First off, I find it more than a little ironic that a thread about the nature of communities in games is on this site. These forums are some of the most ridiculous I have ever seen. It's a constant flame war! I think it is pretty telling that most responses indicate multiple games have awful communities across the board and the few times people mention a positive one, its from over 10 years ago. What color are those lenses you're looking through?
Personally, I never thought WOWs community was that bad. It's the Internet, of course there are going to be asshats, but it was always the minority. RP servers are generally more helpful while PvP servers are generally more "douchey". Rift had a pretty welcoming community, SWTORs was meh. GW2 has a good community as does TSW. But for the most part, as someone said earlier, a community is what you make of it. If you guys spend your time in game like you spend it here, no wonder every new MMO that comes out has a terrible community.
Best is DDO. If you ask questions in general chat, helpful responses outnumber troll attempts about 8 to 1.
Worst is SWTOR. Racism, Homophobia, and general offensiveness are always prevalent in games, but the SWTOR fleet instance is the Comedy Store for societal troglodytes. I can't even repeat some of the things I have heard on the fleet.
Worst: TERA & LoL (if you can consider that an MMO)
Rift is terrible, just terrible. The people in it are mean, they troll every 5 seconds. I asked how to turn of rifts FPS limiter, which when rift isnt in the focus it limits it. I got called stupid, a butt hurt kid, retarded, I had no idea what i was talking about. When i found the line in the cfg file to shut it off, they still went on about how rift doesnt have a background fps limiter, and i am a moron for playing 2 games at once. This wasent just one person ethier, there was only one person there that tried to tell them to stop being ass holes and ect. They also told me i shouldent play rift, and to never come back,.
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Best: FFXI & Rift
Worst: TERA & LoL (if you can consider that an MMO)
Best community has to be LOTRO. I still have yet to find a community that was better the SWG Chimaera server though.
Worst is a toss up between TERA and WoW.
Best- EQ1/EQ2
Worst - WoW/Tera
First off, I find it more than a little ironic that a thread about the nature of communities in games is on this site. These forums are some of the most ridiculous I have ever seen. It's a constant flame war! I think it is pretty telling that most responses indicate multiple games have awful communities across the board and the few times people mention a positive one, its from over 10 years ago. What color are those lenses you're looking through?
Personally, I never thought WOWs community was that bad. It's the Internet, of course there are going to be asshats, but it was always the minority. RP servers are generally more helpful while PvP servers are generally more "douchey". Rift had a pretty welcoming community, SWTORs was meh. GW2 has a good community as does TSW. But for the most part, as someone said earlier, a community is what you make of it. If you guys spend your time in game like you spend it here, no wonder every new MMO that comes out has a terrible community.
Best is DDO. If you ask questions in general chat, helpful responses outnumber troll attempts about 8 to 1.
Worst is SWTOR. Racism, Homophobia, and general offensiveness are always prevalent in games, but the SWTOR fleet instance is the Comedy Store for societal troglodytes. I can't even repeat some of the things I have heard on the fleet.
Survivor of the great MMORPG Famine of 2011
Rift is terrible, just terrible. The people in it are mean, they troll every 5 seconds. I asked how to turn of rifts FPS limiter, which when rift isnt in the focus it limits it. I got called stupid, a butt hurt kid, retarded, I had no idea what i was talking about. When i found the line in the cfg file to shut it off, they still went on about how rift doesnt have a background fps limiter, and i am a moron for playing 2 games at once. This wasent just one person ethier, there was only one person there that tried to tell them to stop being ass holes and ect. They also told me i shouldent play rift, and to never come back,.