Things that annoy you while playing online

slyder35

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AngryMan said:
Nice to meet you Gavaroc. Just a pity that for every one like you there are twenty out there who are pretty much the poster kids for "annoying".

Things that annoy me when online? I have an anecdote. this happened to a friend of mine, who is a very competent Guild Wars player. Like, REALLY competent, this guy owns. His necro/mesmer build is terrifying.

Anyway, he's fairly casual about playing. Mostly he prefers to do the co-op storyline missions than get stuck into the PvP, but occasionally he'll drop into a PvP team arena and look for a team to hook up with.

Recently, a team he offered to join told him to pop up his signature or something (I forget the exact term, it's the "pro" way that people are advertising themselves as good PvPers, apparently). When he said he didn't have one, the immediate response was a flood of "lol noob" from pretty much ALL OF THEM.

These guys were all cookie cutter builds - IWAY warrior/rangers, 50HP monks, that sort of thing. to their way of thinking, there is one and only one way to play the game - the "pro" way, invented by some other, greater player who actually had a goddamn brain. Never mind that this necro/mesmer build my friend uses absolutely destroys IWAY builds, never mind that he's an exceptional player of the game... because he doesn't use a "pro" build or have this record of every fight he's ever won, he's an automatic noob.

And of course, he can't begin to BUILD this record of every fight he's ever won because none of the teams will take him because he doesn't HAVE this record of every fight he's ever won because he can't begin to BUILD this record of every fight he's ever won because none of the teams will take him because he doesn't HAVE this record of every fight he's ever won because he can't begin to BUILD this record of every fight he's ever won because none of the teams will take him because he doesn't HAVE this record of every fight he's ever won because... ad infinitum.

THAT is the sort of stuff that truly annoys me in games. This prescriptivist "only these select few builds, tactics and behaviours work, the rest is noob and not pro go learn 2 play noob." attitude.
Its prettymuch like that in WoW too. As a mage, if you're not 2/48/11 or 11/47/3 spec as a raider you get laughed out of town. Similarly you get 2 builds as a PvE heal priest - CoH or Imp Spirit builds. 2 builds - woopee do - so all healing priests are clones basically. I hate it.
 

thedeathsmarch1408

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well there is lots of things that annoy me when playing a multy player like:
people that annoy you because they like being KILLED
people that think they are your supirior because they have have high stats of one thing and suck at the rest
people that have anger problems when you kill them they shout NOOB! or jerk or come back in 2 weeks and kill you ooo.....about 27 times
people that are new to the game they are playing generaly want free stuff
and childeren whitch ask wired things and are very gullable (well some are and im not trying to say all are annoying....)
 

danosaurus

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people who leave when they start to lose eg. sabotage- the bomb is planted 4/6 players leave
speaking of which people who play team TACTICAL games and go kill seeking - yes you might help a bit but what use is 4 people in the enemy base when they have the bomb? (yes i like sabotage but shut up)
Yep i'm not a big fan of people who bail out of a co-operatively based session. Shows they're not there to play the game properly and are a bunch of 'Take my ball and go home' cry-babies.

I notice alot of people dissin' on the 12 year old kids wailing and saying stupid sh1t in games//lobbies, i'm sorry but for some reason i find this uncontrollably hilarious.
I'm not sure whether they're trying to be annoying on purpose or they've just played for so many hours that their mind has regressed into a mild state of mental retardation.
Its basically a LOLocalypse for me!!!
 

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Kukakkau said:
...CoD4... ...use every weapon (not just the goddam M16 (overpowered to hell))...
Kukakkau, never had i heard statement so fantasicly true. it seem almost every U.S developer likes to over-power every american made gun, especially the M4's / M16's. i understand it's well-built weapon, but when they seem to rival .50 caliber rounds, i mean COME ON!
 

