[Rant] Most annoying experiences with people online

With online gaming, you always run the risk of running into a complete idiot. Whether they be spammers, people who think they're 1337, or just random idiots who are the sole reason for the word n00b. Now I'm not making this thread to bash people who just aren't good at a game because they're new or what not. But rather people who act so mind numbingly stupid, that you wish you could reach through the internet and slap them.

I think in most cases, I've been fairly lucky in this regard. Because inspite of some lousy parties I've had in MMORPGs and inspite of how many MMORPGs I've played. The one that sticks in my memory the most is actually from playing an RTS.

I was playing Battle for Middle Earth. I was using Isengard and I was playing against some guy using Rohan. I start building up my forces and after a short while, Rohan attacks. I obliterate his troops. I then start taking over the resources throughout the map. I soon realized he decide now that he was going to keep his forces in his base and turtle. Which left me to conquer the whole map aside from his base.

So as I'm taking over the last few pieces of land, he starts taunting me. Challenging me to attack him saying things like "Come on you *****! Attack me already! What the hell is taking you so long?". At this time I have several seige weapons, max troops, and all my heroes out. So I march over to his castle, blow open the wall, and slaughter his heroes who come rushing out. Then all the sudden "OMG! WTF? How old are you man?". I tell him my age and it turns out he's only like 13 and he starts going off on me saying things like "OMG! You loser! Why the hell are you playing a game? Go get a job!" to which my response was "I have a job. It's 2 am. Who do you think works at 2 am?" and his response is "Apparently you do you loser!". Which obviously made no sense and I finisher destroying his base as he continued to complain and throw mispelled obscenities at me.

Considering his spaz out, I can only imagine the kind of trash talk he'd be spewing if he was the one winning.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by DarkLink2135

I don't get mad and think I should charge for the d/e because if I couldn't do it, than nobody could d/e, and the item would be useless w/o me.

Oh god... that reminds me of Everquest. So many people got rich in that off charging for teleports and buffs.

Originally Posted by DarkLink2135

Generally age does equal higher maturity, but I hate when people use that as some sort of trump card. Since I'm nearly 21 now that issue doesn't come up so often, but I often say, I know a kid who's 14, and he's far more mature about his online personality than a 27 year old I know. Kid was taught good values, the 27 year old is spoiled something sick.

That reminds me of something that happened in CoV. I had a friend who was like 15 I think. This one guy in his late 20s we were grouping with got into an argument with him and was swearing and talking like he was so tough and nobody better talk bad to him. Then he wants my friend to battle him in the arena without his pets when he's a pet class...

I remembered a really annoying experience I had in City of Villains. We had a team that had a Brute in it. Brute's are the closest thing the villain side gets to a tank and if their rage bar fills up they can do insane amounts of damage. It kind of encourages you to not take breaks inbetween fights. However this doesn't work in a team mission since the number of enemies is increased for every team member.

This guy I teamed with would not stop. He countless times ran ahead of the team or actually in a different direction then the rest of the team. Argued with me that since he's the Brute he should be leading the way even though I'm the team leader. I even died several times trying to keep him alive, finally near the end of the mission he dropped out and started telling everyone in his supergroup and coalition chat about how President Evil(me) kept getting him killed. Well one of the people in his coalition was in my team as well, told them what really happened and he was booted from his supergroup. Something is just so enjoyable when someone gets what they deserve.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by DarkLink2135

Even worse when the missing member is a DPS, which in WoW, are as easy to find as whores in a crack house.

I don't know of a game where DPS isn't the easiest thing to find. Tanks and Healers are the things that nobody wants to be.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by samari

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?

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Frozen Memories

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.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Manny Biggz

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...

- 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.

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.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Manny Biggz

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)

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?

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by Manny Biggz

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.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Originally Posted by S_K

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?

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.

Originally Posted by Syndrome

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).

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.

Jam it back in, in the dark.