IGN - Our Community is "Amazing"

http://www.ign.com/videos/2014/04/23...zing-community

This was a very nice video about some of the people in the game, and a compliment to our "amazing" community. For all the horror stories that we hear about, I would like to think that we are a great community overall. Congrats to those that received a short bio of their character!

There is more good than bad, just a vocal negative minority, and a few trolls here and there, and I'm proud to be in this generally awesome community.

I can't wait to visit Limsa Lamoansa.

Well they clearly haven't met me.

lol

"Greatest community of all time"

I don't think they play the game, just interview a few players that want attention.

The constant "Know the fight one derp and you're out" type pf groups?
Everything is instance and pf is server wide.
The constant horror stories of players being forced to skip cutscenes, speed runs, and QQing in dungeons? (Although I don't mind any of those except QQs.)

How does all this promote a great community?

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Originally Posted by Doo

lol

"Greatest community of all time"

I don't think they play the game, just interview a few players that want attention.

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Community on the forums and community on the game are two different things.

I'm proud that I found a great FC full of awesome people but before that yeah a bunch of ahole running around.

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Originally Posted by Starlord

Community on the forums and community on the game are two different things.

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nah the in-game community is pretty damn awful
its not LoL tier but it's pretty bad lol.

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Originally Posted by Starlord

Nah, but I won't say it's the greatest, but from my personal experience on Masamune server, it's been fun and not really that stressful :).

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have u tried duty finder?
all asshats roam free w/ lil to no punishment. i am sorry but this community is from amazing and i wish it was.
but nope.
also, i guess they generally like a silent community...coz its not all that sociable
unless someone stabs you up the ass from a mistake. so eh .
i guess they got lucky. but i have a really fun fc so i dont wanna deal with df horros much unless need to. >< :eek:

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Originally Posted by Doo

lol

"Greatest community of all time"

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I laughed harder than I should have when I read that lol

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Originally Posted by Luxx

nah the in-game community is pretty damn awful
its not LoL tier but it's pretty bad lol.

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Nah, but I won't say it's the greatest, but from my personal experience on Masamune server, it's been fun and not really that stressful :).

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Originally Posted by Starlord

Nah, but I won't say it's the greatest, but from my personal experience on Masamune server, it's been fun and not really that stressful :).

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Either I need to move to another server.. or I've just had bad luck... because I've met quite a few not so nice people. :/ The community in the game is just as bad as in the forums imo. When will they let people in Legacy server move out to non-Legacy ones? :confused:

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Originally Posted by Tyla_Esmeraude

Either I need to move to another server.. or I've just had bad luck... because I've met quite a few not so nice people. :/ The community in the game is just as bad as in the forums imo. When will they let people in Legacy server move out to non-Legacy ones? :confused:

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Well every server on any MMO has a few bad eggs, and yes I have ran into them on my server as well, but "overall" I am happy with my server :)

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have u tried duty finder?
all asshats roam free w/ lil to no punishment. i am sorry but this community is from amazing and i wish it was.
but nope.
also, i guess they generally like a silent community...coz its not all that sociable
unless someone stabs you up the ass from a mistake. so eh .
i guess they got lucky. but i have a really fun fc so i dont wanna deal with df horros much unless need to. ><

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That's all I use is the DF for 90% of the content. 99% of the time I get Japanese players, the times I get NA players they we're nice to me, and if there are "rude people" I just go to my "free company" tab and enjoy some FC chatting and ignore the party chat :P.

I actually thought that video was one of IGNs "subtle" sarcasms, when I watched it this morning. They've been known to do that in the past.

I'd have to agree with some posters here in that the in-game community is not remarkably exceptional; I've had far more positive experiences with people in FFXI and WoW than I have here. But everyone's mileage will vary.

Plus, this is IGN. They get paid to exaggerate and blow smoke up peoples' rear ends.

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Originally Posted by Starlord

Well every server on any MMO has a few bad eggs, and yes I have ran into them on my server as well, but "overall" I am happy with my server :)



That's all I use is the DF for 90% of the content. 99% of the time I get Japanese players, the times I get NA players they we're nice to me, and if there are "rude people" I just go to my "free company" tab and enjoy some FC chatting and ignore the party chat :P.

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Masamune is JP right? Maybe that's why! JP seem to be more polite than NA from what I've read. It's legacy too huh? :o I might just move there, seems like a good server. I speak some japanese so it shouldn't be too hard to communicate with japanese players. :)

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Originally Posted by Tyla_Esmeraude

Masamune is JP right? Maybe that's why! JP seem to be more polite than NA from what I've read. It's legacy too huh? :o I might just move there, seems like a good server. I speak some japanese so it shouldn't be too hard to communicate with japanese players. :)

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Yeah it is :). If you do decide on moving here, we have an international FC called Distant Worlds and we have our large house already :D.

