The Wonderful World of Multiplayer Chat

[Pirate]

Here are some gems from Call of Duty 4.

The thing about grenades:

Kid: Hey, why’d you throw that grenade?

Me: Because there were enemies over there.

Kid: Dumbass! I shot them all!

Me: No. You didn’t. There were still some around the corner, thus the points I just got from killing them.

Kid: Why are you so gay?

Me: Because I love the cock?


What kind of AIDS?: (this was from my first or second night playing)

Dude: Yo, why you keep dying?

Me: I’m new.

Dude: Fuckin’ faggot. [he then shoots me, his teammate]

Dude: You got the gay AIDS! [laughs hysterically]

Me: Okay. Well, thanks.


What are some of the best things you guys have overheard while playing online games?

[Moonraker]

You just posted evidence why I often avoid online gaming, especially with chat enabled.

[umainebearman]

While playing a Pro face off match in GH 3

Dude - Man could you PLEASE miss a note!

Me- Sure no prob.
(so I kindly oblige by purposely missing 1 singular (not the new At&T by the way))

Dude - Thanks.

Match ends and I won by several percentage points and notes.

Dude - Man I still lost!

Me - You should have asked for me to miss more notes.

Sorry so far thats the best I got. I am usually pretty good at ignoring dumb ass players. Also if I'm playing in a group and they weed out said dumb ass they just demoralize them by killing them over and over.

[raptors661]

The very first day Americas Army came out(in 02):

A-|-|01e: You really suck!

Me: Im kinda new...

A-|-|01e: Fuckin N00bs! They sould really stop letting all these N00bs in here!


it went down something like that

[Wirehed]

This is why I've never played anything on-line.

[Astrakan]

Meh. I'd say I spend abot 70% of my gameplay time online, and the above examples only illustrates what may happen if you play online with people you don't know. If you stick to your friends list (preferably cultivated through some kind of community) you avoid all that.

And even if you don't, annoying people like those above thankfully does not represent the majority of online players.

KM

[Miggy]

I'm nowhere near good enough to play on-line shooters, but I sometimes will play Yahoo! pool. I get people every once in a while that insists on chatting. So one time I just decided to play dumb and, eventually the guy gave up.

Oh and of course I lied about my asl.

rtg_is_me: ASL
[30 seconds later]
realmiggy2: What?
rtg_is_me: AGE SEX LOCATION
[30 seconds later]
realmiggy2: What about it?
rtg_is_me: well what are your answers
[30 seconds later]
realmiggy2: What kind of answers?
rtg_is_me: fuck
rtg_is_me: what is your age and where do you live and how old are you
rtg_is_me: sorry whats your age where do you live and what gender are you
[30 seconds later]
realmiggy2: Oh!
realmiggy2: 42, M, Arizona
rtg_is_me: i c
rtg_is_me: 18 m australia

Miggy, the Thief

[MooglePorn]

Originally Posted by Astrakan

Meh. I'd say I spend abot 70% of my gameplay time online, and the above examples only illustrates what may happen if you play online with people you don't know. If you stick to your friends list (preferably cultivated through some kind of community) you avoid all that.

And even if you don't, annoying people like those above thankfully does not represent the majority of online players.

KM

Even when I play with friends there are still plenty of other people there as well... maybe this is because my friends list is like 30 people long, but there's rarely more than a few online at once, and then rarely do they want to play the same game.

So no matter what your friend situation you're going to be playing with other people, and in my experience about 90% of people act like the examples above... pretty much anyone who says anything does... the annonimity of the Internet does crazy things to people.

Thus my hatred of online gaming... well that and I like stories/immersion more than frantic twitch-gaming anyway.

If you want a funny example I have one from the last time I played an online match, which was in Team Fortress 2... Some guy kept humming or singing the same stupid shit over and over, like "velvet velvet velvet velvet" over and over again for like 10 minutes with everyone screaming at him to stop. Eventually everyone was like "kick him, you have to kick him"... I was never talking this whole time. My gamer ID is "StingingVelvet" so one genius says "hey he keeps saying 'velvet' it must be that stingingvelvet guy"... I say, very calm and polite... "it's not me"... first thing I said the whole game. What do I get back? "Whatever FAG"... then I get kicked from the game.

Fun!

[Astrakan]

Originally Posted by MooglePorn

So no matter what your friend situation you're going to be playing with other people

Not true at all. My friends list is full (100 people) and I rarely play with non-friends. We usually make the room exclusive and off we go. If it's a slow night and we can't drum up a full room, what we do is fill one side and let the public fill the opposing team. Not as much fun as having a friends-only room, but since I don't have to listen to them it's no that big of a deal.

