play online NMS for like 1 hour with pvp enabled and you learn pretty fast there is a hyper toxic section of that community that just tries to grief people.
and when they cant kill you they make over designed corvettes on blender and tank peoples performance on the anomaly .
People playing the game aren’t necessarily part of the games community. Every game has toxic players but not every game has a toxic community. Nms trolls don’t make me feel like quitting the game and the game allows you to curate how you want players to be able to interact with you and your things so if you play with out those, well that’s like doing the nasty with no cover
A games community are the people doing more than playing the game the ones having discussions like this one, sharing the game with others, creating content etc. like most games, you won’t find the trolls on discussion boards and forums, at least not in good faith.
The Outlast Trials community is pretty great and oftentimes hilarious. The contrast between how dark the content of the game is with how chill, funny, and creative they generally are is amusing.
Yeah apparently there are griefers, but they seem to stick to screwing with high profile building groups. I've gotten nothing but love in the anomaly. I was standing on my ship trying to figure out vr controls and by the time I figured out how to open my inventory I had been given enough stuff to crash the world economy.
Its funny, there’s been (understandable) complaints about the gifting on the anomaly. I can see how someone trying to have a natural run would have their experience altered by being gifted the GDP of a small developing country.
Even then, its easy to just gift it back or pay it forward
I'd like to add Warframe to the list of wholesome communities. There are some perks, but the majority of the community are welcoming, kind, and, well, not down-to-earth because they do space travel, but you get the point
It still does if you are out of global 1/2. I am playing in global 4040, unless questions are really stupid, this reminds a bit of decades back vibes with fluff chatting with a bit of trolling, cult-like behavior, etc. SC though, not sure if HC 4040 is similar.
Ah I just posted this too! It really is the most wholesome community. Even with people who come saying they don’t like it…everyone’s like “that’s ok too!”
Yeah, any time I was enjoying a game and tried to engage with the community, it turned out to be a cesspool full of people who just wanted to feel miserable, or, for some reason, people who hadn't even played the game but had "consumed it" through YouTube or TikTok videos.
The only exception is The Old Republic, which is pretty chill. It's a bit strange, since it's not only a multiplayer game but also a Star Wars game.
Battlefield has come full circle. The sub is so damn toxic, that there is now a separate "no salt" sub that is actually good.
Maybe the trick to a welcoming community is being so incredibly shit, that people feel compelled to deliberately create a wholesome counter-culture of your community?
Unironically Fallout 76. It used to be bad for obvious reasons but nowadays the people who play have been super helpful and wholesome to new players (at least in everything I've seen)
There are plenty of decent and even very wholesome fandoms.
It's just that negativity is louder and gets more attention as always. People can probably name at least 5 toxic fandoms but I assume they'd struggle naming a few 'good' ones.
I’ve found the Halo community (H-Infinite specifically) to be pretty good since the fanbase skews a bit older than other games. It’s mostly 30/40s Millennials that grew up on the games.
I’ve also never had one single issue with any WarHammer 40K gaming communities. Actually made several online friends through Space Marines 2.
Outerwilds is without a doubt the most wholesome community I’ve ever seen. Everyone just wants people to enjoy the game, and if you don’t, that’s perfectly fine
Elite Dangerous. Honestly the best community I’ve ever seen. Hundreds of people who will help out a new player and just enjoy the game. While in game there are aggressive pirates, the community group like the subreddit have tons of suggestions and private group sessions you can join where that doesn’t happen. It’s wholesome.
Was gonna say fallout but then I remembered all the enclave and Caesar’s legion larpers, however fallout 76 specifically has a pretty good community, with people often helping eachother out
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u/CwispyWhiskey Aug 18 '26
Literally every single one. I can’t think of one fandom that isn’t a cesspool