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WoW:community immature or mature?(poll inside)
BobCrazyton
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I've heard people say bad things about the community in WoW. Some say it's good some says it's bad some say they don't care or like the immature people.
What do you think?
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I think it depends where you are looking. I haven't seen a lot of the sort of things you hear about where I play, but I won't say that there aren't servers where things are bad. I wouldn't know, since I don't server-hop. For all I know, there are obnoxious people on my server, but they're all in another area or playing Alliance characters.
Now, as for the forums... I have heard bad things, but I don't go there either.
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This is where I draw the line: __________________.
Worst. MMORPG. Community. Ever.
I have yet to see anything happen in WoW that I didn't see in EQ1. And WoW won't let you KS, so it is in some ways a little less hostile than EQ1. So, please, explain how it is the worst ever.
Or is it just the worst ever where YOU happen to be playing, and that horrible community is completely avoiding ME?
[EDIT: Punctuation is my friend.]
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This is where I draw the line: __________________.
I think most people think community in WoW sux because of the stuff being posted on the official forums. My advice to everyone, dont read those. Is garbage.
I am the type of player where I like to do everything and anything from time to time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor - pre-WW2 genocide.
I play WoW, the comminuty 'isnt the worst-of-the-worst ' but imo its pretty bad..
People who ignore you, i find irritating. Happens to me, if you civilized say hi to somebody and get zero responce from him, while hes not even afk... I call that a bad comminuty. I started on Horde server said hi to like 10 people? no1 had the manners to say hi back.. i;ve also met some immaturity, but bassicly it depends on the persons personality.. and i just think WoW attract (alot) of young kids who r usually immature.
I find myself more and more just grouping with guildies. In most of the "pick-up" parties I get into, there always seems to be one ass. Whether it is a mage rolling on a plate item that a warrior needs(even though beforehand we agrred to the looting rules), an enchanter who thinks just because he can enchant he gets everything, or someone who just doesn't know the basics of his class, etc., there is someone that blows it for the rest of the party.
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-- Ken Olson, chairman of Digital Equipment Corp, 1977
A bit touchy there are we?
Anyway, I personaly dont consider bad community just because someone didnt say HI or THNX to me. I simply ignore that person back and never talk/help that person out. I agree with the looting stuff u dont use, that is pretty annoying and rude. Its easy to avoid them though.. kick them out of the group, nobody likes those types of people so it shouldnt be a problem. The only time i realy experienced a bad community is actualy yesterday, when i was hunting trolls in Hinterlands, and this hunter comes in and shoots the troll right after I hit it. Needless to say i got the tag and kill, that person does /angry at me... so, next mob im approaching in stealth, and right when im about to strike it that hunter pulls it away from me. I decloak and type LOL then /angry - meaning i m angry in a playfull, not serious way... what that person does? types F@G and starts arguing with me that im trying to KS him blah blah. I tried to expalin to him that there is noKSing in this game, whoever taps the mob first, gets the credit with no obvious result. So, after "talking" with that person for about 1-2 minutes, i do a quick /ignore and BOOM, no more troubles. I just avoid being near that person so that I, god forbid, KS him again
Thats the only real bad community episode that I ever had. I dunno why people take it so personal about not saying Hi or THNX. Its no biggie to me.
Peace
I am the type of player where I like to do everything and anything from time to time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor - pre-WW2 genocide.
If it was just the forums where the WoW community was awful, that'd be okay. And I'll readily admit that the forums do indeed attract the dregs of the community, by and large.
But it's a problem ingame too. From constant %&$@%@ and/or slapfights in the General channel, to people griefing by killing bankers/quest mobs/etc on PvE servers, to general lack of any idea how to play an MMORPG, the community in WoW unequivocally sucks.
And don't get me started on the amount of lootwhoring in this game. It far surpasses any other MMORPG I've ever played.
The whole point of the dice system is that people can roll if they want a chance to get something. If you prefer "need before greed", then join or start groups where the looting option is set to "need before greed". That's why it's there.
Just because someone plays a warrior it doesn't automatically cancel out anyone elses right to roll on an item they could make use of. Whether they want to auction or disenchant it, they have just as much right to roll on the item as you do.
Whenever I join a group with my warrior enchanter I'll say "I roll on everything I can disenchant". If anyone has a problem with that, then it's up for discussion (although so far, not one single person has had a problem, probably because I give away free enchants to everyone as soon as I group up).
