I would rather deal with high level's PKing my short lived 0-20 experience then have to deal with all the safezone exploiting that constantly occurs for the rest of the game's lifecycle. Not to mention high level griefing is largely blown out of proportion as it is boring for all parties involved......does it happen, yes....is it constant....hardly.
Just curious, what kind of examples can you give of "safe-zone exploiting" in ArcheAge? I'm not familiar with this.
Name one positive F2P community, other than dead games that people don't play anymore.
Name 1 P2P game that has a good community?
WOW is the worst
FFXIV is so so you have your ass holes here.
SWG was my number 1 best community. But that game is gone and the time were people respected one another.
Point a good community does not exist anymore unless you make it. AA is doing just that.
List of F2P games with great communitites:
Anarchy Online
The Secret World
Age of Conan (See a theme here?)
The Lord of the Rings Online
Star Wars The Old Republic
Not to mention a ton of F2P Asian exports. In fact, the biggest reason people are dedicated to alot of these games still is because of the communities.
I also think the DOTA 2 communities and World of Tanks communities are decent as well, but some people would argue with me.
ArcheAge has a lot of good communities in it as well. Just do yourself a favor and leave Faction and Nation chat. They are ArcheAge's version of "Barrens Chat". ArcheAge is fun because it is truly a social game. There are politics and alliances that evolve in very real and organic way on each server.
So what you guys mean is: All the older, crap games (and by that I mean look of date - hello lotro graphics. Or just plain old, boring crap - hi there TSW & Conan).
Oh and SWTOR is quite bad for chat. If it's not smack talk it's LFG spam (at least on EU/EN RP server).
Age, graphics, or your particular opinion on whether a game is fun or not has little bearing on the topic at hand. Runescape is old, low res, and in my opinion boring. It just happens to have a huge international F2P player base, one of the highest viewerships on Twitch, and a fairly decent community to boot. So please don't muddle the topic with your irrelevant musings on the quality of games.
Originally posted by An4thor I'm not sure why people use world chats and then are suprised by the crap they find in it. I mean how hard it is to deactivate it? It takes two clicks...
If I want to play a single player game I will and not worry about world chat. It's labeled a MMORPG for a reason.
Originally posted by An4thor I'm not sure why people use world chats and then are suprised by the crap they find in it. I mean how hard it is to deactivate it? It takes two clicks...
If I want to play a single player game I will and not worry about world chat. It's labeled a MMORPG for a reason.
Even though I think ArcheAge has a decent community overall, Trion's lack of response to the abuse of the world chat channels is disappointing. Part of the problem is the incomplete localization of the chat filters and such. There are also a lot of people in these channels being intentionally offensive, crude, racist and engaging in other intolerable types of behavior that just shouldn't be allowed in public channels by a company trying to maintain the integrity of their product.
Be warned if you are new coming into this game. This game seems to attract the most immature d-baggery you could possibly find on the internet. If you are someone that is easly offended You will be horrified by the chat lol. If a MMORPG mod was in charge of ArcheAge's chat you would basically be left with nothing but gold spammers. O yeah a little off topic but the chat box ingame is spammed 24/7 by gold spammers, Trust me you have NEVER seen spam like this. Not exaggerating either...
That was just the chat, Forget about behavior in-game. Just be forewarned that this game has put the tools in place to really make people's lives hell. Im not talking about your typical ganking that happens in every MMO , Hey its PVP fight back pussy. Im talking about all the other systems in place to grief people.
People will tell you to join a large guild and team up with other people when you do things, ie fish tend to crops trade runs ect ect but the reality is 9 out of 10 times the griefers & toxic ZERGS greatly outweigh any Organized guild acitivity you could possibly organize. Trust me this community is ruled by those whose endgame content is YOU, Yes there content is nothing more than impeding your progress in game, I shit you not.
Am I saying this game is trash? Not at all, Its very innovative game with average to slightly above average graphics, Just don't give this company a dime of your money until you fully understand what you are getting into. Play it free until you truly get a feel for what you are getting into.
