Puzzles and Dragons (PAD) does not have a very big community unlike other games like League of Legends because it is not that popular and the game does not necessarily need a community or friends to play. But this doesn’t mean that our communities are drab and boring either. One of the biggest places online that PAD players convene and discuss the game is on the Discord server (which is open to everybody).
In the PAD community, the demographic is very wide from middle schoolers all the way to working middle-aged adults with outliers here and there. This is a rough estimate as since this game came out around 10 years ago, high school and college students who were very into this game would be in their late twenties to early thirties now. Another way to see the age group is by looking at the content creators on Youtube and working off of their general age range. But the most useful way to see what kinds of people actually play this game is by looking at how they interact with each other on Discord. Looking at their profiles and seeing how they message each other and what language they use. The race demographic for Puzzles and Dragons also seems to mostly be Asian and a portion is white but those are the two main biggest groups in NA servers.
There are many different channels and each one has a different reason for discussion and participation. Usually, people seek help and ask questions in the channels and forums and other community members in turn answer them. This discord community mainly serves to help organize and allocate questions and answers to those types of questions together. For example, there is currently a dungeon that when cleared will grant the player an additional tag they can add their name to show that they cleared that hard dungeon.
The main common goal for this community and this game is to be able to construct a very strong team and improve at comboing (matching orbs) so that one can beat the newest and hardest levels/dungeons. There aren’t any specific beliefs or values but for both the Reddit community and Discord community, being respectful is the most important one out of all of them. PAD players are almost always extremely nice and helpful, unlike some online multiplayer games that are popular right now like Valorant where toxicity runs rampant. Here I have included a Youtube video that shows a snippet of just how bad it can get. PAD communities are very welcoming and that is very helpful for new players as they come into channels with a bunch of questions regarding terminology. Obviously, the game provides tutorial dungeons or floors to get new players familiarized with some of the abbreviations and such.
There are resources like google docs that people have made in the past that have a list of all the abbreviations and common sayings related to PAD that beginners can look through. They can also just toss their questions into a channel and people will respond to them really quickly as well. At this point, I do feel like I’m going in circles stressing the same point over and over again but the community really is one of the nicest ones I’ve ever been in and I am proud to share it. But I’ll see you guys next time. Toodles!
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