Your Anger Towards Young Gamers
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yeah, the problem is, we've seen enough people say so much dumber things a [/sarcasm] tag or something similar is almost mandatory regardless of the rediculosity. o.oBloatedGuppy said:
In a barely related note; my spell checker is convinced the last word in that paragraph was supposed to be 'scrupulosity' and gives no other options. ><
I don't hate THEM, I hate their grenade-spamming, camping, glitching, noobtubing, and their lack of vocabulary beyond 'fucked', 'your', 'gay', 'ass', and 'mother'.
I am annoyed by the ones that scream and name-call over the game mic rather than just playing the game.
My brother is 12 and plays A LOT of black ops.
And he fucking SINGS. He puts on his iPod touch and sings into the mic.
WTF? If I was in a server with him i would be so pissed off.
Also young kids ruin team play experiences. Parents (including mine) should abide by the age restrictions on games, you know the 15+ or 18+ thing?
And he fucking SINGS. He puts on his iPod touch and sings into the mic.
WTF? If I was in a server with him i would be so pissed off.
Also young kids ruin team play experiences. Parents (including mine) should abide by the age restrictions on games, you know the 15+ or 18+ thing?
I am with most others, I just dislike people who are annoying, not people who are young. I have had fun gaming with young gamers. I played through Hunted: The Demon's Forge with a 17 me being 19 I didnt find that too bad at all
I think most teenage gamers are fine (but I'm 15 too, so that doesn't go without a little bias). What I hate are the 10-year-old teabaggers who think the only way they can fit in with the older crowd is by replacing every other word they say with an F-bomb and verbally abusing their mothers every time she tries to explain to them that it's bedtime.
Keep in mind, I don't think anyone really hates your generation in total. It's the fact that games seem littered with 15 year olds who scream homophobic and racist slurs into the mics, grief other players, and otherwise make asses of themselves. That's not to say adults don't do it, too. However, the sounds of teenage mewling kind of drown them out in the larger scheme of things.RedxDecember said:
I don't "hate" you or anyone, provided they're not acting like jackasses online. I will game with anyone given I'm having actual fun.
But there is kind of a kneejerk reaction from the hundreds of screaming whelps I've had to put up with. You can hit the mute button, click "avoid," etc., but the damage is usually done anyway.
Because in general you are not mature enough.RedxDecember said:
Sure, some who are legally adults display extraordinary immaturity but it is precisely that: extra-ordinary.
I congratulate you on maturity beyond your age but young teenagers reasonably have quite low expectations of maturity, and that in itself is a problem.
If a teenager hurls a stream of sexual threats and racist insults in mic spam then he gets in trouble with his mum (this may or may not be enough) but if an adult does that technically he can expect a visit from the police if they ever find him.
I've also heard enough of paedos trying to "groom" young teens on these gaming networks. I don't want that, especially not in my back yard when there are designated safe areas for teens. Doesn't MSN have like shit load of stuff in place to guard against this kind of predation? These networks in their terms of service usually stipulate that you must be 18 (or at least 16) for good bloody reason to avoid shit like this.
Stick to split-screen.
Otherwise, if kids are invited to the party then they have to police it which shouldn't be needed as we are all SUPPOSED to be adults here who can take care of ourselves. We are mature enough not to meet some person claiming to be a-really-hot-person-of-opposite-gender-and-same-age-and-who-totally-isn't-a-middle-aged-pervert and we shouldn't need admins to police hook ups.
Places like 4chan ban under-age users for good reason, if they don't then they can expect 50 thousand different jurisdictions will be investigating them for corrupting minors when it suddenly turns into a porn thread.
You know what, it really sucks that under 18 year olds are excluded from so much stuff but I suggest you savour your childhood while you can. Because you can't go back to it.
And how many times have you made your brother stop that crap?Lim3 said:
Because when you are 18 you don't suddenly magically learn not to be a douche, it takes 18 years of experience, discipline and example making for it to finally all sink in. Those who lack that, well it's harder to change people once they are already adults. They're often known as "assholes".
You could set an example for your bro, laying down the law may be your parent's job but on matters alien to their parents I know that it means a lot more being scorned by their peer.
I'm 16 and I don't think the hate is at me and for so at younger kids. Infact most the hate is to the people who scream and ruin the game for everyone else.
Like everyone else is saying, the kids around your age tend to be very annoying and loud online. Obviously, you aren't one of them, although you do sound a bit pretentious by distinguishing yourself like this.RedxDecember said:
One thing I don't like about the young gamers, is that more and more they don't know how to lose gracefully. They take losing like it is the end of the world.RedxDecember said:
The reason the problem exists is that schools and somewhat new parents have the crazy thing going that they want to convenience and tell kids that other people are no better then them, that everybody is a winner.
I remember back when I was in school, kids that made the great grades got special treatment. For their hard work they got things like candy bars, money/gift cards, special coupons, sometimes a pass to get out a homework assignment they didn't feel like doing. At my high school, the students with the best grades got to go off campus for lunch once or twice a week.
