Poll: Does Anyone Actually Get Annoyed By Kids on XBL?

[JohnSmith]

The wonders of muting all the players on every game. Try it for one day and you will see the difference, an almost 100% reductions in:

• Death threats
  
  Angry Americans
  
  Annoying kinder
  
  Strong opinioned idiots
  
  Heavy breathers
  

and much more!

Also a 100% decrease in team work and satisfaction from playing team based games.

 

[Go Fighting In The War Room]

Only the ones where if they get a kill they brag for 60 seconds on how good they are, and start screaming as soon as you kill them.

 

[Silver Scribbler]

Arr, when they do be playin' shitey music, I do want to make them walk the plank!

 

[Flunk]

I don't ever use the voice chat on my 360 unless I'm playing with friends, why would I want to talk to these people?

 

[Dorian6]

Only the 12 year-olds who shout all the profanity they've ever heard on tv, in order to seem more grown up and mature. Hate those kids

 

[buckythefly]

I don't have much of a problem with them, but I do hate it in tactical shooters when they self-narrate everything their doing for instance an excerpt from a Call of Duty 4 Match.

"Okay, I'm in the garage, theirs a guy!"

"I SHOT HIM!"

"Hey, I'm jumping on a box, haha this is so awesome look everybody I'm jumping on a box!"

"AHHH NO FAIR HACKER HE SHOT ME"


Rinse Repeat for the whole match.

 

[GrinningManiac]

I have PSN, but I'm PC mostly (Yay! I get to be Bond!)

However, some kids on TF2 and even the DESCRIPTIONS of things said on XBL gets me riled

 

[Draco Kaiser]

I hate the kids on Xbox Live sometime. It annoys the hell out of me when they start accusing people of shit. Though it can be funny...sometimes.

 

[curty129]

Sometimes, the arguements are incredibly funny to listen to.

And on the few occasions I have encountered annoying people, I just mute them. Simple.

As Fat Man said. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes you just want to kick them in the crotch.

And as for the OP. The poll choice is a little.. Hm. Not sure of what word i could use.. Fat Man, i suppose you can tell me <<' But "I hate children. I hate life." Those two aren't mutual. At all.

Base philosophy of mine is, as long as the kid talks normally, knows his place and doesn't try to act too much like an arsehole - then he can play along as much as he likes. Otherwise, f**k the little shit.

.. xD That last couple of sentences sum up too "If he's acting like an arsehole. Fuck him." I know that's not your intention but hah!

 

[Slayer_2]

Why is it always blamed on kids? Most of the cocks I meet on Xbox Live are full-grown adults who can't take the fact that I'm whooping their stupid asses. I guess getting killed in front of your friends by a 17 year old kid is really embarrassing. I can't even begin to count the times I've been kicked from Gears matches because I killed the host...

 

[L3m0n_L1m3]

I don't mind them usually unless their voice is REALLY high pitched or they start trying to insult me.

Or when they think they're good because they sit in a corner with an LMG and spray everyone down with it, then when the game is over they say "Man, I am so good. We owned you noobs!"

 

[Doclector]

And once more I see a flame war coming... *hides in the shelters*

But, kids voices do annoy me a bit, but as long as they don't start trying to bad mouth me, then i'm cool with them.

*air raid sirens blare, small kids get under tables, and said kids all shout "ZOMG HAX!"*

I normally hate kids on XBL, because normally they are annoying little brats, but I don't instantly comdemn everyone below the age of 15.

They are at their most annoying on L4D, not halo. On halo they are score opportunities, on L4D, their only use is as some kind of bait.

 

[squid5580]

2 words MUTE BUTTON. Whether they are kids or adults if they are annoying you mute them and move on. If they aren't you don't. It is sad really. That we have the technology to have a realtime conversation with other people all over the world. And people whine and ***** because my god they found a few that they don't like. Frankly I would rather deal with a singing 10 yr old than any of these elitist dickholes any day of the week. At least with the 10 yr old there is hope that they will one day grow up. The same can't be said for the other.

 

[Booze Zombie]

I'm quite amused by these Americanised/American, homophobic, racist little shit stains trying to talk big.

It's like hearing a gnat yelling at the top of it's "voice".

 

[Therumancer]

Actually I think there are a lot of social issues with kids in video games. To be honest I think Linden Labs had sort of the right idea when they created a kiddie version of Second Life to keep kids away from the adult content and stuff (allegedly). I think there should be some kind of age filter on XBL and World Of Warcraft, pretty much making kids play with other kids on their own servers, and then having adult only servers.

My problem with kids has mostly been with fighting games however, and people reporting you for "poor sportsmanship" when you beat them, along with the general insults and "trash talking". Truthfully I think one of the problems with general access voicechat via things like XBL is that trash talking has gotten out of control. I've kind of felt that it was no big deal to begin with, but as time has gone on, it seems like it's become more of a chance to be hateful from the protection of a computer. There is nothing good natured about it, since your not likely to run into the same person again due to the sheer number of players. I suppose this isn't age specific, but a lot of it is.

I also feel that kids are incapable of the responsibilities inherant in adult level gaming. Oh sure, there have been plenty of kids playing WoW who are just fine. BUT given the realities of Homework, needing to go eat dinner with the family, and similar things I've oftentimes felt they really don't have any business being involved in WoW endgames.

See, it's a problem when your half thinking you should chew out parents about teaching their kids responsibility, because they call the kid away from the computer (leaving a bunch of people waiting, sometimes as many as 39 of them in old scholl WoW). On one level I think some things are more important than gaming, on the other it's still pretty F@cked up, and truth is I don't think a kid should be in an enviroment where they can make a committment that their age very well means they can't keep.

There have been a few situations when I've seriously wanted to throttle "mom and dad" or say something really nasty one way or another. The fact that I'm not exactly "right" there on many levels sort of illustrates the problem.

So basically when it comes to gaming over the internets, I think kids need to basically be relegated to their own servers and subsystems.

 

[Archaon6044]

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whatever way you swing it, i'm a 360/PC crossover

 

[Naeo]

That really depends. Sometimes, I want to kill them in person or just punch them in the jaw. That's usually the ones who are clearly 14-year-old white middle class but shout out "MOTHUFCUCKIN' N'S YOU GON' FUCKING DIE NOW" or who think they're "soooo gangsta".

Usually, though, it's groups of relatively mature people. I've met and played plenty of XBL kids on Halo 3 who are perfectly fine, but are clearly like 13. I know, I thought it was impossible too.

 

[Lenny Magic]

The wonders of muting all the players on every game. Try it for one day and you will see the difference, an almost 100% reductions in:

• Death threats
  
  Angry Americans
  
  Annoying kinder
  
  Strong opinioned idiots
  
  Heavy breathers
  

and much more!

Also a 100% decrease in team work and satisfaction from playing team based games.

80% at most... After all you are playing the same game as them aren't you?