Sportsmanship in Games

[Lord Beautiful]

Luckily for me, I don't really deal much with unsportsmanlike behavior.

Last time someone bitched at me was whenever I won a match in Mortal Kombat with strategic use of blocking. My opponent messaged me after (I guess I'd call it) mock blocking a bunch in the second round, saying something to the effect of "i can blok too faget."

Little bitches, man. Little bitches.

Fortunately, I've yet to see butthurt bitches on Skullgirls or Third Strike. Hell, the people I've messaged there seem downright gentlemanly. Even in Killzone 3, I've yet to get asshole messages. I think I've gotten teabagged a few times, and the people responsible can certainly suck a fat sack of cocks in hell, but I haven't gotten messages.

 

[him over there]

See this is why I play pokemon, nobody with any self respect is going to do anything unsportsmanlike. We have established rules, we have a peer reviewed tier list, we have colloquial phrases to congratulate each other.

 

[Epidemiix]

You want a good look at a really unsportmanshippy group fo players? Play a few games of League of Legends, seriously! I love the game and play it but the fucking people, might be that I always have ba dluck but I always go with gg after a game, and always small letters, doesn't matter if I win or lose. I play for fun!

League of Leagues always being one of the examples that I can say that I have seen the jerks outnumber the people that are not. Moba games in general have more jerks than anything... (yay! more generalizations!)

There's a rather feasible explanation for that. See, games tend to last for a while. So whoever lost, feels like they've just wasted an hour of their time. That tends to make people cranky.

That's for example why the dominion games in LoL are more relaxed in general, they're shorter so even if you lose it doesn't feel like such a waste of time, unless you lose several in a row.

As for the "GG" thing, hey, sorry, I don't dig fake politeness. I tend to just be quiet and go about my business. Only comment when it's "Weirdest game ever" or "Shame that guy ragequitted on you, guys". But "GG"? Nah, just doesn't seem to serve any purpose.

Right, I can see why some people might be upset at wasting an hour of their life losing but its not just the losing party that seems to be sore over it. Most of the games that I have played in League have had far more jerks in them than actual.... non-jerks? Ok, lets go with that, non-jerks. Overall I have seen less jerk-ish behavior out of League than I have of Dota. I deceived that the terrible attitudes of the people that play Dota has to do with a form of elitism of understanding a game that is sort of complex in its nature. (Seriously try to explain how league and Dota work gameplay wise... its tough).

The one thing that doesn't make that much sense then out of these two points, what of the people that play games that are not very complex and do not take that much time to play a round of two in. I am sorry to say this because this seems to be not fair, but most FPS are in this category and yet a lot of poor sportsmanship seems to come form them also. I have always wondered why it seems that these types of games have attracted the same if not more poor attitude players than the other games.