Just when I thought DF couldn't get any worse...

[RinoaHeartilly]

I just wanted to add that I think this is the worst community I've seen in an mmo (at least one I've played) in ... ever! I hear WoW can be trollish, but I wouldn't know first hand. Didn't seem this bad the brief stint I had there.
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SO I know there are good people out there that use DF.But I guess we're a minority? I dunno.

I HATE to admit this since I have always loved Square Enix and Final Fantasy series is my favorite game series ever, but this is the worst community I have ever seen in a mmo. I played A LOT of mmo's and yes, this is even worse than everything I've ever seen in WoW. Never had a problem with dungeon finder there. There were trolls but here I feel like 80% of the community is rude. I don't understand why and it makes me kinda sad.

[Vynym]

Here if you get so much as one new person who's never done AK before, people will actually leave without saying anything. And that's only for starters. >.>

I HATE to admit this since I have always loved Square Enix and Final Fantasy series is my favorite game series ever, but this is the worst community I have ever seen in a mmo. I played A LOT of mmo's and yes, this is even worse than everything I've ever seen in WoW. Never had a problem with dungeon finder there. There were trolls but here I feel like 80% of the community is rude. I don't understand why and it makes me kinda sad.

I'm so glad to see it's not just me. It's really disheartening. I see quite a few people (in this post and others) that say "They will be gone soon" and I'm wondering why people think that is? Is it to be expected that a lot of the more negative people will leave once the free time is over? Or is it something else?

[Cryptomiser]

I HATE to admit this since I have always loved Square Enix and Final Fantasy series is my favorite game series ever, but this is the worst community I have ever seen in a mmo.

I hate to be the rude dude here, but that may have been your fault. I have characters on Leviathan, and I've chatted around and have had little to no negative experience with whom I've chatted with, no matter where or who I've talked to. I hate to point this out, but your character there may be the issue. It is an unoriginal idea to simply create a clone of a character already existing within the series.

With such a thriving roleplay community, I can understand why people don't want to see a Rinoa clone in a game series where she made an appearance. Especially since this game follows the design of the older games, before VII. I'm not saying it's right to be so judgemental, but I can tell you why you may be addressed in such a light.

[Jennestia]

I hate to be the rude dude here, but that may have been your fault.

Proof? What's your sample size? Did you chat around on every single server? It's a consensus that the community isn't that great, no one said anything about specific servers being bad and some being good, over all, in general it's a bad community - there's always exceptions.

Btw, some of the most awesome people I've met were a play on a FF character name, so get that generalization out of your head. While true there's a precedence for people named after character to invoke ire of a community...OP did no such thing.

[Ashbeard]

Ofcourse this mmo has the worst community of all the mmos... Weird that people say how many mmos they've played and don't notice the pattern.

I've played most of the main mmorpgs that have come out in the last decade and particularly the last 2 years every single forum has a bunch of "worst community ever" complaints.

This is just FFXIV ARR's Worst Community Phase. The thousands of mmo jumpers move from game to game like locusts. They rush through the content, they get burned out, want to make the current company and fanboys pay for letting such a failed mmorpg exist, then they move to the next one. And whichever Wildstar or Elder Scrolls Online will be the next "worst community ever" and this one will be a collection of players that actually like the game. But if a previous "worst community ever" game goes free-to-play....because they'll all come back for 2 weeks to troll some more.

[Axel_Ward]

I hate to be the rude dude here, but that may have been your fault. I have characters on Leviathan, and I've chatted around and have had little to no negative experience with whom I've chatted with, no matter where or who I've talked to. I hate to point this out, but your character there may be the issue. It is an unoriginal idea to simply create a clone of a character already existing within the series.

I believe the people that get butt hurt over a name are the people at fault. Seriously, they need to get over themselves. If someone wants to name their character by a past FF character's name because they like them then let them. Don't be so quick to judge someone by a name.

[Leiloni]

I hate to be the rude dude here, but that may have been your fault. I have characters on Leviathan, and I've chatted around and have had little to no negative experience with whom I've chatted with, no matter where or who I've talked to. I hate to point this out, but your character there may be the issue. It is an unoriginal idea to simply create a clone of a character already existing within the series.

With such a thriving roleplay community, I can understand why people don't want to see a Rinoa clone in a game series where she made an appearance. Especially since this game follows the design of the older games, before VII. I'm not saying it's right to be so judgemental, but I can tell you why you may be addressed in such a light.

Are you crazy? Her name has nothing to do with it. The community in DF is a pile of poo and everyone knows it. It has nothing to do with the OP and I'm offended for her that you even suggested it's all her fault that everyone is so inconsiderate.

[Rommelx]

I hate to be the rude dude here, but that may have been your fault...... but I can tell you why you may be addressed in such a light.

Wow you go on about how great people are in the community by pretty much being a complete jerk, way to go. The name they picked had nothing to do with the issue presented, you seem to have a personal beef with people using FF character names and try to twist the issue at hand to justify bad behavior towards this person. There is nothing in the TOS that say they can't use the name, so I am sorry that bothers you but they are well within their rights to use it.

[RinoaHeartilly]

I hate to be the rude dude here, but that may have been your fault. I have characters on Leviathan, and I've chatted around and have had little to no negative experience with whom I've chatted with, no matter where or who I've talked to. I hate to point this out, but your character there may be the issue. It is an unoriginal idea to simply create a clone of a character already existing within the series.

With such a thriving roleplay community, I can understand why people don't want to see a Rinoa clone in a game series where she made an appearance. Especially since this game follows the design of the older games, before VII. I'm not saying it's right to be so judgemental, but I can tell you why you may be addressed in such a light.

lol?!!?! People haven't been rude to me. I see them being rude to others though. Wtf. this is the most ridiculous thing I've heard. No one ever even said anything bad about the name I picked in the game. I get a lot of nice comments actually..lol ;o

[Cubester]

I just wanted to add that I think this is the worst community I've seen in an mmo (at least one I've played) in ... ever! I hear WoW can be trollish, but I wouldn't know first hand. Didn't seem this bad the brief stint I had there.

Some of you will say: go with fc, go with friends. That aside, assuming I can't, don't want to, or no one is available, DF does happen. I shouldn't be apprehensive about using a tool given to us in game b/c it's filled with....tools. I'm not a tool! (At least I don't think I am!) SO I know there are good people out there that use DF.But I guess we're a minority? I dunno.

Anyway, I just wanted to share this little story. I sincerely hope this isn't a new trend. Tank ques, gets a group in DF, death runs to his favorite chest, does (or ilike in this case does NOT) get what they want, and then abandon the group. If this becomes the new "thing" I'm gonna...um.. well probably do nothing, because what can one do about it? But man, it would suck

I sadly have to agree with this. I've been a WoW player for about 7 years, and I can tell you there are quite a few rotten apples in their community as well. But A Realm Reborn really takes the cake when it comes to a downright rotten community. Now, I know I shouldn't be generalizing, especially since I've met quite a few nice people in the DF as well. But really, reading stories like yours really depresses me.

I'm hoping the community will change for the better when the free game period is over, so most of those so called "Tools" will leave the game. But yeah, I'm really very frightened of what the future community of A Realm Reborn will be like. Here's hoping I can meet some more nice people on my server, so I can leave the DF behind completely.