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You people are by far the coolest then other game gamers :-) Sup Dogs, I just wanted to say, that from all the games i have ever played (which is probably too many), the online community of Sacrifice is by far the most unique and enjoyable to play with. Battle.net people are really cocky for the most part, and all think they are so much better then everyone. Sure, we have had our problems, with some, well, i dont need to go there. But 3 Cheers for eveyrone who plays Sacrifice! ------------------ -Phishhound Kine Destroyers I have traveled many worlds, gone through enemy after enemy, but still, I have not ever seen any like you. And yet still, I dont know who I am. Why must I live this way? Hence, this is the way I battle, this is the way I am! |
Agreed, this is probably the most tolerant forum I have seen in a long time. |
I think you have not seen enough game communities... Team Fortress Classic has a great community going with its message boards... Homeworld USED to have a great community on the Relic Message Boards but we got changed to a different moderator who basically destroyed it, and I left. Generally Blizzard makes good games but with the most horrible communities... Starcraft is just about impossible to play multiplayer because of how horrible the community is... Here is a good community too though Tim [This message has been edited by TheOnlyCoolTim (edited 01-14-2001).] |
I agree Tim. I think that Blizzard was just swimmming in there munny to much, and didn't care enough about their community. People still play it alot though. I still think it is a fun game, (starcraft) but the people that play it are just, ehh. And you get your ass kicked SO FAST. You dont even know how. Lets thank Shiny for giving their customers support though. ------------------ -Phishhound Kine Destroyers I have traveled many worlds, gone through enemy after enemy, but still, I have not ever seen any like you. And yet still, I dont know who I am. Why must I live this way? Hence, this is the way I battle, this is the way I am! |
I don't think Blizzard can be to blame for the problem with their community. Something that you can see in almost ANY community (Especially online) is that the more people you get, the less 'quality' of a community you have. I have no idea why this is, but it's true. Go look at how people treat each other in a small town, then go to New York, LA, Chicago, or any other big city. HUGE difference. Same thing with online games. I played this online game called Kingdom of Drakkar a long time ago (back when online games cost like $4/hour to play). There was maybe 50 people playing, and the community was TIGHT. Everyone new each other, everyone was polite. Then go look at UO, or EQ. People treat each other like **** in those games http://www.veforums.com/smile.gif It's the same thing with Sacrifice... look at the number of people posting here... not NEARLY as many as you'd see on a Blizzard forum. I guess it all boils down to anonymity (err... I totally butchered the spelling on that word :P Sorry, it's late and spellchecker didn't seem to catch it! ). If you don't know the other person, and others don't know you, people seem much more likely to be an asshole. That's just what I've observed in my 10+ years of online gaming. What do you think? |
Ark, Ark Ark, you have a VERY good concept of online game. I have never thought of that. I dont think that it should be limited to 50 people though. I think the Sacrifices community is awsome as it is. Just connecting to a battle net chat room took about 5 min. And people do have more respect for each other in a small community, i totally agree with you 110% ------------------ -Phishhound Kine Destroyers I have traveled many worlds, gone through enemy after enemy, but still, I have not ever seen any like you. And yet still, I dont know who I am. Why must I live this way? Hence, this is the way I battle, this is the way I am! |
I agree, 50 people is TOO small. Hmmmm, what would the optimal number be, maybe a 200 - 300 or something? Of course, that's not total people playing the game, but the average that you run in to, who play during the times you play, etc. |
www.diabloii.net (In the sorceress forum) is where i had my best community experience. We talked during the game, shared items, trusted eachother, and when i stopped playing Diablo 2, I gave all my stuff away to the people i was closest to. ------------------ Big Floppy Llama http://www.geocities.com/big_floppy_llama/sheep.gif http://www.geocities.com/big_floppy_llama/ghost.gif http://www.geocities.com/big_floppy_llama/sheeps.gif [This message has been edited by Big-Floppy-Llama (edited 01-14-2001).] |
My best experience was with Heretic II. The community was probably 75-150 people at its peak, and pretty much everyone knew everyone else, and everyone was friends. Chances are if you joined a server you'd know every person who was on it, and you'd probably know who the admin was, too. Sigh... The good ol' daze... |
