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"Vanguard for a pve focussed game it was a real shocker it was this poor but probably largly down to there being noone left by time I was hitting higher levels..hard to have community with no players..just a feeling of doom and gloom most days."
My time in Vanguard was nothing but enjoyable, aside from this douche or that, the community had been nothing but awesome...
My two cents...
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Best - Horizons: This was easily the friendliest, co-operative and outgoing community I have ever seen in an MMO. Its a shame that game was plagued with so many problems.
Worst-Guild Wars: Arrogance, selfishness and vindictiveness abound. Its not often I see a community completely facemelt a profanity filter. Player attitudes have improved somewhat in recent years (but that means little since you can only go up from rock bottom). |
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Every game has good and bad people, that is just a fact. Bigger games just have more of each type.
Best - Guild Wars, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars galaxies. Guild wars is just a great fun game, and for a while, you basically had to group to do things. This lead to a lot of fun, hard, but new experience..ing..y...times... Lord of the Rings just has great, nice people. Ask a question, two or three people answer polietly and quickly. Even if it's a "lol well duh" question. Star Wars Galaxies. This might have been the best at first. Everyone was so caught up in, WOW STAR WARS, that people were just having too much fun and hanging out. Plus it was a social game and not GET TO HIGHEST LEVEL, RAID, PVP, GEAR, GOOGOGOGOGOGO, like every game now. Worst - Aion, War. Aion - In every beta weekend people basically ignore everything, and just laugh/be jerks about it. Everytime. They act like people who this might be their first time trying, should know it all. People say "This could knock WoW down a peg", it sure could, and it will get the same type of people in it. That are already permiating with it. Any forum I read, I get the same impression of people acting like that, just like I do at certain points of wow. As for War, it was not so much the antisocial/rude/jerk people. It was the fact that there wasn't a soul in chat. Like ever. In the entire zone it seemed.
As for WoW. It sure did have some of the worst people I've met. But it also had some of the coolest people I've met. And not the RPers/MMOers for life. There were jerks and assholes, but there were cool people you could hang out with in RL all the time. As a game gets bigger, more people play, more different types of people. So It's obvious that you'll have it. But outside of the Elite Raiders that own everything, It was not bad at all. |
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RamenThief7
 Novice Member
Joined: 5/13/09
Undefeatability lies within ourselves. Defeatability lies with the enemy. |
Originally posted by Torak
Wow, I feel bad for you. You only played for an hour and it left that much of an impression on you? You know you can pick up FFXI pretty cheap these days...14.95 gets you the 2008 collection (whatever that has) www.direct2drive.com/6/6753/product/Buy-FINAL-FANTASY-XI-Vana%27diel-Collection-2008-Download The thing is, I have real life obligations. I will be going to a technical college soon (or picking up a trade), so for the time being, I have no money for FF XI. However, I will be settled in soon, and by that time FF XIV will be out... |
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BerzerkerFox
 Hard Core Member
Joined: 7/27/08
I am not what you expected. But I am what you are stuck with. |
Warning: I am prone to "MWOT Syndrome"... You have been warned. Well the best I've ever had the enjoyment to play in is: RFO (Rising Force Online, RF Online) I started on this game when Fire and Spirit servers just came out (basically the start of the game 9 or so years ago.) And I played Novus once the servers merged. Took a hiatus, returned the day Lumen opened and within 4 days met the best guild I have ever met in my entire 19+ years of MMO playing career (I'm 27). Hydraulic-Union is just beyond the word Awesome. Once the Codemasters servers shut down, we all tried to go to CCR's retail, but just couldn't take that any more... So the "Race Leader" whom held the position for over 6 months straight (you need to be voted this by the entire race weekly... an epic accomplishment by any standards for half a year of service, attending 2 out of 3 wars a day! And get this, he is a Doctor!) Anyway this guy decided he and his guild R.O.D. are going to make their own private server. I log in and what do I see? My entire H-U guild in full force! I rejoined within minutes... I've been with these people for almost 6 years and even tho I am under no obligation to talk outside of the guild... We are all the best group of people you'll ever meet. World chat is populated by the smartest most intelligent conversationalists I've ever seen. And this is rare, since world chat is basically "Free", as the /sell channel costs 1k to use and the blue font one costs about 2k. In case anyone wants to come to one of the best games and communities... rfdynasty.com/ I don't mean to sound like a private server recruiter... But really, it is a great game and wonderful community. And once Berkanix Online comes out, pretty much everyone is going there... www.Berkanix.com/ (You need latest flash and IE to view the site...)
Worst: Well believe it or not, I've never played WoW... So that isn't to be found here lol. Worst is actually the recent Jade Dynasty. You KNOW a game is destined to be crap when people, over 50+ of them got banned during CLOSED BETA! The game itself is fun until around level 75. Then it just gets so boring, and tedious... As there is only one way to level, the special event that happens 3 times a WEEK at the most absurd time, "Astral Tales". With a level cap of 150, only the dedicated or insane people with no lives will make it that far. I will say this, it is better than Perfect World by leaps and bounds far as gameplay, but the community is the most unhelpful unfriendly jerks I've ever seen. Money is hard to make until you are 60+, I wanted someone to "Fly" me up on their skysword to the top of this building, so I could get my skysword (that lasts only 3 days) instead of doing this kind act, which takes literally 10 seconds at max... He wanted me to pay him 7 gold! (Which is actually quite a bit.) You shouldn't have to pay someone to do something for 10 seconds. He spent more time trying to get me to pay him, than it would of taken to just do it in the first place. (Around 5+ minutes of PM'ing me! Geez what a loser.)
