Communities that ruined the game.

[DSD12]

Metal Gear Online everyone so high leveled and acted like elitists that i quit it was a decent game though

 

[Chased]

WoW's community has gone to hell, not that it was ever that decent.

As someone mentioned before, the whole "cosmetic" thing in TF2 has gone way too far.

 

[Radeonx]

I'd say Halo, but it isn't as bad as Call of Duty.
I've encountered many more 8 year old kids who scream "fag" at me in Call of Duty.

I'd also like to nominate many of the hardcore Valve fanboys.

sorry your point holds no water. you state in no way how valve fan boys ruined their games, and I assume were talking about multiplayer, other wise your just pulling stuff out of your ass because you feel like it.

The ones that I have such distaste for treat every game associated with Valve as the second coming. When the games they worship so much get criticism, the critic is clearly just an immature 14 year old with no sense of artistic value. I mean, he disagrees with them, so he's clearly an imbecile. They are also incredibly obnoxious and snobby towards non Valve games.
Granted, this isn't everyone, but attitudes like these still are incredibly annoying.

 

[icame]

Wow because my raiding guild, while really good (Downed litchking heroic), were complete assholes. I would somehow get insulted about how I was playing, from someone who was playing a class who had recently gotten a buff, while I was playing a class generally seen a complete shit, he had better gear, and more experience then me, yet I was pulling more dps then him by miles and he's trying to tell me how to play and telling me I suck?


The only thing I miss is talking to some buddies I had on there...

 

[imperialreign]

Most communities have a very loud very obnoxious minority. This small portion ruins the image of the rest of the community. Every now and then I run into nice people on MW2, but more often then not I see a lot of "Fag, noob, hax, etc.". It's rather depressing.
I try and do my little bit to educate these people but it's not worth it. I start every game with "glhf", compliment people on sweet kills and end with a "gg". Every now and then I get pissed off and rage at these retards with their constant whining and bitching and generally disrespectful behaviour.
I run with a CoD clan at the moment, I'm sort of a regular, despite having other priorities lately. They're really nice guys and you don't find any of this "1337" rubbish, it's a shame the whole community isn't like it.

Agreed. But, TBH, I don't really see much of a problem in the PC communities. On the vast majority of servers I've played on you see the good points all the time. Other players constantly complimenting each other on skillful maneuvers, jokingly egging each other (none of that childish crap you see elsewher), matches end with numerous plays stating good game, etc.

IDK, man . . . I took a break from MW for about 8 months, and just this last weekend decided to hop back on my usual haunt. It's a pretty bad-ass feeling that after 8 months you can jump into a 42 player match, recognize 1/3 of the players, and have them welcome you back as well. Your skills might get a little rusty after such a hiatus, but the comraderie doesn't.

 

[Flamma Man]

Portal, Jesus fucking Christ.

I love the game with all my heart, but just hearing everyone going on about the cake and singing the ending song, just about turns me off from the game completely.

I don't even get why people keep quoting "The cake is a lie!"

I don't even think they were making any sort of joke with that one off line. It was written by a man whose sanity was degrading and was just showing his braking point.

I don't even know why people thought it was funny.

I just fucking hope that the jokes/set pieces that come with Portal 2 don't get fucking quoted to death. I actually want to enjoy the game without anyone saying "You monster!" over and over again.

Christ.

 

[Zhukov]

Depends.

By "community", do you mean the multiplayer constituency or the fanbase?

If the former, then basically every multiplayer FPS ever. Especially if you're playing on XBL. PC games like L4D can be something of a crap shoot as well. If you get people willing to cooperate and work together then it's an absolute blast, even if they aren't very good. Otherwise its just bloody horrible.

As for fanbases... well, they've never bothered me. It's not hard to ignore them. However, I know a lot of people get put off by the more zealous Valve and Bioware fans. Can't say I blame them either, despite loving both those studios.

 

[Konatacalypse]

Halo.

My dear God Halo.

You stopped lurking jsut for that?

Welcome!

Anyway, meh, I guess some communities ruin the experience for me. Rome Total War has some massive tools on there. Starcraft 1 was really daunting to try to get into and I quit.

