Done with anything Blizzard

[Yoggtimus Prime]

Well, the only game I didn't ever come across ragers was Transformers: War For Cybertron. Pretty fun game with a pretty decent community, I thought.

[StationaryHawk]

Welcome to the internet, a gathering place for immature people who have an over active sense of electronic courage. If you think it's just Blizzard games, you're sorely mistaken.

However, you're free to leave behind all Blizzard games based on that assumption.

[Last Starfighter]

For some reason every Blizzard game I play I am surrounded by immature people who have an over active sense of electronic courage. They say anything they want to to whoever they want to with the thought it's without consequence. So, I'm not sure I will continue playing any Blizzard games because that seems to be the only place I come across this kind of community. Am I the only one who sees this? Other communities don't seem to have such a "bush-league" mentality.

Is this something you guys see as well?

You obviously haven't played many online games outside of wow. Try halo and games like CoD. This isn't something blizzard exclusive. Anytime you have anonymity, there is no accountability. And that's why people do what they do.

[Aethilus]

Someone has never played any games outside of Blizzard, you're not going to find any better community in any online game anywhere by any company. It is not Blizzard that created the idiot kids, it's the anonymity of the internet. If you think otherwise, you're wearing a blindfold.

[Stuneree]

Until your username is your Street Address and Age, this problem will always occur on every single game.

Edit: I should correct myself. On a couple Indie games [Dungeon Runners and Hero Online], they both had really nice communities. Dungeon Runners was all instance based however, and Hero Online didn't display how elite people were with levels and gear etc.

Games where you don't NEED to be capped to be good are a little better, but it won't get much greater.

[viho1988]

I am sorry but I dont find any real logic in your arguement OP. This can happen in ANY game that a person plays. Look at it from a console game as well. Lets take Halo, COD or even battle field as an example. All of these games are good or even great in there own way but some people just ruin it as by their behavior or how they communicate. This can happen with any and ALL games. So imo its kind of unfair to just link this bad experience with Blizzard games and what not.

[inboundpaper]

Wow is nowhere near as bad as Xbox live was before the majestic invention that was Xbox live parties.

EDITZ: You also get more if you're nicer, going into anything expecting the worst gets you the worst.

[Sills]

For some reason every Blizzard game I play I am surrounded by immature people who have an over active sense of electronic courage. They say anything they want to to whoever they want to with the thought it's without consequence. So, I'm not sure I will continue playing any Blizzard games because that seems to be the only place I come across this kind of community. Am I the only one who sees this? Other communities don't seem to have such a "bush-league" mentality.

Is this something you guys see as well?

This is an internet problem, not a Blizzard problem. We all see issues like this on a daily basis and while it is unfortunate there really isnt anything we can do about it. We just need to surround ourselves with guildmates and friends who are not immature, entitled people and just enjoy the games

[The Ogdru Jahad]

I know what you mean, but all games have communities that are both retarded immature brats, as well as polite mature players. Try the CoD series...easily worse than WoW will ever be.

[Deleted]

Everything is said.
all multiplayers suck @ this topic since you're anno.
Play Barbie online No one will troll/flame you there
And ignore posts like mine :'D

[Deleted]

I find the LoL community pretty funny actually. I mean, its difficult to take seriously tbh. For a start, "noob" is the go to insult - including for situations when you're demolishing the other side (e.g. Jax scores triple kill, other side "OMG NOOB JAX"). Also, if you're beating a team comprehensively, on any character, its OP and easy mode character. If you're losing, you obviously have a noob team, but its never your fault personally.

The trash-talking is pretty much the lowest grade on the internet - and like anything taken to extremes, its just impossible to take seriously. I laugh at it mostly, and try to remember the most ridiculous ones to feed back to trash-talkers when they get going. Ignore complaints about your skill, unless they are framed constructively. Keep it humorous and light-hearted, and it will just bounce right off. Remember, its only working if youre getting annoyed.

[matters]

For some reason every Blizzard game I play I am surrounded by immature people who have an over active sense of electronic courage. They say anything they want to to whoever they want to with the thought it's without consequence. So, I'm not sure I will continue playing any Blizzard games because that seems to be the only place I come across this kind of community. Am I the only one who sees this? Other communities don't seem to have such a "bush-league" mentality.

Is this something you guys see as well?

