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Subject: The state of the online community [long read] *read b4 posting plz*
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I would like to point out that the online gaming community is in bad shape. Now the games are fun to play and it is fun to go and talk about them on online forums and state your opinions. However, wherever you go there are people that trash talk, cheat, flame, troll, and just put other people down. I really don't understand this. We are all gamers here and we should act like it. This me against you attitude is really stupid.

When playing online games you will almost always run into someone who, for some reason, will just purposely annoy you or tell you that you suck or whatever. This is just plain stupid! The point of online gaming is that you should be able to get in a game and have some fun with other people online in your game. At the end of the game, win or lose, it doesn't matter, this doesn't have any affect on your life outside of the game and people should act that way. Instead of getting all pissed off and saying "You suck!" and various other curses and insults people should just say "good game" and leave or, just leave. Because, you may not think so at the time, but while you were playing it was pretty fun. At the end of the game people focus too much on the outcome of who won or lost. This should not be the way that we play our games.

On the online forums there is way to much flaming and various other things going on. If someone posts something in the wrong forum they are not doing this on purpose they were just misinformed and made a mistake. In addition, even Playstation fans and nintendo fans and microsoft fans are all people who love gaming but happen to support a different console. Posting random topics about how a certain console "sucks" is really stupid because any fan of that console will not care about how bad you think the console is. You cannot discourage someone from buying a console that they have their heart set on getting by saying that it is a sucky system. It will just turn into a huge flaming war in which noone will win and most people will be made to look like a huge fool. Seriously, if we are to stop these stupid politicians trying to ban games and from putting so much pressure on the gaming community, we have to do something about it and not just sit on these forums all day arguing amongst ourselves. Part of the problem is that you have a sense of invulnerability when you are playing in an online game or browsing a forum. This is because you know that you can say whatever yoou want to these people and that you will never meet them in real life so that no matter how small you are there is no way that you could actually get the tar kicked out of you. Hardly anyone would actually say anything that they say online to other people in real life because that would not just go unnoticed and you would eventually say it to the wrong person who would kick your A$$.

Cheaters don't help the situation any more. They make the game less enjoyable for everyone that they are up against... Most FPS's that I have played have a lot of modders and it is really hard for the game-makers to get rid of them quickly. If people are going to spend a ton of time "modding" their gaming consoles just so they can 1up some random person that they will never meet in real life and beat them in a video game, that is sad and doesn't say much for the gaming community as a whole. These people need to realize that this is a GAME that other people want to play fairly and have fun. What these modders and cheaters don't always realize is that even though they are havng fun, they are making everyone else around them mad. It even isn't that fun. I mean, how fun could it be to press a little button and have the person that you are fighting walk forward and do nothing so you can kill him. Or you can jump in the air really high and pick people off easily so that they can do nothing about it. How is that considered fun? For example in Halo 2, people mod themselves up to level 50 and then what? they have a cool rank to show off to their friends but everyone knows that there are no legitimate 50's so why would they give you any credit?? You did nothing to deserve those ranks.

Well, I doubt this will change anything but I hope people realize soon that we need to change and soon or else the politicians will succeed in taking away our rights to play what we want whenever we want. It is inevitable that people will still act like jerks online but it would be great if a couple of people would realize how stupid they are acting and maybe, just maybe stop acting that way. Well that's my rant... I'm sorry if this was a waste of your time and life... Im out.

  • 05.23.2006 12:57 PM PDT
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wah wah wah.....get over it.....people are gonna do what people are gonna do...

  • 05.23.2006 12:58 PM PDT
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How does this relate to Halo 3?

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Very good , you are very correct. People are to vulgar when it comes to games. It is really stupid how upset people get. Im glad you shared your thoughts.

  • 05.23.2006 1:01 PM PDT
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Shut the -blam!- up you -blam!-! Only joking, I can't argue with that. I mean, it's only a game. A game that takes up my entire social life, but just a game none the less.

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this does have nothing to do with H3

  • 05.23.2006 1:02 PM PDT
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people take video games way too cereal. yes, people talk smak all the time. but hey, they probably aren't getting laid, so just learn to laugh and move on.