Lol open world pvp games always atract the worse in humanity. I could see it becoing Eve online's sister game. But i agree people really need to research this game before they blindly get into it on the hype surrounding it. It will be fun for some but not so for many more.
Won't lie - part of the reason I did an about-face before investing more than an hour in the game was the chat box.
If it wasn't gold spam, it was a Guild Advertisment in Portugese.
Either I landed on the official Huehuehue BR BR BR server or it's like that everywhere. Either way, I'm not interested in playing a game where I can't communicate with half the players.
Even though I think ArcheAge has a decent community overall, Trion's lack of response to the abuse of the world chat channels is disappointing. Part of the problem is the incomplete localization of the chat filters and such. There are also a lot of people in these channels being intentionally offensive, crude, racist and engaging in other intolerable types of behavior that just shouldn't be allowed in public channels by a company trying to maintain the integrity of their product.
^ This
When I first logged on I was was shocked at how crude Nation and Alliance chat was. Trolls were purposely being offensive and people responded and things would just explode into expletive lased tirades. I quickly turned the channels off and then had to turn off Trial as the trolls sought a bigger audience.
I forgot about this when I did a re-install earlier this week and I had my 7 year-old and 5 year-old on my lap when I logged in. I had to shut down the chat channels again as my 7 year-old was reading and trying to understand the meaning of the new words he was seeing.
I thought Barrens chat was bad but so far AA takes the cake for worst chat I have been in!
And it is probably a minority of the server but it is a vocal minority doing it!
****WARNING TO NEW PLAYERS**** SCAMMING IS NOT ONLY LEGAL IN THIS GAME IT IS ENCOURGED BEWARE AND TRUST NOONE
I just want to be clear that I am having fun with this game, There is no question it is entertaining but new players coming into archeage have a right to know what they are getting into. This game can be quite rough on those coming from a more linear expierance like wow or GW2. Also don't plan on running to a GM in this game cause everything goes and when I say everything I mean everything
There are going to be jerks in every game, I've run into them from EQ on. People will have their opinion on which game is worst. of course many folks will point to WoW since it gets blamed for everything anyway but they are in every game. I've never been driven from a game because of the community. I meet good people, get in a good guild, hell I even meet good folks pugging. Despite the drama people like to create there are still plenty of nice players out there playing. Look past the tools.
Be warned if you are new coming into this game. This game seems to attract the most immature d-baggery you could possibly find on the internet. If you are someone that is easly offended You will be horrified by the chat lol. If a MMORPG mod was in charge of ArcheAge's chat you would basically be left with nothing but gold spammers. O yeah a little off topic but the chat box ingame is spammed 24/7 by gold spammers, Trust me you have NEVER seen spam like this. Not exaggerating either...
That was just the chat, Forget about behavior in-game. Just be forewarned that this game has put the tools in place to really make people's lives hell. Im not talking about your typical ganking that happens in every MMO , Hey its PVP fight back pussy. Im talking about all the other systems in place to grief people.
People will tell you to join a large guild and team up with other people when you do things, ie fish tend to crops trade runs ect ect but the reality is 9 out of 10 times the griefers & toxic ZERGS greatly outweigh any Organized guild acitivity you could possibly organize. Trust me this community is ruled by those whose endgame content is YOU, Yes there content is nothing more than impeding your progress in game, I shit you not.
Am I saying this game is trash? Not at all, Its very innovative game with average to slightly above average graphics, Just don't give this company a dime of your money until you fully understand what you are getting into. Play it free until you truly get a feel for what you are getting into.
I guess you never played WoW or SWG. when their chat boxes were just as bad. The gold sites hit them big time once as well and just like Blizzard and SOE Trion will adapt.
Welcome to a game where you have to adapt to PvP or your going to go away crying like a little girl.
I have been with the game since testing started and it is a great game with some areas that need improvement. Other then that I have seen worse.
I am in the most awesome guikd ever and we all help each other and have tons of fun. I don't think this game has the most toxic community at all. I have seen games which are a lot worse. This game is about average when it compared to typical mmo communities.
Mission in life: Vanquish all MMORPG.com trolls - especially TESO, WOW and GW2 trolls.