Really, it is the fact that the game is made by Blizzard that brings this out in players? Did you even read what you typed after you typed it? There are going to be immature trolls in ANY online game, EVER. You mix competition with the anonymity of the internet and you are bound to have people who go out of control with their words.

Seriously though if you think that this type of thing only happens in Blizzard games then you are both very naive and very mistaken.

[micho]

the sc2 community is not that bad , actually its one of the best on line gaming communities imo

[Deleted]

Well newest Blizzard games sure blows cause they can play someone, be rude and theres nothing you can do about it than just ragequit.

I do remember diablo 2, best game ever, most OP hammerdins were rude and harrassing other people. So i came with my elemental druid and instant wtf pwned them all. Compared to nowadays games its like having to face a legendary daggers equiped heroic set rogue as a moonkin with avarage gear:/

And not to mention FPSes. People cheating to get headshots and lots of ragequits everywhere. I will never touch a FPS game kids play.

In Guild Wars 1 though, i have never ever met immature players. After we fought in arena, we had a nice talk after it.

SSF4 online is something else. Outplaying them makes them send messages. And guess what kind of messages. But i just troll them back.

[Kosic]

Just Blizzard games? Try all games. Because of anonymity, kids think they can say wte they want and get away with it (and they do get away with it).

This, to be honest.

When I read the first post, I was thinking "hold on, Call of Duty multiplayer has a way more childish attitude going on compared to WoW."

Wow does have a childish community at times. But there is a lot of mature players too. I've come across both parts of the community, if I'm not liking one part of it. I will choose to ignore it, luckily for me. I have trade/general chat tabs hidden, as I don't need to pay any attention to it, unless buying, selling or looking for a BH class run.

I can't relate to Starcraft 1 or 2, as I've not played them before, so I don't know how people act with that game.

[Barrowmore]

This is my favorite kind of community. People going on unprovoked tirades in pugs made me laugh every time.

[Rawt]

Just about every 'game community' ive visited has been better than WoW's, imo. Warhammer, Aion, Rift, SC2, GW, etc - all have a better community than WoW nowadays. Not sure what did it, but this game has gone from being all about the community and interactions, to trying to avoid them both at every turn.

[Creptius]

I was playing call of duty a few months back and i was getting yelled at but what i assume to be a 11-13 year old boy. He was calling me a pussy for using a famas and was screaming at the top of his lungs every time i killed him. While he's yelling his profanity at me i notice there's a lot of background noise. After about five minutes of him screaming at me i realize It's a vacuum and that it's probably his mom vacuuming.

He keeps yelling at me same shit over and over again, I'm getting my laughs, and so is everybody else on the server. But right when the game ends and he's still shit talking on his mic, you hear his mom yell from the background "Shut up you little brat" and he replies "I don't have to listen to you bitch". Then the beating ensued. I actually don't blame the kids on this one It's the parents using an xbox to raise their bratty kids.

Because of people thinking their anonymous they can act like assholes all they want. Doesn't matter if it's right or wrong there are no repercussions so people will keep doing it.

[Ralidyn]

I was playing call of duty a few months back and i was getting yelled at but what i assume to be a 11-13 year old boy. He was calling me a pussy for using a famas and was screaming at the top of his lungs every time i killed him. While he's yelling his profanity at me i notice there's a lot of background noise. After about five minutes of him screaming at me i realize It's a vacuum and that it's probably his mom vacuuming.

He keeps yelling at me same shit over and over again, I'm getting my laughs, and so is everybody else on the server. But right when the game ends and he's still shit talking on his mic, you hear his mom yell from the background "Shut up you little brat" and he replies "I don't have to listen to you bitch". Then the beating ensued. I actually don't blame the kids on this one It's the parents using an xbox to raise their bratty kids.

Because of people thinking their anonymous they can act like assholes all they want. Doesn't matter if it's right or wrong there are no repercussions so people will keep doing it.

Yep. Lazy parents produce kids with terrible behavior. Bad teacher = bad student...lots of bad teachers.

[Asmekiel]

Actually, if you did play other games you would have noticed that the community in Blizzard games is usually a lot better than in other online games.

Yep. Lazy parents produce kids with terrible behavior. Bad teacher = bad student...lots of bad teachers.

The way he responded it sounded more like a babysitter, I just can't believe kids will do that kind of stuff to parents. If that was my child he wouldn't be playing on a Xbox for the rest of his life...

Sadly it is true though, the bad, yelling, swearing part of all online communities consist largely of younger people.