Poll: Why So Serious?

[Relgaro]

This is basically what i think of todays multiplayer gaming, and how it has suddenly become much to serious and almost as competative as most worldwide sports... next thing we will know is that multiplayer gaming will become an olympic event.

I myself love multiplayer games such as COD4 and Halo 3 but seem to disband from public games and join in with my friends... who dont take multiplayer gaming to competative extremes.

I just wanted to know what you honestly think, wether you are a serious multiplayer gamer or if you also think that multiplayer has become to serious.

 

[Theo Samaritan]

The pencil trick.

I don't think multiplayer is going too serious. It just depends on who you are playing with. You can always tell who is competitive when playing something like TF2 however, as they are always the ones who are vocal when they loose

 

[Reaperman Wompa]

Little man Syndrome.

People overcompensate by winning at online games to make up for real life faults.

Very few of the serious online gamers are naturally serious people, just underachievers.

 

[Lord Krunk]

No, but the prices have.

 

[Eyclonus]

Yes, the liberty act at as they want in games, makes people more willing to be jerks and derive pleasure no longer from saving hostages, but t-bagging people, knowing fully that this enrages the person, and yet the offender will only rarely feel any form of consequence for there actions.

 

[Fraught]

@Lord Krunk: Amen to that, too.

Anyway, I guess I have been extremely lucky, because I haven't heard much of ultra-competitive players. In TF2 there are usually foreign people who talk in their own language for the whole time in the lobby, and get on everyone's nerves, but I then usually plug in the headset, and leave the headset on the ground. And I have never T-Bagged a person. I don't get the point of it. I think they're trying to provoke you to play better or something, but that's only my opinion. And yes, they're probably miserable people who jubilate when they win.

 

[Humanfishboy]

I don't meet many ultra-competitive players on FPSs like COD or Halo. But I'll tell you what does have the worst online community ever - The Battlegrounds on World of Warcraft. Seriously, the guys there on BG chat aren't happy unless their sentences contain "ffs" "n00b" "l2p" "lol u all suck" at least once.
I never play BGs without a friend these days, otherwise it's just too depressing. To think there are people out there who get that worked up over nothing.

 

[NeedAUserName]

I don't meet many ultra-competitive players on FPSs like COD or Halo. But I'll tell you what does have the worst online community ever - The Battlegrounds on World of Warcraft. Seriously, the guys there on BG chat aren't happy unless their sentences contain "ffs" "n00b" "l2p" "lol u all suck" at least once.
I never play BGs without a friend these days, otherwise it's just too depressing. To think there are people out there who get that worked up over nothing.

Yh I totally agree almost everyone I play with on FPS multiplayers is really laid back, but if you 3 levels under max lvl for BG in WoW everyone hates you, it gets really old, really depressing and really annoying.(Although admittedly someone a lower lvl once complained at there being so many "n00bs" and when I pointed this out he said "so I can kill lvl 29s"(him being 21) to which everyone had a good laugh)

 

[tooktook]

This is crap. Don't use the line from the Dark Knight just to get people to read this. Sorry to be so anal but it's very irritating when people rip off great things for nothing.

 

[XT]

well, ive played FPS's competitively for about 2 years now. The fact that it's "serious business" makes it easy to trip up your competition with words.

call someone a Pubstar, scrub, baddie, etc. little things like that will make some dudes go batshit.

also, epic use of the knife with "why. so. SERIOUS?!" bound to a macro key.

that kind of thing is why in matches only team captains are allowed to type in all-chat.

 

[CatcherJJ]

While I certainly like to be competitive while playing a game like COD4, I try not to take it to extremes. One of my best friends, however, is becoming impossible to play with on account of how much bitching he does. Say we get an awful spawn during a game of headquarters, he'll start ranting on how this is the biggest bullshit he's ever seen in his life and he doesn't understand why the game would do this. If he gets killed by an M16, any LMG, a noobtube, or any gun he considers "nooby," you'd think someone killed his family in front of him. Sometimes I just want to tell him to shut up it doesn't matter it's only a game. Online gaming is supposed to be competitive and serious but there is a fine line between being serious and being an annoying *****. Please excuse the expletives.

 

[Joeshie]

Today's "competitive" games such as GoW, CoD4, or Halo 3 have nothing on competitive games of yesteryear. CS, Quake, UT.....now those are competitive games.

 

[BallPtPenTheif]

@Humanfishboy

I definitely agree. WoW's battlegrounds community was the worse especially when they are using the battlegrounds for grinding. I hated it when my team was losing and everybody decides to just give up and sit on their hands so that the other team can win faster so we can get our points and leave.

It's a game and I came to play. Sitting around and respawning battleground for points is not my idea of a fun evening.

 

[mjhhiv]

This is crap. Don't use the line from the Dark Knight just to get people to read this. Sorry to be so anal but it's very irritating when people rip off great things for nothing.

Really? Is it that big of deal?

As to the question: The games aren't fun when people aren't competitive. There is a limit, however. Say a spy just sapped your sentry on TF2. The appropriate response is to tell everyone, so that you can fix the problem. If you're someone who is way to competitive, though, you'll probably just scream and yell, resulting in your team doing worse.

 

[Nargleblarg]

I personally don't play games multiplayer online besides the occasional mmorpg or playing gta 4 sandbox with friends. Some people I know find this weird except for the fact alot of people feel this way. Also I have a few friends who all they do constantly ever since the release have played halo 3 and cod 4 online. Even some skip all other content except multiplayer which I feel is a waste because games like halo 3 and cod 4 have great a great campaign and other features.

 

[Skalman]

I'd have to answer: No.

Not for me It hasn't, but i cannot answer for anyone else. Multiplayer's what you make it.
I generally prefer singleplayer anyway.

 

[mark_n_b]

The comment of single-player being ignored to multi-player holds true. Ironically, multi-player is not all that popular when put up next to single-player. I believe single player still takes approx. 80% of the market (don't quote me on that, it's a vague recollection I'm too lazy to get exact figures for a forum post)

Everyone just thinks it's really popular.

I play WoW from time to time and I enjoyed Lineage II because the character models were soooooo pretty. Makes me blush like an anime schoolgirl when I think about it.

But, a few playthroughs of CS in my youth and being called "**************" multiple times really turned me off multi-player. For me I don't think it is overall that multi-player is too serious. I think it is just a matter of these games being taken too seriously by the players and then layering on poor social outbursts on top of it. It makes the multi-player environment very uncomfortable for a lot of people.

 

[Stalington]

Ha! try playing Warrock, five minutes of playing it you will end up being accused of hacking 7 different times, by seven different people. Or you will end up being badly raped by a hacker and the admin doesnt know what to do about it.