I played FFXI for 6+ years and the best help and good attitude were the japanese players, I got all kind of shit and drama from na players.

Now I'm playing rom and for my supprise every single time I ask for help in /zone I get help right away it's amazing.

When I was playing wow I felt bad playing online the wow players are the worst in he world.

Best community so far has been Ryzom and LotRO. Worst, by far, was AoC.

Originally posted by coffee

Ill jump on the "cool kids" bandwagon and say WoW has the worse community because you know I've played on all 200 or so of my region servers... no sorry I've played 3 of em but thats enough to lable all players right? and every 1 shouts out "chuck norris" jokes... oh wait sorry that stopped in 2005... every one ninja loots... oh wait wait I tell a lie from my own 4 year experience I have never been a group with some one ninja looting... every one is 8 years old... oh wait somtimes I play up to the early hours around 2-3am and the servers are still packed.

In all seriousness I didin't need to open this thread to know WoW would labeled as the worst... price it pays for being the most played MMO I guess.  Your all entitled to your opinons but for me WoW is just fine community wise, not too serious and can have a bit of fun.

Worst community and for the only reason no one talked was WAR.. for the short month I played it.

If you've nothing to say but trolling, dont say it.

EQ1 old school is best hands down

LoTRO is worst

best i've ever been in is EQ1 and LOTRO. worst i've seen WoW and AoC.

The best community I've experienced by far is Guild Wars.

The worst is a toss up between Darkfall and AoC pvp servers.

Best: EQ1, Horizons, FFXI, Vanguard.

Worst: AoC.  Nothing else close.  I thought WoW was bad but AoC made WoW look like a friendly and mature community.

Best: EQ

Worst: EQ

EQ went from the best to the worst community during the years, it's a bit shocking how kind and helpful players used to be and how elitist and selfish they were when I left the game over a year ago.

Best :

Star Wars Galaxies pre NGE was heaven community wise. On an unofficial RP server a real community feel. You could walk into the mos eisley cantina at any time day or night like it was real and full of activity...I have never seen a single inn in any MMO with people actually in it other than for a brief event or two.

Runner up - Everquest 1 - Before velious expansion because so many of us were so nieve to this type of game and the rush rush powergame mentality hadnt kicked in in general across MMOs.

Worst :

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.

Runner up - Everquest 1 - Post Velious expansion your own mother would stab you in the back for the super rare dropping loot item she always wanted ..paving the way for the general style of community ever since.

Originally posted by bastioni2

Best: EQ

Worst: EQ

EQ went from the best to the worst community during the years, it's a bit shocking how kind and helpful players used to be and how elitist and selfish they were when I left the game over a year ago.

wow to think you were writing this the same time as I was..:)

BEST:  Vanguard.  Most people will say "mature" or "helpful."  I am going to use a different word.  In my many (many) years of online gaming, I have to say that I think Vanguard players are the most . . . intelligent.  

CLOSE SECOND:  EQ 2 and SWG tied.  Helpful, friendly players.

WORST:  WoW.  Typical answer, probably predictable.  I know.  I have had some awful experiences with this game in terms of my social interactions with people.  

CLOSE SECOND:  Everquest.  I agree completely that when I first played EQ, it was an awesome social game.  Let us face some facts:  EQ was redesigned from group cooperative gameplay to guild competitive gameplay.  It totally undermined the small group and community guild experience, which I believed --and still do-- was the very backbone and soul of Everquest.

Originally posted by RamenThief7

Ah, I forgot to mention my best and worst communities I've seen.

Best: FF XI

Reason: First off, I must state that I actually only played FF XI for about an hour (a friend owned the game). And that one hour was magical. I also have been shadowing the game for a very long time, and the community I've seen was beautiful.

 

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

 "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...

 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).

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.

Originally posted by Torak

Originally posted by RamenThief7

Ah, I forgot to mention my best and worst communities I've seen.

Best: FF XI

Reason: First off, I must state that I actually only played FF XI for about an hour (a friend owned the game). And that one hour was magical. I also have been shadowing the game for a very long time, and the community I've seen was beautiful.

 

 

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...

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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FOX

Originally posted by RamenThief7

Originally posted by Torak

Originally posted by RamenThief7

Ah, I forgot to mention my best and worst communities I've seen.

Best: FF XI

Reason: First off, I must state that I actually only played FF XI for about an hour (a friend owned the game). And that one hour was magical. I also have been shadowing the game for a very long time, and the community I've seen was beautiful.

 

 

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...

Do a free trial (bottom right side)

www.finalfantasyxi.com/

If it's everything you expect, I'm sure you can find a way to cough up 14.95

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

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.