Some people are really bigot and literally a***ole. I always stay quite when I play MP games (Don't play online games anymore because of stupid conversations) Btw, RPG players usually teenagers -of course there is exceptions- so stay away from RPG games. Try some strategy games.
Online Gamers are so Rude!
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caketastydelish
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Sorry, but I disagree with you. You (and the others) don't have to act like a huge jerk in COD, and you scare away people like me and him when you do. Screw the call of duty 'expereince'
You are right, we don't have to be jerks, but that's not the point that was being discussed. The point being discussed was whether or not you can accurately judge a person's character by how they act in an online game. I say you cannot because people's online personas are, more often than not, completely different from how they act in real life. You never know, maybe the guy that was trash-talking you on Call of Duty was the same guy that held a door for you or went the extra mile to help you figure out what was wrong with your laptop.
Of course the jerk online could also be a jerk in real life too. The point is, you don't know so don't judge. And when I say being a jerk is part of the Call of Duty experience, I mean that is just something that has become part of its "culture". You know this going into it, so if you don't like being insulted constantly, then play with a group of people you know and don't venture into the public games.
H4run
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Except if being jerk in the online game mean you being jerk with some automatons or machine, if that is the case indeed there are distinction between being jerk in internet and being jerk in real life. But since when you being jerk to someone in online game, it mean you hurt, insulted and break the very psychology of a real person, because even though they are online it doesn't mean they are virtual, they are real peoples with feeling.
So when you being jerk online with other real person, it is equal to you being jerk with someone in real life. However in online you get anonymous background, so it is easy for you to being a jerk to someone and get away with it. While in real life you are been exposed, so you think twice before you jerking someone.
There is no different between you insulting someone online or in real life, because the essence is you still insulting real peoples, you still bullying real peoples. So that mean when you being jerk in COD is mean you are not virtually being jerk over there, but you really literally being jerk and crashing other real peoples psychology over there.
Sanguivorant
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Insults over a screen do not really hurt that much. I just find them unnecessary in an environment which is not even competitive.
cav scout
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I agree with this and I would say that the way someone behaves online can be more indicative of who they are as a human being than how they act in the real world.
Sanguivorant
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True. The anonymity of the internet world is almost like being granted a power.
Some people will not misbehave because they are weak. For example, a person may refuse to insult someone who is stronger than them, because they know it will cause consequences.
To understand how a person will really behave, they have to be given power. Once they have power of any sort, even if its anonymity, it is easier to find out who they are as a human being, and how they would act if they had power in real life.
Some people will not misbehave because they are weak. For example, a person may refuse to insult someone who is stronger than them, because they know it will cause consequences.
To understand how a person will really behave, they have to be given power. Once they have power of any sort, even if its anonymity, it is easier to find out who they are as a human being, and how they would act if they had power in real life.
IAM
Emperor
It's not just the conversation but actions as well. Often random team members engage in activities specifically designed to harm their own team. Like blocking doorways just to be a dick when your team is trying to capture a point. It's just a new level of dumb.
Of course it's competitive. When you play online you compete at both the team level and individual level. If it weren't competitive games wouldn't keep track of your points, wins, losses, kills, deaths, etc. Sure there may not be a tangible prize to win, but online gaming is extremely competitive. That is why you see so much hostility among players.
I obviously can't speak for everyone on the internet, but I trash talk for tactical purposes. If I find how to push my opponents' buttons, then I can get them angry and frustrated before the match even starts. Most of the time I can get them so flustered that they can't think straight and they start making stupid mistakes they wouldn't be making otherwise. Usually this is enough to carry my team to victory and gets me a pretty high K/D ratio.
Sanguivorant
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This is true for some games and not true for others.
For example, GameRanger has no ratio of wins or losses for anything there. You kind of just play and that's it. Your wins aren't counted or your losses. I am talking about AoE in particular if you are aware of it.
If it was on Voobly, which is an AoE server client that records your wins/losses, I would understand, but on Gameranger, which has absolutely no track record of that, where does the hostility come from? You really are not gaining or losing anything, not even numbers on a scoreboard.
Perhaps the only thing you might gain or lose is reputation among other players, if you stuck around for a long time.
