Why the CoX community is the best...

Due to a string of bad luck, I've had to drop the game for a few months at a time, and came back as soon as I could.

I always miss the community most of all when I'm gone. It's one of the few places where we can have a civil discussion on most topics and it not turn into a volatile flame pit.

Like was previously said, I think it's because we're an older, more mature group of people, and we're a lot more tolerant of others people's opinions.

In other games, if you were to post a build that was different than the standard cookie-cutter builds everyone else had, you'd get the trolling remarks and snarky comments.

Over here? It's "That's interesting. I'd do it a little different, but that looks like a fun build."

Great players. Great game. Great people. That's why this community is the best.

And the first time you try to enter a tram from the exit door and wonder why the train isn't responding? You're no longer a new player. But I've never done that... twice in a row.

The fun, amazing gameplay AND the wonderful people have kept me here for six years. It is very much like a sort of 'family.' I really enjoy helping others if I can so they can have more fun...as long as this game exisits, I will probably be playing it. Welcome!

With the exception of running the Alpha Slot arc on my 20+ 50s two weeks ago, I haven't really played or logged in for more than checking friends list and channels since early November. Vacations, Holidays and Birthday are now done and my semester is in full swing. I'm quite busy in real life.

However, I don't go more than a day without checking in on my friends here at the forums and never let my sub lapse. If I had to spend eternity playing a game, I would choose CoH and all of the awesome people here without hesitation.

I'd like to say thank you to the community as well for continuing to be the supportive and fun group we've all come to love and cherish.

This game unquestionably has the best community of any onliner, and more specifically it isn't even fair to it's two closest mmo competitors to bring up a comparison.

List the other games where players maintain subscriptions solely to keep their forums access active..

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Heh... I was just telling a friend of mine that I must be spoiled... by my game forums.

I'm kinda the oddball amongst my friends. Though many of us work in the theatrical/entertainment industry in one capacity or another, none of them are what I'd call "gamers". So, I got a laugh and a funny look (gamers, really? lol) when I said that.

But truly, when I go to other sites, whether it be other game forums, pet forums, news sites or whatever... I am always taken by surprise by the amount of vitriol that gets spewed "out there". I know I shouldn't be, the anonymity effect of the interwebs and all, but I am.... because the CoH/V forums have spoiled me.

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Yeah, I've learned this community is definitely the place to be.

Other game...

"Hey, guys, I'd like to film something here for a video" = "OH LOOK, TARGET!" *harass harass harass get in shot PvP bother bother harass"


Here...

"Hey guys, I'd like to film something here for a video" = "need help?" "whatcha need?" "get my good side!"


Night and day difference... I gave up trying to make vids on another game I play on coz the support I've so gotten used to here is completely lacking any place else.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Thank you everyone for all the responses!

It's great to see other people having the same positive view of the CoX community. It really is a wonderful community, and people like you all are the reason for it.

I wonder if there'll be any cutscenes in the I20 Trials, or could that be too disruptive? The BAF raid is a 5 stage raid, so there could be a cutscene during a break between the stages, depending on how fluid the transition between stages is.

I have been playing WOW for years, and even stopped playing CoX for a while to focus on WOW. Now I am back, and it is largely because the in-game community in CoX is nothing like the one in WOW.

Heroes players are generally much nicer people.

The ugly attitudes and misbehavior that soured me on WOW are simply rarely seen in City of Heroes... in-game, or in the forum. To the contrary, people are either extremely pleasant and generous, or at least they stay out of your way.

There is not much point to playing a MMO if you hate the other people there.

My twin boys are very young (6 months), but it's my fond hope that CoH is still going strong in a few years, when they can sit beside me and begin to learn to play the game. Someone in the community recently posted to say that his 6-yr old daughter learned to read at an early age due to his involving her in CoH--"That says 'Steel Canyon', right, Daddy?' I can see myself doing the same, and also using age-appropriate graphic lit. Words with pictures (or toons) make it easier for a new brain to make synaptic connections.

The game itself is also very intuitive, and easy to learn to play. Like the rest of you, I've found the Commnunity to be vastly helpful, with very few snarky-folk. Why learn if you can't teach? I will always help anyone with a question if I know the answer, because in my opinion, I myself am still a "newb" after 3 years of more or less constant play.

After all, this was my first (& presently only MMO, though I did sub to "that other shiny new game"), but the content is so deep that I could never feel superior to even a first-day player. For instance, I've been in only one PvP battle, got creamed plus taunted, & went off to work on my builds some more. I can't do all the cool binds, base-building, or graphic capture collages that many of you seem to be so good at pulling off. But it's no fun, really, to totally pwn a game. As in real life, we are all ignorant of something, and thus can enjoy a new challenge.

So I consider myself a "newb" but not a "nOOb", and can't imagine flaming someone, even for asking "Where is Miss Liberty?" while we're both standing on the City Hall steps in Atlas. I just don't see myself being contemptuous of anyone here, actually--if another player says something really nasty or truly stupid to me, I will simply ignore them. In the CoH environment, you can actually live by the old saw "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all."

As for the "other shiny new game", I'm still struggling with the rather unforgiving combat engine in the tutorial. The Distinguished Competition's offering seems more of a "first-person fighter" for fast young hands & eyes rather than a game like CoH, which even an old man like myself can play without snuffing it every 60 feet. In hearing about the snarky Community there, I am even more tempted to think "I'll get back to this later", & play CoH instead.

Yet possibly, even in the "other game", the intial "IQs smaller than their shoe sizes" people will get bored quickly and find other ways of dropping verbal napalm on hapless Netizens. I agree that we in the CoH Communty are the role models for MMO players everywhere, or should strive to be.

My thanks go out to everyone (and you are legion) who has helped and supported me in my 33 months of newbness!