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Wheeee! We won Best Community! Way to go guys!

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Best Community? In game? Maybe. The forums? You'd have to be kidding. If that's the case then I do not want to go anywhere near their forums. The community here for the most part, with a few exceptions here or there, seems to do nothing but urinate all over the developers efforts. Anyone who either agrees with the developers decisions, or those who don't but understand the decisions and why the developers had to take the path they did will get treated as being less than human. Those that don't understand seem to think that there is some big conspiracy where the developers hate the players and are trying to destroy their own game.

I'm tempted to think that the problems with this game aren't with the game so much as they are with the dregs of the community, those in game and especially those in the forums.

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Actually, the problem is more with individuals who blindly support the developers, blithly thank them for fixing problems, and act incensed when people criticize the devs. As long as there are folks like this heaping praise on the Devs for making the game harder, stripping away powers, and generally fixing their own damn mistakes .. then the developers will have no real incentive or reason to improve game quality and testing. Yep, these "Thank you for whacking me" types really need to go elsewhere, so we can get the game improved.

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If you're talking about me I'm not pro-developer. I'm more anti-devbasher. I don't agree with everything the developers do. Sometimes they get it right and sometimes they don't. So far they seem to be doing okay. Nothing they've done seems gamebreaking, with the few exceptions they've already rolled back or are planning to. My problem is with the people who understand very little about game development and the work it involves. They seem to think that they know better and yet can't seem to display any understanding of the concepts at work in the game and behind the scenes at the studios. It's not even like I need to defend the devs either. They can take care of themselves. It's just these ignorant little runts get under my skin. I don't have any special salve to stop the itching so I may tend to scratch when I stop paying attention and let my guard down.

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Best Community? In game? Maybe. The forums? You'd have to be kidding. If that's the case then I do not want to go anywhere near their forums.

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Then let me be the first to suggest you never, ever, ever go to another MMO forum. Ever. And the forum community here is great. There are the vocal and negative minority that seem to enjoy relieving themselves wherever possible, but you get that anywhere, and in a much smaller quantity here.

At the end of the day, don't worry about all those dirty negative Nancy's... If you can smile, stay positive, and have fun, then nothing else matters anyway.

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I'll try to keep that in mind.

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Counter Strike and Halo win every year for Worst Online Community ^_^

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Exactly why I don't play Halo online.

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Wheeee! We won Best Community! Way to go guys!

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Best Community? In game? Maybe. The forums? You'd have to be kidding. If that's the case then I do not want to go anywhere near their forums. The community here for the most part, with a few exceptions here or there, seems to do nothing but urinate all over the developers efforts. Anyone who either agrees with the developers decisions, or those who don't but understand the decisions and why the developers had to take the path they did will get treated as being less than human. Those that don't understand seem to think that there is some big conspiracy where the developers hate the players and are trying to destroy their own game.

Meanwhile I have seen many players continuously exploit flaws and imbalances in the game that had yet to be addressed. They think this is an acceptable way to play. More power. More damage. More expereince. More prestige. More enhancements. More rewards. To hell with the risk. Take the easy way. Screw the story. Lets just farm this mission because it gives better expereince than the last one. Lets herd these enemies and take them out with an alpha strike and a quick mop up. Everything has to be a fast paced rush to the endgame, except there is no endgame.

Then when they get bored because they killed their own fun they blame the developers for making the game boring. They can't accept the responsibility that they are to blame for their own lack of enjoyment. It's bad enough that they do this to their own fun, but they drag others into it as well. People love to run with the idea that people should be able to play however they want to as it isn't hurting anyone else. Except that only works in complete isolation. Things get complicated in an environment such as the one players are immersed in when playing a massively multiplayer game.

Of course, none of this insight means anything because anything that falls outside of their narrow point of view is rejected or ignored. They'll come up with every insane theory in the book to discredit you and score some illusionary points for themselves. They can't seem to evolve past the primitive concept that rather than better themselves they seem to think it's easier to tear everything around them down to their level.

This is a game about super heroes and yet the only word they seem to want to see is super, because they sure aren't acting like heroes. I'm thankful for those few rare gems here that seem to be able to keep their cool and act reasonably throughout all of the upheavals that plague these forums every time anything happens with the game.

I'm tempted to think that the problems with this game aren't with the game so much as they are with the dregs of the community, those in game and especially those in the forums.