I miss when we’d get French players on Xbox Live voice chat and playfully abuse in other in our own languages (I know enough French of that sort).
What a shocker!
Submitted 17 hours ago by Godric@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 hours ago
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
I used to love getting foreigners who’ve only learned English for weapons/vehicles that don’t translate for some reason and swear words.
You’d get “eusbdheu sjot8fb skxbfh LE SNIPER RIFLE eudbdisn fjfbdbdju kshdbdbr LE ROCKET LAUNCHER fidndjdb skejfb behdhcui SHIT BASTARD FUCK BASTARD FUCK FUCK BASTARD SHIT”
Godric@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I so miss þe playful abuse between strangers in game via voice. Nostalgia for a certain time this world may never feel again, expressed on a platform that is so anti casual-confrontation most won’t understand or enjoy that time.
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I will never understand why the hell people tilt so hard for an online game. Aren’t free time activities supposed to be fun?
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 9 minutes ago
Sports.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
It’s the same as parents going full tilt against the ref of a kids league soccer match.
brown_guy45@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
Offline games are mostly chill
But online games, even though people play it for fun but after sometime it gets too frustrating when you don’t get the kills
That’s why I left playing online shooting games, those made me more angry
kautau@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
It’s funny too because it totally depends on the game and how it’s monetized and set up as well. I had some of the most fun in games in my life playing quick play in the original overwatch with my buddies, even though I almost exclusively prefer offline single player open world games.
My skill increased dramatically with our constant playing, I switched between DPS, tank, heals and really learned the roster. Not that far off from playing N64 super smash with those same friends in college and switching to a new character when you felt like you had learned one pretty well.
I would get annoyed at losing, but it was whatever, I wasn’t trying to rank in competitive mode. I work hard enough in life and work, I’m not playing the game to work harder.
That being said, unless someone was a Smurf or hacking, I never got super mad at other players for simply being better than me, usually the characters felt pretty balanced and if we lost it was because of bad teamwork or lower skill. All characters were available to everyone, the only monetary value was skins.
Then I played overwatch 2, and immediately there were battle pass characters locked behind paywalls or engagement, and those characters were seriously unbalanced. The game was “free to play” and “pay to win” right off the bat and I haven’t touched it again, even though I put countless hours into the first game. And that sour taste I have now makes it so I refuse to play any game with a battle pass.
FlihpFlorp@piefed.zip 14 hours ago
Real
I would still consider myself young but starting to adult (bday today :D). But in middle school and early highschool online FPS were the best. Overwatch, tf2 stuff like that. Now the most multiplayer games are helldivers and recently Deep rock but I also have a ton of single player games like modding Skyrim and occasionally playing Skyrim, dead cells, noita (I do in fact have a skill issue) no man’s sky and blade and sorcery
Now my most competition is among my friends rather than against them. Which is much less tilting
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 9 hours ago
Personally speaking, I think it’s addiction to the game. I played the game Enlisted for a few years and became a veteran player. It irritated me so much when I got inexperienced players on my team and I was carrying. I insulted my team mates in the chat a fair few times out of frustration. It just wasn’t enjoyable at all, yet I kept booting the game up every day.
Competitive online games really affect my mood, they make me so angry and I can’t help it. It’s unhealthy when a video game is actually ruining your day.
I just stick to singleplayer games now.
notarobot@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
Yes. But fun is relative. When I play rocket league, I like to try my hardest. If I’m not trying hard, it’s not as exiting. So it’s frustrating when playing ranked and for example your teammate is not even trying . Maybe RL isn’t the best example because matches are under 10 minutes, so I can just start another one, but games where you spend an hour, it’s just different
ebolapie@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
IME in RL I don’t get told to KMS because I’m not trying, I get told to KMS because my teammate won’t rotate and I fail to defend a 2v1 while they’re stuck across the map. Or my favorite, where they’ll fake rotate and then overcommit. Then I’m the one who doesn’t rotate (even though I spent 80% of the match defending because “I got it! I got it! I got it!”
Rawrosaurus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
Back when I still played ranked in online games, I always felt like if I didn’t have Don’t Stop Me Now by Queen playing in the back of my head… I just wasn’t in the right mood to play.
Klear@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Reminds me of that time when it felt like having Epix Sax Guy playing on the background helped out with Hearthstone RNG.
capuccino@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I never will buy an online game for 60 bucks.
Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
True, $70+ is becoming the new standard…
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
Only if you want the peasant option, the RealGamer™ edition starts at 100 plus dlc.
cron@feddit.org 17 hours ago
Maybe spending 600 bucks on microtransactions?
capuccino@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
neither, just play the game
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Why would you spend any money on one, let alone play it?
Carmakazi@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Because people enjoy playing games with their friends?
Muffi@programming.dev 15 hours ago
‘Kys’ simply means ‘kisses’ in Danish. I refuse to read it as any other meaning.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
“Gentlemen, you can’t kiss in here! This is a war game!”
essell@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Boy have I got some news to share about what goes on during wars!
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
I know how to French kiss, but not Danish kiss. Thanks for teaching me, stranger.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Danish kiss is when you squirt cheese or fruit into their mouth beforehand
jaybone@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
Is that where you do two in the pink, one in the stink?
belastend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
If a low stakes game makes you so furious that you wish for someone to die, you should not be allowed to play these games.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 7 hours ago
Agreed, they need to improve their skills enough to make it happen instead of merely passively hoping that the world improves itself.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Just play EA games. You can say anything.
Fuck EA.
Godric@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Sis, yeah, fuck EA. EA not spending money on caring one way or the other checks out.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
What else do you expect, giving up your freedom of speech to faceless corporation and their bureaucratic corporations ? Really at this point it’s a choice. No one is forcing you to interact with these totalitocrats.