Granted, those 100 people all know each other, so they're more likely to want to play the same game since we all want to play with each other. If you have a list of people only you know, and who don't know each other, I imagine it's probably a different situation.

As for 90% of people being annoying... I don't know what to say to that. Even though I mostly do play with friends, if I go online in off hours I usually end up playing with the publics and I just don't have the same experience as you.

I'll usually grab a room at random. If that room is obnoxious, which you can usually tell pretty fast, I leave of my own accord and grab a different room. Usually I find a great room within a couple of tries.

KM

[Derb]

I usually don't chat online on XBL thankgod but do hear others in GH3 through my center channel speaker.

Lots of pooooooor losers out there which like to express just how bad they suck by cursing at you.

1 guy told me he was new & to take it easy on him.

I than looked at his gamercard. He has entire game completed on hard & expert.

Sometimes people will quit before the song starts because I don't have my mic plugged in. Others usually shut up & those are the people who are challenging. Than the people who do not shut up... I'd say 90% is a good go fuck yourself.

[MooglePorn]

Originally Posted by Astrakan

Not true at all. My friends list is full (100 people) and I rarely play with non-friends. We usually make the room exclusive and off we go. If it's a slow night and we can't drum up a full room, what we do is fill one side and let the public fill the opposing team. Not as much fun as having a friends-only room, but since I don't have to listen to them it's no that big of a deal.

Granted, those 100 people all know each other, so they're more likely to want to play the same game since we all want to play with each other. If you have a list of people only you know, and who don't know each other, I imagine it's probably a different situation.

As for 90% of people being annoying... I don't know what to say to that. Even though I mostly do play with friends, if I go online in off hours I usually end up playing with the publics and I just don't have the same experience as you.

I'll usually grab a room at random. If that room is obnoxious, which you can usually tell pretty fast, I leave of my own accord and grab a different room. Usually I find a great room within a couple of tries.

KM

I'm not sure what makes two people have such different experiences, but this just sounds completely foreign to me... the amount of horrible experiences I would have to suffer through to meet 100 cool people would drive me insane. Everytime I play online... EVERYTIME... there are assholes everywhere.

Anyway, it's not a huge loss... as I said, I preffer singleplayer anyway.

[Ruined]

Its too bad we don't do those DVDFILE "Live Nights" like we used to a few years ago. That was some awesome fun... Remember, MechAssault, Unreal Championship, motoGP, the occasional Whacked! game... Then with the champion award for whoever got the most points!

We should do that again, its great fun blowing up your fellow forum members... I think the prob was I ran out of time to do the scheduling and rounding up myself, I really need some help in that matter. And some other people have to be willing to host if I can't make a certain day/time.

[umainebearman]

Originally Posted by Ruined

Its too bad we don't do those DVDFILE "Live Nights" like we used to a few years ago. That was some awesome fun... Remember, MechAssault, Unreal Championship, motoGP, the occasional Whacked! game... Then with the champion award for whoever got the most points!

We should do that again, its great fun blowing up your fellow forum members... I think the prob was I ran out of time to do the scheduling and rounding up myself, I really need some help in that matter. And some other people have to be willing to host if I can't make a certain day/time.

We really should start up that again. I mean at least we know what we are getting with the people on here right?? It doesn't even have to be retail games. Lots of us have the same XBL arcade games and sometimes those are the most fun. Might give me an excuse to actually buy UNO instead of playing the hell out of the demo.

[billnye97]

Originally Posted by umainebearman

We really should start up that again. I mean at least we know what we are getting with the people on here right?? It doesn't even have to be retail games. Lots of us have the same XBL arcade games and sometimes those are the most fun. Might give me an excuse to actually buy UNO instead of playing the hell out of the demo.

I would definitely be down for doing something like that. Sounds like a good time to be had.

[Mr. Furious]

Halo 3 begs to have a "live night".

[Astrakan]

Originally Posted by MooglePorn

I'm not sure what makes two people have such different experiences...

I'm pretty sure it's me being a member of a gaming community. In my case it's Xbox Mature Gamers. I'd say about 90 of the 100 people on my friends list are from that group.

It's nothing fancy, just an invite-only forum whose members play Xbox Live together. The members are mostly guys in their 30's and 40's. Some people are older, some younger, and there's some women. The forum being invite-only ensures we only get cool people and not morons.

When I joined XMG we were one of maybe 2 or 3 such communities (that I know of), but now there's dozens of them out there. The Live Nights that Ruined was doing a while back is kind of an example of one.

