WARNING: This is a rant of a frustrated gamer
read at own risk

as someone who plays online games a lot i keep getting more and more confrontated by the serious and flaming PRO/MLG gamers. in certain games i can slightly understand this as they have a competitive component, like league of legends (still think this flaming is wrong but whatever).

these days however, i also seem to find it more and more in casual games. latest example being left 4 dead 2. we were playing versus and i would become a tank (rare huge zombie that can destroy everything). the game spawned me next to the humans at which a player on our side immediatly started "OMG n00b L2P u fcking piece of shit" (literal quote) who believed i should not chagre in. upon me defending myself came the expected "Shut up fggt r u a tarD". (literal quote again).

why is it that even in games with no ranking component whatsoever, gamers only give a damn about winning. doesn't matter if people want to have fun IF YOU DON'T USE PRO TAKTIKS AND ONLY BEST GUN ND DO AS I SAY YOU R A FGGT AND A N0B GO DIE PLS. why do gamers only value winning, and just fully ignore the fun component of games.

games R not fun, gaùes r srs bsns

those moment make me feel nostalgic about those days in a TF2 clan server (gfl) where fun was always #1 and we did silly fun thing like go all spy.
where are the times it didn't matter if your team wasn't world championchip material and all did their best?

sigh, what happend?

Strange. I play single player campaigns almost exclusively, except with a few occasional games with friends every now and then, and I never noticed this problem. And I think I'd rather keep it that way.

While being one of my favorite games ever, L4D players can be horrible people. I was trying to earn that "what are you trying to prove" achievement by finishing every map on expert and often I would get an idiot joining only to fuck everything up for everyone, once one guy joined while I was on the last stage of a campaign, It was me, a guy, the asshole and a bot, he shot the guy until he made him leave and then when someone else joined he told them that I'm shooting everyone and he can't play because of me resulting in me being vote kicked ruining a couple of hours of progress on that certain campaign which I started in the first place. (pretty funny now after all this time but it felt horrible at the moment)

I have heard this is what Xbox Live is like. I have yet to venture on there.

If it helps, I tend to assume they're all about 14 and are not destined to be intimate with a woman for a very long time...

Multiplayer everywhere happened. It just got more noticeable with more and more getting online and playing multiplayer.
Also there are kids and immature gamers of any age all over multiplayer games and have been for a long time now. Gamers that think it's hilarious to ruin for others.

What's worst is that developers more often listen to the hardcore proplayers and design games around their competitive wants.

All this have made me almost give up online gaming.

Was about to post the same general thing.

Internet anonymity tends to bring out the worst in people at times since there are few if any consequences for acting like a douchebag.

I would say try asking around here or other forums you visit to see if people like to play the same games as you and try to see if your free times match up. You will get a much better experience in game than taking a random shot in the dark of a public group not being horrible.

Edit: lol at the post below mine.

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the EU and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

Yes, it's too bad that the notion of fun seems to be lost online. Sure it feels good to win but it feels even better to try something daring or using a weird and goofy weapon just because it's fun. It's too bad that online gaming is such a hostile environment because it can be great fun to play online against people from all over the world. But more often than not, it's a pain in the ass and I try to avoid it.

I pulled this directly from the flaming article at Wikipedia: deindividuation
lack of compassion
conformance to perceived norms
miscommunication
antiprocess

Nice try, but the perfect spelling ruined the illusion :D


It's a damn shame that it seems to have made many people look at multiplayer with such suspicion and disdain.

gorilla warfare gets me every time

Those words only have as much meaning as you choose to give them. I'm reminded of the line from The Dark Knight Rises, when Bane replies to Dagget, "And this gives you 'power' over me?". Just mute or ignore them, and concern yourself with having fun (to the extent that the game lets you). Play with the same people you trust or the ones you have the most fun with as much as possible.

I don't recall any horror stories myself, I just remember one turn-based multi-player Kongregate trading card game, where every single match that I won, I won because the other player ragequit before their health or score or whatever ran out. I never left a match early, and even managed to turn the tables one time when it looked like I was about to lose.

I thought this was going to be a thread about halitosis.

Or leprosy.

Ah, the classic Navy Seals copypasta meme. It will never get old.

Check the gorilla warfare. xD

Kudos to dr.zli.