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.
Gamers aren’t well adjusted people
I never will buy an online game for 60 bucks.
Why would you spend any money on one, let alone play it?
Because people enjoy playing games with their friends?
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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
So unpopular…
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.
Who makes fake kissing sounds in online games?! And why is it a bannable offence?
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
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I didn’t make this particular one, but I usually just bash it out in a minute using Paint.
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.”
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
Honestly, 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.
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.
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.
Let me put it in terms a normie can understand. You show up to a game of pick up basketball (local league) and one person is wearing high heels (off meta) the second person shows up late, and the third person doesn’t know how to block a simple pass. How is that not gonna upset you?
Okay you show up to a Sunday league amateur soccer match. You scream KYS to the ref, they red card you. Why you surprised?
Why isn’t the ref stopping the guy in high heels and a thong?
