For those of you who play AO frequently and actually interact with people, what kinds of people do you see the most?
The chill people? The people who play alone? Those guys who go out of their way to give people a hand?
Saw something somewhere where they said the video game mechanics, very broadly, lead to certain people playing the game. Was curious in how that reflects in AO.
my balls itch
Im inbetween
I know you use Reddit.
unfortunately 90% of my interactions ingame are me getting bodyslammed by the toxic sweats
glazers cus of mod title
i acquired a reflexive attack mechanism whenever a player gets too close for comfort from the amount of shitheads i came across (though the chill ones DO exist. just relatively a tiny fraction in comparison)
Usually I find chill people; sometimes they’ll hunt me for renown, but most of the time, they’re friendly after that. Talking to other people in AO actually feels nice, which is the opposite of how I find talking IRL.
The ones who complain a lot
Off-topic, but isn’t that obvious? If a game appeals only to sadists, then it’s only natural that there are only sadists who play it.
Anyhow, I think that it’s quite clear what the current playerbase is going to look like.
Is there anything for players that aren’t interested in PvP to do anymore? Aside from getting riched or making a META armour/stat build that will eventually change, not really. Who does this leave the game with? People that want to commit to PvP activities.
As for the personalities of those that partake in that, it depends, but I’d say that it’s mostly 60% toxicity and the rest of it (40%) is normal. Of course, this only applies to players with an interest in PvP as there still are some new players coming in, it’s the reason as to why the game isn’t dead yet (and the PvP toggle will stop other players from forcing it into a state of death).
(rogue lineage)
(Any game that punishes its players’ death and has non-consensual worldwide PvP and has no other appeals)*
People exaggerate the amount of bad people in the game.
80% of the people you find are pretty chill, one time I found a wind mage who sent me to the sky ( Not trying to kill me, of course). The rest are either trying to get renown by bounty hunting (which I have no problem with) or just camping a story area to kill someone. (sailors lodge, forest of masts, e.c.t.). Most people will usually leave you alone.
I don’t? Did someone post something similar on reddit or sonething?
i was talking to flare
Oops, my bad.
I don’t think anybody believes the vast majority of the community are assholes.
Its more just the fact that it only takes 1 person to ruin 10 people’s experience with the game.
i mostly interact with pvpers cus that’s kinda who i am
70% of pvpers are pretty chill regular people who you’d never guess that they pvp religiously with 4k pks
20% are a bit strange… i wouldn’t be friends with them but i would say they’re harmless
10% are the toxic ppl people usually think when they hear “pvper” on the forums
on public servers it’s like 99% pvers i rarely see anyone with over 500 pks
the only person who’s discord i have from ao is an irl femboy so like
overall pretty terrible
25% is just the RPG lover fandom, 50% is the magic lover fandom, the rest is the one piece lover fandom