APB Reloaded one of the worst communites I have ever seen

[WaysideMaze]

Seriously? It's a game that revolves primarily around crime simulation. How could you expect them to act any differently than their avatars?

There are security forces in the game aswell.

 

[DaHero]

Okay since nobody else has mentioned it: Face of Mankind

The game might sound great, and I'm sure it is on paper, but making a new character spawns you right in the middle of the city, where you get spawn camped and told to go uninstall until your 10 "lifes" run out and you're forced to make a new character, only to again...die...be camped and T-bagged...so yeah.

It seems to me that multiplayer brings out the worst kinds of people in the world, which is why I've stopped playing anything multiplayer. If it's not co-op then I'm just not interested, period. Only downside to that is now I have nobody to actually play anything with.

 

[redisforever]

Honestly, I try to avoid things like this, mainly by not playing online games too much. The only online game I recently played was Company of Heroes Online, which was great. There was a guy trolling, at some point, being racist in the chat, about how much Germans suck, and as proof, he was talking about their tanks sucking. In short, within 3 minutes, he was over-shouted by other people, arguing with him, but there was no swearing, nothing like that, except from that guy. After a few minutes, he just disappeared.

The community was really helpful, jump into a chat session with a bunch of people, ask a question, and there! You have a polite answer.


Although, playing MW3, at a friend's house, the first thing we both do is mute everyone else, just in case.

 

[Areani]

I couldn't agree with you more. Pretty much the only things I see in the chat are insults, pointless arguements and trolling. Make a mistake and you'll have your whole group screaming at you. Win a match and the other team will immediately accuse you of hacking or cheating. Noob, hacker, LTP, GTFO and swearing galore.

 

[brunothepig]

Spoiler: snip

APB is pretty awful.

One of the MMOs I play is Fallen Earth. It's a very atmospheric, post-apoc setting with, by modern MMO standards, a really steep learning curve. You start the game with zip guns that fire copper ball bearings, and no armor. You can't buy weapons and armor - if you want a real gun then find another player who will sell you one, or make your own. You want bullets? Make them too.

It also has a relatively small, but friendly and relaxed community. There's not a lot of drama in the chat channels and the help channel has actual GMs present and visible most of the time. It is, without question, the best MMO community I've experienced.

So a while back Gamersfirst bought over Fallen Earth, and they ran a cross promotion with APB - play Fallen Earth to a certain level and get a code for free gear for your APB character. So for a long weekend we had an influx of APB players, and the help channel was utter chaos.

"how the **** do I get a ****** horse?"
"when do I get a REAL gun?"
"Why isn't my horse moving?"
(answer - it's dead.)
"HOW DO I GET HORSE????!!!!"
"WTF? where is quest giver?"
"how do I draw my gun??????"
"Mother******!!!!!!!!! **** YOU *******!!!"
"this gun is Gay."
"this horse is Gay."
"this game is Gay."

Etc. There were a few who seemed to 'get' the game, but in general it was hilarious how much the visitors measured up to the appalling stereotype of the typical APB player.

Holy crap. I remember way back when that was released, being quite disappointed I couldn't try it. Now it's free to play! You might see me there once my bandwidth resets.
I did download APB to try it out, but it was broken and all my troubleshooting couldn't get it to work. By the sounds of things, maybe it's a good thing I never got it working.

 

[spartan231490]

Probably the WOW community.

It's been a long time since I've been on there, but from what I remember, I met a lot of pricks on there. Of course I was younger back then so knowing me, I was probably asking for it.snip

The WOW community is far from great, but it isn't as bad as what this guy described for the APB community, so I would guess you were probably asking for it a little bit and you were also in one of the worse servers.

OT: I haven't really played too many MMO's, but the DDO community is what I would call a great community. You get a lot of sarcastic guys on there on tuesdays(when wow goes down) but even they are usually pretty helpful after they rag on you a little. I don't think I've ever asked a question in advice chat and not gotten a helpful answer within a few seconds. And even pugging groups I don't end up playing with jerks basically ever.

 

[pirateninj4]

People say CoD's community is bad, I laugh at that APB Reloaded makes that community look like saints.

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For disscussion value, what gaming community is really bad but no one mentions?