KM

[Wurms]

Long read, but hilarious if you have done the online gaming thing:

If WWII was fought by online gamers

*Hitler[AoE] has joined the game.*
*Eisenhower has joined the game.*
*paTTon has joined the game.*
*Churchill has joined the game.*
*benny-tow has joined the game.*
*T0J0 has joined the game.*
*Roosevelt has joined the game.*
*Stalin has joined the game.*
*deGaulle has joined the game.*
Roosevelt: hey sup
T0J0: y0
Stalin: hi
Churchill: hi
Hitler[AoE]: cool, i start with panzer tanks! ownage!
paTTon: lol more like panzy tanks
T0JO: lol
Roosevelt: o this fockin sucks i got a depression!
benny-tow: haha america sux
Stalin: hey hitler you dont fight me i dont fight u, cool?
Hitler[AoE]; sure whatever
Stalin: cool
*poland has joined the game*
poland:HAY GUYS HOWZ IT GOIUNG DUDZ?
*poland has been eliminated*
poland:****!!!!11
poland: **** U ****ING SPAWN CAMPERS!!!
deGaulle: **** Hitler rushed some1 help
Hitler[AoE]: lol byebye frenchy
Roosevelt: i dont got crap to help, sry
Churchill: wtf the luftwaffle is attacking me
Roosevelt: get antiair guns
Churchill: i cant afford them
benny-tow: u n00bs know what team talk is?
paTTon: ****
Roosevelt: o yah hit the navajo button guys
deGaulle: eisenhower ur worthless come help me quick
Eisenhower: i cant do **** til rosevelt gives me an army
paTTon: yah hurry the fock up
Churchill: d00d im gettin pounded
deGaulle: this is fockin weak u guys suck
*deGaulle has left the game.*
Roosevelt: im gonna attack the axis k?
benny-tow: with what? ur wheelchair?
benny-tow: lol did u mess up ur legs AND ur head?
Hitler[AoE]: ROFLMAO
T0J0: lol o no america im comin 4 u
Roosevelt: wtf! thats bull**** u ***s im gunna kick ur asses
T0JO: not without ur harbors u wont! lol
Roosevelt: u little biotch ill get u
Hitler[AoE]: wtf
Hitler[AoE]: america hax, u had depression and now u got a huge fockin army
Hitler[AoE]: thats bull**** u hacker
Churchill: lol no more france for u hitler
Hitler[AoE]: tojo help me!
T0J0: wtf u want me to do, im on the other side of the world retard
Hitler[AoE]: fine ill clear you a path
Stalin: u arsshoel! WE HAD A FoCKIN TRUCE
Hitler[AoE]: i changed my mind lol
benny-tow: haha
benny-tow: hey ur losing ur guys in africa im gonna need help in italy soon sum1
T0J0: o **** i cant help u i got my hands full
Hitler[AoE]: im 2 busy 2 help
Roosevelt: yah thats right biznitch im comin for ya
Stalin: church help me
Churchill: like u helped me before? sure ill just sit here
Stalin: dont be an arss
Churchill: dont be a commie. oops too late
Eisenhower: LOL
benny-tow: hahahh oh **** help
Hitler: o man ur focked
paTTon: oh what now biotch
Roosevelt: whos the cripple now lol
*benny-tow has been eliminated.*
benny-tow: lame
Roosevelt: gj patton
paTTon: thnx
Hitler[AoE]: eisenhower hax hes killing all my ****
Hitler[AoE]: quit u hacker so u dont ruin my record
Eisenhower: Nuts!
benny~tow: wtf that mean?
Eisenhower: meant to say nutsack lol finger slipped
paTTon: coming to get u hitler u paper hanging hun ****socker
Stalin: rofl
T0J0: HAHAHHAA
Hitler[AoE]: u guys are fockin gay
Hitler[AoE]: ur never getting in my city
*Hitler[AoE] has been eliminated.*
benny~tow: OMG u noob you killed yourself
Eisenhower: ROFLOLOLOL
Stalin: OMG LMAO!
Hitler[AoE]: i didnt click there omg this game blows
*Hitler[AoE] has left the game*
paTTon: hahahhah
T0J0: my teammates are n00bs
benny~tow: shut up noob
Roosevelt: haha wut a moron
paTTon: wtf am i gunna do now?
Eisenhower: yah me too
T0J0: why dont u attack me o thats right u dont got no ships lololol
Eisenhower: fock u
paTTon: lemme go thru ur base commie
Stalin: go to hell lol
paTTon: fock this **** im goin afk
Eisenhower: yah this is gay
*Roosevelt has left the game.*
Hitler[AoE]: wtf?
Eisenhower: **** now we need some1 to join
*tru_m4n has joined the game.*
tru_m4n: hi all
T0J0: hey
Stalin: sup
Churchill: hi
tru_m4n: OMG OMG OMG i got all his stuff!
tru_m4n: NUKES! HOLY **** I GOT NUKES
Stalin: wtf is nukes?
T0J0: Yeah, wtf is nukes?
Stalin: d00d, gimme some plz
tru_m4n: no way i only got like a couple
Stalin: omg dont be gay gimmie nuculer secrets
T0J0: OMGWTFBBQ!!?
*T0J0 has been COMPLETELY OWNZORED*
*The Allied team has won the game!*
Eisenhower: awesome!
Churchill: gg noobs no re
T0J0: thats bull**** u fockin suck
*T0J0 has left the game.*
*Eisenhower has left the game.*
Stalin: next game im not going to be on ur team, u guys didnt help me for ****
Churchill: wutever, we didnt need ur help neway dumbarss
tru_m4n: l8r all
benny~tow: bye
Churchill: l8r
Stalin: fock u all
tru_m4n: shut up commie lol
*tru_m4n has left the game.*
benny~tow: lololol u commie
Churchill: ROFL
Churchill: bye commie
*Churchill has left the game.*
*benny~tow has left the game.*
Stalin: i hate u all ***s
*Stalin has left the game.*
paTTon: lol no1 is left
paTTon: weeeee i got a jeep
*paTTon has been eliminated.*
paTTon: o ****!
*paTTon has left the game.*

