Whats With All The Hostility On Xbox Live

[idarkphoenixi]

Not sure where you've been this whole time, but this is what people are like over the internet.

Anonnymity does strange things to people, either get used to it or go back to single player. Theres nothing you can do about it, other than try to mute everyone who pisses you off (and good luck with that.)

 

[OverweightWhale]

1) It's Xbox Live
2) OP is playing Blops
3) OP isn't using party chat mode

/thread

He could have been playing Demolition or Search and Destroy.

 

[Malikaw]

1) It's Xbox Live
2) OP is playing Blops
3) OP isn't using party chat mode

/thread

1. I know it's Xbox Live I just find it strange that people are so openly hostile to people on a network that is supposed to be about fun and ignoring how most people are pieces of shit/how life is shit.


2. I have had the same problem playing Halo,Battlefield,and as I said earlier WoW. Although to a lesser extent as people are generally more talkative on Black Ops.

3.Search and Destroy

 

[FunGuy155]

People are anonymous over xbl or Psn. People who think they're cool by cussing use this as a reason to do so since they have nothing to lose. Either way, when I come across people who cuss at me, I just laugh. Its entertaining as hell to see someone cuss at you in a gaming lobby.

 

[infohippie]

1) It's Xbox Live
2) OP is playing Blops
3) OP isn't using party chat mode

/thread

1. I know it's Xbox Live I just find it strange that people are so openly hostile to people on a network that is supposed to be about fun and ignoring how most people are pieces of shit/how life is shit.


2. I have had the same problem playing Halo,Battlefield,and as I said earlier WoW. Although to a lesser extent as people are generally more talkative on Black Ops.

3.Search and Destroy

Because gaming is srs bsns, after all. Really, it's just the practical application of John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory. Or you could see it as further proof of Sturgeon's Law - "90% of anything is crap." It applies to people too.

 

[Agayek]

"thick skins" is an undrstatement. "Skins the strength of a Rhino King's hide" would be nearer the mark.

The Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory states quite clearly that the only valid response to internet badgering is ignore it. Feeding the trolls does nothing but make more trolls.

 

[MercurySteam]

This is why I don't use my headset very often, plus CoD is always like that.

 

[Psycho Cat Industries]

Simple,its a kid who wants to make you mad,probably is suffering mental issues(possibly from such abuse),such as stupidity,and stereotypes are a arrow to chain-mail,goes right through.

 

[Creator002]

I've had a lot of people, when cussing me out (usually due to my low kill ratio, I mean, come on), call me an "English *insert insult here*" because of my accent, which is 100% Australian.
If they're on my team, in a Call of Duty game, it calls for massive greifing time, which include actions from the "How to annoy people in Black Ops", which pisses them off even more.
If they're on the other team, however, I just end up muting them until they're on my team again.

I had someone send me a message, when I was just going around knifing on a Team Deathmatch game once, because I was bored, saying that I "was not cool for going for him the whole match". I said I couldn't have been going for him unless he was camping and oh did the shit storm begin.

 

[MrStab]

Simple solution don't play any games online or get on the internet ever.

 

[shrekfan246]

According to a variety Xbox 360 users, I(snipped) shoot up heroin

I was reading your post thinking, "stupid stereotypes." Then I saw this. I am really confused, when did heroin become a Scottish stereotype? Also, thought the sheep shagging was a Welsh stereotype. Does it go both ways?

I'm just saying that's what people have called me on Live combined with some of the various other Scottish stereotypes...I think it may be due to Glasgow's problems with heroin but I couldn't say for certain...like I said it was mainly combined with your typical Scottish stereotypes

Sheep-shagging is considered mainly a Welsh stereotype I would agree, but Aberdeen-shire area of Scotland is "known" (probably not the right word but nevertheless) for sheep-shagging as well

I think the film "Trainspotting" helped to establish a bit of Scottish-heroin-stereotyping, though I'm not really sure how as it still enjoys more of a "Cult Classic" status than wide-spread fame, as far as I know.

Also, OP: That's why I typically avoid playing online in most games. (As you can probably guess from my profile pic, I play WoW, but it's not that difficult to avoid the trolls in that game and quite often they can be very amusing.) And while I can't speak for CoD multiplayer, I've noticed that it's a sort of instinct that humans get very defensive when they feel threatened by someone else and attempt to preemptively lash out, either verbally, physically, or whatever you would constitute spawn-camping someone in any PvP situation in any online game.

 

[enzilewulf]

Thats just Immoral. I have never had a Brit yell at me for being American except when I was talking about the Battle Of Britain with a friend and some Brit got pissed and thought I needed to know that they held off the Germans all on their own without any pig-dog Americans. Which I had previously stated. Some people...

 

[Sam Nohra]

Competitive enviorment + Being Anonymous + No Repercussions + faceless targets.

 

[Isnack]

i think you mean "whats the problem with CoD"

 

[Nanaki316]

Isn't it the age old "Anonymity = Dickhead" ?

Seriously, there's a reason why I only have my mic open to friends and party members. I'd never play CoD online if I had to listen to all the little cocks shouting they're going to rape each other all the time.

 

[Sovvolf]

Because my friend, when people realise that your not in arms reach of them and they can say anything without any getting a blonk across the knocking... They become what the dictionary refers to as arseholes. Regardless of race, country or political view, this isn't exclusive the 360. However this can be easily remedied by going to your settings and setting everyone but friends to mute. Problem solved, enjoy playing online.

 

[GBlair88]

And BTW why the hell is WW2 and McDonalds always brought into the equation (I mean seriously fast foods and a huge fucking war that killed millions belong in the same argument?)

McDonalds is probably brought up because Americans love going on and on about British drinking tea and eating fish and chips. I would say WWII is brought up since so many Americans love to go on and on about how they won the war as if they did it single handedly

As for the hostility on Xbox Live, well it's XBL. What else can be expected when your fellow gamers are a bunch of idiots with no accountability.

 

[RA92]

Feeding the trolls does nothing but make more trolls.

I like trolls. Talking with them is the only opportunity for me to exercise my passion for verbal abuse.

 

[Project_Xii]

If you haven't noticed, 95% of Xbox players are either kids who's parents buy them everything they demand, or angry frustrated dudes who take games like CoD RLLY SRSLY!! YEAH FUCKING PWN YOU NOOB GO BACK TO HALO!!

And you pay money monthly for that. Well spent?

 

[Nouw]

Never met a foul-moth, prick, racist, sexist or anything of the sort on Xbox Live. Sure some jerk-offs who friendly-kill me but that's expected.

I play Halo:Reach.