Hacking is the norm, if you don't hack you're not cool enough for the rest of the community, the devs absolutely refuse to give a s**t.
EDIT: Actually, Haven and Hearth has the worst community. Experienced players make it a point to prey upon new players on purpose just because they want to and they can. Death is permanent and they destroy everything you worked so hard to build. I'd hate to be labeled as racist but it's a well known fact that russians are not to be trusted in that game, they are the most destructive players by far. If you don't believe me or think I'm racist for no reason, play it, look for runestones, they will tell you "beware of russians" if you still don't believe it keep playing, sooner or later a russian will kill you and destroy everything. This has been a proven fact for quite some time and they'll actually admit that they hate american players and single them out on purpose. Nothing is sacred in that game and even 60 year old cold-war tensions still run deep, even in today's society. That game's community is a reflection of the worst part of all human beings and it brings out the worst in all of us.
DOUBLE EDIT: Actually, once I think about it, the racial aggressions from the russians is probably fueled by equal aggression from americans. I'm not exactly sure who started the racial conflicts in Haven and Hearth but it's turned into a full-scale genocidal crusade by both sides. This game's community is actually extremely caustic to the goals of world peace and if it were more popular, it would probably be shut down by world governments.
These threads about worst community ever are in just about every game with a decent population. Diffrent people like diffrent communities.
This game has a type of "trolling is fun" mentality, where if you dont take it seriously, or try to act very serious in city chat, things will go fine. Your answers will get responses, along with answers that some would find comical.
Every game has its collection of "macro" phrases and topics, ongoing jokes ect.
Personally i dont really partake in the clownshow, however it doesnt bother me that it exists, its a game, and people are very active in chat and seem to be enjoying themselves. Im glad its there, even if its incredibly retarded conversation 90% of the time, ever now and then someone will get me laughing, which is good. There are serious agencies and places for overly mature gamers to gain refuge.
But the main point highlighted int he OP about the worst community ever, is a problem that i saw in world of tanks. FPS mentality in a game that requires teamwork and player roles. This game doesnt have the high emphasis on player role most of the time, like in WOT, however its very clear fromt he start that people could care less about doing it correctly, and would rather play the PVE and pvp as FPS assault missions, every man for themselves, whoever gets the most kills is winning type of teamwork.
I made the mistake of making a tank spec assault character, only to have recon rush in every room with the medic pinned to him, i walk in, grab aggro with my aggo grabbing gun (not sure if its meant to do that but it does) and end up dead because the medic was concentrating on everyone but the guy whos the easiest to heal, the high defense tank. Try to explain this and you do get ignored 99% of the time, occasionally with someone from other mmorpgs whispering you that theres nothing they can do no one plays the game like that. PvP seems to have its good moments, however walk in with a random team and get a team filled with players whos only goal is to rack up single kills, even if an objective is right htere in front of them, no players to kill they go lookings, forget capping.
So in short, the chat community is active, stuck on a few comedy acts, and generally very unserious, good natured trolls id call them, for whatever its worth ive seen a hell of a lot worse with bad natured trolls. Community in actuall gameplay is well, a bunch of single player FPS'ers for the most part, with the goal of "look at how much i killed im so good" rather than objectives and smooth pve runs.
Get into a competant agency asap and try to group with as many of them as possible for all aspects of the game. Unfortunatly im still looking for one, so i still have it rough.
Originally posted by strangerdangThis game has a type of "trolling is fun" mentality, where if you dont take it seriously, or try to act very serious in city chat, things will go fine. Your answers will get responses, along with answers that some would find comical.
Get into a competant agency asap and try to group with as many of them as possible for all aspects of the game. Unfortunatly im still looking for one, so i still have it rough.
apparently you dont read my reply above
fan of SWG, XCOM, Defiance, Global Agenda, Need For Speed, all Star Wars single player games. And waiting the darn STAR CITIZEN
I concur......the only reason why i dont play or support GA is the community........its awful
Playing: PO, EVE Waiting for: WoD Favourite MMOs: VG, EVE, FE and DDO Any person who expresses rage and loathing for an MMO is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
I have a very effective solution: turn off city chat.
