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Justykanna
Best: Probably osu!. At least in the forums. I don't really talk much in the open channels in-game.
Ragnarok Online was pretty good and is a close second. I never went to their forums or sites, but I found people to be generally very nice - least on my server. You'd get the odd spammer but they had systems to prevent anything heavy.

Worst: Maybe Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. A lot of people blamed people and yelled into their microphones for no reason what-so-ever (or just flat out being annoying / pissing people off for their own amusement). And then add in the fact that several think my friends and I had were hacking, when in fact we just use UAVs and Ventrilo effectively.

Not terribly far behind is League of Legends and / or World of Warcraft. Both can have some pretty terrible people who don't want to cooperate as a team (which both require) and flaunt their egos. I tend to stick with my friends here too but it's not as bad as CoD MW2.

Edit: Maplestory was probably worse off than the two above. I didn't like the community at all. Lots of kill-stealers and lots of spammers. I stopped playing as soon as I poped level 30 on my first character though.
Guess I'm not satisfied with a lot of communities, huh?
Tanzklaue
I think people who say that osu! is a bad community focus too much on the very vocal minority who is indeed the worst, which then leads to random newbie hate and an overall toxic environment. but people conveniently forget the vocal minority of nice and cool people, and the masses of people who are nice despite not even being active on the forums. I for myself have found more people I like to talk with in osu than in any other community, and I still think that osu! is a good community.
VoidnOwO
:oops:
dNextGen
hey SEA aint that bad buddy,blame the pinoy who always flamed everyone else in the game

best : twitch.tv chat
worst : joinDota ( loads of fanboy wars and stupid people who cant catch sarcasm),but LoL players in-game are more terribad though,i played the games a bit,asking for a help and what i got is flame answer and trolls
YunoFanatic

Yoeri wrote:

Mianki wrote:

Best: osu!
Worst: osu!
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dNextGen wrote:

hey SEA aint that bad buddy,blame the pinoy who always flamed everyone else in the game
How dare you blame us...
dNextGen
nope,not any Fillipinos

i;ve played dota garena back in 2007-2008 and i got flamed everytime i met some random pinoy dude

well it might sounds like a generalization,im sry
Zeraph

Tanzklaue wrote:

I think people who say that osu! is a bad community focus too much on the very vocal minority who is indeed the worst, which then leads to random newbie hate and an overall toxic environment. but people conveniently forget the vocal minority of nice and cool people, and the masses of people who are nice despite not even being active on the forums. I for myself have found more people I like to talk with in osu than in any other community, and I still think that osu! is a good community.

so right, and I haven't even been active in the community for over 6 months. yet everyone i've spoken to on osu! or at least, 99% of the people i've spoken to are all really cool people. so saying osu! is the worst community cause all you do is read #osu or try to associate with the wrong people in the community just makes you guys look fucking retarded sadly.
Hiryuu_old
Best: osu! (occasionally there is a moron on the loose, but in general it's pretty good), Starcraft
Worst: Call of Duty, any moba game, Silkroad Online, Xbox Live in general
VoidnOwO
:)
Zeraph
Im pretty sure I play the game. I realize its a thread about opinions I didnt say that they were wrong in whatever they thought about the community I was just stating my own opinion.
Birdy
How dare you state your own opinion in OT. Get the hell out.
Wojjan
the biggest problem with the osu! community is that it's collapsing under its size. The close-knit 2008-09 BSS system doesn't work well with what the site calls 3 million users. another problem is that the mods are too bent on keeping every last one of those three million people here. I hail from an off-branch of the MSPA forums with about 40-60 users where even targeting a minority or heckling a fellow user once can net your ass a suspension. The fact that there is leeway given for being a terrible person to other users in this community continues to surprise me to this day.

This is why I'll also list SomethingAwful as one of the best communities, even if I'm not a part of it. What they do right is considering being a user a privilege. Nobody has the right to be part of a community, and if you enter a community with your fists a-blazin' looking to start trouble with your fellow peepz then mods shouldn't even have to think twice about banning you.
Zeraph

Static Noise Bird wrote:

How dare you state your own opinion in OT. Get the hell out.
:(...
Wojjan

CDFA wrote:

CDFA wrote:

>Implying there are good gaming communities
There was a Maplestory group I was a fan of, and there's osu!

I mostly like them because they're the only gaming groups that I'm not currently banned from.
also i forgot about this post but you only feel this way because you're the piece of shit that fucks communities up. stop posting like you're on 4chan and grow the fuck up.
Mara

Wojjan wrote:

stop posting like you're on 4chan and grow the fuck up.
QFT

Being a nerd is no go!
Taadashi
Best: Osu!, it has a nice atmosphere.
Worst: League of Legends, because of ragers and ppl that thinks making a mistake in-game is a more serious crime than murder..
Shohei Ohtani

Wojjan wrote:

CDFA wrote:

There was a Maplestory group I was a fan of, and there's osu!

I mostly like them because they're the only gaming groups that I'm not currently banned from.
also i forgot about this post but you only feel this way because you're the piece of shit that fucks communities up. stop posting like you're on 4chan and grow the fuck up.
Gladly.

I'm not going to change the way I speak, because I'm not going to change myself for the approval of a bunch of kids that I don't really give a shit about. However, I'd love to do something else to help amend my actions that I've so wrongly been doing for the past 4 years apparently

After all, once I'm gone, everything is going to be fixes!!! Right? :-))))))))

Hahahahahah
ReVeNg3r
then I came...