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Kukakkau said:
Meliz said:
The REAL reason i didn't take the plane is that i put every satchel charge i had in the engines, and i'm just waiting for you to take off and then i'm blowing you up for amusing screenshots just as your tires leave the runway.
i salute you dear sir
duly noted. now get me some ice cream and a chick in a bikini. then apply.

hell, sometimes they caught on to that and i just satchel charged the runway right at the minimum distance to takeoff. the one point they HAVE to pass. and i spread them out so they can't swerve around.

it's so much fun to see them try to dodge them well enough to take off, but even when they take off they lose control of it and end up crashing it anyway. flytards.

i hate lawndarters.

using a plane to attack, yeah. but kamikaze's are assholes. at least bail out and don't keep respawning, jump in the fresh plane and repeat. after you wreck a plane, you should keep on fighting and let someone else have a go.

oh and by the way, a mate of mine sat in a black hawk, as the pilot. all these douchebags get in. he takes off, only barely, and i sneak underneath and satchel charge the hell out of it. then the guy flies off, bails somewhere, and tell me via squad talk. then i push the button.

how awesome is that? a helicopter filled with stupid douchebags, spinning and tumbling, and just as they think they get control back i rip it from them in one absolute justice known as kaboom.

and i must be honest, as a commander, i have at least once supplied the enemies and given them detailed instructions to find get to a squad of douchebags while i was keeping them in place with a missile barrage.

it's fair game if you're a douche.

and to handle plane campers, dragons valley, for example, china side, i go into the high tower next to the runway and SNIPE every ************ that spends more than 10 seconds on the track.

there's assholes that just take a plane and SIT THERE
so i just snipe them through the windshield. the nerve of some people to OCCUPY a craft and then wait till the enemy comes so they have a plane which they all eventually lawndart anyway.

and to finish up, once, me and a collection of guys satchel charged the runway on the level with the helicrane incident, to spell out PENIS. I'm proud to say that the top half of the P was mine.

if that's not co-operative play at it's finest (or just funniest) i don't know what is. and i don't think i want to know if it isn't.
 

praxis22

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Other humans, which is why I don't play online. I'm also anti competition. Why does somebody have to win? why do you have to rush?

Personally I'm not in a hurry, and I just want to play, which is why I like games where you can just get lost, and ones that allow for "endless" play styles. Took me 14 hours solid to play my first game of Sins of a solar empire, at which point I quit. Next one took me 9 hours. Great game, if you have the time.
 

ZippyDSMlee

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what annoys me online....moronic grinding...moronic chatter....moronic online games.

I could say everything...but I am not that bad yet *lick* =^^=
 

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people who abuse "leet"

It's not impressive, your not cool,please end the madness...

People who take themselfs to seriosuly and yell at others who are joking around and having a funny conversation. That's half the appeal of an online game for me, and when others try and belittle others for acting thatway....I want to punch them:), so very....very much.

Lag.....enough said

when you finally found that one beutifull weapon..that of so beutifull weapon that you cherish so much, that you foguht for, that you nearly died for...and then someone hits you from behind right as it appears in your animated hands...

Dieing seconds after you respawned
 

ZippyDSMlee

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Crap_haT said:
ZippyDSMlee said:
what annoys me online....moronic grinding...moronic chatter....moronic online games.

I could say everything...but I am not that bad yet *lick* =^^=
You're getting there though. Soon you will be like me and have a general hate for everything. Acceptance is the first step towards hate.
Acceptance is the path to the darker side young sith,it creates conflagration of thought and deed, if you must hate hate with reason for it gives us focus to our emo rage.



.......LOL

oh god the voices are evil today.
 

Gavaroc

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Another annoying thing:

Elitist guilds in MMORPGS. I joined a guild in World of Warcraft, it was relatively new with twenty members. On my second day of membership I was promoted to officer due to 'outstanding recruitment skills,' or so they put it. I was able to hire... ooh, five people in that one day who were still valued members when I last checked. By the end of the week, the members doubled.

Now I was very involved with the guild at that point; I ran a weekly competition where two equally-leveled members of the guild duelled with each other and the spectators placed bets on the winner. All went well and good, until something happened in my life which caused me to cease playing for one month and a half, the reason being something I will not detail. Let us simply say problems arose amongst my extended family and I was not in the country for that time. The others thought I had abandoned the game.

I returned to find the guild with over one hundred members, and quite a few of the old ones... missing. I asked as to where a few of them were, and one of the two co-leaders (husband and wife in real life) told me that some disagreements took place during my absense.

Well, that was vague. I tracked down one of the missing members, who claimed that as the guild grew everything became more formal; treating the game as a job and not a game, and the laws of the guild had increased tenfold. (And, no, I did not use a thesaurus there.) Apparantly some of the old members had decided to leave, but most of them were removed forcefully.

