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Posted December 10, 2013
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Wishbone: Well, Kingdom of Loathing has the right idea.
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Potzato: That made my day :)
I remember a couple of sites in the early noughties did this to prevent non-English speakers from joining, and Russians posted walkthroughs. Walkthroughs are still widely used by some mail forwarding services, while others charge buyers a 10 to 15% commission to use a unified adapted storefront.
Posted December 10, 2013
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tinyE: Now you know why I don't play online. Years and years ago I joined an online text game about global domination. A few days in I started getting threatening messages from other player who felt I wasn't taking the game seriously enough. Things like, "Clearly you don't know who you are fucking with and you will suffer my wrath" type messages would greet me every morning, followed by "I will annihilate you with my nuclear arsenal if you don't clean up your act and stop screwing around." One day I reluctantly informed them that it was a game and the nuclear weapons they had weren't real. They fake nuked my country and I real canceled my account.
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Cormoran: This right here is why game developers need to take the problem seriously. It affects how people view their playerbase, it affects how people view them and as a result can affect their ability to make profit. These sorts of people are toxic to gaming communities.

I don't bother with online PVP at all thanks to crap like this. I get my PVP fix in martial arts, where talking like that ends with getting the taste slapped out of your mouth. Happily enough I almost never come across that type of person thanks to this.
Who is toxic, me or them? I after all wasn't taking the game all that seriously and that can be kind of annoying.
Posted December 10, 2013
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Cormoran: This right here is why game developers need to take the problem seriously. It affects how people view their playerbase, it affects how people view them and as a result can affect their ability to make profit. These sorts of people are toxic to gaming communities.

I don't bother with online PVP at all thanks to crap like this. I get my PVP fix in martial arts, where talking like that ends with getting the taste slapped out of your mouth. Happily enough I almost never come across that type of person thanks to this.
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tinyE: Who is toxic, me or them? I after all wasn't taking the game all that seriously and that can be kind of annoying.
Oh no no, not you. I'm talking about the people who act like the guy who drove you away from that game. Sorry if i wasn't clear.
Posted December 10, 2013
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tinyE: Who is toxic, me or them? I after all wasn't taking the game all that seriously and that can be kind of annoying.
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Cormoran: Oh no no, not you. I'm talking about the people who act like the guy who drove you away from that game. Sorry if i wasn't clear.
You were clear, I'm just defending myself against someone accusing me of not looking at it form both sides. :D
Posted December 10, 2013
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Cormoran: Oh no no, not you. I'm talking about the people who act like the guy who drove you away from that game. Sorry if i wasn't clear.
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tinyE: You were clear, I'm just defending myself against someone accusing me of not looking at it form both sides. :D
uhm.... I wasn't accusing you of anything.
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Posted December 10, 2013
I hate the e-sports mentality in gaming, it's completely alien to everything I've come to recognize as part of the gaming community and culture. The “gamification”, the obsession with “DPS” and the like, it’s the utter lack of abstraction in games like LoL, DOTA 2, it’s like they are games that actively make no attempt to disguise this fact. People will only care about the mechanical aspects, what hero/spell/ability is best, what “tactics” work best. The same sort of thing strikes me about MMO’s and competitive RTS too. The players don’t seem to care the game is fantasy, sci-fi, or whatever, the story, setting, anything, it doesn’t matter, all that matters is the rules.

Discussions of MOBA and other multiplayer games sound almost identical to the type of discussions sports fans would have.

It utterly disgusts me. These people have no imagination.

it should be all be burned
Posted December 10, 2013
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tinyE: You were clear, I'm just defending myself against someone accusing me of not looking at it form both sides. :D
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Cormoran: uhm.... I wasn't accusing you of anything.
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OY, I knew you weren't. XD You never would. I was just throwing that out there for my own piece of mind. It is way too early. :P
Posted December 10, 2013
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Tarm: THAT is badass!

Edit: To everyone, Yeah that is the best part. :)
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Roman5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnp3AgXP0dU
Brilliant!
Posted December 10, 2013
I miss the days when being a gamer meant playing for fun, not for rank or to prove your better then others. True, I do that on games that require it. But when its not a game that is competitive, like DDO, or even GW2....Why Compete? Especially if you are on the same team. Those "Trolls" who flame aren't true gamers. They forgot the number one rule of being a Gamer.



You are supposed to have fun.
Posted December 10, 2013
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Landeril: I miss the days when being a gamer meant playing for fun, not for rank or to prove your better then others. True, I do that on games that require it. But when its not a game that is competitive, like DDO, or even GW2....Why Compete? Especially if you are on the same team. Those "Trolls" who flame aren't true gamers. They forgot the number one rule of being a Gamer.

You are supposed to have fun.
A better way to describe it: you are meant to play the way you want to play (be it for any reason). I think there's more to gaming than entertainment and competition, that's all.
Post edited December 10, 2013 by Nirth
Posted December 10, 2013
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Landeril: I miss the days when being a gamer meant playing for fun, not for rank or to prove your better then others. True, I do that on games that require it. But when its not a game that is competitive, like DDO, or even GW2....Why Compete? Especially if you are on the same team. Those "Trolls" who flame aren't true gamers. They forgot the number one rule of being a Gamer.

You are supposed to have fun.
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Nirth: A better way to describe, you are meant to play the way you want to play (be it for any reason). I think there's more to gaming than entertainment and competition, that's all.
Aye my friend, aye.
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