Best and Worst online communities?

[Misanthrope Z]

I searched this forum for a thread discussing this and found nothing on it.

As the title says, which games do you think have the best and worst online playerbase? And what makes you think so?

 

 

This is basically a thread to share your stories based on your experiences with players of other game franchises.

Whether it be good, bad or "okay". I'm pretty sure people here have some interesting stories to tell about the types of players they've come across over certain games.

 

I'll start just to see if this goes anywhere.

 

 

 

 

From my experience-

 

 

GOOD/DECENT

Battlefield: From what I've seen for the most part, Battlefield games have always been the games people buy due to it being "the next big military shooter". Lots of people buy it, play it and either keep playing it or they play it for a little while, stop and then play it every once in a while. Very rarely do I see people getting over-competitive with it- in fact I'm pretty sure most people who play Battlefield tend to play it casually. Most of the time I'm playing Battlefield, i'll hear people over the mic. but very rarely do i hear them screaming and yelling at the game- most of the time they're either having a conversation with someone they know, whether it be ingame or in person. If they're not talking, then they simply have their mics on but they aren't saying anything (I usually assume they don't realize their mic is plugged in when this is the case). That or someone will get on mic, ask "does anyone have a mic?" and someone else will either answer, or nobody will answer and he'll stay silent for the most part. Occasionally I get the over-competitive nerd who'll send me hate messages because I'm not playing the way he wants me to, but that's a very rare thing for me.

However, my opinion on this game's community very well could be due to a lack of communication between opposing teams. But I give the devs credit for that- this means people will generally be more focused on playing the game than yelling at each other over the mic.

 

Tekken: This game's community has had it's ups and downs. However it's far from the worst I've dealt with. From what I've seen, most people will play this game competitively (or at least try to) but that's to be expected with a fighting game. Game lobbies are usually a mixed basket- sometimes you'll get a lobby full of people who play the game competitively, but don't take it super seriously. Other times you'll get the people who play competitively and complain constantly. Sometimes you'll get a lobby full of people who don't know how to play, but don't exactly care either. Other times you'll get a lobby full of people who don't know how to play, but will accuse you of cheating every time they lose. Often times when I've played random matches away from lobbies, I'd receive a message from the person I played against. Sometimes It'd be something along the lines of "Good game", other times it'll be some basement dweller either bragging that he won or bitching because he lost. Like I said, to me it's not the worst, but it's far from the best.

 

Gran Turismo: Now, this one I'm only judging off of Gran Turismo 5, since it's the only one I've played. But from what Gran Turismo 5 showed me, lots of people playing this game online tend to be chill- But then again, it's a driving sim, so what exactly can you get mad at (besides maybe the occasional player who'll drive backwards and try to crash into everyone/block the road)? To me, this game's community is somewhat similar to Battlefield's- as in, people buy it, play it and either keep playing, or only play it every once in a while. It's also similar in terms of people socializing. For the most part, most of the communicating I've heard in GT5 was either casual conversation, or people asking each other questions related to the game. Often times, conversations in this would be car related (which makes it somewhat different from Battlefield in a way- People I've met over GT5 will often engage in conversations about vehicles, AKA, what the game is about. People I've heard in Battlefield don't exactly talk about guns, terrorism and all that). So basically, this game seems to attract people who are sociable and often times car enthusiasts. Probably the most down-to-earth community I've dealt with to be honest.

 

 

Starhawk: This game's lifespan was somewhat short but the community was still somewhat alright for the most part. A lot of the time when I played this game, I'd get on the mic and say stupid sh*t for for the sake of saying stupid sh*t. People had a sense of humor about it a lot of the time, but sometimes I'd get the occasional gamepad hardass who wants to get angry for no reason. So to piss these types of people off more I'd just keep saying dumb things and people would usually send me messages like "Lol" or "that other guy is a fag" etc. I'd almost never reply to these messages though. Now, this game did have a lot of people who would get over-competitive and proceed to yell over their mics (simply because the other team wont let them win) but this didn't happen TOO often. When the game was new, it started off as mostly just people who bought the game to f*ck around in. Eventually it started dying down and became nothing but competitive players (despite how broken it was). Basically, this game started off with a community of people who didn't take the game very seriously but slowly ended up with a community of competitive players (who often complain). However, I still liked this game's community because it's playerbase was casual and non-caring for much longer than it was competitive and serious.