Agreed. The individual agency communities are pretty good actually. It's like any game ever really... it get multiple tiers better when you join a /good/ guild. Pro-tip. If your agency sucks. Find a new one.
Posted this in the wrong thread at first but ill post it here too....
Well its a very good point based FPS game cursed by morons and a horrible community, I always try to help people who ask intelligent questions. But some just ask stupid things that were clearly covered in the tutorial..No patience for those that cant take time and read the tutorial...And when it comes to PVP matches you rarely get a team that knows their roles ...medics are supposed to heal, Assaults stay on point, recons kill turrets, robos set up defenses/turrets..more often than not you get dummies ignoring the objective and just kill farming till they lose the match for the whole team.
Most fps shooters are not for the sqeemish or thin skinned, so be prepared to be bullied cursed at and called a stupid noob by 90% of the veterans there..Its mostly the same with all FPS shooters so go in expecting it.
kills are only a small portion of the games "Star" (ranking) system, you get more points for capturing control points and assists than you do by killing people and most people dont realize this and never listen when you tell them the correct way to play..I always use "and that's why i am 5 star and you are 2 star" when they try to argue this fact with me.
Dome/city chat is childish and an immature troll fest, but I dont bother with them, i gather the few people who know what they are doing into a team and go have fun in pvp matches, we usually slaughter them cause the other team is doing what i said in the previos paragraphs...So basically it can be great fun if you get in with the right agency or others that know how the game works..
Just a few tips from a GA vet, hope you all at least give it a try cause it really is fun once you get into it...
TPS then (Third person shooter) does that make the politically correct nerds happy? as it doesnt matter in this case and most people know what i meant...
no really, i think i found the worst gaming community on the face of the earth.
Heroes of Newerth (HON)
Its a DOTA style RTS/Arena, and holy shit the community is crazy mean.
The funny thing is that they are silent in the global pub, with 40k people signed in, however get into a game, make any number of small mistakes (the game is very difficult to a new player...very) and get raged on hard, sometimes even in broken english.
As far as GA, goes, its just overly silly trolling, and poor teamwork, but not even close to the worst community ever...not by a long shot.
no really, i think i found the worst gaming community on the face of the earth.
Heroes of Newerth (HON)
Its a DOTA style RTS/Arena, and holy shit the community is crazy mean.
The funny thing is that they are silent in the global pub, with 40k people signed in, however get into a game, make any number of small mistakes (the game is very difficult to a new player...very) and get raged on hard, sometimes even in broken english.
As far as GA, goes, its just overly silly trolling, and poor teamwork, but not even close to the worst community ever...not by a long shot.
I have to agree - those guys in HoN are vicious. I've never come across such a foul, immature, and disgusting community. You'd better not die...EVER, or you'll have some 12-year-old spamming chat with such rage that it shatters the fabric of reality.
while i agree with the OP about GA having a horrible community. for me tho it comes in second, AoC Tyranny server had the worst community i ever encountered.
the whole reason i don't play GA is the community, i enjoyed the game itself, tho a bit repeatitive.
I've never played GA but i really doubt its community is worse than Halo 3
words can not describe the rage fests and "pro" trash talk I've seen in that game.
For the most part though.. games like Halo 3 or GA if the community is full of whiny 13 year olds but you still want to play it.. just turn off the chat and do your thing
Even in games filled with retards you can still find a few people who aren't complete douches.. so I'm sure it's possible to enjoy GA if you can ignore 90% of the community ^^
Today was the first time I played GA, and there were some that did answer my questions. One person even guided me for a little bit in a mission. Not the whole community is bad, you might find a few good people who aren't idiots
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i play tha game for 5 days and im in a guild and i stuck in KOFA mision as we speak.
NOBODY I MEAN NOBOSY help when i asking in guild or local chat if there is any mission after it.
