Online play on console vs PC
polycounter lvl 17
So when I got an xbox 360 I used the free gold membership for a month, and played Halo 2 online. I'd say every other person on there would yell and swear up a storm at anything I did wrong. Needless to say I didn't subscribe to gold after that month. I recently rejoined with the free month card I got after getting my 360 repaired. I mostly wanted to play cooperative halo 3 with friends. One friend tonight insisted on playing deathmatch online so off we go, taking a few long minutes to match make each time. Every time we were in the lobby with people, the shit talking would start even if I didn't say a word. The final game I played tonight one guy started swearing at me from the moment he saw my screen name, just talking shit nonstop. Is xbox live matchmaking always this ridiculous!? Is Playstation online any better?
Meanwhile I've played online games with voice chat for the past 8 years. And maybe over the course of all those years have I been insulted as much as I have been in the two free months of xbox live.
I know this divide in player maturity is probably old news to many of you. I'm just dumbfounded.
Meanwhile I've played online games with voice chat for the past 8 years. And maybe over the course of all those years have I been insulted as much as I have been in the two free months of xbox live.
I know this divide in player maturity is probably old news to many of you. I'm just dumbfounded.
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Remove the barrier of entry which is the simple act of calibrating a microphone, and make the result a bit dumber.
At least from my own experience....not even my own consoles.
Xbox seems to be more accessible to fucktards. Perhaps if your too stupid to know how to conduct yourself online, your too stupid to know how to install a game on your PC
Playing online with a bunch of people you know with voicechat is a superb experience. Playing with 12 year olds requires constant use of the mute button (and me breaking my near total silence to ask them to kindly shut up).
Me: "xxx - would you please shut up? Your nasally voice and constant whining is rather annoying."
xxx : "Fuck you fucking fuck you! what the fuck did you say? rick string! fuck you! you can't even thing of a good name! I'm an american! we fucking rul! we have the biggest army! i'm going to fuck your mom!"
Me: "My mother died at the weekend." MUTE.
Personally, I prefer to only play online with people I know. That way, if there are a few that I don't know, they usually don't get out of line long when half the server knows each other.
One thing I've experienced a lot, on the PC, was how idiots use teamspeak these days. There are some people that have so little entertainment in their lives, that they decide to jump on to random teamspeak channels and try to talk shit. I've actually experienced the opposite of what Rick described. One time, we had someone speaking German join in and start telling us how much Americans suck. We've learned to ignore these idiots and they'll go away faster, but this particular guy went on for about 15 minutes before finally giving up.
We need to arrange more Polycount gatherings on the weekends
It's inappropriate as hell, yeah, but overall it's a good experience to have available. I actually haven't run into too many idiots on CoD4, but besides that I honestly haven't been playing many games lately.
Xbox live and all the console communities could learn a thing or two from the PC gaming community. My dad always tells me, how come Europe hasn't declared war lately like the US? Answer, Europe has seen hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years of war to realize it f*cking sucks to go to war. Despite centuries of experience, do we listen to Europe? No we don't. My point (if there is one) is: PC community > Xbox live
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That makes no sense. Why don't we declare war on europe, in that case?
Europe doesn't decare war on us because it would be logistical and strategic idiocy, and they have no desire to. It's not like there's just one 'europe' army chilling waiting to be thrown at a country, either.
And yeah, I like console online a lot more. PC has more hacking, more elitism, and on most games, more idiots who are a lot more difficult to mute. Plus, trying to play on any server in practically any game and being hit by 10 minutes of downloads or custom mods, or playing on a server which's gameplay makes no sense (sabotage mode in COD4, built around a wave respawn system and pushes to get the bomb to a base at either side of the map, with no respawns! Awesome!) is a lot more annoying than just playing on some xbox game's built in matchmaking.
This is why I will never buy xbox/xbox live membership and why I keep mic volume turned off or all the way down in TF2.
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Maybe I've just been lucky, the most annoyances I've had in TF2 is just the whiney pitch of the 10 year olds, and once or twice a racist remark on one server that's notoriously "adult". Otherwise 99% of the time is just chatter of teammates coordinating and a the occasional light hearted jabs on the side.
I was just surprised at every time my team lost, the other team would be saying stuff like THAT WAS PATHETIC, YOU LOSERS. Never once in the few hours I played did I hear a single "good game"!