I will never understand why the hell people tilt so hard for an online game. Aren’t free time activities supposed to be fun?
It’s the same as parents going full tilt against the ref of a kids league soccer match.
‘Fun’ and ‘chill’ are not the same concept. Fun things can be irritating, can make you excited and go through various emotions.
Gamers aren’t well adjusted people
lots of online games are just outright badly designed, like having loads of abilities that literally just freeze you in place so you don’t get to play for a few seconds.
i was into overwatch when it was still an actual game and not a storefront, and my god there was sooooo much stuff that was obviously not acceptable for a game of that size and budget. I think the most egregious was roadhog’s hook that just didn’t care about time and physics, you could be grabbed behind walls and whatnot and of course that resulted in instant death too, because WHY NOT!
then you compare this to something like deep rock galactic, where it’s cooperative and “balance” is the player deciding how much of a challenge they want, and the devs specifically added a feature that lets you shout “rock and stone!” to build camraderie. You play that game and it’s just… fun? it’s just fun, it’s almost never frustrating at all, even if you get your ass kicked you just fucking try again and maybe lower the difficulty because you’re not quite good enough to take on that size of horde yet.
And stun abilities? you can have tons of them, because the enemies are NPCs and thus don’t care, and the enemies only have a select few stun abilities that can either be actively broken out of or teammates can help you out of them, plus you’re given so much warning that getting stunned is very clearly your own fault.
Back when I still played ranked in online games, I always felt like if I didn’t have Don’t Stop Me Now by Queen playing in the back of my head… I just wasn’t in the right mood to play.
Reminds me of that time when it felt like having Epix Sax Guy playing in the background helped out with Hearthstone RNG.
I never will buy an online game for 60 bucks.
True, $70+ is becoming the new standard…
Only if you want the peasant option, the RealGamer™ edition starts at 100 plus dlc.
Luckily I’m just a lowly fake gamer so I don’t gotta worry about clout…
Ooh look, shiny skin!
Why would you spend any money on one, let alone play it?
Because people enjoy playing games with their friends?
You don’t have to pay to do that.
Your friends are randomly-assigned ten-year-olds?
Most competent multiplayer games let you form lobbies with your real life friends? Or you can make the occasional friend online?
It’s getting real hard to not make assumptions about your social life with all this, man.
There’s plenty of coöp games that don’t make you beholden to server content rules.
And thanks for the beginning of an insult, but I do tend to spend more time with friends while we’re actually in the same room.
Unpopular opinion but games with community-driven multiplier (i.e. people hosting their own servers) is infinitely better than matchmaking multiplayer running on the dev/publisher’s servers if only for the sole reason that players have a choice of what kinds of communities they want to build and what things other players should be allowed to do instead of being forced into a sterilized commercial monoculture. I should be able to say “KYS KYS” in game if the people I’m playing with are okay with it.
That and it’s easier to make genuine connections with regulars. Nowadays for that you have to go out of your way to join a community discord or similar because nearly all multiplayer games are built to play with your existing friends.
i miss the days of shit talking in COD lobbies for hours. so funny hearing people cry about my perfect grenade throws ruining their killstreaks
Classic pre-game lobbies
So unpopular…
unpopular opinion but i like food
If a low stakes game makes you so furious that you wish for someone to die, you should not be allowed to play these games.
Agreed, they need to improve their skills enough to make it happen instead of merely passively hoping that the world improves itself.
On a side note I shouldn’t be getting comm banned for swearing on a game that’s not only rated M but also has swearing in the game.
I agree but just to clarify “kys” isn’t swearing it’s bullying
That’s why it’s a side note. Tangential but relevant.
A bit weird to use soyjak in this one, most mic munchers don’t nor can have beards as they don’t have fully developed balls yet
Meh. Just mute people. That’s what I used to do when I played online. I understand emotions run high and people get frustrated, I’m not gonna let my sensibility and their bouts of idiocy (especially when the solution is so simple!) ruin their experience forever. And honestly, they’re probably just actual kids… I’m patient like that but I understand some people take things more to heart and whatnot.
