a pretty lowly community.
Worst community:
AION. Firstly because the most dominating part of the community chat channels used to be taken up by spam. Secondly because there was no community feel. Same faction killstealing, loot whoring, named camping etc. It was the only game where I have ever felt estranged by the community conduct and generally accepted behaviour.
Best community: Saga of Ryzom, people where very friedly and game had situation where they invided hole community to do something. Helping new players to travel around the worlds.
Worst community: World of Warcraft, spamming of duels in PvE server in beging of the game.
Comments
Best - EQ - No instancing and set guild rotations for bosses... if you tried to do that in WoW GL trying to get everyone to behave.
Worst - L4D2... I know its not an MMO but it is TERRIBLE. Trying to get any meaningful game going as a pug in versus... impossible. Everyone rage quits, kills themselves, or kills teammates...
"They essentially want to say 'Correlation proves Causation' when it's just not true." - Sovrath
Best community forum I was on was for the now dead game called WISH. Dana knows this, he was a Dev there.
Worst one LOTRO, the elitism that went on there was awful.
The best community I had the luck in finding was in EQ2, Antonia Bayle RP server. Great people, and the RP community made it a great immersion experience.
The worst is my regular MMO, WoW.
Im on a nice guild wich makes it bearable. But with the new random tool ive been finding some real jerks.
And the worst part is that im so into the game already that sometimes I AM a great jerk. Just today, I insulted a priest for letting the tank die. I was an elitist prick, but I realised it and asked for apologies. My... it's getting on my head already O.O
This website has the worst community I've ever seen.
BEST: Rohan: Blood Feud. Very skilled and experienced players who share their knowledge with the n00bs. Also, GMs and mods interact quite a bit with community, including running forum-only contests.
WORST: World of Warcraft. I think the game itself is good, but with a big game comes a bigger number of idiots. Not all of them, but enough to sour the experience for me.
best - ac2 and eq
worst- darkfall
Worst: WoW
Best: Ryzom
The best for me would have to be a tie between EQ1 and LOTRO. Both communities were helpful and for the most part polite and mature in character (although every game has it's jacka**'s). Even the forums were (are?) full of decent helpful folks (again with the usual exceptions).
The worst would have to be EVE and I say that as an avid current player. The community in-game isn't too bad actually and there are many helpful players in the help chat channel, but the forums are full of pompous, self-gratifying, egotistical jerks to put it bluntly, and they tend to pull the entire community down with them.
~ Adder ~
Quick, Silent, Deadly
Best: FF11
Worse: Virtually any other "mmo"rpg since they tend to be single player games till high level.
Worst: SWG Bloodfin
Best: SWG Bloodfin
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
Best: Ryzom and Fallen Earth
Worst: Age of Conan
The community of wow players just make me sick. People talk trash to eachother, ninja, cuss eachother out in chat, intentionally mess with peoples kills epeen to a huge extreme aka gearscore. People are more rude to eachother in this game then any online rpg i have ever played. What gives? what is causing this? Is there any solutions to fix this problem?
Take the forums for example. In order to get any kind of good information from here you have to wade through the sewer of trolling and counter trolling flaming ect. And blizzard just doesnt seem to care about its community. Why isnt there any kind of moderation going on when people are out and out flaming or being rude to people on the forums?
How do we combat all the negativity goin in within this community? Is there any chance? or is it the way it is now and either deal with it, become like it or leave?
Yet here you are.
Best - DAOC
Worst - Guild Wars
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
Lord of the Rings Online (THE GOOD)
Whether you love Turbine's PVE-centric LOTRO or not, it definitely has the friendliest MMORPG community out there from the get go. You will have friend requests, guild invites, and people offering to help from the second you leave the Shire, on your quest to stab little boars, bears, and wolves on your way up to becoming a Nazgûl slayer.
The LOTRO community is hands down the best out there, seemingly comprised of refugees from other games where l33t-dudes and e-thugs have taken over. If you're looking to escape from the cries of “OMFG NOOB your GEARSCORE is too low to group with me!” then you may want to explore the lands of Middle Earth with this game.
Unlike many other games the community in LOTRO really gets into things, and it's very common to see high level characters spending their time literally just helping out lowbies through dungeons and quests, and the real shocker is if you're looking for help or have a question in general chat, you'll likely get it instead of being trolled by half the server.
2)World of Warcraft (THE AVERAGE)
The Pug Zone is not a place for cute little toy dogs, but a place where “pick up groups” will determine your community interaction. You will likely be grouped with the standard denizens these groups seem to attract without fail – a lootwhore raid leader with an e-peen as big as a bus, his e-girlfriend who won't stop complaining, and about 20 people who have no idea what they are doing but will place the blame of any failure on everyone but themselves. Three of the people will go afk for dinner approximately halfway through the boss pull, and come back when it's time for the loot to be handed out (if you are lucky enough to get to that).