My experience:

- Elitist dickhole
- Griefing asshat
- Genuinely friendly and generous
- Introverted
- Perverted
- Clueless
- Constantly angry
- Casual
- Hardcore
- Noob
- Ball-baggins McDeuchenugget
- Female and doesn't give a fuck
- Female and gives a fuck
- Drama queen
- Forum troll
- Whiner

That's a pretty good summary of gaming as a whole. As for specific communities, CoD was the worst I had been in, mostly for the unfathomably massive amount of pretend penis that occurred there. Nothing gives those dicks a boner like shouting down people on Voip.

 

[Vampire cat]

I actually find APB Reloaded fun when you play in a group of friends, but I agree that the community is awful... This I doubt is a very unique thing for APB though as for example WoT has an equally rubbish community as does many other games (and not just the free-to-play ones!)... Thats just how a terrifyingly large portion of gamers act these days...

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I agree with above comments that Fallen Earth is a much better game. It's my favorite MMO, I've logged well over 100 hours in that and I still enjoy it. It's also not as "available" (well it is, but it feels less so for some reason) than for example APB so I suspect it doesn't attract so many bad players. I don't do much PvP there though, it's not a good game for that I feel... Fun with friends! ^^ (buggy still, not all that much better than it was on release week!)

I couldn't agree with you more. Pretty much the only things I see in the chat are insults, pointless arguements and trolling. Make a mistake and you'll have your whole group screaming at you. Win a match and the other team will immediately accuse you of hacking or cheating. Noob, hacker, LTP, GTFO and swearing galore.

This one round I got 15 kills 2 deaths, one of my friends got 11 kills 3 deaths and my third friend got 8 kills 1 death and the other team followed us around ramming our cars and shouting insults and calling us cheaters ><. SO ANNOYING, but after we left it felt kind of pleasing to have achieved such a complete victory against those assholes =3.

 

[Spitfire]

"omg, newbies"

To be fair, that did fit in on you since you was new to the game.

So? That doesn't make the players who said those things any less rude and elitist.

To make a comparison, I've been playing CounterStrike for over 8 years now, and I think I can objectively say that I'm fairly good at it. In all those years, not once do I remember mocking other players based on their skill level. Sure, I might've gotten a little impatient on occasion, when the timer was almost up, and the last remaining teammate was a beginner who didn't know where the bombsites were located, but I've never made a public display out of it.

You see, what bothers me isn't that someone said something stupid to me in a game. What bothers me is the ease with which some people say those things. In the example of DoTA 2, this is a game with (currently) no tutorial, no knowledge base, or any learning resource like that. In other words, there's no way to get better at the game, outside of playing online, and finding out what's what. So for someone to freak out because "omg, you suck at dota" is childish and unreasonable at best.

I play Team Fortress 2 a lot, and I often see Premium "veterans" talking down to those who play the game for free. "F2P noobs" is a common insult, as if the lack of interest in the game's Premium content is somehow indicative of one's skill at the game.

I seen just as many ppl hating on me since I did buy the game to the extent that some servers threw me out T.T"

Thankfully, that's never happened to me in TF2, but yeah, I suppose the community isn't exactly the friendliest.

 

[kebab4you]

"omg, newbies"

To be fair, that did fit in on you since you was new to the game.

So? That doesn't make the players who said those things any less rude and elitist.

To make a comparison, I've been playing CounterStrike for over 8 years now, and I think I can objectively say that I'm fairly good at it. In all those years, not once do I remember mocking other players based on their skill level. Sure, I might've gotten a little impatient on occasion, when the timer was almost up, and the last remaining teammate was a beginner who didn't know where the bombsites were located, but I've never made a public display out of it.

You see, what bothers me isn't that someone said something stupid to me in a game. What bothers me is the ease with which some people say those things. In the example of DoTA 2, this is a game with (currently) no tutorial, no knowledge base, or any learning resource like that. In other words, there's no way to get better at the game, outside of playing online, and finding out what's what. So for someone to freak out because "omg, you suck at dota" is childish and unreasonable at best.

Ohnonon I didn't mean it like that, I meat out of all the random crap they spewed at you for being new to the game. "omg newbies" was the only one that was remotely true, granted it was pure luck since the guy most likely thought noob and newb is the same thing.

