Most unfriendly online community
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As a longtime WoW player, I wouldn't say its community is hostile or unfriendly, just mind-numbingly stupid. As far as the forums go (I have trade chat muted unless I need something specific, which is rare), there are basically three camps:
1) The experienced folks who write sticky guides and contribute to the general theorycraft of the game;
2) The folks (like myself) who know a lot about the game, contribute periodically, but mostly toss around punchlines and mildly offensive statements;
3) The people who refuse to do any kind of independent reading (which ironically generally takes less time to do than it does to post a questions) and assume that the forum exists to wait on them hand and foot, under the impression that games shouldn't require that kind of effort.
Camp 1 keeps to itself for the most part in a kind of super-clique. Camp 2 is everywhere the action is, like a stolen Visa card. Camp 3, in my experience, comprises the majority of the community, creates the dumbest threads, complains the most while being simultaneously the least informed, and has the worst reading comprehension this side of grade school. Naturally, Camp 3 gets eaten alive. The only reason Camps 1 and 2 are considered hostile is because while they still want to help the new kids, their patience for the self-entitled laziness of Camp 3 is basically nonexistent. And why shouldn't it be? Updated information is within a 10 second Google search; is it really that hard to believe that your question has already been asked by someone else in the 11 million people who play?
Non-gamer communities? HolyTaco and CollegeHumor are some of the best arguments in favor of abortion that I've ever seen.
1) The experienced folks who write sticky guides and contribute to the general theorycraft of the game;
2) The folks (like myself) who know a lot about the game, contribute periodically, but mostly toss around punchlines and mildly offensive statements;
3) The people who refuse to do any kind of independent reading (which ironically generally takes less time to do than it does to post a questions) and assume that the forum exists to wait on them hand and foot, under the impression that games shouldn't require that kind of effort.
Camp 1 keeps to itself for the most part in a kind of super-clique. Camp 2 is everywhere the action is, like a stolen Visa card. Camp 3, in my experience, comprises the majority of the community, creates the dumbest threads, complains the most while being simultaneously the least informed, and has the worst reading comprehension this side of grade school. Naturally, Camp 3 gets eaten alive. The only reason Camps 1 and 2 are considered hostile is because while they still want to help the new kids, their patience for the self-entitled laziness of Camp 3 is basically nonexistent. And why shouldn't it be? Updated information is within a 10 second Google search; is it really that hard to believe that your question has already been asked by someone else in the 11 million people who play?
Non-gamer communities? HolyTaco and CollegeHumor are some of the best arguments in favor of abortion that I've ever seen.
I thought id take a look at the /b/ 4chan section after all the posting on this thread.... I feel violated!
The comments barely related to most of the pictures but im pretty sure that half the pictures on there are illegal in most of the world if not the whole world! This site exists freely?
O.T: for the shear trolling and amount of hate id have to give youtube my vote. Dont think ive seen a single video that hasnt got some dick trying to make out its the worst video/song/film ever made and tear it down in every direction.
The comments barely related to most of the pictures but im pretty sure that half the pictures on there are illegal in most of the world if not the whole world! This site exists freely?
O.T: for the shear trolling and amount of hate id have to give youtube my vote. Dont think ive seen a single video that hasnt got some dick trying to make out its the worst video/song/film ever made and tear it down in every direction.
Completely agree with you there, I play it all the time LAN with buddies, and while waiting I scan the chat logs... my god, I don't think I have seen a single piece of chat there that has anything to do with tactics or battle reports, or even playing the game in generalII2 said:
Id say heroes of newerth, damn the smallest mistake get u flamed straight to hell. sometimes even when u dont do anything wrong and its the other guys fault u still get flamed. on a side note alot of ppl complain about Runescape, i almost nvr run into runescape trolls, and scammers r pretty much nonexistent do to the trade changes.
MW2. After hearing the guys who play on Battlefield Bad Company 1/2 and see them actually giving health packs, you realize how awful MW2's community is.
The worst community I'd have played with would definitely be Modern Warfare 2. Why? On the Xbox at least, they don't allow party chat for most of the game types, so you're stuck playing Cage Match or Mercenary Team if you want to talk with people who aren't pretentious arrogant fuck faces, or 13-year old versions of them who ROOOOOOOOOOAR into their mike and call you a ****** just because you don't agree with them, or something like that. It's like Infinity Ward basically threw a whole million-member community of trolls under a bridge and gave them only one chicken leg to feed themselves on.
That's why I sold MW2. Oh, and it sucked lots of ass. That was the other reason. >__>
That's why I sold MW2. Oh, and it sucked lots of ass. That was the other reason. >__>
This goes without question.
Xbox. Freaking. Live.
Never have I met such a cesspool of people who are outright jerks to everybody they meet.
Xbox. Freaking. Live.
Never have I met such a cesspool of people who are outright jerks to everybody they meet.
Though it isn't the worst one, the Dawn of War 2 playerbase seems pretty unfriendly.
Every single game I play I get accused of being a FOTM player, no matter what race I use (usually by somebody using the same race). People in "The Last Stand" gamemode seem pretty nice, but matchmaking is filled with idiots who lag the game by setting their graphics upto max on a terrible computer.
Every single game I play I get accused of being a FOTM player, no matter what race I use (usually by somebody using the same race). People in "The Last Stand" gamemode seem pretty nice, but matchmaking is filled with idiots who lag the game by setting their graphics upto max on a terrible computer.
If I can be honest, nearly all of them are uniformly bad for one reason or another. The worse is definitely the chan sites, but that is a particularly unique cesspool, and at no time should it ever be taken seriously.
I like the community here though. Pretty mature, and the mods seem to stay on top of things if the chuckleheads get too out of hand.
I like the community here though. Pretty mature, and the mods seem to stay on top of things if the chuckleheads get too out of hand.
I gotta give XBox live props for all the white guys who pretend they aren't white guys. It's hilarious. For example, a guy came on and his name was "Peso" We asked him why and he says in the fakest mexican accent I've ever heard "'Cuz that's what my boys call me, homes". That's like a white guy calling himself "dollar".
It think it's interesting how little WoW has come up in this thread despite being one of the biggest online communities. The WoW community is far, far, far from perfect but I think it's a (small) tribute to the game that it has manged to avoid too much fire in this thread.
I don't play WoW anymore but I still like to stick up for it from time to time. It's not for me anymore but I still think Blizzard have done a remarkable job with it, and the relatively docile community is just one part of that.
I don't play WoW anymore but I still like to stick up for it from time to time. It's not for me anymore but I still think Blizzard have done a remarkable job with it, and the relatively docile community is just one part of that.
Huh, that's weird. I've been actively noobing the shit out of TF2 since I got it a week ago and I've only been called out on it once. And I was being completely retarded at the time.Jfswift said: