Are the obnoxious kids online ruining the gaming community?
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I've certainly seen something of an increase recently and more and more I find myself reaching for the mute button in online games. I really need to find a group of friends to play games with so I don't have to put up with it.
These people put me off online gaming fully.
I am a casual gamer and on games like CoD, I'll admit I'm pretty damn poor at playing. Now if it wasn't for these kids screaming 'Oh my god this guy is a dipshit' I would probably just enjoy participating and perhaps even improve my skill.
But for now I'll stick to private games and single player...
I am a casual gamer and on games like CoD, I'll admit I'm pretty damn poor at playing. Now if it wasn't for these kids screaming 'Oh my god this guy is a dipshit' I would probably just enjoy participating and perhaps even improve my skill.
But for now I'll stick to private games and single player...
I've run into a lot of annoying little kids in my time on XBL, but I have met a couple who weren't that bad. Honestly, the squeakers who think they're mature just because they play CoD or know a few swear words (that they will sometimes use in between every other word) are more of a nuisance than anything else. The real problem comes from all the people between the age of 7 and 35 who think the way I just described with the addition of the guys who go around proclaiming how "MLG" they are. I'm being serious, I've run into guys who are just as bad as most of the squeakers. Heck, the older guys might even be worse because they should know better whereas the little kids are just copying the older guys.
What's ruining the 'community' is the institutionalised misogyny, homophobia and racism which is still casually practiced in more or less every facet of this internalised subculture.
And yeah, obnoxious kids online are part of the problem.
But only part of it.
And yeah, obnoxious kids online are part of the problem.
But only part of it.
I think it is wildly exagerated when it happens and it isnt nearly as vocal as it is. Young teenage boys are naturally aggresive and online when there isnt a consequence then it is to be expected they will act like dicks. I rarely encuonter it myself and im on xbox live all the time (halo, battlefield and the like) and im yet to encounter a case within even the same week. When I do get smack talk it seems to come from older gamers so im wondering if the stereotype isnt simply directed at kids because adults dont want to take the piss out of their own demographic. I think from the time ive spent, especially where it is supposed to be rampant, I can say that it is infact very rare to encounter obnoxious kids. Most of the time people dont speak as they are chatting with their friends in partys.
Plenty of those obnoxious "kids" are sadly quite adult as far as their age is concerned. It's not a new phenomenon.
But yeah, competitive multiplayer communities are freakin' terrible and a completely valid justification for any alien that happens to pass by to try and wipe us out.
But yeah, competitive multiplayer communities are freakin' terrible and a completely valid justification for any alien that happens to pass by to try and wipe us out.
To be fair you dont have to be a kid to be an asshole, I remember on my brief stint on xbox live hearing a grown man hurling bad (I grew up with the internet so I'm not just saying this lightly) and I mean really bad insults at a kid.
To which the kid just said "Dude I'm like 12, what the hell is wrong with you?" and everyone else with a mic started ripping on the douche until he left, then we had a grand evening of modern warfare.
Then again I mostly use pc's for my online gaming and not as many kids are playing online with them.
To which the kid just said "Dude I'm like 12, what the hell is wrong with you?" and everyone else with a mic started ripping on the douche until he left, then we had a grand evening of modern warfare.
Then again I mostly use pc's for my online gaming and not as many kids are playing online with them.
Maybe not the gaming community in general, but yeah, I guess certain ones are being ruined by them.
I think it's really the games that are simple, CoD and Halo FPSs stand out. All you do is aim and fire at whoever is not in your team, and occasionally there's an objective but most people tend to ignore it.
Me being a console gamer with a lot of FPSs, having at least one prepubescent child that screams when something doesn't go in his favor is almost always a sure-thing. But when it comes to a game where you need to use more than the minority of your brain, like Halo Wars I tend to not bump into someone who sleeps in a racecar bed.
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I think it's really the games that are simple, CoD and Halo FPSs stand out. All you do is aim and fire at whoever is not in your team, and occasionally there's an objective but most people tend to ignore it.
Me being a console gamer with a lot of FPSs, having at least one prepubescent child that screams when something doesn't go in his favor is almost always a sure-thing. But when it comes to a game where you need to use more than the minority of your brain, like Halo Wars I tend to not bump into someone who sleeps in a racecar bed.
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Ruining? Screeching idiots have been a staple of online gaming since 1995, and have existed at current rates since at least 1999, with the launch of Counter-Strike.
There is so much truth to this statement.ResonanceGames said:
Perhaps you just play with the wrong crowds, OP. Seek out older, less irritating players and your problems might disappear.
Ruining, as in just starting to? Nah, been that way for a while. Funny thing is, I love multi-player games, but in general only play a few that I've taken the time to be good at and found online friends who I get on with. There's a fair number of games, especially some of the indie ones, that don't have a particularly large community and are cheap besides: a combination that makes for the screaming kids whimpering (via text or voice).
Yeah, you can ignore, but that's like saying I should wear earplugs and grab a pizza at Chuck E Cheese. No thanks, I'll go eat somewhere where my friends and I can actually have a fun evening out.
Yeah, you can ignore, but that's like saying I should wear earplugs and grab a pizza at Chuck E Cheese. No thanks, I'll go eat somewhere where my friends and I can actually have a fun evening out.
All the time on Modern Warfare 3. For the Infection game, for a while, we had to go into Game Chat, and...well. It was the funniest thing. There were three of us at first, and we later joined up with a group of English guys from a nearby town, and so the six of us roamed about the Infection games, laughing at ourselves and giving a hearty welcome to anyone else who started speaking.
That was until this kid said "oh my god, will you posh twats shut up?"
This one kid managed to start off a chain of douchebags who we all heckled until they eventually left. Then next game came a guy who sounded older than us, and referred to the loudest of our group as a ******. He ended the game with us all muted, then left. Apparently my friend's graphic description of his attraction to the homophobe was...well...inappropriate. The rest of the lobby seemed to love it though.
That was until this kid said "oh my god, will you posh twats shut up?"
This one kid managed to start off a chain of douchebags who we all heckled until they eventually left. Then next game came a guy who sounded older than us, and referred to the loudest of our group as a ******. He ended the game with us all muted, then left. Apparently my friend's graphic description of his attraction to the homophobe was...well...inappropriate. The rest of the lobby seemed to love it though.
What good servers? All the ones you get are neckbeards yelling at you because you didn't choose the class they want you to then spam you when your team loses because its your fault, no matter what happened.TheRussian said:Uh, really? Don't cater for teamwork?kman123 said:
Join some good servers and you'll have all the teamwork you want.
And don't bother to complain about hats and updates, those are just the icing on the cake.
Except some of them don't want to play the game like we do. Maybe in some ideal game, where there's no teamwork, no friendly fire, and no way of griefing at all (have yet to see this game) can we just mute them and ignore them. Actually that game sounds kind of boring.TizzytheTormentor said:
In Killing Floor, Left 4 Dead, and every game with FF, though, some people just want to watch the world burn.