WTH?? Its a question, i dont ask/beg for help, just a simple darn question
worstest community? I'll say WHAT community? Even the dogs when they hear a voice they bark
Conquer Online.
Hacking is the norm, if you don't hack you're not cool enough for the rest of the community, the devs absolutely refuse to give a s**t.
EDIT: Actually, Haven and Hearth has the worst community. Experienced players make it a point to prey upon new players on purpose just because they want to and they can. Death is permanent and they destroy everything you worked so hard to build. I'd hate to be labeled as racist but it's a well known fact that russians are not to be trusted in that game, they are the most destructive players by far. If you don't believe me or think I'm racist for no reason, play it, look for runestones, they will tell you "beware of russians" if you still don't believe it keep playing, sooner or later a russian will kill you and destroy everything. This has been a proven fact for quite some time and they'll actually admit that they hate american players and single them out on purpose. Nothing is sacred in that game and even 60 year old cold-war tensions still run deep, even in today's society. That game's community is a reflection of the worst part of all human beings and it brings out the worst in all of us.
DOUBLE EDIT: Actually, once I think about it, the racial aggressions from the russians is probably fueled by equal aggression from americans. I'm not exactly sure who started the racial conflicts in Haven and Hearth but it's turned into a full-scale genocidal crusade by both sides. This game's community is actually extremely caustic to the goals of world peace and if it were more popular, it would probably be shut down by world governments.
Is there a game that has NOT had a similar thread?
at least in other games i had an answer, small incomplete but i had, not this shit like GA
Welcome to shooters, the preferred refuge of the 4chan-spawned disease.
City chat is EXACTLY the same as the barrens chat on my pre-BC PvP server (spinebreaker). Eerily the same. It just has different bad inside jokes.
The new one is lying to people about the "jungle zone".
The main thing is GA's main chat is the barren chat, whereas in WoW it was relegated to one particular not that important zone.
Its just a bunch of jobbers trying to troll each other and not really succeeding but thinking they are so awesome that it must be working.
Look if you are goign to post an ad at least have the courtesy not to post incomprehensible nonsense.
These threads about worst community ever are in just about every game with a decent population. Diffrent people like diffrent communities.
This game has a type of "trolling is fun" mentality, where if you dont take it seriously, or try to act very serious in city chat, things will go fine. Your answers will get responses, along with answers that some would find comical.
Every game has its collection of "macro" phrases and topics, ongoing jokes ect.
Personally i dont really partake in the clownshow, however it doesnt bother me that it exists, its a game, and people are very active in chat and seem to be enjoying themselves. Im glad its there, even if its incredibly retarded conversation 90% of the time, ever now and then someone will get me laughing, which is good. There are serious agencies and places for overly mature gamers to gain refuge.
But the main point highlighted int he OP about the worst community ever, is a problem that i saw in world of tanks. FPS mentality in a game that requires teamwork and player roles. This game doesnt have the high emphasis on player role most of the time, like in WOT, however its very clear fromt he start that people could care less about doing it correctly, and would rather play the PVE and pvp as FPS assault missions, every man for themselves, whoever gets the most kills is winning type of teamwork.
I made the mistake of making a tank spec assault character, only to have recon rush in every room with the medic pinned to him, i walk in, grab aggro with my aggo grabbing gun (not sure if its meant to do that but it does) and end up dead because the medic was concentrating on everyone but the guy whos the easiest to heal, the high defense tank. Try to explain this and you do get ignored 99% of the time, occasionally with someone from other mmorpgs whispering you that theres nothing they can do no one plays the game like that. PvP seems to have its good moments, however walk in with a random team and get a team filled with players whos only goal is to rack up single kills, even if an objective is right htere in front of them, no players to kill they go lookings, forget capping.
So in short, the chat community is active, stuck on a few comedy acts, and generally very unserious, good natured trolls id call them, for whatever its worth ive seen a hell of a lot worse with bad natured trolls. Community in actuall gameplay is well, a bunch of single player FPS'ers for the most part, with the goal of "look at how much i killed im so good" rather than objectives and smooth pve runs.
