Other The Pain Of Multiplayer Games. Any Opinions?

Multiplayer games are a pain in the butt for multiple reasons.

first of all, and this rings true especially in most FPS's, I can't stand having my headphones on and hearing squeaky prepubescent voices screaming about a player whose worked their way up in the game's ranking system legitimately, and calling them a hacker for reasons that are ridiculous. As a prime example, back when I used to play Modern Warfare 3 in multiplayer matches, it wouldn't take long before a child presumably between the ages of 6 and 11 plugged in their microphones and started screaming curse words at anyone who landed a kill on their character, accusing them of being a hacker simply for their legitimately earned rank and skill in that game. It's one of my many pet peeves about online multiplayer gaming that sadly really turns me away from playing online with others.

Another pet peeve is when the older, higher ranking players, start spewing nonsense over the microphone bragging about their rank. Hey genius, that's what the rank is for! it shows me how good you are!

When you encounter a situation of trolling, usually involving a younger kid and an older player, the older player often teasing or annoying the younger one. sure, it is HILARIOUS, but I'd like to keep all of the hearing in both ears and not loose it to the shrill screech of an 8-year-old.

The players who ACTUALLY ARE cheating. I've always looked at this the same way I looked at disruptive kids in schools. Cheaters in multiplayer games should be kicked into a server all together, so its literally a server full of cheating players, and they can't kill each other or be killed because they are all cheating. so much for your fun, huh? And to pour salt in the wound, perhaps for the next week every time they try to enter a server they get kicked right into the cheater's server, just so they learn their lesson. If you wanna be a little cheat, go play with all the other little cheats. Leave the good honest game play for the good honest players.

coming away from the FPS subject now and into more general online multiplayer co-op. I find that co-op multiplayer games are really only fun if you're playing with a group of your friends with voice chat. Sadly for me, none of my friends are gamers at all, and the ones that are only play in single player games. I can't tell you how many times I've been playing Prop Hunt and gotten bored because of the lack of fun, hilarious commentary by friends. Games like that are just simply more enjoyable and fun if you can play them with friends.

Foreign servers. WHY are you advertising a GERMAN server to me when I am in ENGLAND. give me ENGLISH SERVERS, game!

The awkwardness of hearing someone argue with a loved one over the microphones. countless arguments between boyfriends and girlfriends have been witnessed, and it's like watching a dog walk on its hind legs. sort of the same awkward when you're at a friends house and they start arguing with their parents. Magical, yet awkward.

So what are your pet peeves when it comes to online multiplayer games? Have a rant. it's good for you.

There are several reasons I don't like multilayer games. One, I hate having to deal with everyone's nonsense. I just want to play the game without someone screaming at me for doing so. Secondly, grinding. For some reason, every multiplayer game must have a system where you must grind to get better stuff. What happened to everyone being on equal ground? There would be very few balancing problems if everyone had all the stuff from the start. I hate it so much. That's about it.

I play for multiplayer. However I don't put myself in situations where I have to talk or hear people I don't want to. Always am partied up with friends and as a typically angry solo gamer, I have a lot more fun playing and chatting with friends. Makes me less uptight :p
I own an Xbox so it's pretty well set up to play with who I want and with whatever preferences I want, which is great.
I use a built in LFG feature on Xbox. I've gotten used to weird parties unfortunately but it's helped me make a ton of great friends since I don't have many gaming friends irl. A little weirdness but not I have a solid friend base to enjoy games with on a regular basis.
As far as cheaters go I completely agree. Imo they ruin games for people that want to play normally. I'm all for punishment!

I hate it when a game is multiplayer but not a server-thing. Like you have to be sitting next to someone who also wants to play or the game isn't as much fun (like Don't Starve which is hard af with friends, so just imagine it without). Game, I don't have any friends, that's why I'm playing you!

Also lag. Just....just lag. So much lag.

I don't get some of the "insults" though. Like, how is being called a "noob" an insult? ESPECIALLY IF YOU JUST WON? My friend would get so angry when she played on Minecraft servers because she would often win the games and all the players would call her a noob. I just don't get it, like, she won? How's she a noob and why is that an insult?

Nothing feels better than talking shit to a complete idiot after stomping them.

I always, always, try to be nice to younger player. Hey, we all have to start somewhere, right? We should try to welcome them into the community instead of bullying them for simply being younger, right?

