Dual Wielding LFG Edition: Community in MMO’s

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collaboration, community, community building, dual wielding, groups, mmos, parties, social events

Dual Wielding LFG Edition – Sometimes a topic is just too big for a couple of bloggers on their own. That’s when we send out the call, and see who steps up to help us with the challenge. This week, in a special LFG edition of Dual Wielding, we’ve put together a four person team to tackle the question, “What can developers do to foster community?”

Be sure to check out the other responses by Mersault, Gypsy Syl and Weakness. And also check out Aywren’s response to the question.

It started out innocuously enough. Weakness of Waiting For Rez sent out this tweet regarding Black Desert Online and Tree of Savior:

What's with these games leaving out critical information though, are they trying to frustrate people into quitting unnecessarily? BDO, ToS..

— Weakness||Sevenfalls (@Ironweakness) April 2, 2016

After an absolute conga line of responses later involving myself, Weakness, Gypsy Syl and Mersault, we all kind of came together to nod our heads in agreement that we should totally all blog about community-building in MMO’s. So this is my Tanker role post. Because I’m always the Tanker, dammit.

A Noble Purpose

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bad guys, factions, final fantasy xiv, good guys, groups, narrative, the secret world, tribes, warring, wildstar, world of warcraft

Today’s Daily Grind question on Massively Overpowered got me considering factions in MMO’ing.  More specifically, how multifaceted factions are the more interesting than the flat black-versus-white sort that you see in some games.  Even World of Warcraft had pretty much foregone its Orcs vs. Humans narrative on…well, pretty much every open opportunity, near as I can tell.

“World of OccasionallyWarCraft” just doesn’t sound as snappy.

One of my favorite aspects of a multifaceted faction is the belief in their noble purpose.  The concept that they are truly right in their cause.  Even those who would be painted with the Evil Brush can have sides that are actually something to look up to.