Are you a moral or immoral player online?

[ZehMadScientist]

The way you say it, I guess I'm am more of an immoral player. In team games I usually never stick to the group and go the opposite way my team is moving towards.

Then again, I wont get angry when someone reaches the sniper before me; you get there first, you get the weapon. A very simple rule. To make a long story short, everything I do in an online game is 90% of the time solely for my own benefit. (This depends on the game type of course)

 

[BlueMage]

I play Space Marine - it specifically encourages you to a) hunt down the bugger that just lascannon'd your arse from half way across the map and b) do it five times or more in any given match.

That said, most folks who play are pretty good about it. I'll be the first to compliment a good shot or kill, especially if I'd done my darnedest to get the shit out of the way. That sort of attitude tends to generate the same in others.

Suicide by grenade is a perfectly reasonable thing to do if you've braced and some damn Raptor drops on you from behind. Kill denial or at least take the bugger with you >:C

 

[pspman45]

when I'm being a Jungler in League of Legends, I try to be a real bro
Hey Fiddles, I'll gank (ambush) top and then we're gettin you blue buff (helps spellcasters

hey Ashe, sorry bout the whole Solo-lane thing
here is a free Red Buff (helps ranged Carries)

Hey Jax, you're not busy, lets go get Dragon! (gives everyone on the team free money)

if I gank the lane with our solo, I let them have the kill.

Lee Sin is my man!
best team player

 

[JimmyC99]

I tend toward being a nice, guy especially in the more newbie zones, this does kinda change somewhat in the lawless PvP centric zones some games have. (eg low sec and 0.0 space in eve-online) where i follow the rule NBSI (Not Blue (an ally) Shoot It) everyone is a target no matter who or what your in.

 

[Infernai]

I might sometimes be a bit of a dick to some people if they're a dick to me, but i won't team-kill on purpose. Why? That's just counter-productive and it basically just makes you out to be a total asshat.

I freaking hate team-killers.

 

[Magicmad5511]

I only attack the enemy. I never betray. I don't camp. I don't spawn kill.
I just play so I'd say that I'm a morally good player overall.

I will be vengeful though if someone breaks these moral rules.
I will actively seek out campers.
I'll boot betrayers.
If a guy teabags me they are going down.

Also I used my morals against a guy once. Everyone had quit apart from me and one other guy in Halo Reach game of Snipers. He then started to betray me, most probably to get booted. I just kept forgiving him to force him to stay in the game. I wasn't gonna face 4 enemies at once alone.
I'm evil in that way.

Main reason I'm moral. I want to be a higher sense of honor and dignity than the other players. I also don't find those "dirty tactics" fun. Camping is boring to me and spawn killing removes all challenge. I've also been on the other side and it feels annoying.

 

[Lunar Templar]

not really though about it, ALL of my online multiplayer (for shooters) is ether
Space Marine or Transformers war for cybertron.

but i like to THINK i am, the hyper aggressive Assault marine i tend to be

 

[Xanadu84]

I play morally but there is a difference between playing moral and eliminating the immersion in the suspension of disbelief because you perceive some useful strategy as cheap. Ill let teammates get a certain item if its beneficial to the team, and Ill switch to a needed class or role even if its not my cup of tea. But unless a server has specific and well defined rules about what constitutes a disallowed spawn kill, spawn killing is a part of the game and the other team should not have allowed me to use that strategy against them in the first place, and camping is just an emergent strategy that no one has any real reason to complain about. Sometimes, certain strategies arn't very effective strategies, in which case, "Immoral" Strategies are really just lack of experience, while other strategies that work like Noob Tubeing are just a matter of playing the game as it is and trying to beat the other team by any means necessary within the intended purpose of the rules of the game. So yes, I play morally. But I don't play stupid. Unless I am stupid within the confines of the game, but I will try to learn.

 

[geK0]

I would attack alliance player unprovoked in WOW, but I would avoid corpse camping. Is that chivalrous?

I refuse to glitch games to win, and will usually quit if somebody excessively glitches. I try to avoid abusing faulty mechanics (like spawning). I avoid using things that seem unbalanced. Other than that I'm quite ruthless.

