Rules of Multiplayer Gaming

[BaronXS]

Most of these rules are just plain stupid. Label me as a troll if you like but your rules are about as useful as a lead balloon.

1. Don't question these rules
- Why? What reason should I not question them? This rule fails.
2. Don't question the admin/mods
- Even if they are being morons and fucking up the game? No. hence why this rule fails.
3. Be modest, yet honest.
- So if I absolutely kick ass I should say I did ok and if I sucked I should say I sucked? This rule fails.
4. You're entitiled to your opinion, but don't mistake it for fact
- if you have a strong opinion chances are no-one wants to hear it during play, so leave it for the after game lobby. This rule fails.
5. Only teabag/gloat for godlike stuff
- Teabagging is retarded, not to mention while your busy teabagging someone your also making it easier for someone to catch you off guard. Rule fails.
6. Learn what godlike is before applying rule #5
- Nothing is godlike, the scale goes from sucking bad to doing great. no higher or lower. Rule Fails.
7. Unless for a valid reason, abandoning your team is unacceptable.
- I agree with a previous poster, most reasons are valid. Rule Fails.
8. If you do have a valid reason, announce you are leaving.
- One of the more sensible rules on the list except there are times when people cannot do this. Such as family emergencies, medical issues, hell even the internet going down. Rule fails.
9. Only noobs call other people noobs
- Noob is a stupid word that is overused to the point of it no longer meaning a thing. At one time a noob may have been a term for an inexperienced player. Now its just used as an insult.
10. An exception to rule #9 is if the accused party is breaking another rule.
- No exceptions, the term is stupid and pointless.
11. Admins: The banhammer is there for your protection, not amusement.
- Finally a rule I can agree with fully.
12. If something comes up and you must go AFK, don't go AFK, leave the game while following rules #7 & 8
- What? Simply no, The balance of Game to Life dips heavily on the life side. Life comes before shooting pixels into pixels. Plus in some games if you leave the game you open a slot for an active player to fill. Rule Fails.
13. Team-killing on purpose is never acceptable. If accidental, apologize immediately, or it will be deemed to be on purpose.
- Team-killing is just something idiots do who just want to jack off about how awesome they think they are. Pretty much a no brainer rule.
14. The mic is for the game, not for you.
- Agreed, and for god sake don't play your damn music in the background while you play.
15. If you are playing a co-op game, a mic is required (while following rule #14), unless under the extreme case in which you cannot acquire one. However, this excuse is impossible to be applied on XBox, since the XBox itself comes with a mic.
- A mic is not required. Most of the time outside of gaming groups mic players are annoying, retarded, unhelpful, or try to assume command no matter how good they actually are. Occasionally wanting everyone to understand just how epic a kill he just got was without at all concentrating on the here and now. Rule Fails.
16. If you have lost anything pertaining to the game, especially mic(s), get a new one ASAP.
- How about, 1. If I feel like it. 2. If I actually want one. 3. If I have money aside to waste on crap. Rule Fails
17. If you cannot afford one, you are either lying or homeless. Scratch that, you're lying.
- Or you haven't got money to waste on pointless crap when theres better things to spend it on. Rule Fails
18. A cheap move is exactly that- a cheap move. Not a pro tactic. Know the difference.
- The only cheap move that is truly a cheap move is spawn camping. If its accidental, thats fine, move away from the area. If its on purpose then GTFOut of my game.
19. Hacking/cheating/exploiting is the worst know offence to multiplayer gaming.
- Possibly the only rule in this list that everyone can agree on, except those who do these things. Who quite frankly arnt worth the time it would take to acknowledge the existence of.
20. LEEEEEEEEEROOYYYYY... JEEEEEEEENNNKINSSSSSSSS!
- Leeroy Jenkins was an example of one of the things you DONT DO in multiplayer gaming. So why is this on a list of rules of what to do? Rule Fails on EPIC proportions.

I will direct you to rule 4. You're welcome to your own opinion, but don't mistake it for fact. Thanks for your feedback, though.

 

[whaleswiththumbs]

I love doing random stuff when bored - keep going and publish a multiplayer bible!

I'm going to make 20 rules of things NOT to do, but i will do them cause they are fun. No I really am joking with that, I is a good people.

 

[UnearthedArcana]

Here's how it works for me:

Rules of Multiplayer Gaming

1. All's fair in war.

 

[Disaster Button]

9. Only noobs call other people noobs

So true.

But you forgot the exception to the teamkilling rule. If someone is being a MAJOR douchebag, you're allowed to shoot them.

 

[BaronXS]

9. Only noobs call other people noobs

So true.

But you forgot the exception to the teamkilling rule. If someone is being a MAJOR douchebag, you're allowed to shoot them.

It's better just to let the mods deal with them. Be the better man.

 

[clericalerror]

Wow... People take this stuff really seriously, huh?

I will do two things with this list. I will obey the first rule. I will not apply any of them.

I will play video games the way I play them. Everyone is playing to have fun, nobody likes someone ruining other people's fun but no set of rules will deter them from that. I always play games with fun for me and all my fellow players but I also realise the world is filled with a lot of people that think ruining other people's fun is fun. Power to them! They've made my banned list and that's my right.

 

[garjian]

awww :<

team killing is the only fun part of halo... besides infection with friends...
thph... constantly staging 'accidents' focusing on one guy, is MUCH harder than anything anyone playing that game can throw it you lol...

my favourite though... satalite dishy level of doom place thing... stand-off? get a warthog... fill it full of peons... drive towards cliff... jump out at last second...

sure halo classes this as a team kill and you can be booted from it... but ffs its fun to hear them moan xD they never see it coming...


oh what? erm... no, yeah... i totally agree with everything you said like... absolutely definately...