You obviously prefer to play with people who will agree on what they'll roll on before starting out (which is what I do), but if the dice system is in place and you've discussed and agreed on who rolls on what then there shouldn't be a problem. If people break those agreements then I agree that's a pretty crappy thing to do, but this has never happened to me. How many times would you say it's happened to you? Once? Twice? Five times? Ten times? Every time you play? I honestly doubt it's a lot, but I'd be interested to hear how big a difference there is in our experiences, because you really do seem to be unlucky when it comes to meeting decent people.
Your comment about people who don't know the basics of their class just sounds like your typical MMO snobbery you dragged over from "that other game". Maybe you could give them some friendly advice? I'm sure they'd appreciate it, and hey... you might actually get a positive feeling out of it!
To the original poster, I'd say that the fact that so many different ages and types of people are attracted to WoW actually divides the game into communities rather than just one community.
You have the immature kids, the immature adults, the mature kids, the mature adults, the people who like to speed through the game, the ones who like to take it slowly and appreciate it all, the MMO snobs who need to look down on others, the people who play to help others... all kinds of people.
Yay diversity
I'll have to agree! While I have not played EQ1, I have played and participated in a multitude of mmorpg's/rpg's and I can say that this community has nothing that any other gaming community doesnt. Immature people, of course there will be, hatefull people, of course there will be, people who arent so intelectual that they have to ask every question in the game wether it pertains to the game or not, yes, of course there will be. Is this the only game that has it? Of course not. When i get into a game i've never played before i ask dozons of questions just because i dont know whats going on and I know that is what the community is there for! Sometimes, as we all know, the community can become hostile or "tired" of the same ol routine of asking/answering the exact same questions/comments that were layed out moments, hours, days, or weeks earlier. While it does get irritating, we all have to realize that their are thousands of people in a server, and not everyone can know everything at the same time.
The fact that some people are just assholes in the game with their comments/insults or just their rude behavior, does not mean it is limited to this game! When I find that people on boards and any community site list comments about the unethical behavior in the WoW community, I stop and think about what I just wrote up above and consider that if people are not open-minded enough to realize that this is what goes on in games, than it is that person who is complaining that should consider their intentions on what to complain about.
also, If the complaining and WoW community is " so bad ", thier is no point in complaining about it. Unlike bugs or certain features of a game that is made, organized, controlled and facilitated by the maker of the game, the community cannot be "fixed" or "changed" to act or be "not a bad community". If the whole point of complaining is to make those who have the power in their hands to change such aspects aware of the problem, than complaining about something as trivial as this is purely annoying.
"I fear no enemy! For the Khala is my strength! I fear not death. For our strength is eternal!" - Fenix
Community is by far the worst thing in WoW>:-(
Darn i hate it so much.. It would be a much better game without them.
I really think it ruins the game:(
This game should be called "Romper Room On-line"
It was enough to make me quit. The game is good and all (it's good, it's not the best), but I just couldn't stand playing Romper Room On-line.
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Thx keep them responses coming!!!!
Im either really lucky or alot of people are exagerating, because i havent ran into this "horrible community" you speak of. Now sure ive ran into some idiots, but they have been few and far between. Ive played alot of MMO's and really dont see this game is haveing a horrible community. I ran into alot more jerks in EQ1 than this game. Its funny i know alot people who play, they do not see this as well. wonder how many people are just makeing stuff up just to rant????
WoW is byfar NOT the best community I've been in, BUT ALSO, DEFINANTLY not the worst. It's better than a lot of kiddy free games, and a lot better than games filled with immature punks. Yeah, there are some people who are greedy, or who don't know what the hell they are doing, but that's about all I've seen.
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Lets see, corpse camping, fighting over nodes, whining about not finding something/cost of something/ the weather, bad mouthing people in General, generally being a dork and that's just the adults.
lol while some of these complaints, are valid some are just stupid. Like the killing of enemy NPC's, cmon it takes them what 5 mins to respawn? Thats part of the game, you guys cant complain about just anything.
Nice try though.
I just started and I already see signs of young kids. I logged on for an hour and listened to 2 people, then a couple more argue that his name was ripped off. It was, but it was totally unwarented, the guy just opened up on him in the general chat for no reason and wouldn't stop.
"I fear no enemy! For the Khala is my strength! I fear not death. For our strength is eternal!" - Fenix