It's a game, get over it!

[Phenom]

It's easy to let morality and common sense go in a fantasy world. Some people get sucked in a bit to much and believe their fingers *clacking* on a keyboard converts to their actual greatness and credit to their persona. What they fail to realize is how badly they need to step away from the keyboard, disconnect and get some real life issues back in their lives with real faces and consequences.

Some people turn into keyboard warriors the second they realize they learned how to spam button presses better then someone else.

Their gift is the lack of morality.

A.K.A Basement trolls.

Every elite Quake player I've met has had a positive attitude. I'm not talking about anyone on this forum I'm talking about the "ancient elite Quakers" who were top tier when there were many thousands of others playing (even millions?). The new guys who think their hot-shit usually just want you to believe their ego's will. Ignore them, they take care of themselves. This also only has to do with Quake but can easily be changed to any situation where there's a blanket of secrecy over them so they can let their inner troll frolic and play.

[ceriux]

i just wanted to comment on this , i personally think a lot of the problem is how game servers are hosted now. back in the day we all had our own server with our own rules . if you didnt like the environment then you didnt come back to that server. but now especially with a lot of newer games you dont really get to pick which server you go into or all players are smashed into one server and its really irritating.

some of us are really competitive and dont really have fun unless we win, because well thats the objective of the game. otherwise we'd all be walking around in an empty world space, and some of us just want to play and not care.

i personally think we need to go back to having smaller community servers similar to goldsource/quake days. not many games exist like this anymore. at least not many popular games, unless its some kind of survival game.

[Frost R17]

This happened in Quake1? Was it team deathmatch? Was I on your team?
Can you private message me with the details if this happened in Q1TDM ?

If you are asking this question to me, no. It happened on a different game.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

This happened in Quake1? Was it team deathmatch? Was I on your team?
Can you private message me with the details if this happened in Q1TDM ?

[Frost R17]

Thanks for understanding; it's hard to have fun with those such gamers. They always talk down to others for failing by harassing or being hateful towards them. Whether you win or lose in a game should not matter in real life; it's frustrating I know, but there is no reason to get mad over a game.

[ArrrCee]

I wanted to get this off my chest; I've been holding it in but I'm just tired of it. For starters, I'm sick of gamers talking crap at others who simply didn't do well enough while it should not matter. I received such messages and it irritates me. I may not be the best gamer around but I only play games just for fun like what it's supposed to be and yet these gamers just kills it. What irritates me more is that one of the members of the team sends a hate or harassing message to me or another gamer in the same team for not doing well while the majority of the team didn't do well also. Why should one gamer in a team take the blame when everyone failed as well?

I understand that anyone can get away with it online, but we all have to admit that there is no excuse. Besides, why would it matter whether we win or lose and why would it matter if one person didn't do well while it takes the majority of the team to act to win? I understand the competitive spirit of gaming but harassing, bullying, or being hateful to others is just too far.

To be honest, I used to get frustrated at losing, getting killed a lot, and to other gamers for not doing well but I keep on reminding myself that it's just a game and I can't expect others to do well and I sure as heck didn't send any hateful or harassing messages to others because I'm not that kind of person. As guilty as I may be, I learned well enough that Video games are made for entertainment and should not be taken too seriously.

That's all I wanted to say about I fell about this. No one should be treated this way if they just want to have fun.

I don't think you're wrong at all. I've been playing a lot of Rocket League as of late and this behavior is very rampant in there too.

A little trash talking is fine, I don't mind that. But when you're saying really mean things and chastising your own team, it's not fun anymore.

In RL, I've been in several games where one guy sees himself as this amazing player and the other team will score one goal and he is just immediately awful to everyone on the team. For one, it's just a game. For two, it's easy to come back in that game!

I've yet to win on a team with a person like that though. We always seem to come back when the other guys are more like, "don't worry we got this" or "Hey we'll get it back." I try to always act that way in any game.