Also, I resent being bitched at for camping in COD! It's a legit strategy and I find it a lot more enjoyable than running around with dual shotties like an idiot.

 

[StriderShinryu]

I don't go out of my way to be a douche, but I do play to win. I'll never fight my own team for a weapon or vehicle, especially if I know they'll be better at using it than I will, but when it comes to the other team/player.. yeah, the point of the game is to win.

 

[Dreiko_v1legacy]

I don't play shooting games online so I feel my contribution to this topic is sorta irrelavant. Why is it that "online" has become synonymous with "shooter"? It's like there's no other type of game for people to play online and that the only way people behave badly is in doing things that can be done in shooting games.


I play fighting games online, those very Japanese 2D style ones, that's pretty much it for me as I'm more of an RPG fan. In those there is nothing cheap or "dirty" since they're balanced enough for that but you can still be immoral through your conduct and whatnot.


I generally like to be the mentoring type, always using a weaker character against someone with less experience than I have with my mains, though I don't like going easy on people and even if I consciously try to I still end up owning the other person, only with a few pauses in between.


I don't know exactly how this fits in this thread since no guns or teams or microphones exist in the whole mix and yet it's still "online", but there it is!

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

No I refuse to use imba weapons or mechanics unless it is do something like the Martyrdom challenge in CoD 4. I never spawn kill unless spawn killed first and for a certain time as spawn killing and camping are two of the dirtiest things in online gaming so I don't agree with the sentiment that all is fair in love and war as this is not love or war but a public game and not even a scrim. If winning is that important join a clan and play clan games.

I especially abhor imba builds in games like Guild Wars and have left and refused to do PvP with people for wanting to use such builds. No the argument it is in the game so I should be able to use it does not apply here as everything I have refused to use was balanced by devs so they obviously thought that it was not a fair tactic/build.

 

[kommando367]

I play competitive matchmaking (especially Killzone 3) with unrelenting fury and cheap tactics. If my enemies (who I will probably never see again) don't hate my guts, then I'm not doing my job properly as their enemy.

In co-op modes (and competitive with my friends), I support my team. I tend to grab weapons I'm not good with (like snipers) with to deliver to my teammates, guard objectives, and give support fire when needed.

 

[CthulhuMessiah]

I am very moral in games until it comes to something broken and overpowered. I ask myself this:

If I don't use it, will it make me invincible to people using it?

If the answer is yes, then I won't use it. If the answer is no, then I will use it.

 

[2xDouble]

I don't often play PvP, thanks to the incivility of it, but when I do, I do my best to be a good sport.

 

[spanielcheckers]

Recently, in a PVP game with permanent character death, I prevented a new player from shooting me to death by stopping the game and letting him know that I was a powerful individual and would destroy any chance he had at succeeding in the game if he didn't let me go. He happily obliged, and I won.

I didn't "cheat" at all. I simply played the game in a nonstandard way. I don't think that that's "immoral" at all. As lunncal said at the beginning of the thread, I won through ingenuity, not by exploiting flaws in the game or glitching. In fact, some games, like EVE, promote behavior that you might call "non-chivalrous".

 

[Just_A_Glitch]

I am moral until somebody personally insults me or a friend I am playing with.

Example: I play a lot of MvC3 online, and no matter how cheaply or annoyingly somebody else plays, I will not say anything to them over the mic, or send them a nasty message afterwards (hell, I send people good game messages all the time). However, if they send me a message, I have been known to troll back, mostly with smiley-faces.

So moral until provoked, and even then, I don't get bad. I don't swear, or use any other sort of vulgar language. I like to think I'm above that.

 

[Michael Hirst]

Moral definitely, to the point where if there's something broken that lots of people use/exploit I intentionally hold myself away from it and play normally as a means to prove more to myself but also the other players that skill wins the day.

One thing that comes to mind is Magic in Demons Souls, its fairly well known that a good mage build makes the game damn easy but can also be very effective against melee players you invade. I personally stick to melee classes, thats how the game feels best to me, like it was how the devs wanted it to be played but had to add magic on. The result is that when I outwit a long range magic type into fighting me in the wrong place I feel a lot more accomplished than if I had simply used the easy magic option against him/her