mmorchive

July 13th, 2007 elitistjerks.net

Draele:

Is anyone else bothered by the WoW/MMO gaming culture? The attitudes I’ve encountered since January 2005 have amazed me at how…wrong a person can act. I don’t want to subject you folks to a lengthy rant so I’ll make it brief with some examples.

-Forum trolls. The mere concept of posting just to aggravate a fellow gamer simply baffles me.
-Those with minimal understanding of game mechanics who complain, cry nerf, throw around false information, etc.
-When presenting correct information you’re flamed.
-Leetspeak. Ugh.
-Crits = totally awesome. If you kill with a crit string you’re an elite gaming god. Be ready to get an earful if you’re a healer or DoT class and you aren’t owned by their “elite critzorz gaming skills”
-People with a complete lack of an attention span(see above)
-Have you been on the vent servers of some of these guilds? More leetspeak, screaming, harassment, complete lack of respect for others…
-”If I win it’s because I’m awesome and you suck. If I lose it’s because you’re overpowered and have no life.”
-The selfish attitudes that nearly everyone has.The fact that such a large portion of these people are probably quite intelligent and easy to get along with IRL makes it all the worse. Just because you’re in a game is no excuse to turn into a blithering idiot. Is it really that difficult to act like a human being? Or am I giving too much credence to the term “human being”?

It’s the Internet. People are jerks.