 

[Kinguendo]

If you are playing Battlefield on the 360 and you see that you are on the same side of Ev1l Jak then thank whatever "God" you worship, but if you are against Ev1l Jak then you had better pray that he doesnt see you. >

EDIT: This rule is for Battlefield... and it is the most important one.

 

[BaronXS]

Wow... People take this stuff really seriously, huh?

I will do two things with this list. I will obey the first rule. I will not apply any of them.

I will play video games the way I play them. Everyone is playing to have fun, nobody likes someone ruining other people's fun but no set of rules will deter them from that. I always play games with fun for me and all my fellow players but I also realise the world is filled with a lot of people that think ruining other people's fun is fun. Power to them! They've made my banned list and that's my right.

You do realize me and my friend made this list just for fun, right?

 

[Disaster Button]

9. Only noobs call other people noobs

So true.

But you forgot the exception to the teamkilling rule. If someone is being a MAJOR douchebag, you're allowed to shoot them.

It's better just to let the mods deal with them. Be the better man.

Probably, in the end. But there's just something more satisfying about killing his face off than from having him banned.

 

[US Crash Fire]

1: No touching of the hair or face.....AND THATS IT!

 

[clericalerror]

Wow... People take this stuff really seriously, huh?

I will do two things with this list. I will obey the first rule. I will not apply any of them.

I will play video games the way I play them. Everyone is playing to have fun, nobody likes someone ruining other people's fun but no set of rules will deter them from that. I always play games with fun for me and all my fellow players but I also realise the world is filled with a lot of people that think ruining other people's fun is fun. Power to them! They've made my banned list and that's my right.

You do realize me and my friend made this list just for fun, right?

That's kinda my point. People will do whatever is fun to them. And it's a good little list that I am sure would apply in many situations you play under. I never play online or have a microphone, have to deal with moderators, etc unless I'm playing an MMO (nostalgia log in) so a lot of the rules never come up for me. But I'm certainly not going to break rule number 1. Haha.

 

[BaronXS]

Wow... People take this stuff really seriously, huh?

I will do two things with this list. I will obey the first rule. I will not apply any of them.

I will play video games the way I play them. Everyone is playing to have fun, nobody likes someone ruining other people's fun but no set of rules will deter them from that. I always play games with fun for me and all my fellow players but I also realise the world is filled with a lot of people that think ruining other people's fun is fun. Power to them! They've made my banned list and that's my right.

You do realize me and my friend made this list just for fun, right?

That's kinda my point. People will do whatever is fun to them. And it's a good little list that I am sure would apply in many situations you play under. I never play online or have a microphone, have to deal with moderators, etc unless I'm playing an MMO (nostalgia log in) so a lot of the rules never come up for me. But I'm certainly not going to break rule number 1. Haha.

You seem to be the only person who really understands the REAL rules of multiplayer gaming, or any gaming for that matter: To have fun.

You, sir, are awesome.

 

[clericalerror]

Wow... People take this stuff really seriously, huh?

I will do two things with this list. I will obey the first rule. I will not apply any of them.

I will play video games the way I play them. Everyone is playing to have fun, nobody likes someone ruining other people's fun but no set of rules will deter them from that. I always play games with fun for me and all my fellow players but I also realise the world is filled with a lot of people that think ruining other people's fun is fun. Power to them! They've made my banned list and that's my right.

You do realize me and my friend made this list just for fun, right?

That's kinda my point. People will do whatever is fun to them. And it's a good little list that I am sure would apply in many situations you play under. I never play online or have a microphone, have to deal with moderators, etc unless I'm playing an MMO (nostalgia log in) so a lot of the rules never come up for me. But I'm certainly not going to break rule number 1. Haha.

You seem to be the only person who really understands the REAL rules of multiplayer gaming, or any gaming for that matter: To have fun.

You, sir, are awesome.

Thank you. (Just so the rest of you know, I did not pay this person)

 

[Meado]

ill agree with most of these... some have their exceptions, but may i ask why the hell "leroy jenkins" is a rule? that makes no sense and its pointless

It's a reminder that you should never take things too seriously. It's why Leeroy was so popular; they were making a huge plan and sucking all the fun out of it, so he just said "booooring, CHARGE!!".

 

[BaronXS]

ill agree with most of these... some have their exceptions, but may i ask why the hell "leroy jenkins" is a rule? that makes no sense and its pointless

It's a reminder that you should never take things too seriously. It's why Leeroy was so popular; they were making a huge plan and sucking all the fun out of it, so he just said "booooring, CHARGE!!".

BINGO!

 

[suicideblonde]

ok i do agree with these rules except for the mic parts .. i think little boys (voice hasnt changed yet this applys to you) im so fucking tired of these cockbites screaming there asses off when they die or get a kill my ears hurt damnit!!! (yes i know theres a way to mute the player but its kinda hard to do while playing) oh and if i could add one more rule

#21 dont play your shitty music over live. no one else likes it.

 

[BaronXS]

ok i do agree with these rules except for the mic parts .. i think little boys (voice hasnt changed yet this applys to you) im so fucking tired of these cockbites screaming there asses off when they die or get a kill my ears hurt damnit!!! (yes i know theres a way to mute the player but its kinda hard to do while playing) oh and if i could add one more rule

#21 dont play your shitty music over live. no one else likes it.

That's basically what #14 means.

 

[Singularly Datarific]

I love doing random stuff when bored - keep going and publish a multiplayer bible!

http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-7-deadly-sins-of-online-gaming/

 

[vacuumbrand]

Nail this to the door of the Catholic church and we will all start practicing BaronXSism.