I found myself quite opposed to some of their latest laws, mainly their rule that only characters above level 30 could join. I joined at level 19. As an officer, I had the right to voice my opinion and so I did. I told them that the only membership qualification should be the personality of the new recruit. If a dedicated level 20 gamer with the potential to win many raids and guild events when he reached higher levels asked to join the guild, he would be turned down. That person might then join another guild, level up faster than he would have going solo and bring that guild immense success. Reaching level 30 is easy with a big supportive guild. If the guild does not invest in lower level members, they will find it much more difficult to find good members who don't already have guilds. They may have one hundred members now, but they wouldn't last.

I was demoted. For using my right to free speech. When I challenged that demotion as unfair, I was kicked. And that was basically it. I can understand a society in real life being elitist and selective. But a game? Please. Does a guild have to be this way with one hundred members? I know that it's much harder to manage, but really, no matter how many members you have, just remove the ones that are reported as ruining the fun of others and that's all that needs to be done.
 

Thanq

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Garvaroc, you are a great upholder of justice and truth. Your gaming principles are great and you are the only person my age on the 'web I can look up to.


- So anyway -
I really hate those conceited people who play every day non-stop and then think they are better than you and own you just because they have a higher high score. Usually, actually, they are better than me but they should have the decency to not parade it around in your face every 30 seconds. I am actually quite good at Team Fortress 2 and have a large high score, all the accomplishments and an extended friends group - but I don't use it as an excuse to inflate my ego further! I don't go around calling people n00bs all the time when I look at their high score. Do you? I don't automatically think I am better than them - for all I know they might just be new to the game but are awesome and talented anyway! I don't, just because you accidentally say some team info on general chat, call you a noob or whatever, it happens to everybody once in a while. And I most certainly do not feel inferior to or intimidated by someone with a large high score and 1337 5k1ll4g3.

I hope you don't either.
 

Fayze

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Most annoying thing about playing online?

Well i'd have to say other people in general for pretty much the same reasons already mentioned. An online game without other people would be great......like the .hack games anyone who's played them will no what i mean :D
 

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wow.. most of you guys sound like 40 yr old gamers/noobs lol.

Don't forget that games are.. well, games. People play them to have fun in different ways. Sometimes annoying people like you guys is fun because you cry so damn much when you can't 'game' seriously. Even when there's no1 annoying you you still suck so it doesn't matter
 

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One thing I've allways remembered was in the first MGO when I made it to the other team's roof then thrashed everyone. Then ensued the torent of abuse like "Headshot noob!!" (yes, i'm a noob because I'm better than them) "Respawn camper" (even though respawners have 4 seconds of invinsibility and 2 escape routes) and the American fave. "Douche bag" and the fact that the expression sounds so perthetic it feels to me like they're insulting themselves.
 

Jolly Madness

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Not too be too racist here... but some French. Every single french TF2 server I've been to, there's someone shouting "Luhluhluhluhluhluhluhluh" in the mic and having loud arguments, which in my ears sounds like gibbering nonsense.
 

Spartan9422

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Ok the thing i actully despise with a passion is when people teabag 4 me 4 no good reason.

Situation 1: I get killed by a guy when i kill myself by accident(It happens to everyone at least once) - Teabag acceptable

Situation 2: I get killed by something really low powered like a plasma pistol or maybe a assasination (i should have been watching my back)or with some one who did something really skilled(Pull off an amazing grenade stick or nade) - Teabag acceptable

Situation 3: I get killed by a guy with a shotgun/rocket launcher other high powered weapon and i only have my spawn weapons - Tea Bag not acceptable.
I had a game a few weeks back where my entire team left apart from me so it was 4v1. I didnt leave cause i wasnt going to give these guys a easy victory. Within a few minutes they had every power weapon on the map.(Each one had a least a sniper or a rocket launcher/shotgun)and i could only get one or two kills off the team every so often before they killed me. And u know wat they all teabag me everytime. I said nothing ofensive bac,didnt teabag back, played fairly with only an assualt rifle and they still teabaged me. I lost with 50-27 with 25 of the kills being mine.

That wats annoys me, if a player kills me with skill or i do something dumb fair enough go ahead i deserve it but if not, why do it just make everyone annoyed.

Also im english and hate the way all Americains that want to start an arguement with me resort wen i win an arguement with callling me a british fag. Also any Americain that that use the point we saved your arse in world war two. Americains werent the only people in the war and most of all YOU did nothing, YOUR grandparents did, so stop using that as a comeback. Other Americains are all great as long as they dont do the things above.