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You hit the nail right on the head Garvey. I joined the GTPL crew on gta since I thought it'd be a nice way to meet some fellow GTP members, many of which I had not had the chance to play GT5/6 with and just generally goof around and have a laugh or two but it doesn't seem like that's the case. I don't post on this thread often (Heck even this forum as a whole due to my diminishing faith in the GT franchise and community but that's a story for another day) but the clique concept is definetly present. I've noticed certain groups of people are always together in rooms and they'll all tend to leave at the same time. It also seems like a lot of people in the crew aren't really keen on talking to other crew members which, I'll admit, even I'm guilty of. I think the crew events, like the road trips and playlist really brought the crew together and made us get to know each other which is why I joined.While we do have a relatively large crew given we aren't a GTA-specific community, that crew is often divided into several sub groups, or cliques if you want to use that term. I think that perhaps that may be why there is sometime confusion regarding etiquette playing with crew members as each group tends to behave rather differently and other than the rare organised crew session they don't often interact or play together much. Many folks do not have, or do not use headsets which can make it difficult to complete heists efficiently, and there is often very little communication even in crew sessions. Even some of the 'crew' events are organised in private sessions and that may be partly because of the above differences in behaviour. I also tend to think that many folks wouldn't be comfortable asking for assistance from crew members outside their familiar group, and many don't want to bother/burden others. In summary, we are a large crew but I see that crew more as a collection of largely segregated sub-groups rather than one whole community.
P.S. No love lost to this crew and certainly no bad vibes towards @Katiegen @Jaghee and all the other members keeping this boat up and running. That's just some stuff I noticed and started ranting on
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