Gaming Sissy?
So I noticed a few years back when I was playing World of Warcraft PVP the whole Internet Gaming Testosterone issue. Basically it works like this
You're on a team with someone (most like they are between 16-25 years old ... male). Something happens where you haven't performed at an amazing level (keep in mind, it's a video game... even if the game gets corrupted and they never play again they can still work, provide for their families, go to school, etc. It has NO bearing on any measurable result in one's life). Normally it would be something like you didn't cast a heal on them, or you hit a guy they were charming, etc. Keep in mind it all happens VERY fast and it can be quite confusing.
After this happens you get UNLOADED on by this same person. I'm talking language combinations I've never heard before, insults, racial slurs (even if it doesn't apply), gender slurs (again, doesn't apply).. you name it you're going to hear it. All the while all the other teammates are hearing you getting verbally insulted.
So I've recently started playing Gears of War online... and you know what, it's worse. Here's how it went down tonight... (and keep in mind I pretty much suck at Gears of War... I don't mind being called a noob or ignored... I understand, I'm not some elite player that rules the leader boards)...
A teammate of mine was shot in combat... I pressed X to revive him but apparently I wasn't close enough. He died and then I was killed immediately after... then this guy proceeded to unload on me for probably 2 minutes. On and on and on and on... at first I just listened... then it got so ridiculous I told him it was probably a bit past his bedtime and he might just be sleepy. Then I got to hear it for another 5 minutes.
My point to this long ramble is these people are ruining the gaming experience for other people that don't feel the need to hide behind their xbox controllers and act like a boxer or Navy seal. These guys are most likely complete punk kids and this is where they get a chance to be a badass. I play with friends sometimes... we rib each other, but it's never about humiliating someone that's not a great player or someone makes a mistake. I don't think of myself as an overly sensitive person, but man this stuff is just crazy. It's just constant humiliating other players... I was on a team with another guy that was about like me, not so great. So in between matches where everyone can talk the other team is giving the "good player" on our team a hard time and without even thinking his response was "well yeah, these other a**holes on my team totally f**King SUCK". I mean come on, that's just nonsense.
I've really been looking forward to playing Halo 3 when it comes out... and I'll still get it, but I'm sure it's going to be more of these types of morons that make me want to get out my baseball game and work on my season.
5 comments:
Wow, innocence lost. That's how it is on XBL. Luckily you know that those people are just loser douchebags so their words don't sting ,they're just really freaking annoying.
Thankfully, you can mute people on there. You can also give them bad "rep", which doesn't do much, but it's still something to mark them for anyone that happens to look at their profile.
YOU SISSY, OMG, LOL!
Just kidding. Yeah, online play can get pretty intense when playing with peeps who don't have any resemblance of a real life outside the matrix. I found though that after a while of playing I ran into more people that weren't so hardcore, and some that were, but weren't so pushy. So I guess for me it was just sticking with it, I got better and I met more people.
But I do use the mute feature on a whim... that sucks because Gears is really no fun unless you use teamwork (unless you're boss and don't take crap from nobody). I have noticed though that you get the same kind of treatment playing Rainbow Six Vegas, but there are a few cool dudes out there.
We should start a "gamers who also have a life" website that connects people who don't want to play with those idiot kids. I'm sure there are plenty of other people just like you that want to enjoy the game and not have to put up with those kinds
Or you can be a wimp like me and don't play online games (cause I'm afraid I'll get my feelings hurt). Stick with DROD, you only have to put up with annoying monsters and they'll only call you a "sissy momma's boy" every now and then.
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