I usually don't mind admin abuse, but when it comes to the point where EVERYONE in the server thinks it's time to stop, just stop. Really hate it when there's an admin on the losing side of the team, and just decides to change map, or reset it 'cause he doesn't want to lose. One more is that when you kill him, or anyone that does it, they get kicked...At least turn on godmode or something...

One experience that I hate/love is that you'll have your typical asshole veteran guy, who's actually good at the game(mainly shooters) and thinks he's the shit. The moment you kill him more than a few times, he'll make it his lifes work to hunt you down, raging over voice chat and so on. Which is funnier when he fails at it, he'll rage even more.

I was playing earlier tonight and this kid comes on the mic sounding ridiculously young. So, yeah, everyone starts making fun of him, and then he replied with the stunner, "It's just this mic that makes me sound eight. I'm actually twelve."

Ok, not really a worst experience since after I got teamswapped I wound up killing him four times in a row, but still pretty much half of what's wrong with voice chat.

Uh, I once decided to play with my brother online on Halo 2 (we can all see where this is going). I played one match with the voice chat on. Once my team mates heard I was a girl they took the liberty of abusing me the entire match and killing me for no reason. I never played it again. :P

Yay for SSBB's lack of voice chat!

You know, it's interesting how even in all these different games, alot of people have the same sort of annoying experiences: underage, whiny, greedy kids who think they know everything (who obviously don't) and try to impose their opinions/strategies on you no matter HOW wrong they are; people who think they are God's gift to this game and you would have NEVER succeeded without them, so you owe them money/your service as a slave; and people in PvP combat who either don't belong or don't really know the basic strategies to win.

My bad experiences have always been while running pick-up groups in WoW. I think being a tank is especially rough. People that don't know how to focus fire on a target, or continually whine about not being the highest damage or losing a roll to someone else; it's amazing how some of these people got as far as they did. I'm not elitist or anything, but by the time you reach 70, you should have at least a BASIC idea of how your class works. I've sworn off running instances with people I don't know, as it's not worth my time or money anymore.

The funny thing about my time in WoW. I spent most my time as a warrior and everyone seemed to love grouping with me... because I knew how to tank properly. I got so many priests adding me to their friendlist cause I could actually keep them alive. I think alot of people must just see Warrior and go "Oooooo I get to swing swords!" without any concept of what they will actually need to do.

Another lovely nuisance I was reminded of yesterday when I reactivated CoH/CoV. People who's computer can't freaking handle the game but insist on playing it anyhow. The leader of the team I was on was one of these people. He was taking longer to load into the missions then it takes to complete them but he expected everyone to wait till he was in to start. Seriously how can that be fun? How can it be fun to spend more time looking at loading screens then you do playing the game?

Most World of Warcraft stories. Bleh.

My most annoyance is when people start lagging the game when they are about to lose. Persistent ones are able to lag the game for like five minutes before they get disconnected.

Does anyone play Defence of the Ancients (DotA)? When people just start feeding the other team just because they are losing? Or buys as much items as possible and destroys them?

Let's see, this isn't that bad, but.... I was playing a Ranked Match in Rock Band against someone, and I won, but the guy exited at the VERY LAST SECOND and as such, I didn't get the point for it. Guess he's a bit of a sore loser.

Ah well. Just kinda frustrated me at the time.

Stuff like that frustrates everyone. In games where that works that's annoying and in games where quitting doesn't save you, alot of people will pull the plug on their internet to avoid a loss. It's pathetic, unfair, and annoying. I know this plagued the Battle for Middle Earth games, not sure if they fixed it.

People just don't wanna admit they suck. I faced someone vocally online. 100 percented their ass on Blitzkreig Bop.

Oh man! So many stories about CoX. I can understand the Brute's mentality. They want to SMASH, and they can't do that unless they have fury. Personally, I hate it when a team moves slow and I can't build up fury. When you're running with a Brute, expect the team to be rushed, because without fury, a Brute is just a weaker Scrapper with elemental attacks...

Here's some I'll share about CoX:

- My friend's first main character on hero side, was a Invulnerability/Mace Tanker. When he was trying to form a PuG at about level 43, some guy joined and commented "You're a Invuln!? You're living in the past! It's all about Stone tanks right now!" and left the party right after. I understand that after the giant nerf stick, Stone is the only BROKEN tank, but that does not mean that the other primaries (ESPECIALLY Invuln) cannot tank. For christ sakes, Invuln gets capped smash/lethal resistance! *sigh*

- Back to the Brutes. It is a common stereotype to ASSUme that Brutes are Tanks. This is false UNLESS they're a /stone. Brutes are your PRIMARY DAMAGE DEALERS! Villain side does not have a tanker class. What they have to rely on is constant teamwork that does not stop. They need to move as a group, but also move quickly. Brutes have no trouble holding aggro. Corrupters have great buffs, and provide great backup damage. Dominators help with mitigation. Masterminds add to the backup damage, and can act like a tank (if they're bots/FF or thugs/FF), and Stalkers are meant to be kicked from the team after getting everyone killed. Seriously NCsoft, this class needs to be helped out of the iron lung that is Energy Melee...

