Gaming community
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A gaming community is usually a group of like minded individuals working towards a goal (such as promoting fair play and team work) or supporting each other within games (usually online video games such as MMORPG's or FPS's).
They use their collective clout to set an example to others in game or to promote a certain view, playing style or set of rules within the gaming world. To see a tag on the end of a players name to show they belong to a community (such as [FPG] to signify they are a member of Fair Play Gaming Community) can signify that the player follows the code of conduct of that community and for instance wants to premote fair play within the gaming arena. Tags generally represent smaller communities because large communities usually have sub groups such as clans.
There are lots of different communities throughout the online world. Gaming communities vary from a few friends who play together to hundreds of thousands of people (such as MLG). The community's goal or subject also varies from vary broad acceptance to conditional entry for example players who mod a specific game. Some gaming communities are purely online while others organise frequent meetings of members usually in the form of LANs. The size of communities often restricts them to online play however hundreds or even thousands of people have gathered for meetings.
Gaming communities will almost without exception have forums where anything from tactics to the best gamers in that community to off topic chat. Often the forum regulars do not play the game or games in question, they just enjoy the sense of community created by it.