 

 

 

 

Now we move onto-

 

 

BAD/HORRIBLE

 

Call of Duty: Now, I'm not going to accuse everyone who plays this game of being "anti-social" or "nerdy" or "over-competitive", seeing as owning at least one CoD game is more-or-less a social norm. It's a well known franchise, lots of people I know have at least one game from this franchise, and I'm sure many of you know a few people who play this game as well. However, I've played Modern Warfare 1/2 , Black Ops and Ghosts at a friend's house often when I'd visit. And a lot of the time, we'd be in a server full of people arguing and bitching at each other (the same types of arguments I hear over GTA:O actually, which tells me some things about GTA:O's community). From over-competitive gamers, to gamepad thugs, to internet racists, this game has introduced me to some sh*tty people. Every once in a while we'd get a server with people who are actually somewhat alright, but that doesn't exactly make up for the many times I'd hear nerds screaming at each other, having race wars or resorting to the classic "i f*cked your mom". Not the WORST community out there, but it's still pretty sh*tty.

 

Team Fortress 2: Strangely enough, very similar to CoD's community, only nerdier and much more cancerous. I've played this game quite a bit (only because people I have added on Steam would constantly bug me to play with them) and it was a lot less than enjoyable (not because of the community, but I just hate the game in general). Now, to me, the community for this game is like I said, a nerdier, more sociopathic version of the CoD community. I'll hear the same types of arguments, however they'll be worded way differently... From what I've seen, the TF2 community has some of the dumbest arguments, yet ironically, they try way too hard to sound intellectual. A lot of the time, I'll hear people (who i assume are very anti-social in real life) for SOME ODD REASON, trying to sound like anime girls..while they constantly drop N-bombs over the mic. Other times there'd be that one nerd who mic-spams dubstep or internet music videos (dumb sh*t like keyboard cat, gangnam style etc). Sometimes there'll be those people who have no personality of their own and speak purely in internet lingo (I TROLL U XD U MAD? LOLOLOL XDXDXDXD). And don't even get me started on custom sprays. I cannot count how many times I've entered a public server in this game, only to see Furry/MLP porn plastered all over a wall somewhere. This game's community still isn't the worst I've dealt with, but it's pretty far down there.

 

Super Smash Brothers: Now, I've been a part of this game's community for years. I'm rather ashamed of that really, not because of the game, but you guessed it, because of the people who play it. This community, being the one I've been in longest, feels like the absolute worst to me. I've seen just about it all from the SSB community- Pedophiles, over-obsessive furries, cry-babies, attention seekers, ego-complexed nerds, pretentious weeaboos, keyboard warriors, gamepad thugs, the list goes on. I shamefully admit that I played this game at a somewhat competitive level, first getting into it when Brawl came out in 2008. It wasn't until early 2009 that I was introduced to it's "community". Now at first, it seemed cool. I could play people online, we have a few matches and that's that. But as time went on, I started seeing the community going downhill. I started noticing how people take the game way too seriously (smash bros, of all things) and get absolutely pissed at the fact they lost- people would tend to get overly emotional about this game for some odd reason. When chatting with people who play this game, they always seem difficult for me to talk to, as a lot of them always seemed to lack a genuine sense of humor (if you're not quoting dumb internet memes you get taken too seriously). They can't seem to take opinions, ever (if you say you don't like their favorite character, they often times flip the f*ck out). There's a huge chunk of people who grow overly attached to the character they use (there's nothing wrong with liking video game characters a lot, but when someone dresses like Mario on a daily basis, no matter where they are, then something is seriously up). A lot of the "well known" players of this game are openly sexual deviants and are, for some unknown reason, proud of it. And don't get me started on the grown men who seem to have conjured up a superiority complex....over what is essentially a kids game. My journey with this game's community started in 2008, and ended somewhere around early 2011 (despite me having Smash 4, but I am not making the mistake of visiting smash websites ever again).

 

 

 

And here I am now, on GTAF. Where I can say all the dumb sh*t I want without too many people getting on my ass about it.

