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  1. #21
    It is nice not ignoring trade chat, Our Ilum 500 is also pretty respectful, we want pubs to kill, not boxes, so maybe that's why it seems like no big deal. The first Month was a little tiresome with the " For the Horde" and "This AH sucks" and all the other WoWsy crap in trade, but they have all disappeared thankfully.

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    The thing I've noticed is that when I ask a question, 9 time out of 10 I get a reasonable answer, instead of being abused for it.

    Though now that I think of it, Vanilla and BC had friendly/Helpful people. I had a hunter take time out of his day to get on vent with me, and give me a literal running walk through as I was killing the demons for my bow on my hunter. Took a few weeks from what I remember, he would even whisper me and be more prepared then I was.

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    Quote Originally Posted by agracul View Post
    <13y olds are not allowed in swtor, that's it. the best decision in mmos i've seen so far. though 18+ will do even better imo.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dynamite View Post
    This isnt based on anything factual, just my personal observations but just reading through the forums and watching trade chat etc gives me this impression that there is a much friendlier and mature playerbase in TOR.

    Trade seems to me much more friendly, especially to the new people. No ANAL spamming and the like that used to really annoy me.

    Anyone else share this opinion?
    Going by what is said in chat? Really, considering how dead chat can be anywhere but fleet. Mature, not it the least, the number of people dressing their female companions in slave outfits really screams mature doesn't it. Let alone the naming of people that is allowed to persist.
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    I started playing on Assassins of Sion after my pre-release week ended and I wanted a server I wouldn't have to wait an hour to start playing on. I swear, in the first three of four days, I must have /ignored close to fifty or sixty people who were trolling general chat on Dromund Kaas, Korriban, or Hutta. Of course, this was during the time we did most of our guild recruiting, and the only real rule we have in the guild is "No Trolls allowed" and anyone caught trolling is essentially /ignored by all the higher ups and instantly removed from the guild.

    Although, a few of the things we saw pop up included the irritating "anal <obligatory item/skill name>" and listing different movie titles with the word "bantha" inserted somewhere.

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    Quote Originally Posted by agracul View Post
    <13y olds are not allowed in swtor, that's it. the best decision in mmos i've seen so far. though 18+ will do even better imo.
    maybe not allowed but there must be lots of them; i have met 9 year olds playing WOW in LFG, even though it's rated T.

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    hmm, interesting to hear your POV's. Well ive got 2 characters high level, 1 on Bloodworthy and 1 on Tomb of Freedon Nadd, some of the busiest servers EU. Maybe ive been lucky to not see alot of it then. But the fleet has usually around 250 people on it peak and the planets usually have 40-100 people on them and chat doesnt seem quiet. Theres always people looking for groups or asking questions...some newb questions others more intelligent.

    I think the point about the game being new and the elitism will grow later as probably being quite valid. Time will tell, but for now it just seems more friendly/intelligent to me.

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    how many of you with immature server chat are on servers that you randomly picked after the game went live?

    and how many of you with mature server chat are on servers that you were allocated to during early access?

    as i would reckon, those who were allocated to servers through the pre-launch guild program and picked high pop servers during the early access might have more mature server communities.

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  9. #29
    this is just not true on the servers I play

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    Game has less players than WoW.

    If it had 10 million players, you'd see people talking about how bad the community is.

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    I played on a PVP server... while levelling, i never ever ganked anyone, however I did defend myself if attacked.

    On 3 seperate occassions, while defending myself I defeated the attacker rather easily and that resulted in them logging on a char on Empire and spamming me with messages about how I suck, how I had to have my healing pet out to kill them (I killed them fast enough to not even require healing, as well as... im levelling, i always have my healing pet out) and how im a no lifer and thats the only reason i could kill them.


