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Decided to give the trial a go and after patching the client initially and being taken the downloading bit, the first thing that was obvious was at the bottom of the client window, was an advert for a new pet called "leet pwnz joo" or something along those lines.. needless to say, as an adult, this makes me want to already stop the patch and give this game an immediate pass.
For those who play, please tell me this is just an "epic fail" by funcom and not an indication what so ever of what my experience ingame will be like. Shouldn't judge a book by it's cover but nothing in gaming pisses me off more than morons who use "leet pwns joo" type of speaking and nothing makes me facepalm more than a developer who caters and encourages that.
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Nvm it's for Anarchy Online but was just showing up on the TSW client downloader.
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the leet is a Anarchy Online mascot type creature that they made a TSW version vanity pet of. Although TSW does have its share of the l33t speaking pwners too
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Big difference between adding ingame items that caters to them and a few bad apples in the community. Most games have those l33t speaking tards, I've spent enough time on WoW to at least put up with a few and make use of my ignore function.
For me they delivered. Hope the world was bigger with bit more endgame content though but FC is adding things on quite a regular basis. Playing since headstart and still like the game. Also, one of the few MMOs that actually has GMs who respond and help if someone needs.
To OP: TSW community is good and I've played MMOs over 10 years and seen quite a few communities. Of course there are some elitist wankers like everuý MMO has but seen only a couple so far. I'm pugging a lot for nightmare runs and 99% of players I've played with are really nice and easy going.
Pretty much everyone I have grouped with or encountered in game have been really nice and easy going. But I am not a hardcore player, usually play a few days a week at most.
I have seen the spam about needing certain stats to be able to run NM modes. Reminds me of my WoW days years ago with that same crap being used, needing way overkill stats just so the instance is no challenge to the group.
I guess this game is like any other, about an equal amount of asshats and good people. Find yourself a good guild with like minded folks and you wont have to worry about the elitist attitudes regardless.
The game is well worth buying and playing. It is my favorite MMO at the moment. The community overall is decent from my experience. I just stay away from the elitist and dont have any problems.
Why not take a look through the forums and see for yourself? Check out the Newcomers forum especially:
http://forums.thesecretworld.com/forumdisplay.php?f=5
Everyone's experience is different, but I've met some great people in game.
P.S. As of now, you will never be prompted in game for the cash shop, although it's on a menu if wish to go there. It's definitely not "in your face" with the exception of the loader.
In my opinion, I think the community, as a whole, were nice to play with.
I think certain games attract certain people. You'll see what I mean if you start playing.
Join a cabal though. The middle zones are lonely as per last month. Top-heavy population atm.
Strangers have always ran by and helped me. In return, I do the same.
One word: Retards.
Extremely simple-minded players there. Slow, self-entitled and the ones that already have some better gear by grinding dungeons think they're some "pro-playaz".
It's pathetic but TSW is great as a single-player game. Just play the story and quests and delete it in a month.
Funcom are trying to sell single-player games as MMOs now. Pure arrogance.
While I don't argue that there are bad apples, I don't see at all how you could of had an experience bad enough that the perception is this. I have met WAY more decent people than other MMO's, a few crappy people but some is to be expected. Did you happen to join a Cabal, or just go off a bad person you partied with? just wondering
Sandbox means open world, non-linear gaming PERIOD!
Subscription Gaming, especially MMO gaming is a Cash grab bigger then the most P2W cash shop!
Bring Back Exploration and lengthy progression times. RPG's have always been about the Journey not the destination!!!
The Secret World community are very nice if you are nice.
If you go around lying about the game and calling people retards - well you reap what you sew. Simple as that.
Edit: Of course there are SOME bad eggs - but thats par for course in any massively multiplayer game. The ratio is skewed on the plus side in all my in game encounters.
Half bad - the ex EQ / ex wow hardcore raider types that left it because "wow gives welfare epix to scrubs"
You must not have been looking very hard:
http://forums.thesecretworld.com/showthread.php?t=62768
Sorry, but my experience couldn't be more different. I dunno, but if you don't want to hang around the grinders, why aren't you trying to find people that don't grind? Check out the forums or join a casual cabal -- there's plenty of people that don't play that way.
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On topic. Community is mostly great with lots of RPers and talkative people. If you ask nicely you will get more info than you need. Of course there are some elitist jerks too, but you can easily avoid them if you pay attention. Get a nice cabal and have fun.
Hodor!
I really don't understand these kinds of posts, either. They must be trying real hard to chat it up with the leets. For anyone who's interested just go see for yourself -- read some posts on the forums and decide:
http://forums.thesecretworld.com/forumdisplay.php?f=5
are you playing the same game as me? i have never met anyone in the game like that and i have been playing since release.and i,m a casual player..i dont even have ql 8 stuff and has i say been playing since release.i grant you there is no doubt a few but i,m no elitist prick. i will group and mess around with anyone. and i,m extremely polite as well.
Community was pretty good, one of the better ones, but then again, I never did any nightmares before I left.
Side note: the Leet is a low level rat type mob in Anarchy online, it would talk in l33t speak in game, it was kind of a parody, it eventually basically became the game's mascot, with the game store selling leet pets with different skins, like a godzilla leet, a ninja leet and such.
Not everyone is an elitist prick
Not everyone is a fluffy let's welcome the newbies type either
It's a better community than say wow. But its not say coh good. Probably put it on a oar with gw2 or something.
Funny you should say it, because lots of CoH refugees came over to TSW.
The same can be said for the community of another game that is B2P...cough***GW2***cough.
Is a man not entitled to the herp of his derp?
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