My fellow gamers,
There are days when i scrounge around different forums, around You Tube and other video sites that talk about and show gaming, i watch skilled groups in large raids in games like Wow or FF Online or an amazing PvP on AC, or even watch someone talk fondly about TR or Earth and Beyond...it's a nice experience to have somebody show or talk about something that have an obvious passion for and to be able to be part of it, if only by reading/watching it.
Then i get to the comments.
Large groups of people who slam, insult, threaten, bully, and chastise this person (or group of people) for something they enjoy....now of course i realize that a good part of these comments are trolls with more than a little time on their hands who preach about how much of a life they have while posting one hate-filled comment after the next, but there are also the ones who out and out know this game or even the player or players who posted it who do the same....and these are the one's i cannot understand.
O.K. so they played the game and either disliked it or liked it for a time, got bored, and split....fine, fine...moving on to greener pastures and all that, but why do they feel the need not only to slam the game but also slam the people playing it? it would be like me getting annoyed because my friend bought a car i once owned for years but sold because i wanted something else...what's the point? what does it solve? it's not my money he spent and it must've at least been good for awhile because i owned it myself for years.
When it's put like that it doesn't really make much sense, does it?
And yet it continues.
I don't understand the disrespect gamers show eachother, maybe it's because i'm seasoned and i remember gaming in a softer light, i dunno but i do know one thing.....it has to stop.
Most of them are ten year olds with parents who hand them a controller and say leave them alone. They find Xbox Live and Halo, and suddenly gankfests and lame headshots make them uber hardasses.
Yet you meet them in real life, and they are the weakling, the sheltered, the nerd picked on in the locker room after gym. It's an an outlet for anger and outcry for attention. The unfortunate part of all this is, we feed them.
We feed them with the fuel they need to spew their bile and internet badassery. It makes them feel bigger, because in reality, they are much, much smaller.
That, of course, is both true and my opinion.
Thu Jan 22 2009 2:04AMThey're just kids. You're trash talking kids. I recommend you hang around some kids sometime and listen to them talking. Thats all it is. A bunch of kids. Why get upset?
PS You suck and my game is better than yours.
Thu Jan 22 2009 2:14AMNot just kids, but immature adults. The internet brings out the worst in people as there are no consequences to their actions. They can spout what they would keep to themselves in polite society.
Thu Jan 22 2009 5:30AMAgreed, completely. Although the net on some occasions shows the best in people, most often it is the opposite side that comes out.
Thu Jan 22 2009 8:50AMYou really have to wonder about the side that comes out. How many people would act that way if they were able to get the testosterone out of their systems. You can't hit anyone without worrying about getting sued. "Most" gamers are lazy and don't get out and play sports. On and on, I figure that the only oppurtunity to trash talk and exert dominance is on the internet. Perhaps a more active gamer would not exhibit the same emotions.
Thu Jan 22 2009 9:50AMOf course it's also fun to imagine the other person squirming in their seat because they can't do anything about it. I've got a few choice one-liners that I'm waiting to use in some COD5 matches. When you get a rise out of the other gamer you know you've affected them and their day to some extent and you've achieved "social interaction."
But you also forget the aholes that drive beside you every day, cutting you off, not using turn signals tail gating. Aholes are in abundance in r'life too.
People don't care, its all about "me." "I'm" the one that pays the bills. "I'm" the one that has to work.
Being a dick is liberating in a sense when you can't run the person tailgating you off the road but you can trash talk the griefer in game.
Thu Jan 22 2009 9:56AMI think Michael Douglas's "Falling Down" should be required viewing.
Yeah, most people, when they know there is no threat of real-life retribution, legal or otherwise, will be a-holes. Considering a recent stat put the average gamer age at above 30, it's more an issue of adults acting like teens, than teens themselves. However, what makes it worse is the people who either jump in with the hate, or stand around taking it. If enough people dialed the cops when that guy cut off people recklessly, he would get pulled. Hell, I've followed a guy I noticed slapping his girl around in the car, gave the cops his plate and make/model, and watched as, a few minutes later, he was pulled.
The problem isn't with the haters, but with the people who tolerate them. It's an extreme case, but the Nazis won not because they won a majority, but because the majority let them take over.
Thu Jan 22 2009 11:06AMMMORPG.com writes:
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