All PvP games are like that, not just MMOs. Unmoderated CoD or Battlefield chat is the same which is why I play on BF servers with good admins that will kick/ban people for being a dumbass in chat. MMOs have ignore lists for a reason. Or you just don't read chat and talk to your friends on vent or ts.
Originally posted by An4thor I'm not sure why people use world chats and then are suprised by the crap they find in it. I mean how hard it is to deactivate it? It takes two clicks...
If I want to play a single player game I will and not worry about world chat. It's labeled a MMORPG for a reason.
It's a PVP game with a lot of competition (land, resources, etc.) within your own faction. You can only trust your own guild and everyone else is either definitely a foe or potentially so... not exactly conducive to a warm and fuzzy atmosphere. As a matter of fact, most fights I've been involved in have happened with my own faction trying to take packs from us during our trade runs between the continents at sea.
People behave pretty well as I expected they would with one exception: there is a lot of trivial asshattery enabled by the full on collision detection. A lot of players go out of their way to bump into you with their horses, farm carts or just running. Like I said, it's trivial. But the frequency surprised me.
Decent behavior from same-faction players not in your guild is the exception, not the rule.
"Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community ... but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots”
― Umberto Eco
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?” ― CD PROJEKT RED
Tera was P2P at launch and had one of the worse communities I ever witnessed.
It's a fact of all online games nowadays, not just exclusive to MMOs. Have you ever been in a COD Xbox live room? Most people act tough behind a computer screen to live out their fantasies that they cannot in real life.
Any and all MOBA's have by far the worst. Never in my life did i come across more cocknucks in one game than LoL and smite. AA is bad as far as MMO's go though, but Moba's take the cake then shit on it when it comes to the worst community.
Are players allowed to scam other players in-game in ArcheAge?
Yes. ArcheAge is a highly competitive PvP game and skullduggery will be a weapon of choice just as sharp as a sword (and possibly even more potent).
"Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community ... but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots”
― Umberto Eco
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?” ― CD PROJEKT RED
Are players allowed to scam other players in-game in ArcheAge?
Yes. ArcheAge is a highly competitive PvP game and skullduggery will be a weapon of choice just as sharp as a sword (and possibly even more potent).
LOL, I guess this means they want you to kill your fellow players... well, they should at least allow you to kill players everywhere then. Stupid safe zones.
Are players allowed to scam other players in-game in ArcheAge?
Yes. ArcheAge is a highly competitive PvP game and skullduggery will be a weapon of choice just as sharp as a sword (and possibly even more potent).
LOL, I guess this means they want you to kill your fellow players... well, they should at least allow you to kill players everywhere then. Stupid safe zones.
I saw a scam in our server where a player said he was leaving the game and giving away all his gold. If you sent him 10 gold he would send you back 20....send him 20 and he'd send you back 40. We all just laughed when we saw that in Nation chat and said "Who would ever fall for that?"
A little while later someone who had fallen for it started complaining about the first guy being a scammer in chat...
"Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community ... but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots”
― Umberto Eco
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?” ― CD PROJEKT RED
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Just curious, what kind of examples can you give of "safe-zone exploiting" in ArcheAge? I'm not familiar with this.
Age, graphics, or your particular opinion on whether a game is fun or not has little bearing on the topic at hand. Runescape is old, low res, and in my opinion boring. It just happens to have a huge international F2P player base, one of the highest viewerships on Twitch, and a fairly decent community to boot. So please don't muddle the topic with your irrelevant musings on the quality of games.
If I want to play a single player game I will and not worry about world chat. It's labeled a MMORPG for a reason.
I found Lord Of The Rings Online to be pretty tame compared to others.
Even though I think ArcheAge has a decent community overall, Trion's lack of response to the abuse of the world chat channels is disappointing. Part of the problem is the incomplete localization of the chat filters and such. There are also a lot of people in these channels being intentionally offensive, crude, racist and engaging in other intolerable types of behavior that just shouldn't be allowed in public channels by a company trying to maintain the integrity of their product.
Lol open world pvp games always atract the worse in humanity. I could see it becoing Eve online's sister game. But i agree people really need to research this game before they blindly get into it on the hype surrounding it. It will be fun for some but not so for many more.
