What do you really think of your game's community?

[TheHidden01]

"Everyday we take the Massive daily posts and bring them to Dragoon discussions. We would like to thank Massively for their original content."

It's a fact of life that community is the lifeblood of any MMO. While a bad game can be salvaged with a group of fellow players to whom you've grown attached, a good game can be utterly destroyed by a bad gathering. As a result, most of us generally say that we have at least a passable community within our games of choice. But let's be honest -- there are communities that don't so much resemble a group of gamers as a batch of particularly unruly howler monkeys with worse social skills.

We've all played games with a supposedly "great" community that seemed snobbish and elitist, and games that supposedly have an awful community but really aren't that bad. Even World of Warcraft can be seen as a game with a good community if you only focus on your friends, despite the wide-ranging belief that the community is immature at best. So leaving aside the people you usually group with, what do you think of your game's community as an aggregate? Is it a good environment for other players, or do you try to stick to your own little corner of the larger playground?

TH

[TheHidden01]

WoW community is full of the worst pieces of shit I have ever met.

On the other hand, FE was the best, we were actually respected due to how down-to-earth, rational and intelligent the community was (being over 30 on average may have something to do with that). Generally you could go to the forums there and have a long discussion arguing over ideas without some spotty nerd taking shit personally.

Was a great community.

TH