[G's Ah's]

This thread will basically be people sh*tting on CoD players like Indians sh*tting in the Ganges. As for good communities, I really enjoy playing those on Forza Motorsports primarily for the same reasons as you stated about Gran Turismo. The men and women on there are generally a good bunch of people and I've only encountered one racist troll.

 

I also enjoyed GTA IV's online community. I learnt the game "Come on Biscuit" from people on there.

[Misanthrope Z]

This thread will basically be people sh*tting on CoD players like Indians sh*tting in the Ganges. As for good communities, I really enjoy playing those on Forza Motorsports primarily for the same reasons as you stated about Gran Turismo. The men and women on there are generally a good bunch of people and I've only encountered one racist troll.

 

I also enjoyed GTA IV's online community. I learnt the game "Come on Biscuit" from people on there.

yeah, i sense a lot of CoD hate is gonna stir up in this thread.

 

I got GTA IV back in late 2011, so i was a bit late to that party

but online players still seemed pretty chill and the modders for the most part didn't seem like assholes.

[G's Ah's]

GTA IV is the only place online where I've managed to organize a rave party on a tugboat.

[_Raven_]

Here's my list (from experience)

 

Best:

 

-GTA IV Multiplayer. The community for this game is/was amazing. On PC, in 2009, 2010? The mods, YouTube videos, low-quality that is, but entertaining. People just had fun.

 

Decent:

 

-Minecraft. Some good people, servers, builds, and what-not. However, from experience, there have been servers that were terrible. I remember one time I was just joining a server, acting casual, and then not 15 minutes later I get banned. For what reason? I wasn't doing anything in particular. Yeesh. Some people who run servers are immature beyond comprehension.

 

The YouTube community is a different story. Let's not even go there.

Edited January 8, 2015 by The7thOne

[Johan]

The IV community back on PC was superb, I remember the first 10 minutes of launch I made a few friends right away who I got to know for about 5 years now.. was even there when the first group made up a few custom game modes such as Demolition Derby and Busted.. never looked back from there. I'm crossing my fingers that in a few weeks from today.. I'll get to experience that again on V.

 

Counter-Strike gets an honorable mention, at times you'll meet terrible people.. but most of the people I've ran to have been friendly. When there's a girl on the server they don't freak out, and have made me laugh more times than I can count either on chat, mic or with their sprays.

 

Planetside 2... sadly I haven't played it in almost 2 years now I believe but I had a lot of fun, everyone's friendly and I'm glad considering each match is long as hell, even when I was still new to it no one had trouble giving me advice or what to do to help out, I'm extremely pumped to try out the beta for the new one next week on PS4.

 

Battlefield Bad Company 2/Vietnam/Battlefield 2 I wish I could relive those days when it was even bigger than it is now. Sucks that as soon as Battlefield 3 released, this game evolved into basically a modern-generic shooter.

[LiangHuBBB]

can it get any worse than this?

 

 

 

 

[Misanthrope Z]

can it get any worse than this?

 

 

 

 

oh trust me

 

the Smash Bros community is thousands of times worse than a few sh*t talkers over the mic.

[Thundurus-T]

In terms of good/decent communities, I would say Forza. From my experience the people are quite mature, but there are those people who are very competitive about the game.

 

I play Call of Duty myself, and I'm willing to admit it probably has the worst community out of any game I have played. You kill someone? You're a camping f*ggot. They kill you? You suck at the f*cking game and should kill yourself. You're doing well? You're a tryhard nerd who has no life. Then there's all the 12 year olds threatening to boot you offline (lol).

 

The GTAO community is pretty bad as well but from my experience I haven't seen many people in game chat, at least. And I'm sure everyone already knows why it's bad.

[TheOneLibertonian]

I love the Gran Turismo community because everyone is very professional and nice, also they do seem to have fun a lot as well. Races are really fun in GT6 especially the 30 min. endurance races at La Sarthe. I had one of the best races there and it is fun. GTA IV also have a fun community, but the stupid modders ruined it. Hey, at least it's better than GTA Online's community.

[tuareg]

Best: The fine people who play MGS:PW. The game is not the best in the series, but the online community is the best most helpful one you'll ever meet.

 

Worst: CSGO. People who aren't using cheats will gladly ignore someone who's cheating on their team just beause they want to win. To the point where they'll vote to kick someone who's updet about the person that's cheating.