...to be continued
Justykanna

BRBP wrote:

People who say communities like RuneScape and CoD are terrible probably didn't think that there you're forced to be with other people all the time, here you can play by yourself and occasionally post to off-topic where you already know everyone, avoiding that 15-year-old weeaboo crowd in multiplayer, which is like, 90% of the people here? Runescape isn't that bad either once you get to the hidden forum sections, and CoDs are fun once you find a clan that forces you to prove your age to keep trolling teens out of it. [/My opinions]
I disagree with the CoD part actually. People still try to piss you off for their own amusement (rage in to their mic, play loud annoying music through it, etc) and blame you / your friends for hacking, when you're not. It's not a fun community to be a part of, whether you're in a pre-made group or not.
TakuMii
Best: Probably osu!. Sure, I'd agree that there's a couple of so-called "terrible people" on here, but the people I've met here are more friendly and welcoming than any other community I've been to (or perhaps it may be because of my efforts to meet new people here compared to other places).

Worst: Easily HoN. I thought LoL's community was pretty bad, but I've never been called (and I quote) a "dumbshit that deserves verbal scolding" in LoL (not to mention that LoL doesn't have voice chat). The community as well as the game environment is not welcoming at all. At least S2 Games is realizing how bad the situation is, as they're actively working to minimize the amount of rage-inducing game mechanics in their next game.
Stefan
Good: osu!

Bad: LoL, MapleStory Europe
Silverboxer
Hiryuu_old

YayMii wrote:

Worst: Easily HoN. I thought LoL's community was pretty bad, but I've never been called (and I quote) a "dumbshit that deserves verbal scolding" in LoL (not to mention that LoL doesn't have voice chat). The community as well as the game environment is not welcoming at all. At least S2 Games is realizing how bad the situation is, as they're actively working to minimize the amount of rage-inducing game mechanics in their next game.
Hon has been around since 2010 iirc, it hasn't changed one bit since they made it f2p. After playing for a total of around 5000~5050 matches ( i lost count at one point). The raging has started since that moment and the amount of smurfs that are being created at a constant rate is just absurd, I doubt anytime soon they'll be able to fix the problem with little kids raging, flaming towards you and people going full retarded against new players
Cyclohexane

Wojjan wrote:

the biggest problem with the osu! community is that it's collapsing under its size. The close-knit 2008-09 BSS system doesn't work well with what the site calls 3 million users. another problem is that the mods are too bent on keeping every last one of those three million people here. I hail from an off-branch of the MSPA forums with about 40-60 users where even targeting a minority or heckling a fellow user once can net your ass a suspension. The fact that there is leeway given for being a terrible person to other users in this community continues to surprise me to this day.

This is why I'll also list SomethingAwful as one of the best communities, even if I'm not a part of it. What they do right is considering being a user a privilege. Nobody has the right to be part of a community, and if you enter a community with your fists a-blazin' looking to start trouble with your fellow peepz then mods shouldn't even have to think twice about banning you.

in a perfect world.

men like me would not exist

but this is not a perfect world

tl;dr it might not be good for you but I like it so don't cramp my style

edit: AND YOU CAN POST IN THREADS WITHOUT BUMPING THEM HOW AWESOME IS THAT
DaddyCoolVipper
^Perhaps you shouldn't reccomend it, I don't want people going there from Otaku Culture and making more naruto threads
Cyclohexane

DaddyCoolVipper wrote:

^Perhaps you shouldn't reccomend it, I don't want people going there from Otaku Culture and making more naruto threads
I'm not recommending it.
DaddyCoolVipper
It is pretty scary, I agree!
Destiny
Best was the 2007-2010 Halo 3 community.
Worst is the Reague of Regends community by a landslide.
Cyclohexane
there you go DCV truly this will help
DaddyCoolVipper
<3.

osu!'s not a great community, not a terrible one either. There's a lot of shite in it, but there are plenty of really nice people.
Macacito
osu will be a nice community in some years when admins are finally teenagers
Kanye West
osu will be a nice community in a few days when you're finally modqueued
Zeraph

Kanye West wrote:

osu will be a nice community in a few days when you're finally modqueued
Macacito
if u modqueued me i report osu for copyrighting elite beat agents and osu will never exist again
win
MegaRevolution1

Macacito wrote:

if u modqueued me i report osu for copyrighting elite beat agents and osu will never exist again
win
Just to humor the thought, you'd pretty much fail. You personally don't own Elite Beat Agents, and thus can't file a law suit on osu! for it, and even if you somehow could, Peppy isn't making money off of it. Yes, there are those who donate to earn supporter tags and what not, but even then, it's just that. Donations. Plus, I'm sure if you read through the legal info linked at the bottom of the site, you'll find more reasons why lawsuits would fail.
Naikaze

Kanye West wrote:

osu will be a nice community in a few days when you're finally modqueued
Worst: osu!
uzzi
Best: osu!, DoTA, Grand Chase!
Worst: LoL, HoN, Maplestory
Liiraye
Best: HoN
Worst: HoN

Allow me to elaborate before throwing tomatoes at me;
It's kind of a love-hate thing going on here. I absolutely HATE griefers and retards, but even so, there's nothing that beats having a bad day and using a trash acc to grief and accumulate rage from your allies because you know exactly how mad one gets and the creativity of combining bad words together that a mad nerd can form is hilarious to say the least (funnier if 2-3 friends).

Yes, I might be a small part of HoNs reason for having a shitty community, but once you're in, you can't fkn stop! :D it's fun and that's what games should provide for me but aren't atm.
dNextGen
you should play Dota 2 instead of Hon though

Swedes are good at it D:

Apex_old

dNextGen wrote:

you should play Dota 2 instead of Hon though

Swedes are good at it D:

There are 3 China teams.

Also, by the way, Dota/LoL is really a trend in China. 50% of the people who play computers in China play Dota/LoL.
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