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WoW has a very diverse community
logangregor
Member Posts: 1,524
So I notice recently folks try to say WoW has a bad community.
Sometimes I see it, and sometimes I dont.
I for one think its for the sheer size of the WoW community that you see alot of crazys.
I think some of the smaller games are regarded as having a better community and that happens for the fact that there are so fewer people and that in turn leads to less run ins with crazys.
And is there some rule about not being able to talk about the community in a game?
This is a forum right? Where we discuss everything related to games?
We discuss the gameplay.
The business side of things.
Technology behind games.
Is discussing the community out of the question?
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Firstly, there is nothing against 'discussing' the community in wow or any other game as far as i know, what there is an issue with is the same people constantly posting trolls about how the game is apparently full of 'kids' over and over and over again.
Secondly, yes there is a very diverse community in the game, as you would expect with a game of this size. I have played along side teenagers, married couples, pensioners, middle aged business women, pretty much every section of RL society. The 'problematic' sections of the wow community i have always regarded as a pretty small minority as much as others would like you to believe otherwise. As an example there is a group of about 5-6 guys/gals who tend to take over the trade channel from mid afternoon most days on my server until they hit their raids early evening. They are a bit of a pain, but hardly representative of the server community as a whole and they are easily ignored.
At the end of the day, it is a very diverse community and that helps people find their niche guilds much more easily than in other games, so i say celebrate it, warts and all.
It must be Thursday, i never could get the hang of Thursdays.
There are a lot of good people in WoW. Problem is they are in a "gated community". Most dont interact outside of their guild/arena team or friend's list.
I know a lot of people who even have trade chat turned off.
Every online game will have a moronic part of its community. Difference back in WoW's early days was that Blizzard would police chat channels and warn/ban people when they broke the rules.
These days Blizzard doesnt care, or doesnt want to scare of the kids and lower their precious subscription numbers.
Speaking of community - has it actually improved lately in general or is it just my server (moonglade EU) who seems nicer these days? Even BG chat isn't as bad as it used to be, although you still have the occasional trollfest.
I'm a big ol' fluffy carewolf. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Perhaps ... you changed ... ?
If I look at the kind of people on forums who complain about the WOW community, I mostly see people with a problematic attitude to whatever Wow stands for.
So I always wonder: if they use this kind of hate language against a game on forums, how is their proper attitude in game?
Server Shutdown in 15 mins
2. Trade Channel: ANAL (link ability here) spam for 15 mins.
You're right, zorndorf. Its us old schoolers who have been been playing for 4+ years who are the problems. Not the kids who spam trade chat with filth 24 hours a day.
I think that says more about you that you than anything.
You spend 24hrs sitting in major cities watching the trade channel???
Personally i am only ever watching trade when i actually want to trade something, but as most of my money is made directly through the AH, even this is rare. How much time does anyone actually spend in major cities these days anyway?? The 'kids' (not that most of them are) are a bit of a pain, but nothing a report/ignore/trade switch off doesn't resolve.
The way some people talk it is as if this is something that you have to put up with throughout every session you play and not just the odd petty annoyance that it actually is!
It must be Thursday, i never could get the hang of Thursdays.
You spend 24hrs sitting in major cities watching the trade channel???
Personally i am only ever watching trade when i actually want to trade something, but as most of my money is made directly through the AH, even this is rare. How much time does anyone actually spend in major cities these days anyway?? The 'kids' (not that most of them are) are a bit of a pain, but nothing a report/ignore/trade switch off doesn't resolve.
The way some people talk it is as if this is something that you have to put up with throughout every session you play and not just the odd petty annoyance that it actually is!
Did I say that I was in trade chat 24 hours a day? During my 4.5 years of WoW I would have been in the trade channel in many different hours of the day and post 3.0 there was always some annoying kid.
My mage had basically every enchant in the game. I had all the AQ ones, including the +16 spell damage to gloves (old healing),from MC I had the +30 spl dmg and +29 spl dmg (old 55 healing). I had the timbermaw ones, every BoE TBC one, mongoose, executioner, +4 stats to chest, crusader etc. Up until Uludar I think there were 2 enchants I didnt have. Neither important.
Before Blizzard starting nerfing twinking (and I'm glad they did) I could make a couple of hundred of gold a day by just standing in IF or SW during server primetime and linking my enchants. I made a fortune from selling vellums with enchants as well.
All done through the trade channel and without having to do god awful, mind-numbing boring dailies.
But I had to endure the idiocy of trade channel. My ignore list was long maxed and yes, I could report people as spam but the next time I log out/in that would be gone.
Just because you didnt use trade chat because your character didnt have/seen/do 10% of the stuff I had done during my time in the game doesnt others done have use for it.
But I think it says a lot about what mindless fanbois you and Zorndorf are when you defend the idiots from trade chat.
WoW has the best community of all mmo's I've ever played. (AoC, Eve Online, lotr) Planetside is a close second.
Trolls = Hardcore
Fanbois = Carebears
The only posts I read in threads are my own.
Well, of course WoW has a diverse community. There are 11 million people playing the game. With that large user base, its inevitable the community will be diverse. Sociology 101.
WoW's community isn't so bad at times, yet at others, it can be the most annoying thing in anyone's day. Too bad that chat filter doesn't work for 'filtering' out the trash-talking kids as well eh? ;0) Like a summer-is-on-kids-are-playing-WoW filter. lol
Point is simple and I know others have made it before me: If you don't like it, don't play it....goes for things you don't 'feel' you should have to put up with. *shrug* I mean who REALLY cares when people still pay that 15 bucks a month regardless of how often they bitch?
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Hmmm, very telling in itself to be honest don't you think?
What my characters have or haven't done in the game is neither here nor there in this discussion and if you had actually read my post then you would have seen that at no point did i 'defend' the idiots on the trade channel.
My actual point, which you would have got if you hadn't just run off on a mud slinging tirade (much like those trade channel guys ironically) was that they are little more than an annoyance and not the 'be all and end all' of WoW society. But of course actually taking in someones point and making a counter point would mean engaging in a sensible discussion now wouldn't it....sorry.
It must be Thursday, i never could get the hang of Thursdays.
well even though thats more or less true, the community you play with is only as big as max population of your server though.
which makes it not more or less then an LOTRO, WAR, or any other game server.
In that case EvE or Guild Wars would then have a more diverse community then WoW.
Turning off Trade was almost always the first thing done after creating a new toon. Heck, there was a 50/50 chance of turning off General.
WoW's community is no worse nor better than any other community. The only reason it appears worse at times is because of the sheer number of people. Thus, the annoying people will seem to be in greater numbers; but it is still just a ratio thing.
In all my years of gaming, it is by far the worse community I have ever seen. Been on multiple servers and server types, same shit different server. The community itself really has no reason to interact and forge decent relationships with anyone outside there guild anyway. There is no reprucussion for being a straight up dirt bag in chat or what have you. What does griefing and chat against EULA get you anyway? Perhaps a 3 hour ban? The company itself provides no means and does nothing to support a "community".
All that said ... im still playing this game. And it is what you make of it, in most cases you have to look past the bad to see the good and not let the dbags in the game bother you.
I suppose diverse could be one definition of WOW's community. Although ive seen better ones.
For some reason, I have always found CBT's communities to be the 'best'. Probably (almost obviously) because it is a close-knit group so-to-speak.
As soon as any game goes into OB or a flat out launch, all that 'closeness' seems to disappear for the most part.
It is understandable that a large scale gaming community will seem to have more downfalls.
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sad to say that up to this day, there are still racists everywhere even in game