    Pinnacle of maturity right here! lol

    Oh, might I add... until I hit zones that only had about 20 to 40 players... such as from 40 to 50, Every zone I was in, general chat channels sounded like Barrens chat... they were so bad I eventually turned off my chat... Actually come to think of it, that may be why i didnt see it at upper levels, lol.
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    It's just a smaller playerbase. The people that play SWTOR are the same people that play WoW.

    It's kind of funny how all this videogame elitism mirrors racism in the early 1900's. Just this unfounded belief that "these people" are inherently more sophisticated than "those people."

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    I found this to be true in general chats etc but not at all in groups I recently started playing and with the moral choice parts in groups I am playing empire due to friends playing that faction but I always have had a love for the republic (same as wow I prefer the alliance to the horde) when in a group I will always pick the moral option that I see fit sometimes bad some times good the ammount of flame I get after winning the roll with a good choice is beyond compare to anything iv seen in wow ever VERY offputting from the game now I assume the flame comes due to the must have X ammount of evil to use this item but either way its uncalled for and a massive shadow on the playerbase.
    And this just proves how moronic some people can be, what you're doing is absolutely fine - because no matter who wins the roll, YOU are still awarded with the Dark/Light side points depending on YOUR OWN roll.

    So if during those choice-based dialogues in dungeons, 3 people roll Dark side and 1 guy rolls Light Side and he wins, the three people still get their dark side points. The sooner people will understand the basics of how the game works, the better - sorry to hear your experience with this.

    On-topic: When I still played, many people I met were nice and helpful and in most cases very good at playing the game as well (Proper CC's, knew how to use cooldowns). However I had the same experience when I first started playing World of Warcraft back in 2006, so there you go.

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    IMO swtor fleet chat is the worst I've ever seen. Every single evening you have racist, homophobic, xenophobic and way more (yesterday was abortion spamfest, I've screenshot to prove it if needed) on Star Map EU.

    Never seen that in nearly 10 years of MMO. I got used to the infinite wow bashing on every post-wow mmo and some bad jokes, but swtor take it on a whole new level. I enjoy the game so far but general chat is just insane and the GMs seem to do nothing (reported 2 people for heavy pro nazi commentaries 2 weeks ago, they still spaming their insanities nearly every day).
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    Yes and I love it. Yes you do get your occasional retards but overall, I really like the in-game community. Forums are always a joke no matter what MMO you play.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kalx View Post

    wow got almost 10 times more players than swtor,
    careful there buddy.

    wow only has about 75% more active players then swtor. (in north america)

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    I don't know about that. Last night on Taris the conversion was first about sex, then about drugging this dude's wife so he could steal away to play the game more...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Conbot View Post
    It's just a smaller playerbase. The people that play SWTOR are the same people that play WoW.

    It's kind of funny how all this videogame elitism mirrors racism in the early 1900's. Just this unfounded belief that "these people" are inherently more sophisticated than "those people."
    Racism was far more pervasive and institutionalized. To be honest, I feel like your comparison makes light the horrors endured by many minorities pre-civil rights. Not to mention you statement seems to imply that the racism that existed in the 1900's isn't alive and well today. A more accurate statement would have been to compare it to today's ethnocentrism, which in many ways has replaced racism in America.

    (IE: You see a well groomed african american man in a suit with a brief case. You don't think anything racist. You see a young african american man in his early 20s wearing a doorag and sporting a .22 caliber handgun in the crotch of his pants. You probably are thinking something that SEEMS racist. But its not the color of his skin that is causing this but the sub culture which many people associate with drugs, violence, and poverty.)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Darsithis View Post
    I don't know about that. Last night on Taris the conversion was first about sex, then about drugging this dude's wife so he could steal away to play the game more...
    Wow o.O

    That is pretty disgusting, I've not seen anything that bad on my server personally...usually it just devolves into these 3 guys who hate the game against everyone else every evening. And I do mean EVERY evening.
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    Anal spamming?? Wtf is it??
    People spamming " /1 ANAL " ??? Oo
    Wtf!!!!!

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