• ampersandrew@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    13
    ·
    9 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.

    • Tattorack@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      9 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.

      • ampersandrew@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        9 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?

        • Nate Cox@programming.dev
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          9 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”.

        • Ilflish@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          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

      • wahming@monyet.cc
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        4
        ·
        9 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