Play on your own terms, or just don’t play at all. Reject convenience, K Y Sbeejboytyson@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Let me put it in terms a normie can understand. You show up to a game of pick up basketball (local league) and one person is wearing high heels (off meta) the second person shows up late, and the third person doesn’t know how to block a simple pass. How is that not gonna upset you?
ErmahgherdDavid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
Hey, business is business. You use a gun, I use a fountain pen what’s the difference? Let’s put it in my terms: you’re in a hostile takeover, you snatch us up for some green mail, but you’re not expecting some poison pill to be running around the building, am I right? Hans, bubby, I’m your white knight.
drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
What world do you live in where more people play basketball than online video games?
Even then, I don’t think there’s a way someone on my team could be so bad that I even raise my voice at them, much less verbally belittle them. Whenever I have a useless teammate I think “Damn, they must be new. I don’t think we’re winning this one.” And then I do my best and I have fun.
Godric@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
This is easily the bougiest comment I’ve read in a while. What world might they live in, where more people play IRL sports than more expensive online games?
beejboytyson@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Did I say raise my voice? That’s how you’d react. Not I’m saying when people show up not ready ro play Damn right I’m going to let them know that’s inappropriate.
MBM@lemmings.world 4 hours ago
Aren’t you playing games to have fun?
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Okay you show up to a Sunday league amateur soccer match. You scream KYS to the ref, they red card you. Why you surprised?
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Meh. Just mute people. That’s what I used to do when I played online. I understand emotions run high and people get frustrated, I’m not gonna let my sensibility and their bouts of idiocy (especially when the solution is so simple!) ruin their experience forever. And honestly, they’re probably just actual kids… I’m patient like that but I understand some people take things more to heart and whatnot.
Godric@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I’ve always seen chat filters as a test in creativity. Telling someone they “misclicked when they hit install” or to “Go 0-1 irl” is way better
superduperpirate@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Or tell the the way to reset bugs in the game is Alt+F4
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
It’s .øre that it’s exhausting than anything else
I don’t want to play a game where people keep telling slurs or being toxic towards others. It just ruins the whole experience
FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Honestly, I’m not a fan of that sort of censorship.
I grew up in the Time Before Internet, and played all of the earliest online games. Trash talk is simply part of the experience as far as I’m concerned. On Team Fortress Classic, you had to abuse a motherfucker through text chat. And we loved it: everyone was enjoying that novel experience.
Back in the day of early COD on Xbox Live, lobbies were wild. Heck, even Uno subjected you to everything from ‘teach me slurs in your language’ to ‘random dude masturbating on camera while smoking a joint’.
I still play the occasional online game, but they’re boring and soulless. Very few people are on comms, as most seem afraid to actually talk. And with good reason; any sort of mildly spicy talk would get you banned on games. So instead of fostering a friendly atmosphere, from my perspective it ended up killing the entire vibe.
Let folks talk trash. Give as good as you get. And if that’s not for you? There’s other games to play.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 12 hours ago
Trash talk is still acceptable.
Telling someone to kill themselves isn’t trash talk. Nor is using racial slurs, misogynistic, misandristic, homophobic or transphobic language.
octoham@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
i fucking hate the “that’s how it is, go do smth else if you don’t like it” attitude. can we please acknowledge that online gaming would be overall more fun for everyone if people stopped being toxic towards each other?
seralth@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
As long as we can also agree that over bearing forced positivity due to fear of triggering a black box automated ban system is also total ass and fucking ruins games.
I don’t want to see racism and sexism every single match, but I also don’t want the game to censor every single possible thing to the point the community basically becomes lobotomized and unhuman out of God damn fear.
League is a great example. It was a toxic cess pit of unholy levels. Now everyone is so fucking fake and scared to anger the AI black box over lord that no one acts like a normal person.
Or you end up with half your team muted cause of bullshit fake reasons the AI thinks could offend a made up Karen on a power trip so you can’t communicate at all.
It’s not fun on either extremes.
Album@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
The problem starts with these companies feeling obligated to police what you can say over chat. Just to be clear it’s advertisers and payment services that necessitate that. The whole thing about trying to force a “non-toxic community” is a gaslight.
medgremlin@midwest.social 15 hours ago
I played a lot of Halo on Xbox live as a teenage girl in the late 2000’s. I sincerely wish they were more stringent about cracking down on assholes. A lot of the rules were in place to attempt to discourage some of the atrocious behavior I was subjected to.
Album@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
A lot of the rules were in place to attempt to discourage some of the atrocious behavior I was subjected to.
No doubt, but I don’t think microsoft spends money on that because they altruistically care about your online safety, I think they do it because they are pressured by monetary reasons.
I played a lot of Halo on Xbox live as a teenage girl in the late 2000’s. I sincerely wish they were more stringent about cracking down on assholes.
I appreciate your perspective, thank you for sharing your experience.
One thing I don’t understand is why the built in tools for self managing are insufficient, such as mute and block. If willing, I would be open to hearing your experience with that.
I was never on XBL really, but I’ve been a PC users on counterstrike and league of legends since their inceptions. I can’t say if one service is worse than another but I did watch the efforts to stamp down toxicity over time. I don’t know how successful these efforts were, it seemed futile at best.
Would you share if you feel the current efforts from services like this are effective in making you feel like it’s a safer place for you to game?
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
2 things can be true at the same time.
Electricd@lemmybefree.net 14 hours ago
😘😘😘
_AutumnMoon_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
completely unfair ban, they said it three times the rule only had it twice, how could they have know?