 

[scorptatious]

Probably the WOW community.

It's been a long time since I've been on there, but from what I remember, I met a lot of pricks on there. Of course I was younger back then so knowing me, I was probably asking for it.snip

The WOW community is far from great, but it isn't as bad as what this guy described for the APB community, so I would guess you were probably asking for it a little bit and you were also in one of the worse servers.

Looking back, yeah, it really wasn't that bad. I have met some pretty cool people on there. It's just that I seem to remember the people I didn't had a good time with the most.

It was also the first online community I joined as well, so I ended up learning how the internet worked and what was proper etiquette on there. Most of which I learned the hard way.

 

[akkronym]

Yeah OP, I know exactly what you are talking about. Tried out APB the other day - was massively unimpressed. To answer your question though, TF2 360 (and PS3 to my knowledge). Don't get me wrong, it's still one of the best designed games for multiplayer and I love it to death, but the community turned to shit recently and it actually had a pretty good reason to.

When the Orange Box game out, TF2 360 was flocked to as the makers of Half Life and Half Life 2 (Valve) put their game on consoles and the expectation was that they were going to keep it updated with the PC version. Well, updates came and went and 360 version got nothing. For years though, 360 players held out hope. At one point Valve actually said that the 360 update was coming on the team fortress blog. Then we got class limits and the ability to toggle crits on and off.

To be fair, Valve is usually pretty good about taking care of their fans and Microsoft was being really bureaucratic about allowing Valve to include content for free. However when the final class update (I believe it was when the Engineer got the Wrangler) the entire community gave up all at once. I used to have at least 40 friends on XBL playing TF2 daily and in the passed year more than half switched to the PC. The only people who are left on TF2 360 either just got the game for some reason or are just really crass people. It's gotten to the point where you count yourself lucky if you can find a game where no one talks. It's really unfortunate. From what I've heard of the PS3 version, they didn't even get half the patches we did and it's become a haven for glitchers and griefers.

 

[VladG]

You should check out the LoL community. Every time I play that thing without a premade I feel like uninstalling an otherwise great game because of some tosspot.

Still, that's the internet for ya'... lots of 12-year old regaling in the anonymity. God I loved that guy who went and beat up a kid for insulting him over some game...

 

[moostar]

Ace of spades, a free fps, has one of the most unfair and over all annoying communities ever. i mean if you play on certain severs and you're dominating the whole map, some of the players can just go on and jump to conclusions and say that "YOU r a HACKER", or use the term, "NOOB". when im playing the game i look into the chat box and see people are starting pointless arguments over , the way that person play, that person is trolling other players, racism etc. god, free to play communities in my opinion are one of the worst. _-_

 

[JoesshittyOs]

Hmm, strange. Never played it, but I wouldn't imagine that from a Free to Play game.

Well, if they're complaining about you team killing, the only thing to do is Team Kill even more. Get in touch with players on the other side. Tell them all the plans, where they are, etc...

 

[Vivi22]

-snip-

Agreed. I can understand the rage as well. I mean, games can take upwards of an hour to play and getting saddled with even one new player can lead to a loss for the team. I honestly think it could benefit a lot from an unranked mode, training mode, or any of a number of other features to not only make it more inviting for newbs, but to remove much of the incentive for people to be dicks. If you're not going to go down in rank or suffer worse stats from helping out new players then there's less to be angry about. The only thing you have to lose is your time playing the game, but if you join an unranked game then some variance in skill is to be expected. That and better match making could go a long way.

It's funny because games like SC2 where your winning and losing is dependent only on yourself are some of the friendliest communities I've played with. But add a team to the mix and the level of respect between players seems to drop exponentially based on the number of players in the game.

 

[M4t3us]

The sole reason as to how I've managed to put up with the APB:R community for 300+ hrs is this little chat command "/ignore ", I kid you not, it does wonders to improve your overall game experience.

OT: The worse community I've seen so far is possibly on MapleStory Europe... Such a kid-friendly game turned R-rated thanks to online interactions alone. My fiancee is the co-lead on one of the "big" guilds and every time she logs in, she's swamped with complaints and bitching.