 

To me that's far worse than the immaturity of the BF community or whatever people's problem with the CoD community is.

[iNero]

Battlefield has one of the worst communities.

Far worse than CoD.

[Misanthrope Z]

Battlefield has one of the worst communities.

Far worse than CoD.

i wont deny BF has some absolute sh*tty people, i can actually vouch for it

 

the lack of communication when ingame just kinda shields most of it i guess

In terms of good/decent communities, I would say Forza. From my experience the people are quite mature, but there are those people who are very competitive about the game.

 

I play Call of Duty myself, and I'm willing to admit it probably has the worst community out of any game I have played. You kill someone? You're a camping f*ggot. They kill you? You suck at the f*cking game and should kill yourself. You're doing well? You're a tryhard nerd who has no life. Then there's all the 12 year olds threatening to boot you offline (lol).

 

The GTAO community is pretty bad as well but from my experience I haven't seen many people in game chat, at least. And I'm sure everyone already knows why it's bad.

i swear most of the randoms you find in GTAO are most likely from CoD/BF anyway to be honest. lots of talk about "being a campy fa**ot" and "sucking at the game" when you hear people over the mic.

Best: The fine people who play MGS:PW. The game is not the best in the series, but the online community is the best most helpful one you'll ever meet.

 

Worst: CSGO. People who aren't using cheats will gladly ignore someone who's cheating on their team just beause they want to win. To the point where they'll vote to kick someone who's updet about the person that's cheating.

 

To me that's far worse than the immaturity of the BF community or whatever people's problem with the CoD community is.

i havent really met anyone online in MGS:PW. for the most part i've just been playing in private servers with friends of mine.

 

i don't think many people play it online now though. last time i looked online i only saw one open room.

I love the Gran Turismo community because everyone is very professional and nice, also they do seem to have fun a lot as well. Races are really fun in GT6 especially the 30 min. endurance races at La Sarthe. I had one of the best races there and it is fun. GTA IV also have a fun community, but the stupid modders ruined it. Hey, at least it's better than GTA Online's community.

yeah, Gran Turismo's community seems pretty good. even most the competitive players i've met won't sh*t talk me for not being as good at the game as they are- most times they'd usually tell me how i can do better (racing tips, which cars are good for certain tracks, etc)

 

i think some of the coolest people i've met online came from Gran Turismo 5. one of them actually raced motorcycles for a living.

Edited January 8, 2015 by Pegassi Autobot

[Hyperglide]

Mass Effect 3's is pretty awful. Considering it's a co-op game I've met some really annoying twats on the 360. There's really no way to judge this though it's all subjective. Also the Bioware board is full of trolls.

[Mista J]

The best community I've come across is probably the Gears people. Out of 2000+ rounds of Gears 2 I maybe only ran into a handful of douchebags. Other than that it was always friendly prematch sh*t talking.

 

The worst probably a tie between FIFA and CoD, they're pretty much identical.

[Misanthrope Z]

Mass Effect 3's is pretty awful. Considering it's a co-op game I've met some really annoying twats on the 360. There's really no way to judge this though it's all subjective. Also the Bioware board is full of trolls.

Mass Effect's fanbase, from what i've seen, has way too many pretentious nerds and crybabies. no idea what it is about that game that attracts them though, since i've never played it for myself.

[Sean O'God]

I often have a good time in Forza Horizon 2 Online. People are, for the most part, mature and don't take the game too seriously. It's also cool when you meet someone with a similar interest in cars as you.

 

As far as bad communities, GTA Online has the worst community I've seen. There are far too many squeakers and wanna-be stoner douches that I've met in Online, and they always always always complain when you kill them. Note that I've never touched COD so I don't know if it's any better or worse.

[G's Ah's]

COD is worse.

[Norsea]

GTAO community: full of Zentorno's, sh*tty and dirty racers, people who hacked their level, people who hacked their money, crews with massive egos that think they're superior, over all annoying players

 

Call of Duty community: oh man.. quick scopers that suck, trickshotters, riot shielders, noob tubers, 10 year olds that scream on the microphone, people that get in your way, people that trap you some how, etc

 

Worst communities ever.

