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What game has the biggest community on GAF?

Volotaire

Member
The number of posts is really an illusion. Do you know what people actually talk about in these communities? Allow me to break it down for you:

Destiny-GAF: People posting "I've got two spots left in the party, join up!" nine times out of ten.
Dota-GAF: People desperately trying to snatch their souls away from the game, but failing.
League of Legends-GAF: These guys also talk about Dota.
Halo-GAF: A group of gamers who talk about the upcoming games in the franchise and are completely unaware of how much shit the other GAF communities talk about them.
Steam-GAF: People asking about how to get 5K resolution on their four monitors for Sakura Spirit.
Smash-GAF: Reasonable and measured discussion based on logical theories and evidence.
Giant Bomb-GAF: These users have evolved beyond video games and now discuss about people discussing about video games sometimes.
TF2-GAF: Small in size, biggest in quality minus Clivefrog

GB GAF is the best. You get a bit of everything on the gaming side news which makes it a great overview thread.

EDIT: And we're the best too ;)
 

Rewrite

Not as deep as he thinks
Back in the day, it was Rock Band GAF. It's still king at being the biggest thread ever on GAF. <3
 

nOoblet16

Member
Destiny GAF is not just LFG posts and even if the game had raid and PoE matchmaking it wouldn't change a thing.

I mean I have a dedicated clan chat on PSN for PvP and a dedicated one for PvE for LFG purpose as it's usually quicker that way since almost everyone who posts there has other sin their friend list which means they don't really need to make LFG posts any more often than other games as majority of the time they get people from inviting them on PSN to their party/game (again just like any other game).

Anyone who says it's full of LFG posts and the reason for so many OTs and that it only becomes non LFG when Bungie says anything is mistaken completely.

We talk about streamers, community, recent games, weapon and game balancing, PvP/PvE tactics, weapon rolling, stats, the drama that goes on in the community (like one streamer crashing Bungie's party chat and telling Deej to suck his balls and it's aftermath), etc etc. Destiny is one of the few games that has a big group of people who only play PvE and a group of people who play PvP or both....so there is an awful lot lot to talk about.
 

ethomaz

Banned
Halo or Destiny comunity are the biggest.

Destiny has so much to talk about that blow me... a lot of topics happens in that community.
 

Porcile

Member
Mario Kart 8 was pretty big, dunno if it still is. But at the time it was basically posts like this:

"dat blue shell"
"fuuuuuck you roo"
"lol dem triple mushrroms"
"fucking 1st to last on the final lap"

for pages and pages, last I checked the Splatoon thread was turning into something similar.

I stopped posting in the Mario Kart 8, Smash and Splatoon threads for this exact reason. Can't even talk about the game amongst all the "gg's guys" and other useless posts. It's a real problem in these online-centric OT's.
 

leng jai

Member
I am of course biased on the type of community threads I go into, but I love the Guild Wars 2 community here on GAF. Particularly based on what the players have accomplished. The devs have given shoutouts to the community thread, some of the groups members have made tools and guides that help many players, and inside the game, GAF guild helps other guilds who is failing missions.

Every saturday evening we do casual guild missions together. We have tons of beginners who come with us and no man, charr, sylvari, norn or asura are left behind as we go through insane guild jumping puzzles, or fight over vast numbers of other players in World vs World mass server PvP.
GAF guild is also a very diverse guild with people doing different things in the game. Some are dedicated to the PvE, some to the dungeons, some to the fractals, others are all-arounders, some pop in and out with some hiatuses due to real life.

They've done really good. Some have made outside the game tools like controller support (the best config I've seen), guides that are appreciated on other sites!

A simple screen cap of our off the charts guild chat would have been a more effective testimonial than this.
 
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