Drawful 2 Online Multiplayer
Why I Don't Like Online Multiplayer Gaming
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If I get called "faggot" one more time by somebody I don't even know…well, I don't have a decent threat. What can you do?
Online multiplayer is terrific, when enjoyed with friends. When your friends aren't online, when you're up all night due to insomnia and you want to play Quake Live or Left 4 Dead or anything on Xbox Live at 4AM, when you have to play with a batch of strangers, life can really start to suck. Prepare to be randomly, verbally abused for no real reason. Prepare to hear profanity spewed by awkward, adolescent voices. Even if you're not using VOIP, get ready to see hastily typed, or worse, macro recorded insults hurled at you as fast as immature fingers can produce them.
Something about perceived anonymity brings out the worst in some people. I don't want to pigeonhole teenyboppers, as I've met some very nice 12-year-olds, but they seem to be the worst of the lot, at least according to my admittedly unscientific survey. It consists of counting how often the voices—calling me a very, very naughty word—crack as they hurl curses.
I'm not indicting virtually everybody who plays online through matchmakers like GameSpy Arcade, Steam, built-in server browsers, or whatever. I've made some good online friends through random matchups. But I'm on the verge of quitting playing online with strangers altogether soon because I'm sick of the abuse, which quickly cancels out the fun.
As fast as the losers are banned, they open new accounts and join back up. As often as the ESRB rates games M, the children get their hands on them anyway.
Why do they feel the urge to sling mud at everybody they meet online? Is it just bad nature? Bad parenting? A societal failing of some sort?
The worst of them respond to everything with a compound word that start with M, has an F in it, and ends in ER—even if you try to reason with them. You can't reason with a four year old, and that's about the mentality of the morons that ruin matchups for those of us who act our age. Continued…
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Source: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/82670-why-i-dont-like-online-multiplayer-gaming
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