Yes, some people do.
"Fucking casuals."
"Stupid noobs."
There are a lot of players who dislike other players for being newer to a game,less dedicated to the hobby, or simply less skilled.
That's a completely different point to being annoyed at easy games, or being annoyed at homogenisation, etc. Some people mix the two, conflating the audience with the problem. It isn't. If publishers aren't financing, or devs aren't making, the games that you want, that's on them. Not the audience who wants to buy something different. It's not the casuals and new players(Which we all were once), who are to blame. It's the people making the games. They're to blame. Genocidicles: If there was a time-warped American put into LOTR? You'd blame TOLKEIN. Not the audience. The audience is the reason he did it, but the audience simply admires his work. They're FANS. L0dest0ne: Really? Because if I'm not mistaken, we've had some pretty damn awesome games of late, and they're not getting worse off. They're certainly aiming towards a less hardcore market, sure. That's not the casuals fault, and indeed, since their aim is to consume the media you enjoy and become *gasp* like us, we should be criticising those who would simplify games to appeal to the wider audience, many of whom were interested with it as it was, not the audience. These people are designing by comittee and focus group testing. They're bad for all of us.
Also, our hobby in online spaces does tend to have an unfortunate attitude of misogyny (Along with other things). I typically play online multiplayer a lot, my most played games recently have probably been Killing Floor and Counter Strike: GO, and most players go crazy as soon as they hear a female on mike. It's really disturbing, and more than a little aggravating to me. I'm a straight guy. I like girls, and you know what? I'd like it if girls were interested in the video games (Yes. I just made my argument from an entirely selfish voice. And there's a good reason for that. These people are jerks, and jerks act in self interest. You're not going to convince them to "Treat others as you'd like to be treated"). And I really don't like it when stupid jackasses who spend their spare time calling each other virgins over the results of an FPS decide to attack women simply for their gender, and driving them out of the servers. I've got female friends who enjoy games, some from real life, some from gaming clans. And they're definitely in the minority of some areas. For instance, the gaming clan membership is predominantly male (No exclusion, we just have less women interested, I'm not sure if it's the context, or the recruiting pool), and less women communicating on microphone in game. Now, whether women are playing and are silent, or are simply avoiding public servers, it's irrelevant. Jackasses are making a varied community impossible, and excluding half the gender over their preschool hangups on cooties. I find it impossibly moronic that these people would like girls to like them, making sexual activity a status symbol, and yet would actively work against women being interested in them long term.
I think we need to work on who we exclude. We should be excluding the xBox live kids with their inane obscenities. We should exclude the racists, misogynists, and homophobes. We should clean house, and make them the minority in our communities. Because while we let them do it, they become more and more the prominent feature of those spaces.
Phew. That became a massive tangential rant.
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