- Giant pet peeve of mine. People who belittle you for trying out odd job builds. I do understand when you run into a Brute, or Tanker that does not grab his/her mez (status effect) protection toggle. But to bitch at a Controller for trying to actually cause some damage instead of ONLY applying mez is just.... ugh.....

- Tankers that act like elitists. OK, the Tanker should always be the person to follow. Whether they are the team leader, or not. This does not mean that the tanker has the right to dictate what attacks you use. If I happen to be a Energy Blast, and I wanna use my AoE to finish up the damage on the majority of the mobs, I'm gonna do it. So what if the mobs fly all over the place? Use your damn taunt aura to get them back on you. For Christ sake YOU DO NOT EVEN NEED TO ATTACK THEM. Tanker taunt auras only require you to stand near them and you get aggro.

- /regen Scrappers that act like tanks. I don't care how high your regen is, that AV will one shot your stupid ass!

- Probably the biggest one is when I run in to someone that's fairly new to this game, but is a overall MMORPG vet. They assume all MMORPGs are the same (because a fair amount of them are...) and come into this game demanding one thing. "OMG NEED HEALZ!!!!" One lesson these people eventually learn is that CoX is a fast paced game that has you tearing through enemies. A large part of the assistance in this game comes from BUFFS. Stacking buffs can make your team unstoppable. They can get you to the point where you do not even need a heal at all. So to anyone here who ever plays CoX, remember. BUFF > HEALS!

I understand how Brutes work, I've used every class in the game. Done so enough that I don't have any controllers or blasters because I don't like them compaired to their villain counterpart.

Anyhow, the thing is our group wasn't going slow. But we had no real buffs and my secondary was traps. The only reason I could heal was because I had the medicine pool. From your experience you should know the problems trying to keep someone healed with medicine. The other thing is he wasn't the only Brute on the team, the other was my RL best friend. Guess which Brute I'd rather have leading the way? He also would run off into the next group of mobs when members of our team were almost dead and out of endurance. Brutes are strong but they're not a one man army, if you run into a group of enemies meant for 8 people by yourself you're gonna die. And in any MMO if you constantly ignore the team leader, you're going to be lucky if you don't get kicked. He had Brute mentality + noob mentality which is a formula for disaster.

Actually, Brutes are one men armies. Of course, this is depending on several factors. Power sets, enemy damage types, and your level. Willpower Brutes can be pretty counter productive on a team, BUT they're at their best when they're in the middle of a giant crowd. (which is only common in a team of at least 5)

It was vocally for me too. I don't think I 100 percented it (I couldn't really check), but, I won by quite a bit.

Fortunately, though, he doesn't represent the populace of the Rock Band online group.

This was at like level 12 and it was before Electric Brutes were added let alone Willpower.

And if he's a one man army how come he kept dieing and blamed it on me for not healing him?

You misunderstand my intentions here. I'm not trying to defend his actions. I'm trying to state that there are times where it is justifiable for a Brute to use those tactics. To throw out one last off subject post, I'm starting a superteam this Friday. If you would like to join, PM me for details.

I'll throw 2 more gigantic pet peeves of mine.

- I play on Virtue mainly. The bad thing about this is that this is the RP server of the bunch. A large portion of RPers act like pompous jackasses when they find out that you are not a RPer and you're playing on "their" server.

- People that call power leveling "cheating". Also, people that completely look down on you for power leveling and farming. If I make a character because I want to use a certain power, but that power is only achievable at a certain level, what's wrong with having some friends power level me up to that level? I understand getting angry when people bug you about it when you don't wanna hear it, but I get crap by merely stating that I support power leveling. This is why I only do PuGs when me or my friend are leaders. This is just another example of other people trying to dictate how you should play the game.

Yeah that's annoying. The fun thing about CoX is doing what you want with your character unlike games like WoW and FFXI.

Oh man, I've been trying out FFXI with my RL buddy. It's been good and bad. One of the issues I have with that game is the EXTREME linearity of the classes. Sure, there's some minor customization when it comes to picking your secondary job, but that game pretty much puts a gun to your head and forces you into a certain role based on your job. This, of course, leads to people going crazy on you for being a noob. I'm lucky I had my friend to show me the ropes. Darwinism would have run its course on me by now.

Some annoyances with Graal Online waaaay back in the day.

-Beginning for free gelats. I mean, cut down some bushes...not hard to find.

-The constant 'You cheat' remarks when they see decent stats. I'm sorry, but my 1000+ kill/27 death ratio was because I played the game for years and got very good. It DOES happen, ya know?

-Mass PMs asking for 1) $$$, 2) a GF, 3) items and occasionally 4) guild recruitment. I understand the fourth, but the latter three were annoying and result in my disabling Mass PMs.

