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In my oppinion it is maybe WoW. When i played Guild wars i was shocked to see how bad the community was. Submit your answers hereimnotapoof
WoW with the best community? No way. Blizzard has the worst community of any developer ever. I like their games, but the fact remains their community is terrible. Too many immature idiots.
I think WoW is almost irrelevant here, because there are so many people playing it there is a very, very, wide selection of people and its down to luck whom you meet. I wouldn't call it best community though lol.
Ehm, I should honestly say that my best experience was probably in EQ2, LOTR:Online and Neverwinter Nights.
LOTRO has a great community. At least on Snowbourn, because that's where most beta testers went.RK-Mara
Yeah but tbh LOTRO gets boring way too quickly, and the updates on the horizon are not too exciting... Tiers, raid instances... meh. Also, Turbine CMs are horrendous, the kind of names and guild names that they force you to change are a joke, and most of the time they are unhelpful and very blatantly answer you like a robot from their manual.
WoW has a good community just because there's so many people. You run into some bad some good. But rating a community on people's attitude is just stupid.zero9167
How else do you rate a community? I'd say that attitude has everything to do with what makes a community good or bad. Also, large numbers of players does not equal a good community. Yes, there are a good number of people who play WoW who aren't immature or elitist, but the squeaky wheel gets the oil, as the saying goes. Unfortunately, there's quite a few bad apples to spoil the bunch.
true but I'm saying the community is willing to help and offer clan memberships more readily than othergames mostlyJagg3d
mature people are more patient so a slow game probably has more mature people. Im not saying anything agaisnt you, im just affirming what you said, and impliyng that i hate the game.
I find it to be too hard to really judge communities for games like WoW becuase the community is so diverse. You end up meeting wonderful people who are very engaging, then you meet the complete opposite tyype of person which leaves a bad taste in your mouth. The one community that seems to be more positive overall than most is for Elder Scrolls games. I know it's an offline game, but the community is quite large and are positive for the most part.
I think the Elder Scrolls community is better because the game is so open for modding so it attracts people who are graphics designers and good coders to be the leaders of the community. To enjoy spending hours making mods for games without being paid a significant amount of money usually means you really love that game.
In my oppinion it is maybe WoW. When i played Guild wars i was shocked to see how bad the community was. Submit your answers hereimnotapoof
Ya I gotta agree here, everyone in Guild Wars either talks nothing but business or theyre elitists. I remember my first day I logged on, said "hello" to everyone and nobody said anything. I had to privately whisper random people to get any help.
In WoW, atleast people socialize, tell jokes, and poke fun at each other...anyone who gets offended either never had brothers or friends cuz honestly, dont we always poke fun at each other? Also, Ive never had more fun talking to people I dont know than when I chat with my guild.
Also, EVE's community was very very good during the free trial I played. People were helpful, which is good due to the complexity of the game, and they were social as well.
WoW has the biggest community of any online games, but it's difficult to find a good crowd unless you decide to join a non-endgame guild. The smaller guilds that don't take treat the game like a job tend to be populated by generally nice people.
Basically, most of the smaller games have great communities. Take Titan Quest for instance. It's a complete Diablo clone, yet the small group of players who regularly play online and don't cheat are some great folks. Diablo II: LOD on the other hand, features the worst collection of gamers I have ever come across.
This is a difficult thing to answer, all communities wether it a gaming or any other will have idiots and good people.
With smaller fan based games, you will notice the good people more than bad, but with huge fan base like WoW you will notice more bad than good due to the size of the community.
Either way small or huge, the fan base has an equally proportional amount of bad and good anyway. Its like if it was a life design "Thou shall havest 30% bad people and 70% good people"
But.... It all depends on the developers also, if they are willing to sit and be a part of the community also and help people and generally converse then they will give a good feeling among a community.
Blizzard do the opposite in my opinion, the way they treat customers and give people little information on things going wrong is very bad.
So what has been the best community for me so far, has to be the Homeworld community, the modding etc was just fun to be within, nobody was badly treated and the developers were great.
WoW has the biggest community of any online games, but it's difficult to find a good crowd unless you decide to join a non-endgame guild. The smaller guilds that don't take treat the game like a job tend to be populated by generally nice people.
Basically, most of the smaller games have great communities. Take Titan Quest for instance. It's a complete Diablo clone, yet the small group of players who regularly play online and don't cheat are some great folks. Diablo II: LOD on the other hand, features the worst collection of gamers I have ever come across.
LiLsLashy
Ya, if you join an endgame instancing guild youve pretty much doomed yourself to either hanging out with a bunch of businessmen and fanatics, and you might find yourself getting "addicted" since youre obligated to play the game so frequently.
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Ya I gotta agree here, everyone in Guild Wars either talks nothing but business or theyre elitists. I remember my first day I logged on, said "hello" to everyone and nobody said anything. I had to privately whisper random people to get any help.
mrbojangles25
I think the part of the reason why you were ignored is this. In practice there are no separate servers in GW, so for example american "part" has, lets say, half a million or more ppl in it instead of couple thousand ppl on WoW servers, where I can imagine every1 can know every1 else after a month or so. In GW there is a high chence you'll never meet the same player ever again. You wanna be more friendly with ppl in GW? you have to join a guild.
When i used to play Age of Mythology i thought the community was great. Havn't played AOE3 online in a while, but when i did the community was also very good. Rattlesnake_8
Yeah, AOM's always had a good community.
WoW? WoW has a terrible community. It's full of elitists and morons.lol_waffles
Yep and I used to be one. No matter where you go there will always be children and dbags. I actually find CS to have the worst community out of everything. It seems like everyone that you scrim against or pub with will yell foul language and call people hackers. Best community.. hmm. In my opinion, Guild Wars. It was the only big online game I have played that I met some normal people and got to know em.
Thief community.
Long guides dedicated to getting these older games working on new comps, new missions and mods still being released regularly and an entire retail quality unofficial expansion pack with 13 missions as well as between mission cinematics with quality voice acting free for download, took over 5 years to make. Just look up T2X on google if you don't believe me. Not to mention the Dark Mod dedicated to making multiplayer thief style gameplay on the Doom 3 engine. That's only a taste of how active these guys and gals are supporting a series that isn't even around anymore.
Name another community that has that? Thief community is amazing, some great guys on those forums.
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