Pet Peeves in MMO's and Online Gaming.

[Scarim Coral]

I guess for me it is probably the competitive nature of PVP. Yeah like anyone else I had my fair share of being called of noob and etc and while it is true, so what? How do you expect me to not be a noob than to keep playing? In saying so the only reason why I played the pvp part of the game is the reward, not the actually fun teamwork part of it since at the moment I taking the rank farming pvp part in GW2 at the moment.

 

[ZippyDSMlee]

Not separating PVP and PVE stuff as so PVE is not nerfed to hell.

Generic mechanics that make you feel so useless and like just another drone in a cubicle.

The way they make even the most simplest of things take an hour when it should have taken 2 minutes.

Lack of customization(mixing power sets,making your own class,making your toon your way,ect,ect) and or making you pay out the ass for it. I do love me some Champions online lack of content and all but I hate the free to play side of it, I would not mind buying a few things for my characters if I did not have to pay the monthly to play my custom character.....

I can ignore the dumb and the rude even those who can not play so well I can not ignore stupid mechanics that punish you for basically playing the game(no FF11 did not scar me...no not one...*goes into fetal position and starts crying*).

Anyway I have a simple rule for MMOs these days if I can not make a customized character that has custom non class driven power sets that you can mix and match then I am better off not playing.

 

[Max_imus]

Grinding, if it's done right, can be quite enjoyable to me. It's like throwing hoops from the penalty line, you can do it without thinking and thus let your mind wander. Now, what I have major issues with are game mechanics that limit grinding, i.e. reputation dailies in MoP, or that godforsaken dilithium cap in Star Trek Online.
Also, as others have pointed out, out-of-the-blue friend or guild/fleet/clan invites without so much of a word? Immediate decline, however awesome your guild/fleet/clan might be.

 

[EmperorZinyak]

WoW: I hate DPS who go AFK during fights, or put as little effort into not dying as possible. I don't care if it's LFR, some of us get really annoyed at wiping because the DPS was asleep at the wheel during critical fights. One wipe during LFR tends to set back the morale and cause huge delays as we formulate new strategies and find new people to replace those who left.

DOTA: People who have bad attitudes. I don't care how good you are, players who flame, get salty or say things like "2 ez" when they win annoy me more than newbs.

TF2: I just have an irrational hate of people with outlandish hats, especially unusual hats. The art style of TF2 was totally butchered in my opinion, and I'm not getting over it.

 

[RaikuFA]

Online in general. Every time I've played a game online I have to deal with at least one neckbearded asswipe that throws a tantrum over me not playing the way they want me to play.

I wish online gaming in general would die off like the cancer it is. And the people that really get into it like those people that play in "esports"(which is a fucking joke in itself) or ones like I mentioned above could be locked away from the general populace where they can do no more harm.

 

[The White Hunter]

I also play FF14 like the above poster, and while on the whole the community is very nice, there are still a few bad apples in every bunch. The main ones I see are elitists who want to speedrun everything and blow up at the first mistake, or start trash talking and making snarky comments for no reason at all, or people who don't to basic courtesies like announce when you are going to go afk or don't give you a heal or help with a fight when you're about to die it's perfectly within their capabilities to do so.

The speedrun elitists piss me off no end. By all means try go fast and try big pulls, but if your healer can't cope then deal with it and dial it back.

When I run with my friends through places like Ampador Keep or Wanderers Palace Tizzy heals and I tank, and we utterly beast the damn place, provided we picked up a good pair of DPS and not 2 Monks (sorry, their AoE is abonimable and it doesn't work, any other combo is fine). But pug h ealers aren't always amazing, and pug tanks aren't always complete beasts, and you have to deal with that when you roll for roulettes and duty finder groups. There's no need to flip out and scream and shout if the pug healer can't heal you through pulling a third of the dungeon, just return to the start and go at a reasonable pace this time, perhaps discuss it with you group and see what went wrong and if you can give them some advice.

