Poll: Do PC gamers have an image problem?

[V da Mighty Taco]

Gamers have an image problem.

There is an easy way to fix this but no one wants to do it because their choice of item is "the best and others are stupid!". Stop arguing about which group is superior and ignoring the fact that they both have pros and cons like a bunch of toddlers arguing which one of their race cars is coolest looking.

On the plus side, I do think that the majority of gamers are not these toddler twats having an imaginary pissing contest. The minority just happens to be the loudest and therefore we all get lumped in with the stupid.

I'd say that PC gamers in general do have an image problem in the same way that Bronies do - there's a very notable minority being incredibly obnoxious to the point where some people automatically assume that the whole group's like that.

You're right, however, that gamers in general also have a massive image problem. However, that has less to do with them being seen as obnoxious twats and more to do with the perception that video games are for children or antisocial basement-dwelling nerds (which I admittedly am ). Society as a whole doesn't look kindly on the antisocial or introverted, which is why that particular image is problematic.

 

[Kuuenbu]

You're right, however, that the human race in general also has a massive image problem.

That's more like it.

 

[MetalMonkey74]

Its not PC gamers that have an image problem, its gamers on the whole. When you get console gamers insulting other gamers its just frikkin stupid. The PC is the superior platform, shouting insults at people will not change it. Also, people tend to be "tribal" in their ways. They think that their faction of gamers (people that play on the same hardware) are superior to others. This is the same with Politics, football, religion or whatever.