The correct response is to find the accounts of those who made the threats then just ban their accounts with ZERO chance of recovery.
Maybe convince them to give the account information by saying "We are sorry you feel this way. How does an experience boost or custom skin as compensation sound?" or whatever to convince them to give their ID away. Give them what you promised at first, then after a week hit the fuckers with a ban preventing them from playing all games associated with that account. If they try and kick a stink about it you've got cause to inform the police of their death threats.
This is the kind of audience that COD caters too. There are always those that are more vocal than others and those that think it is okay to take it to extremes. But the quotes above I agree with.
This is what people think about when they think of gamers, of course COD being one or the most sold game means it represent a significant number so therefore the vocal minority represents gaming as a whole.
Thanks a lot you whiny pathetic douchebags for tainting the rest of the community.
Increasing reload time by a tenth of a second gets people sending death threats? Seriously? It's such a short period of time, I'm surprised anyone noticed.
These incessant little whiners aren't concerned about balance, because let's face it: there is no such thing as "balance" in twitch shooters like CoD. It's all about who's got the fastest fingers and the best hardware.
Nah, the kinds of people that make death threats over inconsequential changes in a video game have compulsion issues and are best steered clear of, on the internet and in real life.
He's definitely right about this being far too common. Hard to believe people can wind themselves up so much over a video game they like to play sometimes. This makes the idea of gamers feeling too entitled look warm and fuzzy by comparison.
Not sure how to interpret the behaviour really without saying duh codblops or something equally retarded. It's obvious things like Twitter give people an inflated sense of their own importance and influence. Being able to sit at a keyboard comfortably may have something to do with the power trip. Though for some reason these people are actually threatening the guys making their games with physical harm... It's almost like even they want them to stop making COD games.
At least this stuff is so obviously retarded and (hopefully) empty it can be ignored in some equal level of comfort. Too bad about the rest of Twitter... Don't even get me started on all the others... Not to mention all those internet forums filled with opinionated morons you can never seem to avoid... err I mean wonderful people I can't get enough of. Honest.
And this is why I have no fucking interest in buying any of the COD franchise.
I'm subscribed to Troller's Youtube channel, name of Soprano Pictures, who pretends to either be a man with down syndrome or a squeaky six-year old and proceeds to wind people up on COD. Now, what happens most of the time on his videos is that the other players on the channel start to bully him and abuse him (while he says the most hilarious things back), saying the most vile, vicious and disgusting things to him, completely taking the piss of who they think is an intellectually disabled person or a small child. I don't want to be part of that kind of community. I don't want to play with people who say the most horrific things to random people on the internet just because they think they can get away with it.
For the record, since everyone's probably questioning why the hell anyone would find it funny to watch a intellectually disabled person (or someone pretending to be one) being bullied online, he usually ends his episodes by revealing himself and inviting them to watch themselves on his channel. Though even then, that usually only causes said assholes to abuse him even more...
I'm not sure if what I just posted counts as 'advertising' or whatever breach of the code of conduct, so if it does, I'd appreciate it if you'd just ask me to edit this out rather than being slapped with a warning.
The Rogue Wolf said:
Changes involving fractions of a second made to make-believe guns in a video game rate death threats, now?
These people must have their heads so far up their asses that they can see out their own nostrils.
Upbeat Zombie said:
I would of been happy if they were able to ban the people making such comments. The games would be better off without people like that.
You have NO IDEA how much I would love to see that. "You want something to get upset about?" BANHAMMER
[small]And seriously, considering the guy who faced eight years of jail for one dumb comment in League of Legends [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/125507-League-of-Legends-Player-Faces-Eight-Years-For-Terroristic-Threats], you'd think these rageheads would think twice before tossing off death threats.[/small]
Oh my god, this, a thousand fucking times this. This type of vile drivel coming from these aggressive MORONS, being sent straight to the bloody DEVELOPERS, really should be enough reason to pull out the Banhammer if some poor bastard gets jail time for saying something stupid in an anonymous game/facebook post.
Edit: Stop me if I'm on the wrong track, guys, but wasn't part of this patch designed to lower the firing speed of two snipers rifles? You know, weapons that aren't supposed to be used run-and-gun style like automatic rifles?
Increasing reload time by a tenth of a second gets people sending death threats? Seriously? It's such a short period of time, I'm surprised anyone noticed.
Increasing reload time by a tenth of a second gets people sending death threats? Seriously? It's such a short period of time, I'm surprised anyone noticed.
I wouldn't go that far. I can think of instances where death threats are appropriate. However, NONE of them have anything to do with entertainment industry: I.E. the stuff people are supposed to do for fun.
The only thing I really know about this game is this meme. Threats from obnoxious children are petty & empty, unless they know where you live & it's within biking distance from their house.
I have seen almost as bad in World of Tanks. Replace tough guys with arm-chair xenophobe/racist general and you get the idea . This happens all over the gaming community. Not saying that it should happen though, Dan Amrich is kinda correct.
But if the loudest voices in the Call of Duty 'community' act like an angry mob instead, guess how the entire world views Call of Duty? Now consider that these Internet Tough Guy rants and demands are not unique to COD, but exist everywhere, in many gaming communities. This is why the world often does not take gaming seriously; this is why gamers are assumed to be immature, whiny assholes. Because the immature, whiny assholes are louder."
Huh. An Activision exec actually hit the nail exactly on the head. Well said.
It's obviously a tiny, tiny minority of players who are making these threats, but it's still hard to believe people could get that wound up over changes that are so insignificant. I mean, it's a game. You're playing it to have fun. If you're getting this angry about it, you should probably do something else.
Well yeah, he's right. People should not be getting death threats at any point - but over something as trivial as a 0.1 second difference in reload times? Fucking ridiculous.
Unfortunately, since the whiny assholes are quite pervasive in pretty much every gaming community, this definitely isn't exclusive to CoD, by any stretch of the imagination.
Honestly it kind of makes me laugh. That's the kind of obsessive, in-depth knowledge that gets other nerds to make fun of you for being too nerdy. Seriously though it's 0.2 seconds, which is right around the speed of a human blink. How do you even notice something like that?
Zachary Amaranth said:
And seriously, considering the guy who faced eight years of jail for one dumb comment in League of Legends [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/125507-League-of-Legends-Player-Faces-Eight-Years-For-Terroristic-Threats], you'd think these rageheads would think twice before tossing off death threats.
They're just lucky that the Treyarch guys are being so chill about it. Still though, it would be nice if they'd just learn to chill out themselves. It's a video game, and a multiplayer one at that. Be angry at the players, not the developers.
Hey mate, if I was actually in a situation where I had to interact with these people I'd be telling them to shut up. Fortunately for me, I'm not, so it's up to the CoD community to police itself. Unfortunately for all of us, it's up to the CoD community to police itself...
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. This happens all over the gaming community. Not saying that it should happen though, Dan Amrich is kinda correct.