I'm not sure sheer numbers account for the differences. I think certain types of games appeal to certain types of people. Fast games with alot of twitching, alot of explosions and little thinking will attract younger and more immature players than games which are purposely designed to tax a player's savvy and resourcefulness. I've played the Age of Empires series over the years and it is a known fact that Age players are older and more mature than their Starcraft counterparts. Age takes more time, more patience, more micromanagement and more decision-making in general and therefore doesn't get nearly as many *k3wl d00ds* as SC. Within AoE/AoK deathmatch games attract many more youngsters than Random Map games. Comparing the forums at MFO (the top Age site) and Bnet is like comparing night and day. I think certain games are predisposed to attract lamers. |
Yeah, they deffinitly do. I mean, Barbies pet, what ever she does to those sheep (hahha, lama's old style, hahha) was on the top 10 charts at IGN.com And The Sims attracks people who have 10 min a day to play a game. Its all good though. As long as you have gamers, you cant really go wrong. ------------------ -Phishhound Kine Destroyers I have traveled many worlds, gone through enemy after enemy, but still, I have not ever seen any like you. And yet still, I dont know who I am. Why must I live this way? Hence, this is the way I battle, this is the way I am! |
TA and TAk, these were the best commutities i have played in. Anlmost every time i logged on the the Boneyards (Cavedog online service) there was always some there ready to help anyone who needed it, and there was easialy 350+ players. Same with the TAk community, although not as big, it was the same as TA. [This message has been edited by Series (edited 01-14-2001).] |
No way Counter-Strike is the best community! Everybody is so nice to each other and nobody cheats at all! Bad language is not used and ppl d0n7 741|< 11|<3 7|-|15 411 7|-|3 71m3! |
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Heh cool a fellow Refugee... I was "Infinity" on those boards.... tried moving to the Sierra boards but they just weren't the same.... I remember RTS???, the Testicle Team, the war against the Pacific Ocean.... all that good stuff that no one on this boards know what I am talking about :P. I think I once saw NoName_MIB in the Other Users bit of this board but I couldn't find any posts by him... Tim |
I am absolute not a refugee...lol! http://www.veforums.com/smile.gif "refugee" is interpretated as unwanted leaving; I didn't wanted to participate on that forum "wanted". I actually got bored playing Homeworld and Homeworld: Cataclysm... I am sure that won't happen with Sacrifice, because I am enjoying playing this game more and more...Sacrifice is the best game I ever played. [This message has been edited by Idolater (edited 01-15-2001).] |
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"You people are by far the coolest then other game gamers :-)" "Translation" of Asmor: "thank you..." |
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Asmor: "Whats wrong with talking like this?" Bluelight : "Nobody will ever understand what im sayinb because im elite C-Strike gamer! woot woot!" Tim |
That is exactly what i am talking about BlueLight. Yeah, man, this community is so cool. Well, its off to the books for me :-( Maybe, i can play tomaorw morning. But, that is too long. Hey, what are osme of your guys other favorite things to do? ------------------ -Phishhound Kine Destroyers All work and no play makes Phishhound a dull boy! [This message has been edited by phishhound (edited 01-15-2001).] |
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I remember the Homeworld forum. The Pacific Ocean will pay! |
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God the l33t typings are hurting my eye! BlueLight are you sure you've seen the worse part of the CS community already? (Or maybe I wasn't able to understand what your l33t things typed below). Some, not all of course, people in the CS are plane ... may I say, childish. |
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One of the other reasons Starcraft attracts more immature people is that Blizzard's games are designed with low computer requirements so they can run on old crappy computers. Kids don't have the cash to keep buying new computers every two years, so they are stuck with buying old games or low requirement games. It's great that Sacrifice has high requirements and takes use of the awesome computing and graphics card power that is now available in newer machines. It also helps keep most of the kiddoes from coming into Sacrifice and ruining the game for others. |
agreed. This community is the most freindly out there... EVERY community has it΄s lamers. @ ekti I think this prejudiced style of thinking the young ppl are always the most rude or lame players is not right... [This message has been edited by Fu$iL (edited 01-16-2001).] |
