What is up with the DF community?

[Yoona]

Welcome to Summoner's Rift!

^ explains everything basically if you want to know why "DF Community" is bad.

[Tolmos]

Honestly... I don't see why anyone would want to remain a healer or tank in DF. :-\ They are the only ones who get brutalized so badly by the others. Every run some healer or some tank is getting raged on by some neckbeard about who knows what.

It's a lot easier just to go DPS lol

[Arcturius]

Welcome to Summoner's Rift!

^ explains everything basically if you want to know why "DF Community" is bad.

THANK YOU! The scum of the earth forms in that game.

[DanteMog]

I personally see a lot of what i saw in Guildwars 2, i feel a lot of the elitist toxic community has come from there, people say WoW was bad try GW2 for nasty people, worst community i've ever seen in a MMO and many jumped ship to here.

[Tolmos]

I personally see a lot of what i saw in Guildwars 2, i feel a lot of the elitist toxic community has come from there, people say WoW was bad try GW2 for nasty people, worst community i've ever seen in a MMO and many jumped ship to here.

We must be talking about two different GW2 games, because it is the prime example I use of the best MMO community I've experienced. Rift being the worst.

[EQBallzz]

For me it has just been Duty Finder. I haven't had a great deal of issue with folks on my server, but on DF? Holy crap.

Actually had someone threaten to report me and a random tank for greifing because I missed 1 charge mechanic on hard mode Ifrit and died because of it, and the tank missed 2 stuns in a row. They and one of their friends both planned to do the reporting.

3-7 day ban for missing a charge / missing 2 stuns. That would be all kinds of epic.

You missed a boss mechanic and died in an MMO? Wow. I know I wasn't there but I may have to report you as well.

[Shyluv]

We must be talking about two different GW2 games, because it is the prime example I use of the best MMO community I've experienced. Rift being the worst.

Agreed. GW2 also didn't have a bad community for me. But, I was/am on the smallest NA server.

The very short time I tried WoW, the community was very bad. Then I tried LoL for a few days and that made WoW look a little bit better.

If I hadn't moved to ARR with the XI linkshell I kept in touch with after I quit, I probably would have quit this game as well.

[J_Kepler]

You don't know "toxic" until you've played a MOBA.

I've gotten some impatient groups with DF, but generally I find that if you try to establish a friendly atmosphere early on by discussing the strategy and having a laugh or two before things get serious, the "Greater Internet F***wad Theory" starts to break down a bit. This is not always the case, but pulling out your keyboard and reminding everyone that there's a real person behind the avatar greatly increases your chances of having a good time.

[Sixmp]

It isn't the DF community from my experience. There has always been good and bad people online. The bad were a minority, that is changing.
In the early days of gaming the gamer was in all essence an outcast. This made the gamer value friendship more. Gamer's by nature like to be challenged and games tended to be less forgiving.
If you were an early gamer you will remember having to replay levels over and over because saves points didn't exist, It would take you time to work through some of the harder games, if you had gamer friends you would share info on games, always working together and only against each other when playing VS mode. You didn't have the internet full of guides to tell you how everything was done, so you had to work at it if you wanted to complete your favorite games.

Then the internet hit. Gamers were still very much in the minority, you didn't have to rely on friends to get/share that info due to page upon page of easily to find information.
As time went on needing to be friendly became much less important, online games like first person shooters became very popular and it was all about being the best among the people you played with.
MMO's still had that need of friends to complete content but even then the attitudes were beginning to change. You had to be a member of a small community and everyone else didn't matter. Some people would only be nice as long as they were getting that item/help they needed, when that river of help ran dry they would move onto the next river.

Now games are mainstream people are competing to be considered the best at everything. Firsts etc . Now as games began to change to need less time to fit in with the new massive audience the need for other people has become almost 0.
People expect everyone to have read up on everything in game before they get to it because if someone else plays badly it effects THEM, they have no concern for anyone else.

Obviously there are still many people out there like myself who like to play for fun and want to play the whole game. Unfortunately we are now the minority.

[RyuujinZERO]

This is not always the case, but pulling out your keyboard and reminding everyone that there's a real person behind the avatar greatly increases your chances of having a good time.

This might explain why I've always had good experiences.

Before the the barrier has even dropped I'm immediately in there with a wedge trying to get people chatting with pleasantries and asking/discussing whether anyone's new and needs/can give a heads up before important pitfalls and strategies and they usually stay chatting and pleasant through the entire dungeon even if we royally screw up.

Pretty rare I encounter someone who remains a misery even then (Most notably a healer who kept treating me like an idiot the entire run because I stepped in an AoE early on that I could've avoided if I'd paid due attention - standing in the AoE was of no consequence in the grand scheme but to him that flagged me as "dumb-DPS guy")