WoW's problem is because its so huge, theres many more oppurtunities for stories about douche bags to come out.  I know theres a lot of asshats in WoW but the number of good and helpful people I've run across in game far outweighs the bad.

Originally posted by tarvik

Originally posted by tupodawg999

Worst: Everquest, Sullon Zek server.

Best: Everquest, Sullon Zek server (heh heh)

 

lol me as well..i have yet to meet a community worse than SZ  server ..i look at the servers ive played on WoW as a joke compare to the crap that would happen on SZ ,  but at the sametime it was the most awesome community lol

people would of had to play on SZ to understand lol

just spent 20 minutes googling that server and reading up on it.  I stopped once i got to the 50yr old pedophile who multiboxes and hires prostitutes....

as for the thread:

Best:  toss up between Ryzom and Lotro.   Ryzom was just filled with helpful people.  Lotro because people seemed so nice and welcoming...and every guild i have been in (4 so far) have been the friendliest guilds i have come across in any game.

Worst:  toss up between WoW and WAR.  WoW...well it's WoW, what more do i have to say.   WAR because no one talked...which really kills a game for me.

Best: UO, DAoC, SWG

Best: Lotro, Vanguard SoH

Worst: Darkfall, Age of Conan

Best: FFXI
Worse:#1 WoW, #2 AoC

Asherons call 2 Hands down best community in 10 years ive played mmorpg´s.

Worsed well i did not like WoW for few months ive played it in beginning, AoC was was terible from launch to 2 months ive played that one.

But even tho i like the game and now playing for 6 months Darkfall i must say its bad community very bad:(

And i mean the trash talk the pure nonsens in Race Alliance(mahirim/Ork) but its also bit of way Darkfall has been designed its pure PK/GANK game there are no ANTI'S Aventurine have kill those in this game, so it prolly a magnet for douchbags i dunno?

Exploits/hackers/afk-macroers prolly bring the anti social community to Darkfall i realy dunno why its so terible other wise?

But there still a few and im affraid its only a few that are nice, but overall its terible:(

This is also fault AV from name policy character names(lil pedo or clan name like Nazis force or Analsex association)ive reported those names but there still ingame, also GM do nothing they dont care report in Darkfall dont work biggest cheaters and offensive names are not banned or removed.

This will cost AV subs im sure of it, its a very dumb way of running a game:(

I've played a lot of MMO's over the years. I think it's sort of unfair to catagorize and entire games population because of one persons bad experience. There are very mature, cool people playing just about anything. I think sometimes it's the complaining player that's just to damn lazy to look for some people they like and instead stick with the first asshat they meet.

It takes time to meet people you enjoy playing the game a game with.

But to get to the point of the post...

There a few MMO's that the communities really stood out for me (in MY experience and this no way reflects on the total community)

Asherons Call - My first MMO. I played with a bunch of people for over a year and someof us still talk every once in a while. The moment that sticks out for me is my guild helping me recover a corpse from an acid pit...lol...hours of fun!

Lineage 2 - truely a game filled with the noblest (ingame) heroes and some the most evil pricks I ever met! It made the game a joy to play. I still have contact with a lot of them.

DAoC - played with a bunch of RL friends & ingame friends and never had a better time. (to bad WAR fell through for us)

Guild Wars - again because I played with my RL friends.

WAR - again because I played with my RL friends and my wife and ingame friends. It was a blast while it lasted.

The WORST communities I have experience are the ones I didn't take the time to get to know anyone. A lot of MMO's I am pretty indifferent about. WoW didn't bother me to much. I don't know why people hammer on the game so much.

I think many people confuse those general chat channels for the "community" lol...those are usually filled with the people that no one wants around. If you really look at them, its the same handful of people making a spectical of themselves because they are obnoxious attention whores and probably get kicked from every decent group of people they run across....which is why they vomit their nonsense on the general channels.

I think what a lot of players need to keep in mind is you are able to build your own community in any game. You can talk your gaming friends into joining you, you can talk to people ingame and look for like minded people. You can ignore people who are idiots and report them if they harass you. No one forces you to read the general chat, you can shut it off, no one is saying anything worth reading anyway.