-The infamous '1 heart left PAUSE and TAUNT' that so many newbies would do. They don't mind fighting you, even two or three on one. But if you ge them down to one heart, they'll pause (so you can't hurt them) and taunt you until they either 'log-off' or if a friend is helping them 'have him be a diversion' until you are far enough away that they can quickly run off. Of course, they also did an 'unstick me' which warped you to the first level of the game. That was SUPPOSE to be used when you got stuck but I think you all can guess what happened here.

The most annoying thing in any online game are elitist pricks who think they know everything and have the right to ridicule people for every fucking thing in existence. You no have epics? You gimped. You no have maxed stats? You newb. You press wrong button? You scrub. You don't play game 24 hours a day 7 days a week? You fail.

Also I hate kids.. In video games.. And I hate teenagers in video games and IRL.

Any true lurkers will have seen my rant topic on many of these subjects, I'm also going to pretty much put my head up to be pelted by tomatoes again and say as a general rule 'girls' whether real or not get an easy ride in RPGS if they're willing to manipulate people. If you want to deny it being a fact I'll still call it an inconvenient truth because it is. They just have to turn on the charms and every halfwit sexually frustrated guy they're willing to manipulate/put up with will be putty in their hands, I guess to compare it to real life it's kinda like those gold digger bitches who marry old men for their money, but on a larger scale since if they're crafty they can leech from multiple people at once.

RPGS are plagued with those problems the same way FPS and fighting games are plagued with trash talking adrenaline junkie nerds, but am I the only one who has come across those players in any kind of game who get a god complex and then proceed to treat everyone like shit? Seriously hitmen should go around their house and beat some sense into them jay and silent bob style.

edit: lol at Parn's post I know that pain game oh so well... everyone kissing the asses of white mages, black mages and warrior/ninja/paladin hybrids etc then the party falling apart the second that party member has to log off oh happy days... any RPG where you can't level by yourself after level 10 and you can level down from dying is fucking evil... period...

edit2: I was wondering another thing too actually when did warriors suddenly go from a kickass meelee class to play to suddenly "I like swords lolz" meat shields for everyone else in RPGS?

One of the most experiences I have is playing COD4 online. Multiple Prestiges doesn't earn you the right to be an utter asshole to everyone else be it lower than your current rank or another.

This was really annoying at the time, but in retrospect I think it's hilarious.

I'm playing WoW healing with my shaman, I'm in non-heroic Auchenai Crypts with a pug (which is a headache enough as it is), and we have a feral druid tanking. Things could be going better but we were doing okay, all things considered. We're getting close to Exarch Maladaar when I happen to glance over at our druid tank who's currently in caster form. I think "Wait a sec, that's not what he was wearing when he first came in......and that doesn't look like tanking gear."

Sure enough, on closer inspection he was in healing gear. By this time we were cleared to take out Maladaar. I don't how long he had been doing this, but I knew this fight would not go well like that, so I made everyone else in the group aware of the situation by saying "Dude, put your tank gear back on". So they noticed and started saying the same thing. This went on for like 5 minutes or so and by then I'm pretty pissed that the guy pretty much sat there like we haven't said a word to him. Finally he says "ok every1 ready??" like he's going to go pull, still in healing gear.

This is when I start whispering the rest of the group "Back away...."

Aaaand naturally the guy gets spanked. Though I can't help but think that the look on his face must've been priceless when he turned around and saw us clear at the other end of the room before he died.

I'm still pretty pissed off at this point, so I'm trying to make the guy promise to switch back to his tanking gear before I res him. By this time another party member's whispering saying he has a friend that can come tank. The druid's response? "can I get a res now?"

"Wrong answer," says I before removing him from the party and inviting the other party member's friend, and we finish the instance.


My shaman's elemental/restoration so with the right gear he could get away with healing most non-heroic 5-mans with the right group. I have a holy priest too, so on that note a lot of my most annoying experiences with people online have been ones where people wrongfully think everything that goes wrong is the healer's fault. Pisses me off to no end. No, I'm not a perfect healer, but I think more often than not there was something else wrong that resulted in one player's death or a wipe.

I've always hated people who needs a revenge team kill whenever you team kill them by accident. And I'm not talking about the automatic "Kill/Forgive"-choice popping up, I'm talking about them actually chasing you down and killing you next round/spawn.

This happens quite some times in COD4 (Friendly Fire is on if you play Hardcore).

You can blame Everquest 1 for that. Infact in EQ1 they were worse then they are in most games now because they didn't even have special attacks. They had auto attack and taunt. This is one thing I liked about Lord of the Rings Online. They made two seperate warrior classes. One that's a tank and the other that's a damage dealer.

That reminds me. It's really annoying in Halo 3 when your team mate kills you because you took a weapon they wanted or got in a vehicle they wanted to pilot.

Yeah, that's just as annoying. Brings back memories of Battlefield 2 also, taking a plane often mean you'll get shot down by your own teammates before being able to leave the hangar.