Underaged Gamers
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For me it comes down to behavior rather than someones actual voice.
I'd take a mature 12 year old over a 30 year old shouting noob and calling everyone gay.
I'd take a mature 12 year old over a 30 year old shouting noob and calling everyone gay.
You know what, I find it very offensive when people used to ban me for the pitch of my voice
I was brought up on video games and I deserve any right anyone else has to play it, I am 15 and am constantly criticized for my voice and its pitch, even though I was barely speaking and only once or twice used any form of profanity, that was more or less directed at my own incompetence that anyone else's. One of the extremes was when I had been playing on a minecraft server that had team speak enabled, I was enjoying my self when all of a sudden I was banned my one of the relatively new mods, when I asked why I had been banned he said that I sounded like a 12 year old and told me to grow some balls, to which I responded to that I was 15 but he wasn't having any of it. When I contacted the owner of the server about this he had be unbanned and he promoted me to mod to take the other guys place, To which I am thankful.
So all in all I am just all around annoyed at the prejudice of younger gamers, sure there are some of us that are swearing little brats, but there are others like me that do not have the mental age of a four year old and would just like to have a game chat without being made fun of.
Peace Out
I was brought up on video games and I deserve any right anyone else has to play it, I am 15 and am constantly criticized for my voice and its pitch, even though I was barely speaking and only once or twice used any form of profanity, that was more or less directed at my own incompetence that anyone else's. One of the extremes was when I had been playing on a minecraft server that had team speak enabled, I was enjoying my self when all of a sudden I was banned my one of the relatively new mods, when I asked why I had been banned he said that I sounded like a 12 year old and told me to grow some balls, to which I responded to that I was 15 but he wasn't having any of it. When I contacted the owner of the server about this he had be unbanned and he promoted me to mod to take the other guys place, To which I am thankful.
So all in all I am just all around annoyed at the prejudice of younger gamers, sure there are some of us that are swearing little brats, but there are others like me that do not have the mental age of a four year old and would just like to have a game chat without being made fun of.
Peace Out
Except that you said 'just like'? That is kinda specifically claiming it is on the same level.Fappy said:
I do agree with your sentiment, prejudice is present in every group of people, in some way. Some vegetarians use 'red meaters' as a derogatory term. The ALF, PETA, are lubriciously prejudiced organizations against those that don't share their views.
I think most people probably have something they are prejudiced about, whether it be their assumption about the type of person that plays a certain game(The flames that fly about CoD or BF3 players), or subscribes to a particular belief ( I fall into this group, I discount the opinion of folks who admit being members of Occupy movements just because they're wrong in regards to what that movement centers around.
I know, there is no one purpose of the movement, it involves everyone from avid socialists; "anarchists"; people who hate that others have more than them(See: Work harder than); to students who want to have their loans bailed out or are upset that there are no entry level jobs with 60k a year salaries in their field.)It's no surprise that some folk will vote to kick a person for having a high pitched voice in a game rather than muting, muting the person means that original source of irritation is still there, just silent, that should be enough, but it might not be enough to a lot of folk because the person hasn't been punished for being annoying.
It isn't fair, but so little in life is fair. I agree that if anything, games should always be kept equal, but if the majority of folk in the game are wanting to kick the person.... Ignoring their wishes wouldn't be right either.
That's not what I was intending to say. I agree, I could have worded it a bit better: "Like making black people sit in the back of the bus or keeping droids out of your cantina, people will always hate each other for one reason or another. People never change."Caverat said:
I only have a PC so my gaming experience is limited to that platform. My experience with kids has actually been a positive one. In fact considering I don't really play popular games (I avoid COD at all costs) you don't really come across many kids. However the kids you do come across are actually pretty awsome.
Nothing funnier than an 11 year old shouting orders over VOIP at 30+ adults, even better when the kid is a good player and knows what he is talking about. In fact I bet I have come across many kids playing but never known since they didn't use VOIP. Generally I find the people who give me problems are either insecure 14-18 year olds or 30+ somethings with real anger/maturity issues. It seems your average 11-12 year old behaves better than your 13-16.
Nothing funnier than an 11 year old shouting orders over VOIP at 30+ adults, even better when the kid is a good player and knows what he is talking about. In fact I bet I have come across many kids playing but never known since they didn't use VOIP. Generally I find the people who give me problems are either insecure 14-18 year olds or 30+ somethings with real anger/maturity issues. It seems your average 11-12 year old behaves better than your 13-16.
I've never had problems with prepubescent brats. I've been in games with 11 year old dorks but never had a problem with them. Mostly because I don't play to win and just troll back harder. So they mostly question my sexuality in a condescending way despite not being old enough to have sexual feelings of their own and I go along with it and agree with everything they say in an upbeat way. It's like improv really.
The Squeekers are the entire reason the mute button was invented. I remember back when I used to play COD, as a match was starting up, just scrolling down the team list and muting everyone. I'm 20 now, but I do still find myself getting annoyed by Squeekers - they tend to be the ones who'll not shut up and/or hurl insults with their high-pitched mousy voices...
My cousin is one of those kids who play games he shouldn't. He has Call of Duty games, he plays them online, but he doesn't engage in the trash-talk some under-age gamers do (at least, I don't think he does). I feel really guilty about it, because it was me who got him into gaming in the first place.
Squeakers can get pretty annoying, and if that happens I usually take off my headset or mute them, but I don't ever call them out on it.
I have been mistaken for an underage boy before because my accent is somewhat "rough" sounding anyway, so on my old mic, it sounded a bit like a boy before puberty. It used to do my head in getting muted by people and told to come back when my balls drop. I generally don't care about an underage gamer being in a game unless they're acting like an idiot. If they use the mic to say something relevant to the game, that's fine. If they're using the mic to chat to their silly wee pals or to sing or to generally insult other gamers, then I get annoyed. It irritates me more when it's a child than when an adult does it. When an adult does it, I just pity them.
Fawxy said:
Guess you've never heard of school. It's a little thing that they make you do from the age of about 4/5 to the age of around 17/18.
I've never had people complain about my voice over mic, but I didn't use a mic until I was around 15 or so, and I only use a mic when playing Left 4 Dead and occasionally TF2.
I have had experiences where a squeaky-voiced 9 year old managed to be a valuable member of the team, but I've also had times when a squeaker held up our L4D campaign while he had an argument with his sister and kept getting killed. That's why you have push-to-talk...
I don't talk online myself... I sometimes listen, but I have quickly learnt that there are about 10 people who play online games, and there voices and attitudes seem to have been copied and pasted accross the entire world...! They seem to argue for nothing, and yes, it seems to be the kids who will cause arguements and yell at people for no reason... seems they are very quick to throw insults there mothers would slap them silly if they heard them talking that way.
I used to talk myself, but I have an obscenely posh accent in comparrison with the online community, and I know that without meetimg me in person my voice can carry me as being pretentious or snobbish, even if I am not being anything of the sort! Helps me in my job though, especially when phoning senior people at work!
I used to talk myself, but I have an obscenely posh accent in comparrison with the online community, and I know that without meetimg me in person my voice can carry me as being pretentious or snobbish, even if I am not being anything of the sort! Helps me in my job though, especially when phoning senior people at work!