But most games have amazing communities. Other than multiplayer Total War's Modding community is amazing. The entire Starcraft 2 population for the most part is amazing as long as your balls are big enough that you don't rage quit from a little cheese.

i dont' play online FPS' waiting for Battlefield 3's PS3 reviews to come in and the game to be released to decide if I want to join in on the fragging or not.

My comptuer's too shit to play TF2 or Left 4 Dead : (

Well that first bit made me lol.


I really do think Halo's (Namely 2 and 3's) multiplayer was severely hampered because of the community, although it did get better after MW2 was released it was still the thing that made me hate the halo franchise for a long while.

Also wile I'm thinking about it, the only real reason I quit WoW was because the RP community was full of vampires, cat girls, and griefers.

 

[Sejs Cube]

Sonic. The. Hedgehog.

*shudder* UuuUUugh, that fanbase.

Also to a lesser extent, FF7. But seriously nothing, -NOTHING- is as bad as the Sonic fanbase.

 

[Hawk eye1466]

Bad Company 2.

For fucks sake people. Stop fucking camping when you're the attacking team!

I've been playing Bad Company 2 since it came out. What are these campers you speak of?

i think he means the idiots that think they can snipe cant and only about 3 people are actively trying to win the objectives

 

[Infernai]

Star wars Galaxies: The Fanbase (And poor PR) basically ruined this game.

The Sonic Fanbase: DEAR GOD, 98% of this lot of schizophrenic psycho's destroy everything they set eyes on and completely ruined the series for me (Aside from the creators ofcourse)...now if you'll excuse me, i have to go hide before The sonic fans kill me *flees*

 

[Buccura]

Easy targets but Halo and Call of Duty. And probably Final Fantasy, though Square seems to be doing that job for them these days.

 

[Supp]

DotA. Oh god DotA. Half the games don't make it past five minutes because someone dies once and ragequits, and three quarters of the players have no idea what they're doing. Still, one eighth of the games are fantastic, so I grudgingly continue to slog through the crap in search of those few shining diamonds in the rough.

You should play league of legends. It's by the same guys who made DotA, and has a much better community. I personally think that league is better than DotA, so try it out!
OT: Halo. Trolls trolls trolls. I hate all them trolls.

For the record, the guy who made LoL (Steve Freak) only worked on DotA before it got popular. Also, the main issue with DotA is that because there's no ladder on battle.net (where all new players start) they'll inevitably get stuck playing with veterans. And DotA is a game where if you do badly, its actually worse for your team than if you just weren't playing. So its all around frustrating. Hopefully Valve will fix this when they come out with DOTA 2.

 

[Skyline16]

MAG, people complained so much about things that zipper had to fix them
this led to a huge dropout issue that we know have

 

[Paragon Fury]

All I have to say is "barren's chat," and for anyone that's played WoW, they know exactly what I'm talking about.

Never has there been a chat room purposely made for trolling like this one. The amount of trolling that goes on there are legendary.

Did someone say Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker?!


Also, any PC game I play, ever.

Perhaps its just because I'm the anti-thesis of everything the PC gaming community is, but I'm pretty sure I've earned more vote kicks, bans, bad feedback and hate spam than most online.

And its not because I'm a dick either; I get it because I'm too good (or too bad, depending on the game), and I don't bend for any server or clan BS.

 

[Connor1711]

GOW 2. GOW 1, perhaps due to my immaturity at the time, is one of my best and most played games I can remember. Then GOW 2 came out and the apparent lack of any community (at least in Australia) meant I couldn't get any games and totally ruined it for me.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Starcraft 2, I liked the original Starcraft and I got into the beta, then I realized that everybody who plays starcraft multiplayer is a douchebag with no grasp on the concept of good sportmanship, then I stopped playing. I never bought the game, thanks for saving me 60 euro, Blizz!

And now we wait for the flames to roll in.

I don't play games online, but from what I can tell just from visiting the Escapist here and hearing people whine, I think the same could be said about EVERY FUCKING GAME THAT HAS ONLINE MULTIPLAYER.
...Hence why I don't play games online. Also that's hardly Blizzards fault.