BEST:  pre-release AOC (for the first two years)

WORST: pre-release darkfall, or maybe mmorpg.com

Originally posted by cybertrucker

Was just curious to see which games people thought had the best and worst communities from the games they have personally played.

For me it would probably be like this.

BEST: Vanguard or EQ1..Why? Because People came to help each other and it wasnt always about just themselves. The open world dungeons I think lended to this and also the games were designed around group play in mind. Sure you could solo in them but the best content was designed for groups..

Worst: Would probably have to WOW.. and no Im not a WOW hater.. I actually enjoyed the game.. However I think it was the game to really breed the ME ME ME mentality.. Yes it was there in some people before WOW.. But WOW encouraged it.. IT was the first game that I played where PUGs were looked down upon. In every game up to WOW i grouped with random people all the time. Sure I ran with friends on a regular basis but didnt mind picking up groups either.

So what about everyone?

Best EQ1, with CoH a close second.

Worst Warhammer, but not really because of the players really, but the way it was just seemingly designed from the ground up to not even have one when I played.

 P2P:

Best: Anarchy Online 2005/2006

Worst: Anarchy Online today

F2P:

Best: 9dragons

Worst: anything else ive tried

Best:  anything up through around 1999.

Worst: anythign from 1999 on.

Best: DAoC; with EQ and LotRO coming in pretty high.

Worst: WoW, EVE, Shadowbane. The asshattery in WoW is omnipresent. It's embedded into the very fabric of the game.

Best - City of Heroes

Worst - Darkfall

Best ever: Ultima Online

Worst ever: WOW

Best by far: EQ1

Worst: WoW post-BC

Best by a mile was EQ1 followed probably by LOTRO.

Worst was my time playing on FFA PVP servers in AOC and trying to be a part of that community. Also recently have been playing battlefield Heroes. Fun time sink game but TERRIBLE community.

Best: Shadowbane

Worst: WoW

One of the worst communities I had was from wow first time I logged in server a guy threatening me to delete character because had a similar name of his.

I'm a huge MMO fan and have already played many before, but I must confess that theres no better community than Ryzom, everyone is nice to everyone (even with newbies), all new players get really impressed. New players telling vets how nice they are in the newb zone and out of it is very very commom. Also, it's one of the most mature community I have seen, maybe it's because you can't jump around in the game... I don't know, but thats how the game is and I just love the community. If you want any information about the gane that I can provide I will be glad to help, just pm me.

To sum up for those who hate reading too much or are in a hurry...

BEST: Ryzom (Very nice & mature community)

Worst: WoW (No comments...)

Best : AO and wow (yes ...i've met some nice people on it )

Worst : WAR .....what comunity ?

Best: Mortal online (before over flowing with DFO kiddies. which was pre beta)

Worst: Darkfall

P2P

Best: WoW, I have many reasons, but i feel a good community has good guys and bad guys to make the game feel more realistic. Ive found that the servers ive played on have this mix pretty well down. I remember when BC launched and the alliance had two 40 man raids at the gates just slaughtering us horde. That was the best moment i had in BC...ehehe

Worst: EQ2, The time i spent in eq2 was alot of alone time. People i tried to talk  who were more established in game had the "Elite" attitude and wouldnt have much to do with me, or the party i found myself in. Me and the party members had just started. After the next month i found more of the same attitude. And lots of drama.

F2P

Best:   9 Dragons      as much as i hate to say it. The game itself isnt that great, but the community was welcoming. Thats something you really dont find much in an F2P. There was plenty of guilds, lots of them recruiting, lotsa of chatter around hunting areas. All in all a good social community.

Worst: 2 Moons      Ive never felt more alone then i did when i played 2 moons. I played for 2 months, i was in maybe 1 party that i was invited for. 2 partys i did then inviting for. Not that i didnt try, most of the time i couldnt PAY people to group up. Guilds were hard to create and most of the players ended up in elite guilds that ate up most of the good players. You had to grind to 30+ to get into one. And once i did manage to get into one, it was the dullest guild id have ever been in. The other two i tried out were ok, but the general conversation was non existent in all 3.

From the 20+ P2P MMO's I've played,

Best: LOTRO, honorable mentions to Ryzom, Anarchy Online, Asheron's Call 2

Worst: WOW

Best: LotRO
 

Worst: Darkfall

Best:  LotRO

Worst: Age of Conan