Will Planetside 2 Avoid Mass Negativity?

[PoisonTaco]

Having been part of successful servers in Team Fortress 2, Call of Duty and Battlefield over the last few years in my own community, there is one problem that always creeps up when you get pubbies in the servers. That is the chat box becomes a mess of people complaining about everything.

"So and so killed me with x gun he's a hacking"
"Anyone who uses y gun is a ******"
"x gun is so OP!"
"y can't I kill tank with pistol? That's BS!"

Or how about those people who talk as if they're the BEST PLAYER EVAR and then when they die once, they rage in chat call everyone hacking/exploiting noobs.

The problem with this behavior is that so much negativity can create a hostile and negative experience for everyone in your server. If you allow a few people to constantly complain in chat, even more people will. As admins we would typically ban people from the server if all they did was complain. This can also lead to people in the community moving on to other games as they don't want to listen to constant complaining and bitching. This is one of the biggest contributors to Battlefield 3 dying in my own community among other things.

So will Planetside 2 follow in that trend. I've only been playing the original Planetside for a few days now and for the most part that community is pretty good. Still it's a small community, and PS2 is likely going to get the masses from other shooters to come and at least check it out. Will the game just devolve into people endlessly complaining and bitching about everything that kills them? Will faction pride be something that gets people in line? Or is this something that we, as a community will have to keep a check on.

[dafuq]

if you really think ps2 will not have a shitty community u are living under a rock
and f2p will make this game even worse community wise

ur name is known because youre calling everyone ****** or other stuff? -> make a new account
admins banned u because of aimbotting? -> make a new account

[Zulthus]

I know the PS1 community has quite a few bad eggs, but I have never seen so much "OMGZ ur a H4x0r!!!" or "fkn n00b you suk dik" and "LOLZ 1 am sooo 1337" in chat anywhere but Battlefield or COD. And NO, I'm not saying everyone coming from BF is a little annoying kid. The F2P model especially will not help this.


What I'm saying is, get used to it.

[PoisonTaco]

Originally Posted by Zulthus

I know the PS1 community has quite a few bad eggs, but I have never seen so much "OMGZ ur a H4x0r!!!" or "fkn n00b you suk dik" and "LOLZ 1 am sooo 1337" in chat anywhere but Battlefield or COD. And NO, I'm not saying everyone coming from BF is a little annoying kid.


What I'm saying is, get used to it.

Oh I'm used to it, I'm just curious if we'll actually be able to get past it with the whole faction loyalty thing.

[Steambot]

Originally Posted by dafuq

if you really think ps2 will not have a shitty community u are living under a rock
and f2p will make this game even worse community wise

ur name is known because youre calling everyone ****** or other stuff? -> make a new account
admins banned u because of aimbotting? -> make a new account

And you are such a shining example of good will and helpfulness, are you?

To the OP: It'll have its bad community and its good one. One can't really predict which side will outnumber the other.

[ChipMHazard]

With popularity comes negativity

[dafuq]

Originally Posted by Steambot

And you are such a shining example of good will and helpfulness, are you?

To the OP: It'll have its bad community and its good one. One can't really predict which side will outnumber the other.

i dont care since i have my people who i play with, i dont give a damn about the community, the elitism of THIS forum is really bad im laughing everyday when someone like you is acting serious


it will be like in any other game

want to have fun without flaming idiots? join a guild/outfit/whatever
want to get flamed on a steady base? play with randoms

[Steambot]

Originally Posted by dafuq

i dont care since i have my people who i play with, i dont give a damn about the community, the elitism of THIS forum is really bad im laughing everyday when someone like you is acting serious


it will be like in any other game

want to have fun without flaming idiots? join a guild/outfit/whatever
want to get flamed on a steady base? play with randoms

Someone like me? Not sure I understand. If you don't give a damn about the community, why are you posting on this forum?

Also, is it wrong to be serious? I don't have to "act."

Besides, I play solo.

[gufftroad]

there will always be negativity no matter how balanced guns are

because ITS IMPOSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS BETTER THEN MEEEEE!!!!!! I AM 1337 PLAYER MLG ETC ETC

[Ninjacalypse]

Originally Posted by gufftroad

there will always be negativity no matter how balanced guns are

because ITS IMPOSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS BETTER THEN MEEEEE!!!!!! I AM 1337 PLAYER MLG ETC ETC

Lol @ MLG. Buncha 14 year olds that call themselves "professional" gamers and whose vocabulary consists of just two words, "f--" and "n------".

[NEWSKIS]

All through the original PlanetSide, people complained about everything, and most of it was ignorant people complaining because they suck and have to blame something other than themselves lol.

[PredatorFour]

In short i think people will bitch and moan alot. The game is f2p, which will bring alot of these people in. I think if it were sub based it might be better tbh.

[maddoggg]

"Omg lame halo clone"

"I have run around for 5 seconds and didnt see no enemies,**** broken game"

"This game is for p*ssies who use vehicles and team work and dont fight like real man"

"Wtf i cant one shot with pistol and guns have recoil!What a n00b game!"

"f*ken lagging game,i sneak behind a tank and shoot all of my assault rifle bullets in it and it doesnt blow up,turns around and kills me.
The game is g*y."

"
This game is full of geeks who think they know sh*t.
This commander guy says "hey squad up and please come over here to help us capture this point"
and i am like "f*ck you man i dont need you n00bs,you would only slow me down and who put you in charge anyway!"
and so i spawn in the base and get the drop on 3 n00bs with their names writen in blue over their heads,and i kill them because they are so bad,that when i start shooting them,they are like" wtf you doing!",but than the stupid n00bs got jelaous of my skill and kicked me for TK.
"



You cant possibly make a popular game and not recieve some hate for it.
With the f2p model, shiny grapchics and almost COD like TTK,the game would most certainly have a decent amount of complete and utter n00bs runing around.
However i do hope it wont end like bf3,simply because the game is not a simplistic shooter with maps like bf3 operation metro and modes like team deathmatch.
Ps2 is generally designed to be a team based and logistic game where thinking matters,and thinking is something the average 14 year old bf3/cod player is uncapable of.
I hope they ll quickly get bored of the game and wont ruin the expirience for the rest of us.

[leecH]

no.

todays gamers blame the game as soon as they hit the smallest obstacle. instead of overcoming those obstacles they go to forums and collectivly cry about "broken game design" and pollute every community they find with fucking essays about how smart they are and how stupid the game is which they play 10 hours per day. and then you read that stuff because you think this maybe interesting but after the first paragraph you realize it probably is a 15 year old whos greates achievement in life is not to jerk off into their socks and then you realize that somewhere at SOE there is a sad sad human being who has to read all said shit while every sane person is just playing the fucking game in the meantime.

thats why my eyes always twitch when i hear game devs say they want to work together with the community because i have yet to witness something besides horseshit comming out of this collaboration.

ugh.. must be the heat.

[SpcFarlen]

Its a game, its going to happen. You dont want to just start booting people for saying a sentence. That causes negative views more so than someone complaining in chat.

Most serious players probably wont even be looking in global chat just because it will be full of spam regardless. Just ignore them. If people leave because they dont have the capacity to ignore individuals then they would probably leave for other reasons because its not that hard of a skill to master.

Get in an outfit, get into a voip channel/server and ignore the text.