Is this really how they react to girls on XBOX live? (NSFW language)

[Dr. Dice Lord]

Ahh... this is why I prefer the PC. Sure, we all go "OH MY GOD ITS A LADY!" but we're joking about it 95% of the time. There's none of this immature/harassing brony bullsh*t the TF2 nemu's servers. Long-live nemu!

Also, I hope all these men die in fires.

 

[Fappy]

Objective complete.

Nice one Freechoice D: we were going to see the Squidbear and everything! *tosses fake (badly grown) moustache to the floor and storms out*

Pick your mustache back up lass! WE WILL MAKE IT TO MONSTER ISLAND AND THERE IS NOTHING A SILLY GUPPY CAN DO TO STOP US! Squidbear is so close to being mine.

AND THEY SAID I WAS CRAZY! HA!

 

[NotSoLoneWanderer]

When a girl enters my lobby and talks I take it as an oddity but don't treat her any differently...unless she's beating me on the other team. I always try to stay in a comfortable 1st-3rd place in a lobby without trying too hard but for some reason they just make me want to play better. To impress them? I don't think so but I wouldn't rule it out subconsciously.

 

[guitarsniper]

Thing that I've encountered playing COD on PC
other person: "Host leave you fucking fag"
me: "as someone who is actually bisexual, I would just like to say that I would have left, had you used some kind of polite language. Possibly a please. As is, no, I won't leave, and I'll hope against hope that this is a lesson to you."

 

[Thoric485]

People on PC rarely use mics outside of organized play.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

One thing that bothers me is that I feel like if the guys know I'm a girl I have to do really really well in the game or they will kick me off the team.

 

[ClockworkPenguin]

I play racing online a lot (TM Nations) and it actually surprising how little trolling goes on, compared with COD for example. People even tend to offer encouragement and stuff. I don't know whether its cos its on PC, or just because it doesn't release the same aggression as shooting people in the face, but they generally seem more polite.

Saying that, there was one occasion i was playing with my sister, and some guy started to hit on her. It was piss funny watching him back-peddle as he found out that me, my dad, and my sister's boyfriend where all playing on that server as well.

 

[Snotnarok]

And xbox live users say that's the minority of people who are rude. As far as I could tell when I owned a non redringed 360 that's ALL that populated XBL, all loud mouth hooting dickholes who wouldn't revive you in Gears and could only yell "******" and "******" and when they were creative "niggerfaggot"

 

[moh21]

I used to have a female friend on xbox live but then she took a pregnancy to the life.
True Story.

 

[Jiffex]

Well taking away all the gender specific ones, I think that's just most people who play CoD. I think Yahtzee put it best saying "Exactly the kind of gamer the rest of us dissociate ourselves from when the mainstream media finds out about you"

 

[blaqknoise]

"I'm just saying you kinda sound kinda like, you probably like the dick"

I lost it there. I can't even breathe

 

[moh21]

Back on the topic of 8 year olds on xbox live that just learned to swear, I have a tried and true method for dealing with idiots on xbox live. Whenever I join a game of CoD, mute every player except friends, that way you can tell if you have played with them before.

 

[Iron Criterion]

I often wonder if online gaming (and the internet in general) would be better if people were, somehow, forced to use their real-life identity as their gamertag, therefore everything could be traced back to you. Remove the anonymity and they'd be scared little cowards I imagine.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

OMG!!1! Wen a gurrl cums on da gamE n I iz playin wit da crew i iz all like dat iz da best ting eva!! I wanna shag em so i flirt like. i say dey have da best titties and nockas and dat i wanna motaboat dem coz dat iz wat da gurrls like ta heer...[footnote][sub]Well, that is the only thing I can imagine that is going through their mind when they say shit like that... seriously!

Then again, I also get quite excited if I hear a girls voice on live... it tends to mean that the conversation level may turn up a notch, to a point where I may actually turn my mike on and join in![/sub][/footnote]

 

[Roroshi14]

People are dumb, girls play games, guys are dicks. These are facts im ashamed for our culture as a whole, but its a step we have to take. Remember women sports and how it took them a long time to be recognized as equal competitors? Or in acting when all female roles were played by men. I think its good girls are playing games, means more money for the company, bigger numbers and more importantly more games will be made.

