Men Who are Bad at Video Games More Likely to Show Hostility to Women

[KevinM1]

I'm completely unsurprised.  As a female gamer (I play a LOT of MMO's), I can tell you I've met some strict, hard-core gamers who treated me very respectfully and requested me in dungeons and raids.  The ones who are jerks are the ones who don't get out of the AOE, then yell at you wen they die.  

I've met bad DPS, bad tanks and bad healers, and I gotta say, a bad tank, one who loses agro tothe DPS or healer, misses his interrupts, doesn't catch adds, etc is the biggest jerk in an MMO, generally.

And they always think they are just danm awesome, too.

As a tank, I can say with authority that yeah, a lot of us suck.  I know I'm not the best, but I always try to learn and adapt and figure things out.

For me, the biggest jerks tend to be healers and DPS (obviously).  There's nothing worse than a healer more focused on dealing damage than cleansing and healing.  Yeah, congratulations - you landed a crit on your middling spell.  Meanwhile, I'm dead and the group is half wiped.  Good job.

Bad DPS is frustrating because all they need to do is damage and be aware of big attacks/AOEs.  There's nothing quite as annoying as the DPS who keeps dying, and is the first to die, attempting to play field general in chat.

I'm happy I play FF X|V.  Hardly any jerks in that game.  A lot of the players are WoW vets who have had enough of the assholes and just want to have fun.  I've been playing since X-mas, and I've run into a grand total of 2 idiots:  

One was a DPS who had no clue and kept dying in a relatively simple boss battle.  It looked like he merely ground levels the hard way and was carried through most story encounters.  Garuda (the name of the boss) has a couple tricky mechanics, but we kept telling him what to look out for.  Apparently, he didn't understand what line of sight meant.  D'oh.

The other was also a DPS during the Steps of Faith event.  It was my first time, and the PUG gave crap instructions.  We wiped twice because no one knew where to go or what to do.  The DPS started bitching, and I was just like "Dude, it's just a game.  Relax."  We cleared it on the next try.

But, yeah, 2 out of dozens I've grouped with.  Pretty good odds.