For example, GameRanger has no ratio of wins or losses for anything there. You kind of just play and that's it. Your wins aren't counted or your losses. I am talking about AoE in particular if you are aware of it.
If it was on Voobly, which is an AoE server client that records your wins/losses, I would understand, but on Gameranger, which has absolutely no track record of that, where does the hostility come from? You really are not gaining or losing anything, not even numbers on a scoreboard.
Perhaps the only thing you might gain or lose is reputation among other players, if you stuck around for a long time.
Well then yeah, you are probably just running into some really terrible people. I had that problem with StarCraft a long time ago. That's why I usually just play private matches with people I know so I don't run into the real jerks out there. Call of Duty is the only exception to that rule. Private matches tend to get boring pretty fast on Call of Duty.
Sanguivorant
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If I knew some people who played the games I play in real life, I would definitely prefer playing with them. It would be more fun that way.
I tried to show some of my friends the games I play and they kinda just got bored of them. Does anyone play any of these games by the way?
Age of Empires (1 and 2)
Rise of Nations Gold
C&C Generals Zero Hour
I tried to show some of my friends the games I play and they kinda just got bored of them. Does anyone play any of these games by the way?
Age of Empires (1 and 2)
Rise of Nations Gold
C&C Generals Zero Hour
H4run
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AOE conqueror, I'm really so good at it years ago. I hardly get beaten, but yea I'm talking not in the sense of international competition but local (among friends and in gaming centre) competition. But I already not playing that game for years.
Are anyone still playing AOE online this day? that's interesting.
Sanguivorant
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I would be interested. Do you have Game ranger?
Wait are you talking about THE AoE online? I don't have it sorry.
And RoN was always cool. It combined Civ with AoE.
Wait are you talking about THE AoE online? I don't have it sorry.
And RoN was always cool. It combined Civ with AoE.
Quackers
The Frog
I have been on the internet for so long that this type of thing doesn't worry me. In fact, I find it quite amusing. Some people can be quite creative with their insults.
H4run
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I played RoN once in my friends pc long time ago, I'm not quite acquaintance with the game, and I don't have game ranger
and this is the first time I heard of it.
Sanguivorant
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It's a free client you can download. It basically allows you to connect and play with other people online.
H4run
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that's interesting thanks for the information, I will download it then if it is free, and summer holiday is near I guess I want to try play online game during holiday.
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The above is true. It is when behavior has no consequences that you see the real character of people.
For example on a site like this there is no right of free speech and if I, for example, were to state my true beliefs and feelings, I would be kicked off the site very quickly.
Because my views clash with the reigning community bias.
Likewise when you enter a gaming environment people are able to act out the frustrations and anger that they have to internalize in other interactions.
We all have to bleed off the stress. Otherwise we end up doing something violent.
I am very well behaved in most situations. It isn't difficult as I generally like and have a great deal of empathy for individuals. Doing a kindness is a natural act for me.
This doesn't change the fact that when I go to sleep at night, after I pray for mercy and grace, invariably my mind turns to irrational reveries of wielding horrible weapons of mass destruction against institutions of power and might. Resentments can be managed but they can never be purged. We exist and they exist, inseparably.
So the rude gamer might be healthier than you, or me, as he or she may kill fewer billions in their dreams.
For example on a site like this there is no right of free speech and if I, for example, were to state my true beliefs and feelings, I would be kicked off the site very quickly.
Because my views clash with the reigning community bias.
Likewise when you enter a gaming environment people are able to act out the frustrations and anger that they have to internalize in other interactions.
We all have to bleed off the stress. Otherwise we end up doing something violent.
I am very well behaved in most situations. It isn't difficult as I generally like and have a great deal of empathy for individuals. Doing a kindness is a natural act for me.
This doesn't change the fact that when I go to sleep at night, after I pray for mercy and grace, invariably my mind turns to irrational reveries of wielding horrible weapons of mass destruction against institutions of power and might. Resentments can be managed but they can never be purged. We exist and they exist, inseparably.
So the rude gamer might be healthier than you, or me, as he or she may kill fewer billions in their dreams.
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