[sub780lime]

I dont usually have issue with people on line. I don't wear my headset unless I am playing with a friend and usually we do private chat. Otherwise, i dont wear it at all, but its maybe 1 in 10 games that i get some annoying people that wont shut up. Most of the time, its no communication at all once the game starts. And then there is that rare game where someone is actually talking and its strategy. Doing small team tactical games in COD4 that way can be a lot of fun. I have had some bad experiences, but nothing to turn me off of online gaming in any way. Its too much fun playing with other people.

As for a Live night, I would be in for doing this all the way. Halo 3 works, though I would prefer COD4 since I stopped playing Halo once COD came out. Just not as fun, but any game would work.

[umainebearman]

I traded in Halo 3 about 3 days after I finished it. It didn't hold as much replay value as COD4. Also with Rainbow 6: Vegas 2 right around the corner here in March..... mmmmmmm mmmmmm I smell some good online cookin.

[MrE26]

90% of the time i play on a team with a bunch of guys i've known for years, and we rarely get any shit from people. It's usually dumb teenagers (usually Americans too, sorry guys!) who run their mouths, and they tend to get shot down immediately so they shut up from then on.
The dickheads who sing or play music are quickly muted, so it's all good.

[sub780lime]

Originally Posted by MrE26

90% of the time i play on a team with a bunch of guys i've known for years, and we rarely get any shit from people. It's usually dumb teenagers (usually Americans too, sorry guys!) who run their mouths, and they tend to get shot down immediately so they shut up from then on.
The dickheads who sing or play music are quickly muted, so it's all good.

Whats the percentage of total xbox live users in the US and in other countries. Could that be a factor?

[MrE26]

Originally Posted by sub780lime

Whats the percentage of total xbox live users in the US and in other countries. Could that be a factor?

Yeah, most likely. I should also say, the vast majority of the Americans i've played with/against are fine, it's just a very vocal minority who let the side down for me.

Typical COD4 scenario which occurred last weekend...
dickhead: "USA, USA, USA... *random static*"
Me: "Please be quiet."
dickhead: "Fuck you British douchebag! Go drink some fuckin' tea!"
Me: "Yeah, that's original... prick"
dickhead: "USA, USA, USA..."
Me: "For the love of God will you please shut the fuck up!"
dickhead: "Fuck you man, learn to fuckin' speak American!"
Me: "English actually, dickhead"
dickhead: "USA, USA, USA..."
Me: "How old are you?!"
dickhead: "14, why faggot?"
Me: "Yeah, figures..."
*mute*

Another friendly guy, on Halo 3.
Tosser: "Hey G Monkey, i'm gonna shit in your mouth!"
GMonkey: "Whatever floats your boat."
Tosser: "Yeah, fuck you, faggot!"
Me: "Um... you like to shit in men's mouths, yet he's the gay one?!"
*tosser's team all laugh*
Tosser: "....."
Tosser: "Fuck you man, you fuckin' British faggot!"
*Game begins, Tosser finishes last & is oddly silent afterwards*

[Mr. Furious]

MrE26 -

$5 USD (which I realize is worth less than the Euro equivalent ) your 14 year old loud-mouth is a shrimp who'd never mouth off in person. The internet sure makes some people brave.

[umainebearman]

You ain't lyin' just remember.......