No kidding? Thats been my observation as well. This site in general(and some of the forums in particular...) seem to collect the WORST types from all of the games in question. But like much else, you get what you encourage(or allow in this case).
BEST - Ragnarok Online : The people there were really friendly and helpful. You could randomly get friends by walking around towns. Though there occasionally are dull people, mostly when looking for a party.
WORST - Runescape : Most of the people playing Runescape are immature. They don't try to reason at all, it's best to play with your public chat set on Hide, Friends or even OFF. No offence.
Best: Tabula Rasa - you felt almost as if they were your own family, I could talk in general and directly someone answered kindly and it was very seldom I found an immature person.
Worst: Conquer online - everyone kills you for no reason and whine. you need to look pretty hard to find someone who speaks good english. many immature people!
Best: DDO or possibly Vanguard.. hard to choose. I'll go with DDO.
Worst: Darkfall. Those of you who put something other than Dorkfall here, clearly havent played it :P
Best community i have ever experienced has to be the one from Final Fantasy XI.
Really doubt there is one better.
Worst has to be between WoW and Darkfall, but I've heard that the community in SWG does nothing but argue and bitch in chat.
Inherited Will, the Destiny of the Age, and the Dreams of its People. These are things that will not be stopped. As long as people continue to pursue the meaning of freedom, these things will never cease to be! - Gol D. Roger
Best: Anarchy Online Test server. Small community, but one big happy family
Worst: WoW..
Interesting example: Some random player shows up and asks for help with creating a guild. He didn't just throw guild charter at me while I'm browsing AH so it's all good I think.. wrong.. very wrong.. I was stupid enough to politely say I don't want to join a guild... next 15 minutes I spent learning interesting new english words that I will never teach to my children.
2 days later, Silithus, that same person, asks for help with quest. I reminded him about that english lesson few days ago, he proceeded to give me another lesson. Ignored.
Trade channel.. I don't spend much time in towns, but god.. that's just horrible
Best:: WoW, yeah there are idiots, but they're outnumbered by actual nice people. Plus haven't been in an MMO that the community stayed in contact and knew about some of the people on the server.
Worst: AoC or WAR. AoC was just constant bitching, warhammer there was no community.
Rift
Best: Vanguard. Worst: DaoC.
REALITY CHECK
Best - eve online. I enjoy playing with people who are generally more inteliigent than me.
Worst- wow and Darkfall.WoW because its a generic, mass appeal piece of garbage that is bound to bring out the worst of society. Darkfall because it is just a terrible community.
I dont really remember thinking to myself that any game had a bad community except in 1 case, based on over a decade of playing mmo. This because, I have a high threshold for pain and secondly because I dont waste my energy lingering on what I dont like about things, and situations: So I have a few good communities imo, a non existing community and a bad community, but by bad I just mean; not really to my taste and the only game I ever played were I was generelly disgusted by the aproach of a large portion of the playerbase.
Best is EQ1 hands down. Something happens to communities when there is no soloplay or hardly any, and no instances. From EQ1 1999-2003 it was the best community I have been a part of. Guilds raced for nameds, there was a lot of confrontations, codes for conduct within the server communities and just basically a real identity to each server.
Following EQ1 I'd say SWG wasnt too bad untill the NGE turned the community in on itself.
EVE online. I have played this game since 2006. When I take breaks I still read the forums, and keep up with the goings on. It has a very special place in my heart. I think you could read the official forums and enjoy it even if you never played the game LOL.
WOW has very little community as far as I am concerned. Guilds are pretty selfsufficient and have no real need to mingle outside their own community. There is no server community with shared interaction apart from what occurs in the AH, or PUGd raids. The wareffort is over but the way I see it, was the only community building situation ever to have taken place in WOW, and things immedietely returned to normal afterwards; Guilds doing their own thing with little to no intermingling. And absolutely no co dependency, or reason to have confrontations.
But if you base the word community solely on forums, Im not even having the same conversation as you. And then yes WOW does have a pretty lowly community.
Worst community:
AION. Firstly because the most dominating part of the community chat channels used to be taken up by spam. Secondly because there was no community feel. Same faction killstealing, loot whoring, named camping etc. It was the only game where I have ever felt estranged by the community conduct and generally accepted behaviour.
Best community: Saga of Ryzom, people where very friedly and game had situation where they invided hole community to do something. Helping new players to travel around the worlds.
Worst community: World of Warcraft, spamming of duels in PvE server in beging of the game.
MMORPG.COM has worst forum editor ever exists