Poll: Things that ruin online play

[DocBot]

Little kids may be bad, but when you have a squad-based game and no one wants to play together. Or, everyone runs off and be the sniper, it makes the whole thing die out. This is why I'm reluctant to play MAG anymore. Because when I did play it I had two different experiences. The first experience was me playing with my clanmates and we won 9:10 game es because we stuck together, all went after the same target and seemed to win. The second were the random join games, and these were spawn and scatter situation that the win ratio went into something like 5:10 to put it nicely probably lower come to think of it. Kids have an excuse...the rest of the game players don't.

 

[Thaius]

People taking it too seriously.

It's a cunting game, it is meant to entertain you, if you're acting like you're actually fighting the zombie hordes/terrorists/Japanese then you should just go and join the army!

I couldn't care less if I win or not, as long as I had fun and everyone else had fun too.

Problem being, some people take it seriously like someone who really liked football would take it seriously. Some people actually care about honest competition rather than having a simple desire to have fun. Not to say you're wrong, but as someone who looks at games as a serious competitive sport, if you will, it's really annoying to play with people who are just screwing around. I play to win: there's nothing wrong with that, but it does get annoying when not-as-serious people get in the way of that goal.

OT: I voted stupid teammates. They're supposed to watch your back and help you win: watching them screw around with no way to talk to them (since most don't have mics) is just irritating. Or the teammates that just rush off to do their own thing and get owned 'cause they're not a team player. That's why I usually try to get a full party when I play Gears of War 2.

 

[UmbralRaptor]

Other people.

This. Yes, I'm aware of the irony.

 

[giga524]

Damn 10 year olds, With there annoying voices. Not to mention I HATE children.

 

[thefire]

I said glitches, but little kids and stupid team mates come really close.

Also, lag kills a game, but that's not deliberately caused by others.. usually....

Its funny but in TF2 im sure its easier to snipe with about 300 lag. In all other games i agree with you though.

 

[Jiggabyte]

Glitchers piss me off because it's totally messing up everyone else's game for their own amusement/selfish EXP-hoarding/etc.
Campers are predictable, so they're easy to kill when you play long enough. Thermal is a legitimate strategy. Dual weapons are far less accurate. "Quick snipers"... are just good players, aren't they?
The rest I sort of agree with, I guess. I hate when people try only to get kills in objective games where you will have to surrender kills and deaths for the team effort.

 

[ldbmikey86]

Where is the option: Trends that become things you HAVE to do [in order to be successful]according to the majority, otherwise "you're doing it wrong" (AKA Flavor of the Month/Week/Patch).

 

[iLikeHippos]

Little kids. Hate'm fucks.

Would be fun if they could put a strict PEGI on the xbox live cards.
No more small, squeaky voices until they hit the accounted age! GOOD TIMES! HA-HA!

 

[Hurr Durr Derp]

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I can take pretty much anything, but when I'm playing against some immature fuck who won't stop whining about how unfair this game is and shit, I either go out of my way to ruin the bastard's game or take the high road and ragequit.

BAWWW YOU'RE USING AN UNBALANCED WEAPON/CHARACTER/STRATEGY
BAWWW YOU'RE SPAMMING THE SAME COMBO OVER AND OVER
BAWWW YOU'RE A CAMPER
BAWWW YOU'RE CHEAP
BAWWW YOU'RE A RUSHER
BAWWW THE GAME GLITCHED
BAWWW I'M ONLY LOSING BECAUSE OF LAG
BAWWW I'M A 12-YEAR OLD RETARD WHO'D RATHER SPEND THE REST OF THE MATCH CALLING YOU NAMES THAN ACCEPT THAT I FUCKING SUCK AT THE GAME

SHUT THE FUCK UP OR GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE GAME

 

[WakeTheDead1]

Little kids. Hate'm fucks.

Would be fun if they could put a strict PEGI on the xbox live cards.
No more small, squeaky voices until they hit the accounted age! GOOD TIMES! HA-HA!

although that would be cool, i work in a shop and we dont have to ID for pegi stuff because its only a recommendation not a restriction, BBFC stuff we have to ID however, thats how it works in England anyway i dunno about elsewhere.


Also snipers annoy me in games, for no other reason than the glamour of it all - ooh you have Sniper in your online ID or gamertag, so does every other kid get over it.

they should re-release Goldeneye 64 as a downloadable and add online multiplayer, that had the best multiplayer mode ever!

 

[LogieBear]

By the way you have forgotten to mention MUSIC THROUGH A CRAPPY MIC!!!!
Omfg that pisses me off, it's sounds terrible, and usually it's a kid thats doing it so it the musics terrible in the first place!

 

[Eleima]

Human beings.
Seriously, remove human beings and replace them with some sort of autonomous AI entities and you can do great things with online games, like devising experiences specifically targeted at each and every player who engages in the game.

Congratulations! You have defeated the purpose! You gain 1000 XP and level up! (Meaning that it wouldn't be an online multiplayer game in that case)
Seriously though, I couldn't agree more. Some people take it too seriously, sometimes you have annoying little kids ('nuff said)... This is one of the main reasons why I don't play online multiplayer games. I'll stick to my LAN parties with my friends, thank you very much.

 

[Gincairn]

I'd go with the little kids argument, only because of a bad experience recently with a couple on my team in BFBC2.

Moreover, I'd also like to add those people who confuse sniping with camping, thankfully it's not something that popped up too recently, but back in games like MGO when - as a sniper - you find a good place to shoot from, go prone and start the sniping, shortly after you get kicked for camping because you haven't moved for a few minutes.

Last time I checked, a good sniper will stay in one place for DAYS without even firing a single shot.

It used to ruin games for me because i'd be too busy defending the role of a sniper against people whining about a sniper camping.

 

[DarkDain]

These are all FPS, you left out strategy game cheese moves. like rushing. Also, thermal scopes? How are those like auto aim ._. i was going to say other people in general. Camping mostly, its just less fun, but people will do it to have a good score, they are just grinding exp like a mmo when they do that. Score > fun.

 

[Dys]

Out of game leveling (things like perks/abilities or extra weapons) or poor (all) matchmaking (for some reason I get massive lag to games hosted across entire continents or oceans).

 

[LeonLethality]

zombie hordes ... just go and join the army!

I didn't know you get to fight zombie hordes in the army! Sign me up

OT: People who play unfairly and people who take it too seriously.