Cult-like community

[Midra, Lord of Frenzied Flame]

POE fanbase might be one of the most toxic, unhinged, close minded, wannabe smart braindead fanbase I ever had the misfortune to witness. And I played Cod and CS2 a lot...

They are either hating on someone, hating on a political side, hating on a game, or just hating on each other. The other alternatives are typing skibidi hawk tuah or some other "great" meme.

I turn off Global chat instantly and rather read the trade chat.

[Chelios]

Not even close.

[Fraktal]

Yea these people are all ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ nuts.

But that’s why I like them.

[opAw←G]

Of course most of these kids are influenced by idiotic/toxic streamers. If their fave streamer eats ♥♥♥♥, they would gladly do it too.

[Stall]

Originally posted by opAw←G:

Of course most of these kids are influenced by idiotic/toxic streamers. If their fave streamer eats ♥♥♥♥, they would gladly do it too. :lunar2019laughingpig:

Lol so true, unfortunately...

[Shadow Spirit]

Originally posted by Midra, Lord of Frenzied Flame:

POE fanbase might be one of the most toxic, unhinged, close minded, wannabe smart braindead fanbase I ever had the misfortune to witness. And I played Cod and CS2 a lot...

They are either hating on someone, hating on a political side, hating on a game, or just hating on each other. The other alternatives are typing skibidi hawk tuah or some other "great" meme.

I turn off Global chat instantly and rather read the trade chat.

Angry person shouts at sky and shakes fist at the sun. News at 10PM.

[Kai]

Originally posted by Midra, Lord of Frenzied Flame:

POE fanbase might be one of the most toxic, unhinged, close minded, wannabe smart braindead fanbase I ever had the misfortune to witness. And I played Cod and CS2 a lot...

They are either hating on someone, hating on a political side, hating on a game, or just hating on each other. The other alternatives are typing skibidi hawk tuah or some other "great" meme.

I turn off Global chat instantly and rather read the trade chat.

This is what happens if you go to global chat channel 1.
You see people ranting and using the channel like their personal discord server lol. Community moderators do seem to be active as there are messages in that chat talking about people being muted or banned. If you want to have peaceful chat then go to global chat # that is much higher up lol, less ppl.

[Kai]

Originally posted by Arestris:

Originally posted by Lyote:

Mate, have you ever played any MMO?

Global chats have always been cancer, POE is not unique in this lmao

Yes, I played FFXIV, while there is no global chat, there is the newbie and returner chat as local chats and what shall i say? To 95% the most nice and welcoming community I've ever met in a game.

That's because being reported for spamming is more likely to get you banned quickly, especially if you used bad language or spoiling or doing stuff in there, the square enix moderation is super strict to the point of controlling.

[Revilar]

Originally posted by Kai:

Originally posted by Arestris:

Yes, I played FFXIV, while there is no global chat, there is the newbie and returner chat as local chats and what shall i say? To 95% the most nice and welcoming community I've ever met in a game.

That's because being reported for spamming is more likely to get you banned quickly, especially if you used bad language or spoiling or doing stuff in there, the square enix moderation is super strict to the point of controlling.

Or maybe they just want people to be nicer to each other...

[Lyote]

Originally posted by Many-Named:

Originally posted by Lyote:

Mate, have you ever played any MMO?

Global chats have always been cancer, POE is not unique in this lmao

the Barrens, lol

Thanks. I was trying very hard to forget.

[gachi is manly]

Originally posted by DirtyMick:

Yaaa.... go read the general chat in sc2.

God no. What are you trying to do? Give people brain damage?

[Bad_Lieutenant]

That's why I made a 'ur mom' joke in the first 5 minutes of launch and then banned everyone else forever from making any more.

I'm doing my part.

[Quasinerdo]

FTP + teens/kids = community of bullshitters.

POE does have a Veteran community too which means high sunk cost bias, and implicit bias. Many think that hourse played = individual potential and fail to appreciate that they may still have peaked at birth.

The last truly great "mature" and cohesive positive community of substantial size I playted in was Dark Age of Camelot by Mythic. Individuals there had characters that were known - an avatar of that RL person if you would. There was real impact connected to behaviour because it was a time before total anonymity and online life where individuals developed their split "RL" and "online" personalities. People acted much like they would in the street.

Always keep in mind the Greater internet ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ theorum. "Anonymity + no consequence = ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥".

[gachi is manly]

Originally posted by Quasinerdo:

The last truly great "mature" and cohesive positive community of substantial size I playted in was Dark Age of Camelot by Mythic. Individuals there had characters that were known - an avatar of that RL person if you would. There was real impact connected to behaviour because it was a time before total anonymity and online life where individuals developed their split "RL" and "online" personalities. People acted much like they would in the street.

UO was like that way back in the day. I played on a free shard years later and people were great there too.

[Infrasound]

POE fans are like Linux users who compile their own kernels.

[Lord Bullingdon]

Originally posted by Lyote:

Mate, have you ever played any MMO?

Global chats have always been cancer, POE is not unique in this lmao

I've played all sorts of games with global chat and PoE has one of the worst I've seen. I enjoy it and find it entertaining but, yeah, it does stand out among the notorious global chats in gaming history.