General Discussion

(Note: this is a parody. Any perceived slights are unintentional.)

For the gamer just coming to a 'consolidated' game site like MMORPG.com from a single-game site, the experience can be somewhat daunting. The wild variety of preferences and opinions is volatile, and differences of opinion lead to frequent clashes. Invariably, the t-word is thrown out. Now, I know where you come from, a troll is simply someone who says something inflammatory simply to get a reaction. MMORPG.com has those too, but most trolls here have chosen to specialize. Here's a handy list of some of the more prominent trolls, how to identify them, and how to deal with them. Good Luck!

The 'NGE Hater' is (mostly) a former player of Star Wars Galaxies. Somewhere along the way, the game makers radically changed the game, and a lot of people didn't like it. Apparently, Smedley also went to a lot of gamers' houses, drop-kicked their mothers in the throat, shot their dogs, and took a dump in their dishwashers. Because of this, they're a little perturbed, and their vehemence of SWG is boundless. They can mostly be avoided simply by staying out of the Veteran's Refuge, but some occasionaly form raiding parties into other forums, so it's best to just not say anything positive about SWG.

The 'WoW fanboi' and it's polar opposite, the 'WoW Hater', are either proponents or opponents of World of Warcraft. These two can easily be identified by distinguishing marks; a post containing the words '10 million' come from fanbois (referringing to the game's rather large player base), and most hater posts will contain the word 'noob' at least once (referring to the game's rather large players). There's no point in trying to make either party see a differing point of view; for the WoW proponents, Warcraft is better than God, sex, and sliced bread combined, and it's opponents would rather be poked in the eye with a flaming poo stick than see anything good about this game. Proceed with caution.

The 'F2P Monkeys' have their own smaller subset of trolls, mostly either for or against 'Free to Play' games. Most F2P games have two things that Asian players seem to love, and Western players seem to hate; item shops and repetitive gameplay (known as 'grind', because most Western players would rather rub off their nose with a cheese grater than kill the same monster 11,000 times). F2P Monkeys are generally more docile than NGE Haters or WoW freaks, so feel free to try to initiate discourse, provided you're willing to try to decipher some pretty horrible grammar.

The 'Vapour Fans' are players who are frothing at the mouth over a game that hasn't even come out yet, and most likely never will. These are players who endlessly debate the merits and possiblities of a game based on a single screenshot of concept art that was released in 1992. They particularly don't like 'Flat Earth' analogies. Vapour Fans can sometimes be the most deluded and irrational of all, since they don't even have a game to support, only the idea of a game on a badly-designed and infrequently-updated website. The easiest way to avoid them is to stay out of the Darkfall forums.

There you have it; a brief overview of some of the more prominent trolls here at MMORPG.com. There are many more, but I'll leave the thrill of discovery to you. Enjoy, good luck, and let me be the first to say 'STFU, NOOB!'

I enjoyed the read... it was a good laugh.  Bravo, 2 thumbs up!

At risk at being labelled as a WoW fanboy....  (Over ten million subs btw!!) , I think you should change your WoW fanboy / Hater category to a more generic hater/fanboy category, because there are certainly a fair amount of each for all games, particularly EvE / AoC / WAR / AoC etc, who are as passionate about their games as WoW 'fanboys' are.  This could even be considered a slight against WoW players, since you've singled us out.

But I won't hold it against you :p

That's a very funny read and totally true 10/10

 I like the vapor fans there funny.....wierd but funny.

Know your Trolls people! -  http://www.urban75.com/Mag/troll.html

You forgot one very important group.  The Labelers.  Labelers try to invalidate others opinions by rendering opinions on the posters themselves.   Many of them feel this somehow makes them superior in some way, but not really.

And as much as I dislike haters and fanbois, terminology that I think is really over used, atleast they are passionate about games.  That's why we are here after all.  

Labelers on the other hand, instead of refuting a critique or virtue point by point, will simply label the poster hater or fanboi and be done with it, which is intellectually lazy but maybe reassuring in that their particular opinion remains pristine.

halflings >trolls

You need to add in the latest AoC non-sense to. Like how people who can't get the game to run on their craptastic computer freak out over AoC claiming the game sucks because of poor performance etc.

Originally posted by KaltesHerz

You need to add in the latest AoC non-sense to. Like how people who can't get the game to run on their craptastic computer freak out over AoC claiming the game sucks because of poor performance etc.

Yeah, they should bugger off, really.

Especially since it sucks because of the poor semi-instanced areas. They really did hype the game up too much.

Originally posted by ZsasZ 

The 'Vapour Fans' are players who are frothing at the mouth over a game that hasn't even come out yet, and most likely never will. These are players who endlessly debate the merits and possiblities of a game based on a single screenshot of concept art that was released in 1992. They particularly don't like 'Flat Earth' analogies. Vapour Fans can sometimes be the most deluded and irrational of all, since they don't even have a game to support, only the idea of a game on a badly-designed and infrequently-updated website. The easiest way to avoid them is to stay out of the Darkfall forums.

 

Hah! this bit made me laugh - GJ :)