Will these players join AoC?

Sandbox games have some of the most toxic players in the gaming industry. I certainly hope this game has the necessary barriers in place to curtail them ruining the experience of other players to where they quit. I've never played archage or lineage so I dont know how popular they are, according to stephen a lot of inspiration came from them. If thats a big enough market to keep AoC successful then great. I dont think this game will appeal to the majority of the MMO market that tends to be casual. I will play this game regardless because I am a PvPer almost exlusively in MMO genre. I am curious how big of an audience is out there hungering for a PVP centric MMO and how toxic it will become with the players that tend to permeate sandbox games like ARK and rust. It's griefing on an unbelievable level.

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Andi

U5urPator wrote: »

Imo, this thread itself is toxic.

Exactly my thoughts.
I played Ultima Online, the very first sandbox, and had a lot of fun with great people.

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Crocos

Toxic players will always exist in games, some more widespread than others. Hopefully with the corruption system and general good GM's toxicity will be kept on the low. I think the largest amount of toxicity we will get will be from escalated Guild Drama.

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Undead Canuck

"Sandbox games have some of the most toxic players in the gaming industry. "

Where is this quote from? Do you have a citation that verifies this? Or is it just your opinion of playing all of the sandbox games.

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Undead Canuck

You are the one making the claim. I am only asking for a citation. If you cannot provide one, it is just your opinion.

HazardNumberSeven

I suppose toxicity is subjective. I don't consider PvP or anything PvP related to be toxic.
To me, it's about their behaviour and the things they do/say and why they do them.

If someone ganks me in a game for example, they're probably just having fun, that's not toxic to me in the slightest, but if they start saying stuff like "ur trash fkin kys lol ur trash so bad" .. then I think less of the person.

I've had people call me a "race traitor" in PvP games before, because my clan had an alliance with a Hong Kong clan and we were fighting together against these guys who were white (like me). If that's not toxic behaviour I don't know what is.

I would totally agree sandbox pvp games attract toxic people. Lots of great people too. Any game with the freedom to do whatever you want will have those kinds, but that's part of what I like about total anarchy. The universe works the way it does. Those people create themselves a lot of enemies, and I've always been able to use that to my advantage to wipe them from the face of the game.

As for AoC, I'm just not worried it will be toxic at all in comparison to what I'm used to and comfortable with. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion on what is and isn't toxic and all that other stuff, but I have 0 concerns when it comes to AoC.

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Amist

People will likely be less toxic due to the fear of getting banned and losing their progress + money (the game being sub based and all..)

But will there be toxic people in the grand scheme of things? Of course. People have different opinions as to how to communicate with eachother and what to expect from other players. Surely there will be clashes.

Undead Canuck

Keith wrote: »

Undead Canuck wrote: »

You are the one making the claim. I am only asking for a citation. If you cannot provide one, it is just your opinion.

And I asked you to contend with my statement with or without evidence and you have nothing to refute it. So IT STANDS.

Again, that is your opinion. You are entitled to your opinion. If it makes you feel better to 'win' something I never refuted, go wild.
All I ever asked for is a citation on your claim.

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U5urPator

hazardnumberseven wrote: »

I suppose toxicity is subjective. I don't consider PvP or anything PvP related to be toxic.
To me, it's about their behaviour and the things they do/say and why they do them.

If someone ganks me in a game for example, they're probably just having fun, that's not toxic to me in the slightest, but if they start saying stuff like "ur trash fkin kys lol ur trash so bad" .. then I think less of the person.

I've had people call me a "race traitor" in PvP games before, because my clan had an alliance with a Hong Kong clan and we were fighting together against these guys who were white (like me). If that's not toxic behaviour I don't know what is.

I would totally agree sandbox pvp games attract toxic people. Lots of great people too. Any game with the freedom to do whatever you want will have those kinds, but that's part of what I like about total anarchy. The universe works the way it does. Those people create themselves a lot of enemies, and I've always been able to use that to my advantage to wipe them from the face of the game.

As for AoC, I'm just not worried it will be toxic at all in comparison to what I'm used to and comfortable with. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion on what is and isn't toxic and all that other stuff, but I have 0 concerns when it comes to AoC.

Amen.

Also, please just ignore this thread now. This guy is just ignoring any reason and tries to press his line of argumentation with passive aggressiveness.

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Lincoln Hawk

Every game that has ever held my interest for any amount of time has always had a bad guy. A balance is always needed. Memories that stick with me have been times when Ive overcome such "bad guys/enemies".

When I first started playing darkfall I was part of a shitty noob clan that owned a hamlet near a village and a guy who had a house there would always come and destroy us as his character was just way better than ours. It motivated me to move across the map and grind my ass off, when I came back to the hamlet, I destroyed that guy and it was one of the best feelings ever. You dont get experiences like that in games where everyone is circle jerking each other, holding hands terrified of conflict. Conflict is the key driving force behind any game having true meaning.

Stop worrying about certain types of players, except them as part of a community and make your stand on whatever side you choose. Play how you want to play, make friends with people who will fight these players, as there will be plenty, spend money to have guilds go after them, there are so many avenues to deal with this without relying on the devs to hold peoples hands.

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Nagash

And here come more people who view there view as the word of the devs

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