I've recently begun "Cleaning House" by deleting all these other games on my HD. 15+ games, from P2P to F2P, nothing comes close to RFO/D. I am ashamed I ever played anything else honestly. I wanted to have 1 game per week, for a full 4 games so that I would have a month covered and never get burned out or bored with any one game. But that just don't seem to exist, as I constantly search for the 3 other games and never find anything worth sticking with past a month. It is actually why I read most these pages here on this thread, to seek out good games. I've got a few ideas now. So this thread has been quite helpful. The only real advice I can give people, if the gameplay is good, and you at least find a good guild in a game... Stay with it, do not leave it, don't try and find something "better". More often than anything, you will always compare everything to that wonderful experience and fall very short of it. And besides, you will feel bad for wasting your time looking for something else, when you should of been playing the other one in the first place. Oh and an honorable mention goes to another game that has been in development for ages past, and will eventually release...Blade & Soul: www.youtube.com/watch . Once this comes out, between it and RFD and BO. I'll finally have the long sought after 3 games to play... Not quite 4, but it is better than nothing.
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Originally posted by RamenThief7 The thing is, I have real life obligations. I will be going to a technical college soon (or picking up a trade), so for the time being, I have no money for FF XI. However, I will be settled in soon, and by that time FF XIV will be out... Do a free trial (bottom right side) If it's everything you expect, I'm sure you can find a way to cough up 14.95 Games, above all else, are about fun. MMORPG's are no different. If you are not having fun, find something else to do with your time and money and stop your bitchin. |
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Best: Jumpgate classic couple months after beta, great group of people Worst: World of Warcraft - biggest community of asshats you'll ever have the misfortune of gaming with |
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best - Eve Online - Has a very mature and helpfull community just remember to join a decent corp.
Worst Guildwars - When i left the training area to my first city i was disgusted to see the mixture of imature profanity chuck norris jokes and sellers spamming the chat channels with posts LIKE THIS. |
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Ponico
 Advanced Member
Joined: 2/01/06
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? - Sun Tsu |
Best: EVE-Online. Of course, you’ll find the random ass but 90% of the time, it’s a great and helpful community. Specially if you’re part of a major alliance. Next to EVE, I’ll say Vanguard and Mankind Online. Worse: I’m forced to go with WOW. The game is based on loot or greed and after seing 40 year old adults crying over loot, I died a little inside. People tend to think that their gear defines their social standings in real life…
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Dewm
Advanced Member
Joined: 5/29/09
You won't respond to my post, because you know i'm right. |
By far the best would be FFXI. Just an awsome community.
The worst.... would be WoW, you'll never see a larger room full of 13 year olds (or people who act that age) If at first the power of persuasion doesn’t work, use the persuasion of power. |
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Pro_Pwnerer
 Novice Member
Joined: 8/01/09
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. |
Originally posted by greed0104
Yeah you're right, you should never feel stress when playing a game. Funny WoW nor any game I have ever played has done that. Sensitive maybe? If you actually feel stressed at all in a game then you should take a break from games. If your raid group wipes, do it again next week or something. |
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Best Community Overall: Lotro While asshats exist everywhere, there seemed to be a large percentage of genuinely helpful people playing this game and those asking questions typically were not made fun of which I found unusual having played other MMO's. Best Overall Guild Community Experienced: Guild Wars (cliched I know) A shout out to the Hounds of Creegus if there happen to be any out there, never have I had so much fun playing with others on a daily basis. Even in the pre-alliance days we had several guilds working together for the fun of everyone. Worst Community Overall: Warhammer Online Not only did this community seem to possess all the elitism I found in WoW there also seemed to be a large lack of communication with everyone seemingly wanting to play the game by themselves (an odd concept for an MMO I found) Wolfenpride: <--Giant fucking sword syndrome. Probably cause im trying to compensate for miniscule manhood. |
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Best: Saga of Ryzom....great group of people that show you how it works rather than RTFM. Oddly, very culty feeling though, like..have some kool-aid man...
Worst: Oh so many. I'd say most beta communities have been total poo. |
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Best-LOTRO Worst-WoW ( I did find a nice community in WoW one time! I played a Horde on a new role-play server and the people there were truly nice! But, then TBC came out and all these goofballs from the Alliance side made Night Elves:( Logged in to F words and N words and just gave up entirely on the game)
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Best: FFXI (with LotRO in second) Worst: WoW I think all the reasons for both have probably been said. Playing: Aion |
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Best: EverQuest 2- With a fairly low population, the people left are generally very friendly, dedicated people. PUGs here are commonplace and tend to be...relaxing? Just friendly chatter and far less arguing as compared to the worst community below...
Worst: World of Warcraft- With such a high general population, one is going to find the worst in players. With the game consistently becoming easier, younger and younger players are joining in. There is such a large mix of players, personalities are going to clash, and almost everyone has to be the voice. So many arguments and people seem to care less about general congeniality, calling names, threatening, and simply beligering other people for the smallest things. I have played Warcraft for four years, and no other community has made me feel like I could kill kittens like it does.  |
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Originally posted by tupodawg999
EVERQUEST! OMG the amount of whining, hating, scheming, propaganda on the Zeks LMAO! Funny times! Rallos Zek was THE BEST and WORST for me. My best gaming experience ever. GOOD thing was that even when it was most of the time OVERLY DRAMATIC it brought people together to fight their common enemy. I have never had friends so close and enemies so real in a game. R.I.P Chikaca Whachuchu |
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Pro_Pwnerer
Novice Member
Joined: 8/01/09
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. |
Best: WoW simiply because the chuck norris and other things didn't bother me. It was mainly in barrens chat for lvl 10s, and occasionly on trade. You guys all seem to want a friendly community that help you and crap. i like just the opposite, i loved when someone called me a noob, and then i went outside to orgimarr and pwned there a$$. Worst: Runescape, just cause runescape sucks, and the community was just plain G@y. |