The other night me and my buddy where playing Kill Confirm and a girl got on and was playing a few rounds with us, she was good. Real good. And all the guys were making fun of her, pestering her, you know typical dumb shit, and me and my friend actually had to step up and say ya she is a girl, but she'll kick your ass. Now we only stepped up cuz she didnt have a mic, and we seem to be the only people around who knows that girls are just people too. but she stuck around and joined our party and that night i won more games than ever.

 

[-Samurai-]

People on PC rarely use mics outside of organized play.

I think that has more to do with programs like Teamspeak and Ventrilo. They give you the option of passwording your voice chats and keeping unwanted people out. So, they're using them, just not in a way that anyone outside the program will hear them.

OT: Some of the Youtube comments are kinda correct. You don't make names like "XxIm_a_gurlxX" with a clan tag of [Gurl] or [LADY] if you don't want attention.

If you've ever played anything online, you know what you're getting yourself into when you make a name like that, and have no-one to blame but yourself when you get harassed by people you can mute with the press of a button.

Sure, they shouldn't be acting like that to begin with, but that part is out of your control. Use the options you have available to you, and don't ***** when you get harassed in an online game, because you're certainly not the only one putting up with people like that.

OT: Who gives a fuck about the chick, those folks were tubing in Search. Noobs.

This guy gets it.

And on another note; Who the fuck goes into a game on their own with their mic on? No one wants to talk to you. Turn your shit off.

 

[Bloodtrozorx]

Sadly that is an accurate portrayal of XBL. Back before the Party Chat it was every other game of Halo 3, "GTFO Whore" "Get back to the kitchen" it of course still happens but the party chat system has helped. Douche bags be ruining my xbl.

 

[Kahunaburger]

OT: Some of the Youtube comments are kinda correct. You don't make names like "XxIm_a_gurlxX" with a clan tag of [Gurl] or [LADY] if you don't want attention.

Wait, so it's only okay to have a gendered username or clan tag as long as it's a male gendered name or clan tag? If I play as xXx_Frodo_Teabaggins_xXx am I looking for attention?

 

[-Samurai-]

OT: Some of the Youtube comments are kinda correct. You don't make names like "XxIm_a_gurlxX" with a clan tag of [Gurl] or [LADY] if you don't want attention.

Wait, so it's only okay to have a gendered username or clan tag as long as it's a male gendered name or clan tag? If I play as xXx_Frodo_Teabaggins_xXx am I looking for attention?

I really don't want to be "that guy", but if you're just gonna read part of the post, and just disregard the rest, don't respond. Especially if you're just gonna take what you want out of the little bit you did read and twist it into something to get into an argument for nothing other than the sake or arguing.

Where you got the crap you came up with is beyond me. At no point did I ever say anything remotely close to that retarded thing you came up with.

Seriously?

Oh, and for a bit of afterthought; How many males do you see announcing their genders in their name or clan tag?

[small]I had to do a few edits after replying, because I just couldn't stress enough how utterly ridiculous it was that you got that out of what you read.[/small]

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

OT: Some of the Youtube comments are kinda correct. You don't make names like "XxIm_a_gurlxX" with a clan tag of [Gurl] or [LADY] if you don't want attention.

Wait, so it's only okay to have a gendered username or clan tag as long as it's a male gendered name or clan tag? If I play as xXx_Frodo_Teabaggins_xXx am I looking for attention?

I really don't want to be "that guy", but if you're just gonna read part of the post, and just disregard the rest, don't respond.

Oh, and for a bit of afterthought; How many males do you see announcing their genders in their name or clan tag?

Why should we have to change it?

We should be able to call ourselves what we want.

The fact is women aren't thinking about possible verbal assault when they make their username. They pick what they like the sound of just like you.

It's like clothing we don't wear clothes for men we wear what we think looks nice but a lot of guy think we are 'asking for it'

and that's basically what this whole chain of thought comes down to isn't it.

'She was wearing a short skirt so she was asking for it.'

'She is using a feminine username because she is asking for attention.'