What "pro" gaming behavior ticks you off?

[BonsaiK]

Oh gosh, let me count the ways:

* teabagging
* spawnkilling
* forming exclusive little snobby enclaves (i.e "clans") and then enforcing stupid arbitrary rules
* only ever using one combination of equipment because it's "the best" (i.e AWP + deagle on CS). If you're so "pro" prove it and get those kills with some other gear
* the whole "anything is okay as long as I win, winning justifies ANYTHING" attitude - excuse me I play games to have FUN, not play "my digits are higher than yours"
* belittling noob players (everyone was new once)
* whining when other players won't recognise their "status" or follow silly orders jsut because they come from a so-called "pro" player
* whining when other players don't meet the pro player's absurd lofty standards that the pro players don't adhere to anyway half the time
* complaining about camping in a game where camping is part of sensible strategy as dictated by the game mechanics (i.e defending a flag, sniping from a hill)

I could go on but you get the idea. I welcome more noobs and less pro gamers in gaming. If MW2 does one thing good for multiplayer gaming it will be to shut out these elitist "pro gamer" snobs and let more people who just want to have FUN into their patch. That can only be a good thing for gaming as a whole.

 

[RoseBridge]

When people beat me even though I try my best.. which is like all the time

I know I suck but why don't you just get lost. Damn people who are better than me.

I only really mind it when they teabag.
What REALLY gets me though is in Halo 3, when some guy grabs a sword/shottie and camps a iny room, then teabags like what he did took any real skill.

Right on, or a rocket kill then teabag, for me tea bagging is a privilege earned by killing someone who out guns you.
Another thing that erks me is kill steals, i get called out for pretty much saving a comrade and they got the gall to say I stole their kill! They would be dead If I haven't intervened.
and Im done, good to vent though.

 

[Akai Shizuku]

"I'm not talking to you because you're under level 100."

Also,

"I think I'm just going to camp at your spawn point because I'm that much better than you."

 

[IxionIndustries]

People telling me what to do. Unless I can see that your course of action is better, and will contribute to either the game or the team, please kindly fuck off.

Also, I hate it when they see you do something wrong, and they go "Haha, you fail!"

 

[erbkaiser]

Smack talking;
Newbie stomping;
those 3 a-holes in L4D who teamkill the fourth player just because

 

[The Youth Counselor]

I hate over competitive attitudes. I play a game to have fun, but some put their score or winning a meaningless match as a priority.

So not everyone plays on your level, or agrees with your plan? Harass or kick them from the team.

People who believe that demeaning another person and having a high score is the only way to have fun ruins games.

 

[Ocelot GT]

Essentially just the bad sportsmanship.

It's what separates e-sports from real sports.

Real sports is professional athletes who have to consider sponsors and how their behavior affects them. E-sports is just some kid with a massive ego making use of anonymity and acting like a prick.

 

[Ben Jamin]

Idiots on WoW who won't let other players into a raid because they haven't done it before.
How the hell will they learn if people don't give them chances?

 

[magnuslion]

people who are so pathetic irl that they have nothing better to do than play video games 16 hours a day and then laugh about how other people are noobs and gay, blah blah blah.

19 year old virgin playing games in his moms basement over xbox live ((L4D)): Dude, you need to learn how to play you fuckin nooB!

Me: gee, sorry. I was too busy having sex with my girlfriend, drinking at parties, and training for two sports to get the game when it came out and play it every nanosecond since.

Utter silence fell over the line.

 

[skullpile]

The "pro" 10 year olds that yell at you in their shrill little voices.

 

[Kud]

i have a friend who sucks at halo, but likes to think he is really good. when im playing games with him i would like beat his score but he would get angry at me because i didn't tell him were the enemies were every five seconds.... also he times the invisability, and wastes it every time

 

[stockvillain]

I'm personally against any game / pro-gamer that tries to take the fun out of a game and replace it with "you must parse this high to play with us" or "you must waste 4 months of solid game time grinding with PUGs in order to have the correct gear to play your class correctly." Screw THAT hippie crap. I'm a gamer, sure but I have a life outside of games. Bills to pay, work to do, crap like that. That's why I left every MMO except EQ2. Alls I needs is mah crack, an' I'ma good for another day, boss.

 

[danimal1384]

To everyone who has mentioned arrogance as their top thing... that isn't pro gaming attitude, that is just human attitude, unfortunately.

But for me, i'd have to say people who use glitches in the game (ie jugger-nog grenading urself over the fence in "der ries" in CoD WaW nazi zombies, or knocking someone into the ceiling in Left for Dead 2, etc). Using tricks and cheats that aren't part of the intended gameplay to give urself an advantage is not just being a sniveling twat, it is also giving a middle finger to the hard working people who have made the game ur enjoying ur new found douchington status in. It's one thing to be a dick to ur competition. But to spit in the face of the creators by taking advantage of something that they overlooked by accident cause they were too busy making sure everything else worked is deplorable on every level.

