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Which MMO has the best smack?
Beatnik59
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Which MMO has the most trash talk between players in the game and on the forums?
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Only played one game on the list: WoW. However I think that nearly whole the mmorpg.com community tends to make a too big deal of all the kids in WoW and whatever. Even tho there is trash talk between them, there isn't all that much.
Many of those who tend to flame WoW are usually those who acts like idiots. A big part of the WoW community is really mature, it's just a few who destroy it. I think a bit too much focus has been laid on those few in the WoW community.
Open pvp probably has something to do with this
- CaesarsGhost
Lead Gameplay and Gameworld Designer for a yet unnamed MMO Title.
"When people tell me designing a game is easy, I try to get them to design a board game. Most people don't last 5 minutes, the rest rarely last more then a day. The final few realize it's neither fun nor easy."
I did not enjoy the repetitive gameplay, and I heard the end-game is a faction grind, with the community it had. It really is interesting because I think what makes WoW so successful (1) low system requirements and (2) no thinking required is what always makes it vulnerable to competitors; it also contributes to a sour community.
If you go to some1 in a grind area he will tey you this: Go away, this is my killing spot!
And becouse you have to pay for global (server wide) messages, this killed the leftover community too.
Bren
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Forum trash-talk kind of bores me really; typically amounting to people who take games waaaay too seriously.
Now, what I do enjoy is 'quality' smack-talk in-game. Unfortunately, games like WoW don't allow cross factional communication (inherently at least). If I had to vote on any one game it'd be SWG. Oy, nothing like the string of hate that was slung your way after you just killed a Jedi or tossed some poison using the ol' gtef mechanic (read exploit imo).
Ico
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On that list, shadowbane. But I loved the smack talk in Planetside the most, very aggresive. MMOFPS's are just a whole different game when it comes to smacktalking. Just posting here makes me want to reinstall planetside and talk some trash and TK some newb lol j/k
I went for EVE, although there isn't much "smack talk" as such... (as in unreadable profanity and leet) But the EVE playerbase for a large part consists of the anti-social rejects which didn't fit into other games, you put them all into one game where they can cause considerable damage to other people's enjoyment of the game and get your popcorn out. The eve forums (including being supported by devposts) is the only game forum I think where people are told they are playing the game wrong if they aren't griefing someone else.
I voted for EVE also because a lot of the smack talking in other games can be explained as simply immature young people, in EVE they are usually a LOT older than most other game populations, and still they show no sign of even reasoning in posts, its just flaming with no discussion. You can almost see them running towards anyone labeled a carebear with pitchforks, the roaring kind of screaming you would hear in a football match in the background
And a carebear is also someone who in a normal game would be considered a hardcore PvPer. As long as your not exploiting, you don't fit in.
As for general smacktalk, I'm in a NPC corporation (yeah, sue me), and most days I don't dare to open it for all the racist and generally offensive RL idiot crap that goes on there. I don't know what happened to the rookie channel they had there, but in there a newbie asking a question or for help could get the benefit of a whole server smacktalking (traditional this time) to them at once.
Disclaimer: no, not everyone is like that. But unlike normal games, they have to hide and be nice to eachother in secret.