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I think "toxic" is fine, what would you use instead?
Glad there are still some people who believe in the above.
Rose-tinted specs time, but I remember when online gaming was purely the domain of the enthusiast - the people who had to make an effort to actually get things working and get online. Everyone was a lot more polite and respectful.
Strange, I've been playing this quite a lot and so far have found the community quite mature and helpful; only had the misfortune of having one game with a **** constantly talking trash in my team, and everyone else on the team basically told him to stfu.
"I was being an insufferable arse".
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I installed LoL and played for a bit and I'm utterly bemused as to why its so popular, not only is the game utter gash its basically the septic tank of the internet where all the kidlike 'tards meet to let loose with with abuse and pretend gaming matters.
Its a good game in its own right if you like moba games, but you have to just ignore all the morons.
Sounds like someone got seriously carried/lucky last season if you can't get out of Silver 3
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I have said elsewhere on the forum that I lament the explosion of bad attitudes in the gaming scene. The online scene in particular is total cancer at the moment.
When we used to play Quake 3 when it first came out, the entire server would go out of it's way to help new players. I remember one match in particular where a new guy joined and saw how we were moving and doing rocket jumps and asked how to do it. It was a 12 player FFA server and 11 of us stopped playing met the guy in the middle of the map and taught him what to do. This was not an isolated incident. It happened a lot. Sometimes 1 or 2 players would break off to offer lessons and the rest of the server would continue playing, but they would leave the guys helping out alone.
These days he would be accusing the rest of the server of being speed hackers or if he did genuinely ask for help, the other players would likely retort with "L2P noob".
Seems like honour amongst gamers has gone out of the window as well as proper enthusiasm for the hobby - you know where you properly enjoy something and help as many other people as you can to enjoy it as well.
I play Tribes Ascend and many new players have called me a hacker because they simply can't grasp how the game works. Instead of being offended I point out what they are doing wrong and give them some tips to do better.
But unfortunately the tide of self serving "look how pro I am!" players is unstoppable. I think a large part of it is the massive explosion in kids playing online who are too wrapped up in their own little worlds to fully consider the consequences of their actions and how, in the case of the OP, it actually has a negative impact on a game. Whereas a more positive and helpful approach would increase the skill pool within the game as well as create a more positive atmosphere to attract new players. These days it is all selfish lone wolfing though.
I don't feel it is rose tinted glasses, it is a definite shift in online attitudes and it is to the detriment of the hobby in my opinion.
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I have said elsewhere on the forum that I lament the explosion of bad attitudes in the gaming scene. The online scene in particular is total cancer at the moment.
When we used to play Quake 3 when it first came out, the entire server would go out of it's way to help new players. I remember one match in particular where a new guy joined and saw how we were moving and doing rocket jumps and asked how to do it. It was a 12 player FFA server and 11 of us stopped playing met the guy in the middle of the map and taught him what to do. This was not an isolated incident. It happened a lot. Sometimes 1 or 2 players would break off to offer lessons and the rest of the server would continue playing, but they would leave the guys helping out alone.
These days he would be accusing the rest of the server of being speed hackers or if he did genuinely ask for help, the other players would likely retort with "L2P noob".
Seems like honour amongst gamers has gone out of the window as well as proper enthusiasm for the hobby - you know where you properly enjoy something and help as many other people as you can to enjoy it as well.
I play Tribes Ascend and many new players have called me a hacker because they simply can't grasp how the game works. Instead of being offended I point out what they are doing wrong and give them some tips to do better.
But unfortunately the tide of self serving "look how pro I am!" players is unstoppable. I think a large part of it is the massive explosion in kids playing online who are too wrapped up in their own little worlds to fully consider the consequences of their actions and how, in the case of the OP, it actually has a negative impact on a game. Whereas a more positive and helpful approach would increase the skill pool within the game as well as create a more positive atmosphere to attract new players. These days it is all selfish lone wolfing though.
I don't feel it is rose tinted glasses, it is a definite shift in online attitudes and it is to the detriment of the hobby in my opinion.
Yep, a definite shift in attitudes, kids are just different nowadays, a few people start BM'ing people and it slowly catches on until it's the norm.
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I went from Gold 1 to Silver 2 this season over the course of a week or two, so can feel your pain however there is no excuse to start being toxic. I took a week off and grinded up to Plat 5. Sometimes it's better to take a break and return in a better frame of mind
It doesn't help either that all the stats are tracked now, i.e. ranked matches.
If you're just playing for fun and you decide to muck around or help someone for a bit, you can die 20 times in a row and it's fine. But if you're ranked, then you'd be worried, because it would damage your ranking.
So instead you're always on it, and if you get the opportunity to kill a bunch of people who are AFK then you might as well do it to boost your KDR etc.
I remember Battlefield 2 being a very different prospect to CoD2 as a result, back when I did online gaming (and BF2 was my game of choice, despite the aforementioned issues).