That said however, there is something on the other end of the spectrum that agitates me: People joining farm or clear groups who have no idea what they are doing. Do not join my Leviathan farm in the party finder, specifically labelled as "Farm, must avoid slams" and then fall off to the first slam, people will be rightfully annoyed in these situations. Likewise please don't jump in an Ex weekly clear group and proceed to kill the spiny plume, suckle titans delicious plumes, and run into the marked healer on ifrit. Intention for exp and clearing is usually made clear in the PF. The opposite is true, don't join my bloody Turn training and flip out when somebody dies. Just because you're uber leet hax have been clearing Turn 5 since day 0 doesn't mean bloody everyone has.

Otherwise generally being antisocial, angry with people, refusing advice, shouting at others and being unpleasant, whilst a fairly rare occurence, is an unpleasant one.

 

[The White Hunter]

I'm currently playing FF14 and I honestly have no complaints. Almost everyone I've met is nice, reasonable and fairly polite. They help out when needed, they don't burst into a rage if something goes wrong in a dungeon run, they inform the general chat regarding rare spawns and assist each other with quests even if there's not much in it for them. It's like playing with actual human beings...

I also play FF14 like the above poster, and while on the whole the community is very nice, there are still a few bad apples in every bunch. The main ones I see are elitists who want to speedrun everything and blow up at the first mistake, or start trash talking and making snarky comments for no reason at all, or people who don't to basic courtesies like announce when you are going to go afk or don't give you a heal or help with a fight when you're about to die it's perfectly within their capabilities to do so.

I also get peeved going into dungeons and seeing a person be horribly lazy with their class, like a Monk that doesn't even do combos or a Dragoon that only does the same three attacks over and over without regard to the 20+ other skills they could be utilizing to be much more efficient. But I guess that's not a huge deal.

In one of our failed Titan Extreme attempts we had a dragoon that would only True > Vorpal > Full.

No buffs. No DoT's. No weaving of jumps. I noticed because Disembowel didn't show up, one of our static guys popped a parse on him, he was doing less damage than our White Mage, and less than the main tank. Somewhere in the 70-90 region. Other DPS's were all busting 300, including our BLM.

The sad thing though is that Dragoon is pretty weak if you don't use everything you have on every fight. And even then perfect execution and timing of every buff, debuff dot and weave leaves you somewhere in the middle of the DPS pack. Monk's can get respectable damage by just throwing their combos and keeping dots up, and their penalty for missing a hitbox is minimal, bad Monk's are rare things.

 

[Sleepy Sol]

In one of our failed Titan Extreme attempts we had a dragoon that would only True > Vorpal > Full.

No buffs. No DoT's. No weaving of jumps. I noticed because Disembowel didn't show up, one of our static guys popped a parse on him, he was doing less damage than our White Mage, and less than the main tank. Somewhere in the 70-90 region. Other DPS's were all busting 300, including our BLM.

The sad thing though is that Dragoon is pretty weak if you don't use everything you have on every fight. And even then perfect execution and timing of every buff, debuff dot and weave leaves you somewhere in the middle of the DPS pack. Monk's can get respectable damage by just throwing their combos and keeping dots up, and their penalty for missing a hitbox is minimal, bad Monk's are rare things.

Yeah, I main Dragoon and sometimes I get a little self-conscious about the damage I'm doing. I'm in a static that just cleared Turn 8 of the Second Coil last night and I notice at times I tend to fall on the latter half of DPS ranks out of the whole party.

Granted, it might be because I was given a job that forces me to be away from the party and boss periodically, but I still feel bad when I fall below the Bard. At the very least I still have a pretty big purpose in boosting their damage, and they are a damn good bard, while I'm probably about as lazy as a "good" dragoon can be.

 

[The White Hunter]

In one of our failed Titan Extreme attempts we had a dragoon that would only True > Vorpal > Full.

No buffs. No DoT's. No weaving of jumps. I noticed because Disembowel didn't show up, one of our static guys popped a parse on him, he was doing less damage than our White Mage, and less than the main tank. Somewhere in the 70-90 region. Other DPS's were all busting 300, including our BLM.

The sad thing though is that Dragoon is pretty weak if you don't use everything you have on every fight. And even then perfect execution and timing of every buff, debuff dot and weave leaves you somewhere in the middle of the DPS pack. Monk's can get respectable damage by just throwing their combos and keeping dots up, and their penalty for missing a hitbox is minimal, bad Monk's are rare things.

