I will use primarily in this article Aion’s community, because it is the one I’m most involved with currently.
Why is it that, especially with Aion, that gaming communities online appear to lack moderation?
Take Aionsource.com for example. The section Aion Discussion has degenerated to what is known as trolls. There is rarely anything constructive in the posts here and ends up being a flame war between the so called fanbois and haters. For those like me who love the game but realize there are some issues it gets annoying.
This article was supposed to be about online communities, which I’ll write about later. I feel the Aion community needs to be addressed here.
There is so much hate on this game on the forums now it is unbearable. The game is fun, a lot of fun. It has some issues but the forums that allow 50 posts about the same damned thing QQing about gets old. As do the the people who post the inevitable ‘go back WoW’ crap.
NCSoft has been making huge progress with some of the issues. I rarely crash now and I was affected by that. I was part of the lag snafu, which was addressed and I am no longer affected. Spam is nearly nonexistent now except for Private Stores. Yes, there are still bots and they get banned, I’ve seen it happen.
I’m not blind. I know Aion has some issues, the fortress raids really need some loving. I did my first one yesterday and got 1 AP. Yeah, that was worthwhile. I was on a team that did considerable damage, each of them got more. So teams do not matter. I will not waste my time here until fixed. Perhaps a system that rewards for being there, randomizing rewards like WAR did.
See what I did there, I made a rant and gave a solution. Since this is my site there aren’t 50 other topics like it else I would have posted this there instead of making a new post. Perhaps this article should have been forum etiquette. Hmm, updating title…now!
What I guess I don’t understand is why so many people feel they have to post their negative experiences after they’ve left the game. Do they feel obligated to make everyone else rage quit too because they weren’t having fun after maxing out? Well I’m rage quitting the forums myself, or at least cutting way back.
The game is fun to me, when it no longer is it will be time to move on. I don’t see why some others don’t understand this simple concept.
