Posted February 10, 2016
Zookie: I would say that 3 out of 4 games I play has someone so obnoxious that it sucks the fun out of it for me. Over the top immature trash talk, people throwing tantrums when teammates don't do what they want, "rage quitting," racist and sexist remark and just general rudeness really make the online environment for these game unpalatable for me.
Is it a 1-vs-1 or co-operative game with only two or few players, or are there lots of players in teams? At least in team games like Team Fortress 2, I couldn't care less if someone is raging, as long as he is not shouting to the microphone. If he is, I can either mute him, or start a vote in order to kick him out of the game. Problem solved. Maybe your game doesn't have those options?
Sometimes people seem to rage for seemingly valid(?) reasons though, sometimes not. Like if most of the team seems to be just dicking around and not really playing. I guess that is their prerogative, but it also makes rest of the team's game futile when only a small part of the team is even trying. One can try to vote such idlers out too.
It is obvious you can't please everyone. I am baffled by e.g. people who rage because someone is making flag captures in Team Fotress 2 (apparently they'd rather play the game as a team deathmatch game instead with no capturing of flags etc.; I say they should be playing some other game then), and sometimes some rage that someone should be kicked because he plays too good, and is destroying the fun for him/others.
Like the other day, there were a couple of enemy engineers in Team Fortress 2 which were extremely masterful in preventing us even leaving our base. They had found pretty much perfect places for their sentry guns, kept repairing them and successfully harassing anyone who tried to destroy the sentry guns, even foreseeing if they were trying to take a longer detour to them. And the rest of the enemy team was supporting them beautifully, harassing those who tried to destroy the sentry guns or fight the engineers.
I think there were lots of rage quits and some cried those engineers are destroying all the fun for the losing team, but the only people I personally was slightly mad at were the incompetent team mates who wouldn't simply change their class to a more suitable one to take care of the sentry gun problem. A hwguy+medic combo, anyone? Why do you insist playing as a sniper or a scout if you can't even exit your base as one?
I quickly changed to a soldier with a precision rocket launcher in order to get the sentries, trying different routes to them etc. It took awhile but in the end I was able to distrupt their engineering operations enough, and trying to make sure they don't come back.
I have nothing bad to say to those couple of guys, and their supporting team, controlling us like that. They did fine, we had a problem as a team.
Post edited February 10, 2016 by timppu