Yeah, I main Dragoon and sometimes I get a little self-conscious about the damage I'm doing. I'm in a static that just cleared Turn 8 of the Second Coil last night and I notice at times I tend to fall on the latter half of DPS ranks out of the whole party.

Granted, it might be because I was given a job that forces me to be away from the party and boss periodically, but I still feel bad when I fall below the Bard. At the very least I still have a pretty big purpose in boosting their damage, and they are a damn good bard, while I'm probably about as lazy as a "good" dragoon can be.

I "main" BLM, but I feel quite redundant as our static group has another BLM that outgears me, so I'm considering a swap to Dragoon or Summoner, since I fill tank roles when my PLD is more useful or appropriate than staika's WAR, or for fights where my net gets me dead like Titan. Dragoon could use a buff I feel, reduce the penalty on blood for blood for example, since it's suicide a lot of the time, buff Disembowel and make jumps a bit faster to execute or let me cancel things quicker to weave them into a GCD rather than be sat waiting a second after one. I love Dragoon and I try damned hard to do the absolute maximum I can. Some fights you're just god tier for burst though, that Wavetooth on Levi? Keep BFB for him, Dragonfire over and rip him to shreds before the Monk even knows what happened. Seems in each field the devs have a favoured job, War > Pld, Monk > Goon, Smn > Blm (barring AoE, arguably), Whm > Sch. I'd love the explanation for why a Warrior in tanking stance can hit over 1000 on a crit Inner Beast but my Spirits in DPS stance can only crit maybe 700 if I'm lucky with fight or flight up and storms path on the target.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

My complaints come from 8 years of World of Warcraft, 1 year of Warframe and about 2 years of various other games:

1. Mob Taggers/Farmers. Now, I understand farming and grinding in MMOs. I really, really do - I have an achievement in WoW that required about a month of farming level 65 mobs - but it annoys me to no end the mindless farmers, the ones who run in and just AoE everything down without consideration for people questing in the area. Like, it's not hard to look out for someone doing a quest and not AoE-spamming every enemy so you alone get all the loot.

I thought they (WoW) fixed that to where if you damage it as long as you're not opposing factions you still get credit for the kill and loot. Or maybe it was just for World Bosses... I finished MoP and took some needed time off after Siege. next month is going to be awesome gearing up to fight Ragnaros again for one last Molten Core run...

They fixed that with World Bosses after too many instances of griefers tagging just before a Raid charged in, but for generic mobs it's first come, first served still. I plan on taking a couple weeks off when WoD's drops, mainly because I don't feel like competing with fifty different people for mob tags just to finish the starting quests.

You gonna stick around for the pre-launch event and the re-opening of Molten Core as a retuned for endgame (90) 40man? Get your corehound mount for killing the firelord one last time!!

 

[anthony87]

They fixed that with World Bosses after too many instances of griefers tagging just before a Raid charged in, but for generic mobs it's first come, first served still. I plan on taking a couple weeks off when WoD's drops, mainly because I don't feel like competing with fifty different people for mob tags just to finish the starting quests.

Well then you'll be happy to know that if you attack a quest mob that someone else has tagged you'll still get the progress for that quest.

At least that's how it was with elite mobs needed for a quest on the PTR. Not sure if it'll also apply to the basic "Kill 10 of X" mobs.

 

[CardinalPiggles]

My pet peeve for MMO's would be that you're expected to socialise with everyone and be everyones friend.

As for multiplayer games my biggest grief is that everyone is so much better than I am.

Yes I know I'm a horrible person.

 

[Rebel_Raven]

If there's one thing I immensely hate is an MMO screwing over my preferred class.

Screw you, EQOA for turning my mage into a glorified taxi, and bottlenecking the lycanthropy so densely that I simply couldn't attain it.

Screw you FFXI for screwing up Red Mage. Why the heck can't they use their iconic sword worth a damn? Frikking people shoving staves that cost millions on me. Thanks for Refresh making RDM a one trick pony.
RDM was my fav class since the first Final Fantasy. X( FFXI made them more of a shell.
Yeah, we were one of the few classes that could solo effectively, but I really hate standing back, and casting, and being stuck in one type of role.

