Indie MMO Spotlight: Smelting, Plague Island, And Toxic Communities | MMORPG.com

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• Rungar Member RarePosts: 1,132

  October 2021

  toxicity comes from the top down. End of story since your not allowed to talk about it.

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• Scot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,273

  October 2021 edited October 2021

  Only mention of toxic communities is in one game, the open world PvP one. Yes, that can help create a toxic community but I note that you don't exactly need Open world PvP to have a community that is toxic.

  
• Kyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 43,975

  October 2021

  Well going to cross Profane off the list.  It doesn't seem he understands why FFA full loot games typically fail, has little to do with players trying to avoid consequences for their actions.
  
  Even his example about role playing "do I kill my friend or not" because I'm an "assassin" and he's in possession of something I want is a ridiculous example to someone like me.
  
  No, never, ever kill your friends, only your enemies and not everyone in the game world should be viewed as an opponent, for me most should be neutral, much as in real life.
  

  
  The real trick to having even a moderately successful PVP full loot focused MMORPG is to find ways for players to control their level of risk vs reward.
  
  The more successful games, i.e. EVE and...well, can't think of many others do a pretty good job of this, though in recent years the Devs at CCP seemed determined to shift the balance which I know drove me and my friends off and I assume some others.
  
  It's really all about making efficient use of my time to achieve whatever goals I set for myself and being able to control the level of risk exposure as I don't play games to have "fun" it's mostly about progression and if other players have too much influence on this dynamic I won't be playing.
  
  
  

  

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• Iselin Member LegendaryPosts: 18,719

  October 2021 edited October 2021

  Dude from profane has got his head up his ass if he thinks that his game will attract a better kind of player than the exploiting, cheating and abusing crowd that is in all MMOs.
  
  They won't role play any more than anyone does in themeparks. They will meta game his game out of existence in days killing and camping the noobs like they always do.
  
  Sounds like a dumbass zealot. Some people just never learn.

  

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• Scot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,273

  November 2021

  Kyleran said:

  Well going to cross Profane off the list.  It doesn't seem he understands why FFA full loot games typically fail, has little to do with players trying to avoid consequences for their actions.
  
  Even his example about role playing "do I kill my friend or not" because I'm an "assassin" and he's in possession of something I want is a ridiculous example to someone like me.
  
  No, never, ever kill your friends, only your enemies and not everyone in the game world should be viewed as an opponent, for me most should be neutral, much as in real life.
  

  
  The real trick to having even a moderately successful PVP full loot focused MMORPG is to find ways for players to control their level of risk vs reward.
  
  The more successful games, i.e. EVE and...well, can't think of many others do a pretty good job of this, though in recent years the Devs at CCP seemed determined to shift the balance which I know drove me and my friends off and I assume some others.
  
  It's really all about making efficient use of my time to achieve whatever goals I set for myself and being able to control the level of risk exposure as I don't play games to have "fun" it's mostly about progression and if other players have too much influence on this dynamic I won't be playing.
  
  
  

  I did not look at the video, why is it that developers have so little understanding of the games they are making, this is Caspian all over again.
• willbonney Member UncommonPosts: 72

  November 2021

  The game from the picture is Perpetuum, now Open Perpetuum. I did a player's side review of it about ten years ago. It's still fun, and Free now.

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• Nitro-1 Member UncommonPosts: 42

  November 2021 edited November 2021

  Toxic communities....its almost as if the article itself is troll bait.
• bcbully Member EpicPosts: 11,843

  November 2021

  Diego NAILED it.
  
  I've never had more fun than in Age of Wushu playing a chaotic neutral Tangmen.
  
  Best mmorpg experience ever hands down.