It started with the release of Battlefield 2, a great little FPS made by DICE that is still played to this day, only not by the people that made it fun. Today it's only inhabited by jet bomb spammers and chopper pilots that can snipe through fog with missiles. On comes the Modern Warfare franchise, I joined in around MW2. For the first 3 weeks or so things went really well, until it happened...the grenade spam was bad enough, but to exploit glitches like bunnyhopping, quickscoping, care package glitch, akimbo 1887, the list really goes on. Turn over to today and the only thing that can be found on FPS as a whole is the noob-tubing, quickscoping schizophrenia that should never have existed. To top it off, anti-cheat software is utterly useless, in many cases (looking at you CoD) non-existent. Hacked matches are EVERYWHERE in many games, and it's lead to hacking and glitching. Even when a match is legit, must it be so horribly stacked that the team I'm on loses EVERY single time?
So be proud, people of the internet, for with the exception of the few, you have created a modern mentality that not only accepts but praises the idea of cheating. It's lead me to a personal (note: PERSONAL) decision. After 9 years of online FPS gaming, I will be boycotting and completely ignoring any multiplayer designed games. The only game I will be purchasing this year is Skyrim and that's it. To mingle in multiplayer games like Black Ops or Battlefield 3 will just leave me brain damaged, as obviously, according to the internet, I'm "not skilled enough" to keep up with this wave of glitching and stupidity that litters the online community. I don't expect anyone to clean up for one person, and I do not feel any enmity towards those that somehow find losing matches to cheaters fun.
Do I consider this a rant? Probably, because I know nobody cares about the decision of one man. The world isn't going to change simply because I think differently, nor will the world try and incorporate me for the same reason. For whatever reason I am compelled to write this, I suppose someone will read and realize there's more to games than t-bagging someone you just hit with a rocket launcher, or more to life than hacking the latest Call of Duty match. Or maybe I'm just ranting.
EDIT: I would think some people knew this already, but I've played WAY more than CoD/BF. I only used those two as an example.
Further EDIT: As per a general request I tried TF2, which I have now sprained my wrist from punching the side of my paneled wall (so thank God no holes) but yeah, thanks.
So be proud, people of the internet, for with the exception of the few, you have created a modern mentality that not only accepts but praises the idea of cheating. It's lead me to a personal (note: PERSONAL) decision. After 9 years of online FPS gaming, I will be boycotting and completely ignoring any multiplayer designed games. The only game I will be purchasing this year is Skyrim and that's it. To mingle in multiplayer games like Black Ops or Battlefield 3 will just leave me brain damaged, as obviously, according to the internet, I'm "not skilled enough" to keep up with this wave of glitching and stupidity that litters the online community. I don't expect anyone to clean up for one person, and I do not feel any enmity towards those that somehow find losing matches to cheaters fun.
Do I consider this a rant? Probably, because I know nobody cares about the decision of one man. The world isn't going to change simply because I think differently, nor will the world try and incorporate me for the same reason. For whatever reason I am compelled to write this, I suppose someone will read and realize there's more to games than t-bagging someone you just hit with a rocket launcher, or more to life than hacking the latest Call of Duty match. Or maybe I'm just ranting.
EDIT: I would think some people knew this already, but I've played WAY more than CoD/BF. I only used those two as an example.
Further EDIT: As per a general request I tried TF2, which I have now sprained my wrist from punching the side of my paneled wall (so thank God no holes) but yeah, thanks.