I hate feeling weak in an MMORPGs. I hate not being able to play the way I want to, which is being versatile.

That's about it for now.

 

[CardinalPiggles]

I hate people who ping all the time in DOTA2, or people who ping without providing context. If you ping our jungle without saying anything, do you mean 'caution, don't go there' or do you mean 'go there'? We don't know buddy, help us out.

Also, I've had people report me for killstealing when I was playing the freaking hard carry. Here I was thinking that antimage grows really well with farm, but I'm sure getting brown boots on your jakiro is more important...

To be fair Jakiro is EXTREMELY slow, and against the right opponents will continuously feed the other team making the mid game more difficult for entire team.

Ok calling someone out for kill stealing is pretty fucking stupid for a Jakiro, but your entire team needs farm, not just the hard carry.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

You gonna stick around for the pre-launch event and the re-opening of Molten Core as a retuned for endgame (90) 40man? Get your corehound mount for killing the firelord one last time!!

Hell yeah I am, though it's open until the beginning of January, so a two week break won't cut into that too much. Besides, I'll probably still play the game, just avoid doing any WoD questing until everyone's moved on into later areas. Probably do Garrison stuff or solo Firelands, since they're giving high-level players a damage buff against older content (to make up for the stat squish).

Solo firelands, yay! Its the only raid in Cataclysm that my guild didn't run. Bunch of uncoordinated bastards lol... Still the revamp of 40man Molten Core should be interesting, despite being Raid Finder the mechanics of that raid is definitely going to be a challenge for newer players. I dread the Baron Geddon fight as well as clearing the Core Hound room before and after Lucifron.

 

[The Enquirer]

I'm heavily involved in DCUO's PvP and one of the most annoying things are people who simply go into a match and toss it immediately for the consolation prize. It's the most damned annoying thing.

Also an honorable mention from when I used to do PvE are people who need way over qualified groups to complete simple missions.

 

[LostCrusader]

One of my biggest pet peeves in MMO's is when someone I don't know sends me an invite without asking. I try not to be rude. If someone sends me an invite I just decline it. It's when they continue to spam invites is when I get annoyed. If I didn't want to help you the first time what makes you think I am going to help you the next six times you send me an invite.

It happened in Destiny last night. Someone sent me an invite and I declined it and they proceeded to send me four more invites after that. I reported the person and then I ended up blocking him/her. If you want my help or want me to team up for something just take the two seconds to send me a message first. Don't just invite me because that irks me.

I can't really get too annoyed with people sending out random invites in Destiny. Bungie didn't even bother to include any matchmaking or public chat to find groups for weekly, dailies, or the raid. So if you don't have enough friends online to go do a mission, just about the only way to find groups is sit in town and send out invites until you find some people.

OT: I think the main thing that bugs me in MMOs is when you group with people for a raid and they just expect that everyone is there to do a speed run for the 100th time in a row.

 

[Bat Vader]

One of my biggest pet peeves in MMO's is when someone I don't know sends me an invite without asking. I try not to be rude. If someone sends me an invite I just decline it. It's when they continue to spam invites is when I get annoyed. If I didn't want to help you the first time what makes you think I am going to help you the next six times you send me an invite.

It happened in Destiny last night. Someone sent me an invite and I declined it and they proceeded to send me four more invites after that. I reported the person and then I ended up blocking him/her. If you want my help or want me to team up for something just take the two seconds to send me a message first. Don't just invite me because that irks me.

I can't really get too annoyed with people sending out random invites in Destiny. Bungie didn't even bother to include any matchmaking or public chat to find groups for weekly, dailies, or the raid. So if you don't have enough friends online to go do a mission, just about the only way to find groups is sit in town and send out invites until you find some people.

OT: I think the main thing that bugs me in MMOs is when you group with people for a raid and they just expect that everyone is there to do a speed run for the 100th time in a row.

I just hate it when people spam invites. I agree not having matchmaking sucks but I think it is really annoying when someone spams invites to me when I declined their first one.