I’ve always seen chat filters as a test in creativity. Telling someone they “misclicked when they hit install” or to “Go 0-1 irl” is way better
Or tell them the way to reset bugs in the game is Alt+F4
Oh, it’s better to read the user agreement, there are such horrors there… Access to your PC at any time when you are connected to the network without problems…
Who makes fake kissing sounds in online games?! And why is it a bannable offence?
By the way, what kind of editors do you use to create these memes? I don’t want to trust online editors or anything corporate. I hope you understand.
I didn’t make this particular one, but I usually just bash it out in a minute using Paint.
Just play EA games. You can say anything.
Fuck EA.
I’ve had voice chat disabled since forever. I will not listen to the tools I play against. Racist and political trolls along with just general assholery. Not worth it. The only time VoIP is worth it these days is of you’re playing with a known group that polices its chat.
i so dearly wish more games were like deep rock galactic, just have a button that lets you ping whatever you’re looking at, with special voicelines for important things.
in DRG it’s a faux pas to use the voice chat, half the fun of the game is communicating solely through pinging stuff and furious head and body movement.
Sis, yeah, fuck EA. EA not spending money on caring one way or the other checks out.
Blizzard game chat is horrid lol
I’m in genuine fucking awe at how awful Blizzard chat is. It’s so so bad I’m actually sorta impressed at how bad it is. They don’t even filter spam.
It’s so insanely wildly impressively bad it doesn’t even belong in the last decade, and that’s before you even get into the rancid garbage the non-bots are saying.
It’s funny because one of the first pc games I really got into was Wc3 and I swear the chat wasn’t like that
It would be nice if they were that explicit about what they don’t want said. Instead it’s more like, “Don’t say stuff we might not like. No, you can’t have a list and when we ban you we won’t tell you why.”
Yeah, the answer is to just not play those games or give them your money in the first place.
What else do you expect, giving up your freedom of speech to faceless corporation and their bureaucratic corporations ? Really at this point it’s a choice. No one is forcing you to interact with these totalitocrats.
Play on your own terms, or just don’t play at all. Reject convenience, K Y SHonestly, I’m not a fan of that sort of censorship.
I grew up in the Time Before Internet, and played all of the earliest online games. Trash talk is simply part of the experience as far as I’m concerned. On Team Fortress Classic, you had to abuse a motherfucker through text chat. And we loved it: everyone was enjoying that novel experience.
Back in the day of early COD on Xbox Live, lobbies were wild. Heck, even Uno subjected you to everything from ‘teach me slurs in your language’ to ‘random dude masturbating on camera while smoking a joint’.
I still play the occasional online game, but they’re boring and soulless. Very few people are on comms, as most seem afraid to actually talk. And with good reason; any sort of mildly spicy talk would get you banned on games. So instead of fostering a friendly atmosphere, from my perspective it ended up killing the entire vibe.
Let folks talk trash. Give as good as you get. And if that’s not for you? There’s other games to play.
i fucking hate the “that’s how it is, go do smth else if you don’t like it” attitude. can we please acknowledge that online gaming would be overall more fun for everyone if people stopped being toxic towards each other?
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that league example is the exception and not the rule. most games have horrible measures against sexism and racism and whatnot. the issue with league’s system is that it’s ai-based and ai makes mistakes all the time, not the fact that it’s trying to stop toxicity.
It’s not trash talk at all though. And even ignoring the language itself, trash talk is towards your opponents (where still most people don’t get how to do it in a non-obnoxious way, i.e. someone spamming ez after they win a game isn’t trash talk it’s being annoying). Most of the really bad flame happens towards teammates because everyone needs to blame someone else.
Irl sports get by just fine without people constantly being pieces of shit, I dunno why it’s so hard to apply that to online games.
