So when most people sit down and watch TV, a movie, read a book, sit on facebook or just browse the internet, I start up a video game and chat with some people as I do it. I've done it since I was like 12 years old. That said the game to me is only part of the fun, the other being playing alongside people and having a laugh.

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TL;DR PC gamers are assholes. Why is there nobody fun who plays more than once in a blue moon.

Idk. I play an MMO called Town of Salem, and people are constantly calling towns stupid, whether they're really being stupid/lazy or not. Granted there are some stupid towns out there. I got killed once for accusing someone of killing a townie because serial killers automnatically kill people that try to block them. Yet when I brought that up, I got hanged.

Not everyone is that dumb, though. Part of the problem is obviously because they know you can't dope slap them for being assholes. I doubt they'd try the kind of things they'd try if they were in the same room as others.

It seems like every multiplayer game needs some kind of ignore feature just for the trolls. The term is usually Stop Having Fun Guy, or Scrub. People who play too seriously, or people who demand you play the game a certain way.

On BF4 all I ever see is either "Hacker" or some misspelled insult. Those things don't bother me as much as not having any real community at all. I can deal with a few assholes but it seems like their aren't any friendly people to balance that out. Battlefield actually has a group nicknamed as battle-loggers who rarely ever play the game but sit in the battlefield forums doing giving each other abuse and moaning about the game. Its probably the closest thing to a community the game has.

At this point I'm beyond caring what game I play. I just want to find some active people who aren't assholes and play something.. anything.. I'm going to give till the end of the year when some new games come out, if I still can't find anyone I'm buying a new console..

The Neverwinter Nights persistent world crowd was a great community back in the day.

(July 28, 2014 at 3:34 pm)Insanity Wrote: if I still can't find anyone I'm buying a new console..

PS4... PS4... PS4!

I have a set group of highschool friends that I mmo with when in the season, and we are pretty closed off twinking our own toons for hard mode group material. A lot of gamers are asshole showing off their epeen or just fall into that mentality when they are playing. I'll grab a raiding guild now and then, and I find it annoying that the majority log on and are either silent or bragging about good they are and how much you suck. Then just log off as soon as the raid is over. Not too pleasant.

When I began Everquest, over a dozen years ago, the genre was fresh and new and incredibly difficult. The was no soloing unless you were a necromancer, and even then it was hard as hell. The high difficulty of it actually made the gamers very nice and friendly. I think because people relied on others to do just about everything it kept the community more pleasant. Nobody wanted to be blacklisted by the server for being annoying or purposely trying to get others killed when deleveling and strict xp climbs was on the table. The community in the early mmo days was a peaceful and awesome experience. Nowadays everything is nearly soloable and people don't need to worry about their reputation, because you can do it all by yourself so why not be an asshole? That's one theory anyway.

Video games are pretty poor for "socialization", IMO. Kinda like the internet.

I've met all my best friends in West Side Story-style choreographed knife fights.

It is annoying when you get a good party together, do a quest, and everyone leaves without thinking maybe they could do something else together. I like being able to solo, but it can get boring without people to group together. The problem with a game that's mostly soloable, though, is that not many people are looking for parties.

If only you played with our little gang of misfits, and didn't have unbelievable lag when doing so.

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Eat your hearts out




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