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Any thoughts on making the best out of a bad community?
GrayGreene
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Hello, i'm enjoying Rift a lot, but not enjoying the community so much. At non-peak hours I seem to find some friendly folk, and can usually get some help or give some in chat. However, at other times, any question is immediately met with sarcasm, snarkiness, and flat out aggression. Finding groups for dungeons isn't too difficult, but in my initial experience, I'm finding the groups are not friendly, and not very co-operative. I just left the last group that I initiated because of two payers who joined together were completely rude, and definitely not in the mood for team work. Anyone know a mature, friendly guild I could check out? I'm on Suncrest PVPRP. Maybe a solid guild would fill that hole in an otherwise excellent game. I tried out two, but no one seemed to be engaging anyone on chat, and no one was forming any groups after one week. An old Vanguard guild would be ideal. 
Otherwise, I may just have to leave the PVP server. (I've heard PVE servers are always more friendly) I have a low tolerance for players who lower the playing experience for others by being rude and antagonizing.
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Communities have gotten very bad in games lately haven't they. I'm not a rift player but, i think all new mmo's should come with a report rude ppl option. That would help clean up some of the problems with communities now days. The hard part is finding a good punishment for the ppl who get reported and proven to have been rude. Also that would have to be a seperate report function other than the report spam one.
My experience in game has been very different. Everyone I have talked to and grouped with has been nice. I have actually been posting in other threads about how its probably one of the best communities I've ever experienced. I play on Endless but overall the community seems much more mature than most games.
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I played rift in one of the betas my laptop at the time could barley run ths game. but with my new laptop i got last week i thought i would give rift a go. (mine you im running the game on Ultra and with 0 lag or framerate issues... ). My buddy's and I started on Harrow a RP-PVP server and i have to say going into a game knowing nothing and asking questions i find the community very helpful. Alot better then most games i have played. Yes MMO and well every game period is full of elitests kids. (i myself get this was like this back when i played wow. but i played for 6 years. and was in a top world guild. but I was still very helpfull i would alway answer questions i was asked with a nice and plecent additude. I would say that 60% of the community in games are "elitest" now adays so when ppl log into a game and see this they think the whole community is like this. when there is still alot of ppl out there that are willing and or love to help.
That's great to hear. I have experienced some good people. That's why I was quick to point out the worse seems to come out on weekends and Friday evenings. Of course there are some great people almost evrywhere. Perhaps i did not pick the best server? Its Sunrest, PVP RP. Great game though, and good to hear it's not all bad concerning community.
In general the internet as a whole has gotten snarkier the last few years. Probably due to the relative anonymous nature of the media. In MMO's of any flavor I've found that the more PvP oriented the MMO or server is in general the worse the community, with a few notable exceptions.
Eve has been the only PvP one I have found an abundunce of friendly and willing to help people in a PvP oriented enviornment to offset the general griefers, trolls, and other assorted slime.
General servers seem about as bad as the internet in general.
For a good experiance, or better than average I've found RP servers to be absolutely delightful. Sure there will still be some bad apples, but in general there will be alot of friendly and generous people. The RP server I'm on in Rift is filled with people answering questions and giving away artifacts in silly contests or just giving them away.
Just my observations.
PvP servers tend to have the worst communities in any game. Which is unfortunate because I would always choose them if that were not the case. I enjoy open PvP but its just not worth it to me. I'm on a regular PvE server.
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i blame wow. unfortunately thats like 3/4 the population of the mmo market right now. wherever the ex-wow players migrate to is where you will see rot and decay of a game community.
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I agree, post wow playing games now you can tell an ex wow player from players of other games it seems almost right away for the most part. I have been playing mmo's since runescape release.
I love the generalization that pretty much every WoW player is horrible. You won't ever get in contact with even 1/1.000.000th of them, but you still know all of them. Makes sense.
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You could choose a server that doesn't have a bad community. Usually not the full ones. Reclaimer has a great community, I have not run into more than 2 people in chat that ever pissed me off, and even then it was on another server in a pvp match. And you can cross server ignore. So that killed that problem.
people are people. Some are good, some are bad. I am very picky about who i associate with in online gaming. Not because I am an elitist, because I dont have time to group/guild with people who I dont care for.
people who tailgate me and try to run me off the road because they dont feel like I am driving fast enough wont make me stop driving -- why should the actions of some idiots in a game spoil your fun ?
enjoy the game, and dont worry about the people who you dont get along with...worry about the people in life who actually care about you.
I'm not sure what you mean by "in contact," but I could physically shake hands with more than 12 WoW or ex-WoW players within the next hour just by picking up my phone and calling them to come over to the house. So, I'm not sure your fraction there makes complete sense. WoW players are a pretty easy breed to find. Most people know WoW players that they don't even KNOW play WoW. All I would have to do to get "in contact" with 12 or more is gather up my son's friends that play (or played) and my own.....
And I like to think most of them are pretty nice people, but there are a few of my son's friends that I would NOT want to play on the same server with. So yes, some are good, some are not, but most gamers probably know 1/1,000,000 th of them.
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And you sir have said exactly WHY there is more crappy people in mmo's now. It is not the WoW people per say, it is the amount of people WoW has influenced to play MMO's. It is not WoW's fault people are asses, however when you have more people, there are just going to be more asses(and cool people as well though) and I think some people are just supprised to have so many asses playing the games that used to be fairly segragated.
People need to realize there are a hell of a lot more people playing MMO's now, which means that the culture of a game is going to be A LOT more inconsistent. You wil run into a megacrapton of jerks and asses but you will also run into more cool people as well. The problem is those asses are a lot louder and harder to forget.