For me the games themselves are pretty great online and quite fun, however it's the actual players that just ruin it for me and make me not want to play. As soon as people are rude to me i'm like "i'm unistalling this game, i don't want to be apart of something where people act like this" and i find that a mature community isn't always the answer. What i find is the worst online games for communities are FPS and RTS games, mmorpgs don't trail far behind however.

 RTS:

All that ever seems to happen is you spend about 5 hours trying to find a game and when you do people just drop outta the game ruining it lol. Also it's very hard to find games where everyone has good pings, i have yet to play one where people don't lag. Whats worse is everyone seems to think they're Jeremy from PurePwnage and are like "omg i'm uber l33t" "lol u noob" etc etc.

I tried joining games on supcom and i just get people going "omg you havnt compleetd single player game, you can't play multiplayer until you do", so i'm like "why would anyone wanna play supcom multiplayer?". Apparently if you havn't played like 500 games then you cant join a server, and it's like i don't want to be l33t, i just wanna have fun playing. Being good at a game wont get me anywhere in life and tbh if it did i wouldn't want to waste my life on it. So i'm like ok i'll join a noob game and see how that works out...... All that happened was peopel insulting me going "omg no rushers" and then people joining alliances with the enemy and teaming up doing a 5 vs 1 (me) and its liek whats the point?

All i found happening on Supcom is being insulted and took like 5 hours to join a game thats good.

So i unistalled the game.....

With COH the community wasn't soooo bad but it's the actual online service and gameplay mechanics that are the worst. All i see happening is peopel trying to play the game on a subpar system and it just doesn't work, you can never get a game going what so ever! I spent hours trying to get games but everyone keeps dropping! o i'm trying to do a 3 vs 3 and finally everyone joins but 5 mins into the game 2 guys on my team leave me with a 1 vs 3 and obviously i lost that one lol.

So with COH i just can't be bothered to find a game so i have no choice to unistall.



RTS games are only useful if with Lan against your friends, otherwise prepared to be constantly insulted and spending hours finding a game.

FPS:

What seems to happen on FPS games is you'll constantly have people **** hacker and that in chat and insulting people and beign racist etc etc. However the worst problem with them is many of them are meant for playing as a team, however noone ever does. People go all loner and your team eventually loses because of it which is annoying.

What i hate is in BF2 all people seemed to do is TK you for weapons or vehicles and it gets very annoying. And in games like CSS you'll get the annoying trolls over the chat and the horrible admins who think they'r eright when they are not. You'll get people TK'in all the time just pureply to annoy people and noone every goes for the objective.

What i also hate is alot of Admins don't know how to setup their servers so alot of the time you'll ahve hitbox/registry issues or just some annoying plugin that ruins the game.It's easy to get a game in FPS but the people again who play it just ruin it for me.


Again i can only play Lan.



MMORPG:


Problem with these games is there tends to be 2 types:

Mature/hardcore mmorpgs:

generally are buggy and unfinished with most things broken and they just become very tedious. The communities are very small and you'll often play alone, which is a problem because i place mmorpgs to group with other people. They have low budgets often and content coems few and far between lol. Being a mature community also isn't that great as everything thinks. Most the communities tend to ignore everyone like on EQ2 and only tend to talk in their guilds, so i think ok i'll ask to join. apparently however you need to be end level to join most the guilds in that game, but i don't want to play through the whole game missing the content on my own lol. I spent 3 weeks in EQ2 looking for a group to do a group quest, i didn't get one for my level. What tends to happen on matue mmorpgs is everyone is high level making it impossible to play through lower levels. What also happens is the community have a L33T state of mind and think they are better than everyone else and insult all other games. They tend to have many more fanbois and it's just not fun to play with.


Casual mmorpgs:

What happens here is they have bigger communities but there will be more people runing the game for you. I tend to find everyone shouting insults over chat and generally really bad PUGS. While they tend to be high budget and lots of content, i just seem to get bored of not having a risk/rewards. Nothing has any meaning in the games and this tends to bring out a younger community. I have no problem with  younger players but i just find they don't play as a team and always want to solo and insult you most of the time.



Maybe it's just me but my online experiences havn't been great since Online gaming became mainstream lately. I used to have fun with it back in the 90's where less people played and even uptill 2002. The past few years however it's been on a steady decline in terms of community, which always ruins the games for me. Atleast i can ignore forums where it's always "nerf this" and "nerf that" lol, but you can't ignore them in game so easily. Worst new trend i've seen is spam of mail boxes in mmorpgs full for adverts for selling gold.

I only like to play Lan with my mates nowadays, however the big problem with that is you don't have as many friends in real life as most of my friends don't play games + everyones at work or Uni.