WOW 12 MINUTES! A NEW PERSONAL BEST

You have a point, but in my opinion none is worse than the starcraft 2 multiplayer. Look at CoD, You have fratdicks and angry thirteen year olds playing along with nerds and such. Annoying, but tolerable, while starcraft 2's multiplayer base is made up entirely of nerds being dickheads.
One time during the beta, I had an opponent leave the game because I couldn't tell him how many "operations per second" I could do, It was my second game.

And that's my beef with online strategy games, it's not long before the "strategy" part of the game goes out of the window and into the ground, instead you have 'how fast you can execute the first order operative' matches.

Oh, and I wasn't blaming Blizzard, I was thanking them for giving me the insight not to buy a game for nerds with self-diagnosed "mental issues".

"Operations per second?" "first order operative?" What?

In any case I'll have to take your word for it as I haven't played a game online since Dark Forces II YEARS ago.
Also may I draw your attention to the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory. [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/3/19/]

and that is EXACTLY what I'm talking about.

"Operations Per Second" haven't heard this of this one either, I'm assuming it is how fast you can do shit in starcraft.

"First order Operative" My bad, I used the wrong term, it's late. I've fixed my original post with the right term and an edit explaining it.

Oh "first order optimal strategy" that makes sense. In other words, who can Zerg Rush who the fastest. Gotchta. ¬_¬

As for "Operations Per Second", yeah kinda what I figured it meant too, but wasn't sure. I can't imagine how that'd be determined though. And unless you're an android or fucking Superman, I can't imagine your "Operations per Second" would be very high; and even then, if I recall my time playing Starcraft, you spent a lot of time waiting on stuff. "We require more minerals" "We require more Vespine Gas" Construct additional Cylons... er I mean Pylons. :Þ

Also your explanation regarding nerds was unnecessary, I got what you meant.

 

[Savagezion]

Well, Minecraft is getting there. Gimme a couple more months of trying to deal with it and we'll see if they are successful or not.

Final Fantasy.

 

[Mallefunction]

-Final Fantasy
-Halo
-WoW
-CoD
-Anything Valve

I only played single player for all of these (of course, FF is pretty much only single player anyway, but that's beside the point) so I don't have any online horror stories, but god...NOT liking these games or being BAD at them gets you fucking crucified anywhere on the internet.

 

[thepyrethatburns]

Half-Life 2.

Oddly, the honorable mention goes to another Valve game:
Left 4 Dead. (I can still play versus but Co-Op with randoms is to be avoided like the plague.)

How does Half Life 2 qualify if it's only a single player game? Are you talking about the Church of Freeman effect? I'll admit, I love HL2. I do think it's one of the top 5 games of the 2000s. I'm very much anticipating Episode 3. And I think just it's plain fun. But you know what? There are plenty of other games I'm anticipating, there are many other franchises I love just as much or better (BioShock comes to mind). So I feel ya on the extreme fanboy-ism of that game. Also I've never tried Left 4 Dead co-op, so thanks for the heads-up. I'll have to give a go a my friends house before I buy the game.

The title was "Communities that ruined the game" which I interpreted as not necessarily multiplayer.

First off, there was the overreaction by the community when the code got swiped and Lord help you if you were on any board including ones that were for completely different games and you made a comment indicating that this was not the worst thing to happen to all of humanity because an army of HL2 players would descend upon you like the black cloud of locusts that they were.

Then (and this may have been only on Gamefaqs) there was the numerous board invasions. In the monthes leading up to HL2's release, the community would invade the board of any FPS no matter how bad (Seriously? You guys felt threatened by You Are Empty?) or good the game was and talk about how absolutely crap the game was next to the coming glory of Half-Life 2. Eventually, people would be driven away from the boards and, often, the game itself. This became a sore point for me with Sin Episodes. Okay, it had some issues and it inadvertantly showed me something that I REALLY don't like about Steam but did it need to be trolled 24/7 even before the game was released in an attempt to get people to save their money for HL2? I don't think so. In fact, that's one of the reasons that I get a laugh out of Episode 3's interminable delays. I believe the HL2 community was one of the reasons that Sin Episodes stopped at 1 so I enjoy the karma inherent in the HL2 community not getting their episode. Perhaps that is petty of me but I never claimed sainthood.

The list goes on. (Eventually, I did rent the Orange Box despite having already bought Portal. I found HL2 distinctly "feh" but, much like MGS, I'm not part of the cult so take that how you will.)