I've found it to be incorrect when people say server changes don't make a difference. My FC and I were miserable on another server.

We are extremely happy here. Yes, of course there are still a few rotten in the bunch. But overall, much much better.

But at the same time, there have been people who said the server we left was much better than the server they left.

lolz, IGN article.

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Originally Posted by Starlord

Yeah it is :). If you do decide on moving here, we have an international FC called Distant Worlds and we have our large house already :D.

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Thanks very much! I'll keep that in mind. :)

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@Shyluv Yeah, it's amazing how switching servers makes a big difference. Players from different countries, different cultures, I guess? Or is it just that bad apples decide to go all together to one specific server? lol
You should see PF in my server lol... full of hostility. I've actually saved some funny screenshots of them. There's some nice people here and there, but overall... too rude.

They clearly didn't come to these forums.

I guess I'm lucky because I've been playing since launch and the negative encounters I had are probably less than ten in both world & DF/PF. I used to be on leviathan and it was amazing there, and on balmung now and its fantastic.

There are good eggs and bad eggs in this game, you just have to know how to search for them or be patient in searching for them.

Also: you can't spell "ignorant" without "IGN" ... So, there's that.

Almost as amazing as LoL's community.

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Originally Posted by Doo

lol

"Greatest community of all time"

I don't think they play the game, just interview a few players that want attention.

The constant "Know the fight one derp and you're out" type pf groups?
Everything is instance and pf is server wide.
The constant horror stories of players being forced to skip cutscenes, speed runs, and QQing in dungeons? (Although I don't mind any of those except QQs.)

How does all this promote a great community?

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I know it was like this to begin with, but I think since Commendations and Kick? Feature, this has toned down. I haven't seen abuse at all in DF since then. Of course, the 'being nice' bit is still missing, and often its like being with a bunch of NPCs, just less talkative. But still an improvement over before.

Have you at least seen it get better since these new features were added?

The in-game community seems mostly overwhelmingly awesome. A few shaky moments around level 50, but once you get out the i45-55 range it isn't so bad.


Forum community is almost as bad as League of Legends. Endless complaints about the dumbest stuff...

before you reach lvl 50 it's a great community.

Specially when you get a lvling instance with just people leveling up with you and just having fun going through the dungeon.

...but after 50 that all changes.


I guess they're talking about the 'before' 50 community. And yeah, there's a 'community' before 50... your just too busy rushing the DF on your roulette zenith job.

I have to say, I often do get quite surprised when I read the forums.
By reading it, it gives me the impression that 90% of the community are just dickheads.

My experience since Beta has been the complete opposite.
Since I started, I've run into a grand total of 5 people who fit into the categories that I read here. The rest have been extremely polite and willing to help me out when I tell them I'm new to something.

I'm not saying that there aren't a lot of bad eggs out there, just surprised to hear, considering I haven't seen many.

Be nice if the people being interviewed actually talked during the video.

Depends on the servers honestly. I think you are going to come across a lot of groups and individuals that are tools in PFs that will be like OMG you died and just raise holy crap about. My first end game run was less than desirable. It was like stop watching cut scenes and you are too slow. Then what really struck a nerve was an elitist @$$hat, was yelling a new level 15 trying to learn how to tank and ended up leaving. Sorry, but the first dungeon and you are QQing about the tank, you have issues honestly, but I was like screw this server, packed up and moved and do not regret a thing. Sure you are going to still run across the elitist groups in DF and sometimes you end up having to join them in PF but I find the server I am on now a bit more fun where people don't really flip out if the newbs watch the cut scenes and what not. Honestly you treat this game like a job you hate, then its going to become just that, a job you hate.

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Originally Posted by Asiaine

Have you at least seen it get better since these new features were added?

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Honestly I don't need to do dungeons much anymore thanks to being a tank, dr bonus, and extremes. DF isn't bad if you know your stuff most of the time. Players only start raging when things don't go smoothly. Commendations probably did help a little but not much. There was a thread about how players were forcing others to kick them out of Blayfox DFs because they don't want to fight the last boss.

Most players only play in their "bubble" so they aren't really doing much content with the community. The game isn't designed that way where you really have to rely on the community for much. Everything is instance and just boss fights. If you look at content descriptions in PF that's more of how the community is really like. You're awesome if you fit in and can "dance" if not, don't join our group.

The community isn't terrible but IGN obviously don't play the game, they just gave players the opportunity to be on camera.

Didnt IGN only bother with the NA World Group? Not exactly representative of global MMO community.

But good news is good news, maybe it'll help bring some new blood into the game :)

Eortsea sounds like something you might need a skin cream to treat it o_O

Of course IGN makes 'Greatest community of all time' is to give a personal interview about what 7, single people, like in the game and their favorite snack.