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Taling About The BEST and WORST community.

Jan 3, 2010 Articles Recommend|275views

Credinus share his experiance

Best: Tough one. I’ve played quite a few games with great communities, although most of them only for a short period of time. One of the best was the community on UO’s Siege Perilous shard a few years ago, although that shard died off eventually and the same can’t be said for it at all anymore. Vanguard’s was pretty good, AO isn’t too bad, FFXI is pretty good. Generally I find that games with smaller playerbases tend have better communities, either because it’s more personal or because they know pushing players away risks potential failure of the game they play. When you have a huge playerbase, you just don’t have the personal connection with the other players so there’s no real incentive to go out of your way to be friendly to them (except in the case of AO, which rewards you mechanically for helping low level characters).

Worst: Guild Wars, hands down. I played it for a few months, and while the arenas and AB battles were fun for a while, I never -once- had anything good to say about the community. I was in a guild with a few of my friends, but outside that… Horrible, horrible interactions, especially when you beat other players which apparently makes you a noob in that game and I was playing it wrong all along. How foolish of me. Of course, I’ve had some bad experiences in other games, but I’ve never played a game besides GW where I felt like over 95% of the playerbase consisted of horrible miscreants. I find a lot of F2P games tend to have less diserable playerbases due to the fact that the average age of the players is lower than games which require subscriptions, although it’s not always the case thankfully.

Whipp555 narrated his opinion

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.

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