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Worst community in any MMORPG?
shinjorai
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Whats the worst community of any game youve ever played in and why?
IVe played quite a few different mmorpgs and it seems to me WOW has to be the hands down most immature and rude community ive ever seen. My previous game experience includes COH/COV, guildwars, LOTRO, UltimaOnline, AnarchyOnline, DAOC, SWG. Dark and Light and now Tabula Rasa. I try to be patient and understanding but after a while you cant take anymore less QQ more PEWPEW etc on and on and on every singlle day, not to mention half the battlegrounds being AFK everytime u go into one. To get ahead in these games it takes months and months of constant grinding etc, only to have your enjoyment of the game itself ruined by spoiled brats who have nothing better to do than be assholes just for the sake of doing so. I was just curious to hear some of your stories about bad experiences in online gaming so i can maybe compare notes with you. And also any ideas you think might would help the game companies prevent these kind of communities in their games (if anything). Ive met some really great peopel in wow who were really nice helpful etc. But the majority of the people are greedy and very immature and its time i moved on to another game. Anyways just looking for some input on this and to hear your thoughts if anything. BTW i do realize theres always going to be rude immature people everywhere that's a given. Just i have seen very helpful game communites as a whole and i think its a shame some games have devolved into this.
Thanks ahead of time for your input.
Kage
PS please list whatever games arent on the poll, sorry can only add so many to choose from. ALso just ebcause a game is in the poll doesnt mean i think it has a bad community its just to give the option.
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I would have to agree with you on WoW. Hands down the worst community I have ever seen in any game.
I enjoy playing WoW but is has the worst community I have ever been involved with and I have transferred servers three times trying to find a decent one. DAoC had the best I had ever dealt with and as for CoH/CoV honestly didn't really get any sense of community.
I would have to say WoW - very closely followed by Guild Wars and CoH/V
Best communities have to be LOTRO and (at one point, not anymore) SWG
WOW has the most immature community, mostly because it has the most players. But overall, it's friendly.
Everquest 2 has the rudest community; just a lot of know-it-all snobs. Lots of the "big-man-in-the-fantasy-world, but little-man-in-the-real-world" syndrome.
Worst community I ever experienced for idiocy would be WoW -- but that's sort of to be expected, because so many genuine children play it.
Worst community for hostility? EVE Online, hands down.
I know that's a rough "fend-for-yourself" game, but I'm not talking about in-game ganking or anything. I'm talking about asking for help in the in-game Noob Help channel, and still getting hate-raped (and having to /block certain private harrassing tells) because certain vet players lurking there couldn't believe I didn't understand how crafting worked, or where a certain location was, after X hours of play. You gotta expect a bit of grief sometimes in online games, but this was unreal.
Friendliest? City of Heroes (Victory server) and LOTRO (Meneldor server)
Those who say WoW has the worst community clearly haven't played f2p mmorpg's, which i doubt in most cases. Then there's the people who think they get some sort of leet status bashing wow.
I'm not saying WoW has a good community, but it's far from worst imo. Oh, and i play on the EU servers, maybe it's different on the other side of the pond.
Must just be me, I never had a problem with the "WOW" community. I met and gamed with some very cool people there, (both young and old) and have few complaints.
GW's was my choice, mostly because there didn't really seem to be a community......
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WoW by FAR has the worst of any pay-to-play game. In fact if Blizzard banned people for being rude brats they would lose 90% of their customers.
MapleStory has the worst community IMO. Most of the community there are assholes and tell you to fuck off, and some of them are even worse than that. I have been threatened there once by a stranger who told me that he will rape me if I won't give him my items. Also, the community there seem to be very arrogant and ignorant and won't hesitate to start spouting profanities at you simply if you are in their presence. In general, the game is very fun and addictive, and the only thing that screws it is the community. Other than that, everything else is great.
From my vast personal MMO experience I would have to say by far the worst community is within WoW.
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EQ2 is an elitist community. Just read the forum on this site and see how rude they are to anyone who questions anything about the game.
I call BS on this one ive yet to see anything like this in EvE. It is true you do get a lot of spamming in the noob channels but the spam is usually just isk famer accounts and people asking questions [noobs].
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Retired from: Neocron, Everquest, Everquest 2, Guild Wars, RF Online and Final Fantasy VII
Currently Playing : EvE Online.
EQ2 and Shadowbane have their share of snobs and such, but per capita World of Warcraft has the largest share bar none, not to mention the high degree of immaturity.
WoW by faaar, from this point | | to this one.
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The Shadowbane community was so bad they actually had to get rid of the general chat channel
Now you can only speak to your guild, or your class
I call BS on this one ive yet to see anything like this in EvE. It is true you do get a lot of spamming in the noob channels but the spam is usually just isk famer accounts and people asking questions [noobs].
Well, in all fairness, the community was very helpful to me when I started out but I noticed that folks who asked questions that made it obvious that they skipped the tutorial were harshly reprimanded and told to go back to it.
I never really had anyone rudely answer any question I've asked, even now in local I can still get a decent answer.
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Runescape... 'noob','n00b','nub','omfg noob' etc...
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By far, i would say WoW. Just logging into this P2P game and getting bombarded with duel requests and party invites with people that tell me your a noob and download some wow hacks at such and such site.
World of warcraft by a mile... you could argue that runescape is worse but in all honesty, most people who play rs are like under 16. Take WoW, there are loads of older players who play it and they act so stupid and immature. The worst thing i've seen ingame, is a 33 year old feeling all high and mighty by arguing and beating a 14 year old in a debate.... that pretty much sums up the current state of the WoW community to me.
I'd have to say WoW had the worst community. The Roleplay servers were much better, but not by far. I've seen many times while in an instance and almost 90% completed, someone from the group with a critical role as a Priest / healer leaves the group without any warning that they needed to do so before we made the initial run.
Eve-Online, EQ2, DnL, SWG (Dead), Guild Wars, Anarchy Online, EQ, DAoC, Planet Side, WoW, LOTR, Tabula Rasa.
I'd say the worst community is a tie between WoW, Runescape and maplestory. Nice to see WoW at 76% in the poll lol.
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Lol... that makes sense. Oxymoron.
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I am going to go out on a mathematical limb and say the games with the largest playerbases will have the largest volume of asshats, and consequently the worst communities.
50 morons are annoying; 500 morons are obnoxious, 5,000 morons are maddening; 500,000 morons are unbearable.
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I know it's not out yet but I'd say Darkfall has the worst community ever. Go to their forums and just try to ask a question or say something you'll be flamed 10 ways from Sunday.
So DFO WORST community you could possibly imagine, hopefully most of them go away.