  • 05.23.2006 1:02 PM PDT
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Yes you're all pretty much right... and this does (or will) have to do with Halo 3 because I bet these problems will also occur in Halo 3 online play... hopefully a few people will stop and think about it but whatever I just wanted to puit it out there in a densey populated forum...

  • 05.23.2006 1:06 PM PDT
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Posted by: xxDoTheDewxx
Yes you're all pretty much right... and this does (or will) have to do with Halo 3 because I bet these problems will also occur in Halo 3 online play... hopefully a few people will stop and think about it but whatever I just wanted to puit it out there in a densey populated forum...

Then you should have of posted this when the Halo 3 online community gets "bad''.

  • 05.23.2006 1:09 PM PDT

Posted by: Mr Slippyfist
Posted by: xxDoTheDewxx
Yes you're all pretty much right... and this does (or will) have to do with Halo 3 because I bet these problems will also occur in Halo 3 online play... hopefully a few people will stop and think about it but whatever I just wanted to puit it out there in a densey populated forum...

Then you should have of posted this when the Halo 3 online community gets "bad''.
It's a better idea to post it BEFORE (like this guy did) then when they get bad.
Only one proplem though, those people will propally never read this.

[Edited on 5/23/2006]

  • 05.23.2006 1:29 PM PDT
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yep they wont read this becuse they are Dantards.(yes i mean Dantards.) they are the gamer type "WARRRRGHH!!! ME SMASH!!!" that only go into multi-player and trash talk some one other then leting every one have a good time.

  • 05.23.2006 1:39 PM PDT
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As a videogaming community, we look like a piece of crap. When a class or grade level does something bad are your school, the whole class/grade level looks bad, everyone gets blamed even if they had absolutely nothing to do with it.

I'm not saying I'm perfect, yeah, I'll trash talk, but I'm legit nonetheless and I don't trash talk 24/7, only when THEY'RE trashtalking ME.

Anyways, as I was saying, even if you've done nothing wrong, those idiot cheaters, whether it's on Halo 2, CounterStrike, or Warcraft, you're not showing you're a genius by cracking the game code, you're putting a stain on the videogaming community by showing how most of us can't spell THE or put periods at the end of sentances.

The government in various countries are banning games, Need For Speed was getting banned here in Canada, so I've heard, because of street racing. ooooo, terrible. That can't be it. Ever since I got Xbox Live 15 months ago, I've learned 7 new words I never new previously. BAD WORDS. I have neighbours, one's eight years old, the others eleven (two brothers), and they frequently go on Xbox Live, and I can't even picture the things they are exposed to. I've heard words I won't even say to my friends, and I had a fair share of racist messages from ignorant people won Martin Luther King sr day.

  • 05.23.2006 1:49 PM PDT

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I don't know about that...

I played about 20 games last night, & in about 8 of them i pretty much came from last to steal the win, or at least score highly. I was expecting to be sworn at & trashtalked, but pretty much every other player congratulated me, and each other. It was as if 'Good game, you really came out of nowhere' was considered an insult to some, because it was said so much.

And although in one match, all my team members quit, a member of the other team actually helped me tie the game. and when My team came from a 10 point, 1 player disadvantage to win in Multi-team, The losing team congratualated me, and i played the next four or five games with a member of their team. amazing

If everyone just acted like a human instead of screaming into the mike 'IM GUNNA -blam!- all you -blam!--blam!- up! you little -blam!- you -blam!- arent gunna -blam!--blam!-! Ill-blam!- you up!' and then complain that they would have won if they had the _ _ _ _ _ _ when they lose, then everything would just be alright.

But still...The number of quiters, greifers, losers, cheaters, standbyers, modders, bridgers, boosters are decreasing. They're gradually dispersing to other games now that the 360 is out. Sure, you'll encounter at least one loser every fifteen games, but it sure as hell ain't everyone, and its not as bad as everyone thinks.

  • 05.23.2006 2:20 PM PDT
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I eat poo.

I am not supporting the community by eating poo.

but I am not hurting it...am i?

  • 05.23.2006 2:44 PM PDT
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bump

  • 05.23.2006 8:14 PM PDT

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I agree. Of course, this is the same with some sports.. People are very vulgar to one another in general, but much more so when they are anonymous. Very good!

[Edited on 5/23/2006]

  • 05.23.2006 8:16 PM PDT