These days, from what I have seen from friends' siblings and my nephew that are still in grade school, such rewards are being given out less and less, and soon they won't do it at all. The reasoning is that children are just so fragile and need to be sheltered from the idea that other students are possibly smarter then them, and that there is a possibility they aren't working hard enough or being lazy, that there is something wrong with them.
With such teaching, eventually students don't see differences in their fellow students and don't have the feeling that somebody might be better then them. They get the feeling that no matter what they do they are and always will be a winner, because they aren't show that other people can be better.
That translates to kids/students that play games and they find that in games there will always be a winner or a loser or somebody that is better then them in some way. So, such kids can't handle losing so they resort to insults and things like saying the winner cheated or used unfair tactics, like keeping the shotgun and getting a fifteen kill streak(I did that and actually, got called a bad player by some brat that doesn't understand that it isn't unfair; it is called using what gives myself the best advantage, if the game spawns a shotgun with 20 rounds in it, why do I have to let it sit there and possibly be picked up by somebody that will use it on me?)
Another thing that I find that I can't stand about the younger gamers, is that the younger they get, the larger the entitlement they think they deserve. It's already to the point where quite a few young gamers have the weird idea the they should be able to play the majority of a game or all of it, before they decide if they want to buy it. That is the big issue with piracy, the young gamers see that they can get the game for free, and then they make up the excuse that why should they pay money if they find that they don't like the game. Other people can't get it through their thick skulls that they have to pay money for it because they played it, that it is wrong to take a game copy for free and experience everything a pay customer gets and not pay the creator/developers the money they are do for the player getting that experience. Plus, don't even try to reason with them that taking an illegal copy off the internet is stealing; they keep throwing up the stupid bull crap argument that if it is a digital copy, there are infinite copies and that nothing has been lost, so it isn't stealing. You can't tell them that it is a possible lost sale for the developers and publishers, because they say that if they didn't like the game they wouldn't have paid money for it anyway, or that it is a game genre they normally wouldn't pay money for anyway. The big problem is that the youth of today are more stubborn than the past generations, it seems that the majority will never admit directly that they are wrong about something.
That is why I can't stand many young gamers. They are partially to blame, but also the people that have been brainwashing them with such ideas, that they are just as good as anybody else and that they are entitled to pretty much anything, are also to blame.
I've palyed wow over 4 years now played with lots of kids and most are aweosme, there is even a 7year old in our guild and hes a nice kid and polite and i think his mum is the guild would be pissed if he swore, it's just the few that you run into that can't stop screaming on vent or spammin up guild chat and uncontrolable insults is what people hate. Oh and the you are a girl you must be ugly/fat/dyke if you play games is always awesome.
Sadly the little assholes make alot more noise and tend to stand out from players just playing normally and getting on with things.
Guys like you op are awesome and most players will have zero issues with you specifically.
Sadly the little assholes make alot more noise and tend to stand out from players just playing normally and getting on with things.
Guys like you op are awesome and most players will have zero issues with you specifically.
I agree with you on the language and glitching, but on the other three things, no.DannyJBeckett said:
I will not criticize another player for using something that the game developers intentionally put in, or for using normal military tactics.
In gaming years I'm an oldie, I've been gaming for 21 years(will be 26 in October), I don't see a problem with these three things.
I don't see grenade-spamming as a problem. Many a times it happens because the player has run out of gun ammo and all they have left is grenades, so what else are they suppose to do? Just stand there and let you kill them?
Noobtubing, ah that classic but stupid name for using a rocket launcher, a weapon that is of course put into the game by the makers to be used by the players. What, so if there is a rocket launcher, is there some unwritten rule that I and other players are not allowed to use the weapon against you until it runs out of ammo? If I find a rocket launcher, that means I possibly have a great advantage against other players if I use it properly, it gives me easy kills. There is nothing wrong with easy kills. The best tactic in a gun fight is to find a way to win with the least confrontation and harm to oneself.
And finally, the most bull crap gripe form people that can't accept they have been killed in a match, "Baaaawww camping is an unfair tactic!" Uh no, camping is a completely fair and legal tactic. It is of course mostly used by snipers; it is a realistic tactic. You don't see military snipers in the real world, running headlong at the enemy while they use their sniper rifles, do you? No, they pick a spot and then sit their and wait until the enemy is in perfect sight and range, and then take the shot. Same goes for stealth troops, they pick a spot and hide, a place they know eventually the enemy will pass by, and when that happens is when they ambush said enemy.
So what if you don't see a camper before you die, it isn't unfair that they didn't let you get a look and chance to shoot them. The idea of shooters is to stay alive as long as possible and not get killed. If for certain matches with certain conditions, it means that I hide and ambush people, then I am going to use the tactic. It silly not to be able to use whatever tactic is best for a situation.
I feel that people that whine about those three things above are just as bad as the kids that spout off foul language.
I don't have a bias towards younger gamers in particular. That's not true. I have a bias against stupid people, no matter WHAT age. That's just how it is.