Won't lie - part of the reason I did an about-face before investing more than an hour in the game was the chat box.
If it wasn't gold spam, it was a Guild Advertisment in Portugese.
Either I landed on the official Huehuehue BR BR BR server or it's like that everywhere. Either way, I'm not interested in playing a game where I can't communicate with half the players.
^ This
When I first logged on I was was shocked at how crude Nation and Alliance chat was. Trolls were purposely being offensive and people responded and things would just explode into expletive lased tirades. I quickly turned the channels off and then had to turn off Trial as the trolls sought a bigger audience.
I forgot about this when I did a re-install earlier this week and I had my 7 year-old and 5 year-old on my lap when I logged in. I had to shut down the chat channels again as my 7 year-old was reading and trying to understand the meaning of the new words he was seeing.
I thought Barrens chat was bad but so far AA takes the cake for worst chat I have been in!
And it is probably a minority of the server but it is a vocal minority doing it!
****WARNING TO NEW PLAYERS**** SCAMMING IS NOT ONLY LEGAL IN THIS GAME IT IS ENCOURGED BEWARE AND TRUST NOONE
I just want to be clear that I am having fun with this game, There is no question it is entertaining but new players coming into archeage have a right to know what they are getting into. This game can be quite rough on those coming from a more linear expierance like wow or GW2. Also don't plan on running to a GM in this game cause everything goes and when I say everything I mean everything
Aloha Mr Hand !
LOL
Lemme guess - you must be their leader.
There are going to be jerks in every game, I've run into them from EQ on. People will have their opinion on which game is worst. of course many folks will point to WoW since it gets blamed for everything anyway but they are in every game. I've never been driven from a game because of the community. I meet good people, get in a good guild, hell I even meet good folks pugging. Despite the drama people like to create there are still plenty of nice players out there playing. Look past the tools.
I guess you never played WoW or SWG. when their chat boxes were just as bad. The gold sites hit them big time once as well and just like Blizzard and SOE Trion will adapt.
Welcome to a game where you have to adapt to PvP or your going to go away crying like a little girl.
I have been with the game since testing started and it is a great game with some areas that need improvement. Other then that I have seen worse.
Mission in life: Vanquish all MMORPG.com trolls - especially TESO, WOW and GW2 trolls.
Then don't cry about the chat ^^
It's a PVP game with a lot of competition (land, resources, etc.) within your own faction. You can only trust your own guild and everyone else is either definitely a foe or potentially so... not exactly conducive to a warm and fuzzy atmosphere. As a matter of fact, most fights I've been involved in have happened with my own faction trying to take packs from us during our trade runs between the continents at sea.
People behave pretty well as I expected they would with one exception: there is a lot of trivial asshattery enabled by the full on collision detection. A lot of players go out of their way to bump into you with their horses, farm carts or just running. Like I said, it's trivial. But the frequency surprised me.
Decent behavior from same-faction players not in your guild is the exception, not the rule.
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
You will have to explain this one...
Tera was P2P at launch and had one of the worse communities I ever witnessed.
It's a fact of all online games nowadays, not just exclusive to MMOs. Have you ever been in a COD Xbox live room? Most people act tough behind a computer screen to live out their fantasies that they cannot in real life.
From their FAQ:
Are players allowed to scam other players in-game in ArcheAge?
Yes. ArcheAge is a highly competitive PvP game and skullduggery will be a weapon of choice just as sharp as a sword (and possibly even more potent).
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
LOL, I guess this means they want you to kill your fellow players... well, they should at least allow you to kill players everywhere then. Stupid safe zones.
I saw a scam in our server where a player said he was leaving the game and giving away all his gold. If you sent him 10 gold he would send you back 20....send him 20 and he'd send you back 40. We all just laughed when we saw that in Nation chat and said "Who would ever fall for that?"
A little while later someone who had fallen for it started complaining about the first guy being a scammer in chat...
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
not how the game is played .....learn what is dangerous and learn what isn't the asshats will get sorted out
Not all of them.
I play STO and Neverwinter both F2P. And chat is nothing like the filth you see in AA.