 

[MmmFiber]

In wow, when you are in a dungeon and somebody acts like they are quite a bit better than everyone else, but end up sucking really bad and messing up the rest of the group. Oh yeah, then leave half-way through. So much dps fail. So much.

 

[T3chn0s1s]

people who are so pathetic irl that they have nothing better to do than play video games 16 hours a day and then laugh about how other people are noobs and gay, blah blah blah.

19 year old virgin playing games in his moms basement over xbox live ((L4D)): Dude, you need to learn how to play you fuckin nooB!

Me: gee, sorry. I was too busy having sex with my girlfriend, drinking at parties, and training for two sports to get the game when it came out and play it every nanosecond since.

Utter silence fell over the line.

That's because you're an utter fuckwit and they weren't nearly as willing to say as much to you with their cloak of +4 internet anonymity as I am. I have sex with my girlfriend, drink casually, and don't both training for things I don't find entertaining, though I do coach a 'sports' team, to use your vague term from your 'two sports' line. I don't play video games my every waking moment, and whether you realize it or not being a teacher is actually a very time consuming job. Do any of these facts matter at all? Naw, not really, but since you shared your life story I thought I should share mine. Otherwise I'd have you at a tremendous disadvantage.

So, why do I expect you to pay attention to what's going on when you play a video game with me? Because if you're only ever going to be playing while you're 'wasted' at your 'parties' you're actually hurting everyone else's enjoyment of the game. That's why they're hostile with you. Now, these hostile people you were attempting to characterize do exist. They're a sad sort who only play with other people like them, and only until those people decide that they are too 'lolol nub' to play with them, and then they sulk off to a new group that is 't0o pr0 4 u' until eventually they pick up a new game and starts the circle of life all over again. However, with you? I think it's well warranted.

Of course, that's just my assessment from your 'bro' attitude you just displayed.

"LOLOLOL VIRGINS LOLOLOLOL I R HAZ LIF SO GUD I HAZ 2 BRG"

Even if they are 19 year old virgins going to some community college... Their conservative nature is none of your damn business and has nothing to do with their worth. Maybe they're one of those rare high moral folk that actually believe chastity to be a good idea? I know I didn't wait until I was married, but then again... I was lucky enough to grow up in an area with quite a few attractive females with low standards. Sue me. Why does that impact their gaming lives in the least? Some of those people are definitely clocking 16 hours a day on their latest toy, but fuck me if some drunken frat boy going 'FOOOOOOTBAAAAAAAAAAALL' during my recreational activities is going to be let off with a casual 'Could you stop shouting into your mic about that fat bowl you just smoked and play the game?'

 

[Smudge91]

The ones who act like complete arseholes. When i was on a pvp server on WoW, it would annoy me when you'd get a level 70 (thats when the level cap was 70) came and grave camp. Or when its everyones fault but their own when things go down the drain.

If it's red, it's dead. If you don't want to get spawn camped, you shouldn't have rolled on a PvP server.

True true that is why i moved my character to a pve server as soon as my bf decided to tell me that there were pve servers. He randomly made a WoW character for me :S which i barely touched until i moved

 

[T5seconds]

Noob is a variation of Newb which means

To be new at a game...

I don't understand why no one gets that... and why it?s used as an insult is beyond me...

Feel free to correct me though...

 

[iRetard]

Getting pro camped sucks, I hate it.

 

[Triangulon]

Whinging during a game grinds my gears. If someone's kicking your ass play better or change your tactics (or change server)! I am now going to have my own whinge about bunnyhopping in COD4. I know its a game and not supposed to be uber realistic (much more so that say UT) but people jumping around corners when youve found a sweet ambush spot pisses me off big time (dont start me on the random grenade tossing). But hey you've got to move on. Everyone should be haviong fun and theres no more fun to be had than making a fool out of a supposed pro gamer (the haxor rants are hilarious)

 

[FightThePower]

Players who act like winning is everything...and when you point out that having fun is more important, they say stuff like 'winning is fun'. You can have fun without winning, dickhead. And then there's the whole 'noob' thing, which is kind of like moaning at learner drivers in real life - you were all new at some point, and since it's mostly down to experience, there's no way for them to magically improve. Doing something stupid can be remedied by simply telling them not to do it and therefore is different, but stuff like K/D is mostly down to map knowledge, reactions and aiming skill. This stuff all requires plenty of experience, and if they haven't been playing as long as you, that's not exactly a fault of their own, is it?