[Misanthrope Z]

GTAO community: full of Zentorno's, sh*tty and dirty racers, people who hacked their level, people who hacked their money, crews with massive egos that think they're superior, over all annoying players

 

Call of Duty community: oh man.. quick scopers that suck, trickshotters, riot shielders, noob tubers, 10 year olds that scream on the microphone, people that get in your way, people that trap you some how, etc

 

Worst communities ever.

different games

 

same people lol

[G's Ah's]

They were probably attracted to the current gen GTA O by the scent of first person shooter software. Smells like a mix of deodorant and cordite.

[TheMcSame]

I'll add more as I think of them.

 

Good

 

Battlefield (before BF3)

PC community (not the PC Master Race preachers obviously).... Okay it's not a game but it's worth a mention.

 

 

Bad:

 

Battlefield (BF3 and later)

CoD

Forza

Counterstrike (99% assholes). Basically, if you're not a pro people are just going to be dicks to you.

GTA O

GTA V and GTA O sections on this forum

Edited January 10, 2015 by TheMcSame

[Fireman]

Bad:

Counterstrike (99% assholes). Basically, if you're not a pro people are just going to be dicks to you.

 

 

Weird, I love the Counterstrike community, you're right in that they're all assholes and they all act like they're pro, but that's what makes it fun.

 

You can act the same way and won't be judged plus those guys are HILARIOUS when raging or angry, it's the main reason I play on American servers rather than on European servers, Europeans are much quieter.

 

Silent Storm modding community is perfect, main reason why a community can be perfect is when it's small, there's basically ~10 people active there, all mature and respectful.

Carmageddon Modding Community is great, not perfect but mainly good people.

WoW still has a fine community, despite what everyone's saying.

 

 

I don't know if there's a community I hate, I used to hate some communities, but honestly can't remember which.

[Hyperglide]

 

Mass Effect 3's is pretty awful. Considering it's a co-op game I've met some really annoying twats on the 360. There's really no way to judge this though it's all subjective. Also the Bioware board is full of trolls.

Mass Effect's fanbase, from what i've seen, has way too many pretentious nerds and crybabies. no idea what it is about that game that attracts them though, since i've never played it for myself.

 

 

It's weird too because it's not competitive PvP. It's essentially an advanced horde mode in the Multiplayer yet people still get super pissed. I've been called more names in that then in CoD, or GTA V or anything else that's PvP where you would expect sh*t talking? It's usually crybaby suckass British blokes too who are the biggest whiners. Also so many noobs in that game I have to carry most matches it seems now.

[RedDagger]

For the best, I'd go with TF2. Apparently if you give people in-game voice commands, a huge load of taunts, weapons like the B.A.S.E. jumper, rocket jumper, holiday punch, and maps like plr_hightower, a lot of messing around goes on. Hell, even in normal games there's a lot of teamwork going on - can't say the same for a lot of other games. Still has its fair share of chat-spammers with Lenny face binds and mic spammers and hackers, though not a huge amount.

 

Call me naive, but I couldn't say any that are particularly bad, even though I have a total of...many hundreds of hours on CoD. It really isn't that bad.

[161isaiah161]

 

Pro cod players

 

Good song though

[Misanthrope Z]

 

Pro cod players

 

Good song though

oh man i remember the original video of this

 

they apparently got kicked out of a professional team because of that. everybody hated these obnoxious losers.

[G's Ah's]

Bad:

Forza

 

 

What's wrong with Forza's community?

[TheMcSame]

 

Bad:

Forza

 

 

What's wrong with Forza's community?

 

The Forza Forum. One of the few places worse than the GTA V and GTA O sections.

[Misanthrope Z]

 

 

Bad:

Forza

 

 

What's wrong with Forza's community?

 

The Forza Forum. One of the few places worse than the GTA V and GTA O sections.

 

forums tend to always have that problem from what i've experienced though

 

the average forum user (on any website) is usually

 

A: a pissed off teenager who has more bad than good days in school, taking his anger out on people who can't physically assault him due to being hundreds/thousands of miles away

 

B: a creepy sociopath

 

C: an adult with the mentality of a pissed off teenager

 

D: an overall annoying/pretentious person in general

 

of course, it only seems to be video game forums that suffer from this problem most of the time

Edited January 11, 2015 by Pegassi Autobot