Yeah, just beause they are youung dont mean much. I have played with many young gamers on Sacrifice, and some of them are pretty cool. I think that its when ythe community starts getting huge, and there arn't enogh *POLICE* to ake care of everyone. Ahh, oh well. You know who else, THe longest journey people are cool, but not AS cool as the people here. Have you ever been inclined to, look at you toe lately? ------------------ -Phishhound Kine Destroyers All work and no play makes Phishhound a dull boy! |
hey dont you go insulting us kiddos :-) |
10 YEAR OLDS RULE!!! LOL |
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yeah this is awesome, it was like this with the baldurs gate 2 boards at bgdungeon.com, nice and friendly u hardly get that with a game like d2 or sc cause way too many ppl play the game so the only ppl u talk to are personal buddies and really friendly ppl thx! |
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I was initially quite pleased with this thread. Very inciteful, very upbeat. Especially with Ark, those are some sentiments that I have shared for a long time. I imgaine most people who behave poorly online would not do so when face to face. It's almost as if they are no longer interacting with anyone if they can't see them. Unfortunately Ekti I think you're totally off the mark on this one. Implying that lower system specks yields immature gamers is totally incorrect. In actuality many kids have good computers by virtue of their parents. Us poor college students are the ones still sitting on our older comps. I played online games when I was a "kiddo" and I behave the same way I do now. Sure my vocabulary is a bit larger and I'm probably slightly better at these games but my style has remained the same. Easy going, playing for fun, pretty much following the golden rule. Now I do agree with you on one point. I find that with each passing year I tolerate the idiots online less and less. Personally I'm tired of people typing in all caps or kewl dood speech. Profanity and racial slurs are also unwelcome but appear to be more and more frequent. That said I really think that the more popular a game is the greater proportion of losers you'll have. Let's compare two modern games, Diablo II and Sacrifice. I've played both extensively and let's face it. Diablo II is far more popular than Sacrifice. Therefore it's not unreasonable to assume that proportionally there will be more immature people online. Whether or not it's a better game is debatable but it is most definitely NOT Blizzard's fault. It's nice to see a company sacrifice eye candy to make a fun game available to a wider audience. Az ------------------ "You can't fool me! I've already won!" -Buta, the Man, the Myth, the Legend |
Of course I'm cool, I'm the only cool one here! J/k... http://www.veforums.com/smile.gif |
Hahhaha, yeah Neo. Trying to get to 200 tonight? hahaha, well thats cool. I remember, when it was like, SO COOl to be a crazy poster, and now look at me, Im almost a freak. ahh, what am i talking about? My speakers arn't that bad. Sure, Chocalite is the best thing in life but so are ants crawling on butterflies. Why would i want to be a freak? ------------------ -Phishhound |
Damn you! You figured out my plan...hehe. |
hahahha, well. you got there didn't you? 201 good Job Neo ------------------ -Phishhound |
Hell yeah! Whooo...next mission, get to Insane Poster. |
Hahahahah. Well, it defenitly is possible. Good luck too. You need about 300 more posts. If flood control is activated. Thats 300 minutes. Devide that by 60 min in an hour, thats 5 hours. You will have to post 1 post a minutre for the next 5 hours to become a freak. WHOW!!! Thats alot. Could uhhh, any one *still* here even possibly do that? ------------------ -Phishhound |
STOP LYING!! IM NOT COOL *sniff* *curls up in a corner and crys* ------------------ http://cwm.ragesofsanity.com/s/scorchio/saevil.gif http://cwm.ragesofsanity.com/s/dvv/asthanos.gif http://cwm.ragesofsanity.com/s/dvv/uriel.gif http://cwm.ragesofsanity.com/s/anym/light.gif http://cwm.ragesofsanity.com/s/tweetz/spider.gif http://cwm.ragesofsanity.com/s/ruinkai/grim.gif http://cwm.ragesofsanity.com/s/fk/tiger.gif "And you thought your family was weird." The orange cat girl is a memorial to somegirl, our dear freind. |
Hi, I think Warlordsbattlecry has a cool community too.... I was one of them and I always enjoyed their forum with all their great info and tips. And nice people too... greetz, Thalinth [This message has been edited by Thalinth (edited 02-11-2001).] |
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Ahh, Dark guy dont say that. YOu know, i havn't really ever had a community like this, so thats why im saying it. ------------------ -Phishhound |
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