I think I know why gamers get no respect

[Vault101]

you know what somtimes makes me wonder?

the insane ways people act

like that Healper lady from Bioware "OMG SHE SAID SKIP GAMEPLAY??!! FAT FUCKING ***** NEEDS TO DIE!!!"

or Jessica Chobot being in ME3 "DEATH THREATS!"

I mean seriously, thats shits unnaccaptle

 

[Irridium]

you know what somtimes makes me wonder?

the insane ways people act

like that Healper lady from Bioware "OMG SHE SAID SKIP GAMEPLAY??!! FAT FUCKING ***** NEEDS TO DIE!!!"

or Jessica Chobot being in ME3 "DEATH THREATS!"

I mean seriously, thats shits unnaccaptle

Yeah, I'd say this is much more of a problem than some dude bitching about people picking maps/gametypes he doesn't like.

 

[Dandark]

Nah, it's just because a lot of people still think games are just toys for kids or nerds or other stereotypes.

It also doesn't help that the gaming community loves to bash itself for some reason, currently everybody loves to throw arounds words like "entitled" or "whiny" so that isn't very helpful. I don't know, it's really weird but a lot of the gaming community seems to hate itself.

 

[Zeema]

I don't mind new players to video games at all and would gladly teach them things. However I refuse to play with a team in a team based game with no mics... seriously. Ever play L4D without anyone using mics, you will get destroyed in an easy game within the first 5 minutes. I am not even joking there. I have seen it happen. I do not trust the no mic because they have earned any and all distrust from me.

No offense to anyone here... but... to many bad expierences. Far too many.

yea i agree, Mic's are needed in any game team game. How are you supposed to tell someone that there getting chased by a smoker. or if you play BF3 like everything in that game

 

[LiquidGrape]

you know what somtimes makes me wonder?

the insane ways people act

like that Healper lady from Bioware "OMG SHE SAID SKIP GAMEPLAY??!! FAT FUCKING ***** NEEDS TO DIE!!!"

or Jessica Chobot being in ME3 "DEATH THREATS!"

I mean seriously, thats shits unnaccaptle

Yeah, I'd say this is much more of a problem than some dude bitching about people picking maps/gametypes he doesn't like.

This. This is the real problem. Gaming as a subculture is still remarkably adolescent and reactionary, and this is best demonstrated in its rampant misogyny.
The lack of overall diversity, be it anything from ethnicity to sexuality, is an additional and correlating problem.

 

[Lunatic High]

I love games, they bring people together so that we can shoot eachother and have fun doing it sure a person may be VERY good at halo I'm VERY good at halo as well but neither of us are fucking empowered people who need that kind of a gratifacation from something that isn't actually real (in a literal sense) are the ones that need to go outside.

 

[Trippy Turtle]

I would have thought it would be because playing games does not earn or lose you respect. Why would you respect someone for doing something a minor as playing a game?

 

[bjj hero]

Im not elitist, everyone has to learn at some point. I can remember playing the ME3 multiplayer demo and getting kicked because I was a lvl 1 whatever passes for classes in ME3. Being lvl1 douesnt mean I dont know my way around a shooter.

Having said that I'd personally birch everyone on battlefield 3 who runs full tilt towards the chopper only to ditch it straight into the sea because they dont know how to fly it, killing their gunner. Choppers are an important resource in BF3.

Everyone has to learn but go and do it on co-op.

 

[Vault101]

you know what somtimes makes me wonder?

the insane ways people act

like that Healper lady from Bioware "OMG SHE SAID SKIP GAMEPLAY??!! FAT FUCKING ***** NEEDS TO DIE!!!"

or Jessica Chobot being in ME3 "DEATH THREATS!"

I mean seriously, thats shits unnaccaptle

Yeah, I'd say this is much more of a problem than some dude bitching about people picking maps/gametypes he doesn't like.

after reading the thread in the OP I suspect that guy was a troll...ot mabye peopel are like that

This. This is the real problem. Gaming as a subculture is still remarkably adolescent and reactionary, and this is best demonstrated in its rampant misogyny.
The lack of overall diversity, be it anything from ethnicity to sexuality, is an additional and correlating problem.

like aparently how they banned females at some LAN event for Battefeild 3, oh sure the guys would out number the girls..but

its makes NO ONE look good, its prett much saying "yes, we belive that gamers are in fact hob-goblins that cannot function when in the presance of the oposite gender...that thats ok"

 

[Khronas]

Vault101 what you say is sadly true so many gamers are awkward around the opposite gender because the only interaction with them is through over-sexualized avatars.

 

[Stu35]

I think I know why gamers get no respect

Because you don't deserve respect for playing games.

It's an entertainment medium. You don't earn peoples respect through entertaining yourself. Same reason people who read, watch TV, and masturbate, don't get any respect simply for doing those things.

like aparently how they banned females at some LAN event for Battefeild 3, oh sure the guys would out number the girls.

When/Where was that?

Not saying it didn't happen, but I need context before I can form an opinion on it... I personally would never ban girls from my LAN parties... if I had LAN parties, but in the same way that I don't begrudge not being allowed to my Missus Ann Summers parties, I wouldn't necessarily have any problem with somebody setting up a "No Girls Allowed" LAN party - however if it was some sort of major tournament, with money involved, it becomes a different matter.

 

[RaikuFA]

I would have thought it would be because playing games does not earn or lose you respect. Why would you respect someone for doing something a minor as playing a game?

Im not elitist, everyone has to learn at some point. I can remember playing the ME3 multiplayer demo and getting kicked because I was a lvl 1 whatever passes for classes in ME3. Being lvl1 douesnt mean I dont know my way around a shooter.

Having said that I'd personally birch everyone on battlefield 3 who runs full tilt towards the chopper only to ditch it straight into the sea because they dont know how to fly it, killing their gunner. Choppers are an important resource in BF3.

Everyone has to learn but go and do it on co-op.

Theres a problem though, gamers don't want newcomers in their games. To a lot of people, newcomers are up there with EA, Gamestop and Tim Buckley on terms of bad things for newcomers.

 

[RatRace123]

I'm inclined to agree with the OP. The incessant bitching and insulting within the gaming community is why we don't get respect.

Because the gaming fandom is still essentially a bunch of dick waving kids talking about why they're superior because of how much money they sink into their system or what system they have or, like the jagoff in the given example, how much time they sink into a particular game, people on the outside see the fandom as a whole as a bunch of, well a bunch of dick waving kids who... yaddah yaddah, you get the picture.

So yeah, I agree with the OP. If we're going to get respect from outside, we're gonna need to respect each other first. Basic human decency and all that, and not thinking that you're lord awesome and that you're better than anyone else just because your username happens to have a couple of stars next to it in a freaking match making lobby.