• ampersandrew@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    Honest question: can you name an asshole gaming community that isn’t tied to a live service game? Because I feel like the shitty community comes from expecting everything to be continually improved, and lots of those improvements are subjective, so someone’s improvement is someone else’s regression. I’ll happily revise my hypothesis with some good counter examples though.

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      8 months ago

      Warframe’s community is the nicest, least toxic community I’ve ever encountered. Not saying there aren’t toxic ass holes, there certainly are, but compared to other online game communities I’ve been part of the Warframe community is a breath of fresh air.

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        8 months ago

        So perhaps the updated hypothesis is all asshole communities are tied to live service games, but not all live service games have asshole communities?

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          8 months ago

          I’m not a huge mmo fan but I do like Final Fantasy 14, in part because the community is surprisingly friendly.

          So yeah, I support “live service games attract bad communities, but sometimes they rise above that”.

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          8 months ago

          No, there are asshole in all types of games including Single player. Even if Souls has multiplayer, I’ve seen toxic communities in even games like Breath of the Wild

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        8 months ago

        Half the community is from the intelligence community, it’s in their interest to keep it nice so new players keep joining and leaking top secret technical specs

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        8 months ago

        Sometimes. The chess community is very weird in my experience. Like, anarchy chess is a thing and shitposting seems to have permeated chess culture. Case in point, the double bongcloud being played in tournament (1:32 length clip). (For context, the bongcloud opening is very bad, playing it is basically a self nerf. Because of the way that tournaments and points work, the end outcome of this game was basically a mutually agreed draw, but they did it in the most shitposting way possible.).

        Personally, I think this is great, it’s made it harder for some people to be gatekeepy arseholes within the chess community. I am always slightly perplexed by the memes though - with absurd humour, it can be hard to tell whether I’m missing the joke, or whether the joke is that there is no joke.