Get into a competant agency asap and try to group with as many of them as possible for all aspects of the game. Unfortunatly im still looking for one, so i still have it rough.
apparently you dont read my reply above
I concur......the only reason why i dont play or support GA is the community........its awful
Playing: PO, EVE
Waiting for: WoD
Favourite MMOs: VG, EVE, FE and DDO
Any person who expresses rage and loathing for an MMO is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
I have a very effective solution: turn off city chat.
Agreed. The individual agency communities are pretty good actually. It's like any game ever really... it get multiple tiers better when you join a /good/ guild. Pro-tip. If your agency sucks. Find a new one.
Posted this in the wrong thread at first but ill post it here too....
Well its a very good point based FPS game cursed by morons and a horrible community, I always try to help people who ask intelligent questions. But some just ask stupid things that were clearly covered in the tutorial..No patience for those that cant take time and read the tutorial...And when it comes to PVP matches you rarely get a team that knows their roles ...medics are supposed to heal, Assaults stay on point, recons kill turrets, robos set up defenses/turrets..more often than not you get dummies ignoring the objective and just kill farming till they lose the match for the whole team.
Most fps shooters are not for the sqeemish or thin skinned, so be prepared to be bullied cursed at and called a stupid noob by 90% of the veterans there..Its mostly the same with all FPS shooters so go in expecting it.
kills are only a small portion of the games "Star" (ranking) system, you get more points for capturing control points and assists than you do by killing people and most people dont realize this and never listen when you tell them the correct way to play..I always use "and that's why i am 5 star and you are 2 star" when they try to argue this fact with me.
Dome/city chat is childish and an immature troll fest, but I dont bother with them, i gather the few people who know what they are doing into a team and go have fun in pvp matches, we usually slaughter them cause the other team is doing what i said in the previos paragraphs...So basically it can be great fun if you get in with the right agency or others that know how the game works..
Just a few tips from a GA vet, hope you all at least give it a try cause it really is fun once you get into it...
Just a quick correction... GA is not a FPS.
TPS then (Third person shooter) does that make the politically correct nerds happy? as it doesnt matter in this case and most people know what i meant...
I don't remember anyone calling out CoX, Lotro, or Vanguard for having the worst community.
no really, i think i found the worst gaming community on the face of the earth.
Heroes of Newerth (HON)
Its a DOTA style RTS/Arena, and holy shit the community is crazy mean.
The funny thing is that they are silent in the global pub, with 40k people signed in, however get into a game, make any number of small mistakes (the game is very difficult to a new player...very) and get raged on hard, sometimes even in broken english.
As far as GA, goes, its just overly silly trolling, and poor teamwork, but not even close to the worst community ever...not by a long shot.
I have to agree - those guys in HoN are vicious. I've never come across such a foul, immature, and disgusting community. You'd better not die...EVER, or you'll have some 12-year-old spamming chat with such rage that it shatters the fabric of reality.
while i agree with the OP about GA having a horrible community. for me tho it comes in second, AoC Tyranny server had the worst community i ever encountered.
the whole reason i don't play GA is the community, i enjoyed the game itself, tho a bit repeatitive.
I've never played GA but i really doubt its community is worse than Halo 3
words can not describe the rage fests and "pro" trash talk I've seen in that game.
For the most part though.. games like Halo 3 or GA if the community is full of whiny 13 year olds but you still want to play it.. just turn off the chat and do your thing
Even in games filled with retards you can still find a few people who aren't complete douches.. so I'm sure it's possible to enjoy GA if you can ignore 90% of the community ^^
I've never played. What makes the community so bad? Is it annoying spam or chat? Or can others bug you with in-game mechanics as well?
Today was the first time I played GA, and there were some that did answer my questions. One person even guided me for a little bit in a mission. Not the whole community is bad, you might find a few good people who aren't idiots