But then they started being toxic like you said, screaming into the mic, bitching about every little things, blaming other people, damn. Yo, kids. You're already being hated for simply playing the game (which is rated 18+). Please don't make this harder for yourself by being trashy. Being younger is not an excuse for throwing a tantrum at your team. I can control myself when I was 13, wtf is wrong with you.

People who say 'ez' at the end of the match after winning also deserve a special place in hell. Alright, you won, don't have to rub that in. You don't know what's happening in the other team. Maybe their healers or tanks are trying their best to keep the everyone else alive, but people keep trickling in and dying everywhere, then they got blamed by everyone despite their effort. Just say good game or well played, save someone from feeling bad when they want to have fun by playing a game.

LAST BUT NOT LEAST-- English is not my first language, I don't live in English-speaking country. So I usually play in 1) Korea-Japan-China server 2) South East Asian server. It's very hard to play a team-based competitive game when all your teammate doing is yelling Koreans or Indian at you. No I'm not being racist, but please try to speak English in the team chat. Even people with heavy accent or bad pronunciation (like me) is way better than speaking something no one can understand (and keep saying it louder expecting people will start to understand them).

Ive been playing games on pc since 1999, so thats quite a while, but online games have always been a thing thats not for everybody.
Yes online shooters and mobas are full of cancerous people and toxic little kids, and i agree mostly that is annoying as hell, so theres usually an option to dissable Voip and/or chat, but sometimes you just gotta take it easy at have a laugh or a funny argument with someone in game, occasionally creating an amazing experience.

If people want a peaceful and nice experience in a game, then MMO RPGs are the way to go. I couldnt count the amount of time ive spent on for example Word of Warcraft. If you join a great guild or heck, make your own, its such a great feeling to make a guild that actually works like a huge family and takes care for each other both in and outside of the game!

About the cheaters... Screw them.

I feel multiplayer games should enforce the age limit. Yes, it's technically very hard and annoying as fuck, but possible. Yes, you can 'cheat' your way out of it, but the penalty should be a perma ban. 16+ minimum age limit already filters out the little squeeky gits that scream into the microphone. Unless you play on an Asian server. Some of those guys scream like little bitches. I experienced his recently since I tried playing Ring of Elysium ( the Tencent battle royale game based partnered with Bluehole). I believe I was being insulted in either Thai or Filipino. Either way that guy got REKT and he clearly didn't like the experience.

Legitimate cheaters, where they can either confirm the use of cheats or exploits, should be shown no mercy. You don't have the right to ruin other people's fun just because you paid for some scriptkiddy's code. Git Gud or get out. However, people should have to right to a complete motivation from anti-cheat companies, as well as a possibility to appeal such decisions. In particular battleye has notoriously shitty support and will even openly make fun of people when contacted, claiming they can do whatever they want. I feel these companies should be barred from trade and have their products taken off the market by force of law. At one point even unrelated programs such as Eclipse ( a development tool for programmers) marked people as cheaters. If you're a programmer, it's a problem if you can't install dev tools on your machine because some fucktard company can't distinguish between cheat code and a legitimate IDE.

Cancerous publishers locking parts of the playerbase behind DLC. This kills communities pretty darn fast.

Copy-paste politics in game development. Oh look! PUBG sold great! Let's all copy it and make the same thing, a hundred times.

And finally:


LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAG!!!

Scream it with me!

LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAG!!!

You know what pisses me off most about online games?

Mother.

Fucking.

Lag.

About to land that perfect headshot on an unsuspecting enemy?

NOPE!

999 m/s, because fuck you. Your character teleports halfway across the map, then to space, and finally to the twilight zone, before spontaneously combusting.

Got a clear sight of an enemy tank's weak spot, and he hasn't noticed you?

Nope, here comes that lag spike.

Your tank is now one with the ground. Then you lose connection and lose all that XP you earned.

About to take the objective and win the game after fighting tooth and nail?

The entire enemy team is now in right front of you.

Teamwork elements, without a doubt.

They're fantastic in principle, but half of the time everyone's single-mindedly focused on getting the most kills or being the best out of the group, so what needs to be a coordinated effort winds up being a shouting match where two people are trying to work together while the rest are running out without a care in the world and getting slaughtered in the process (And, spoiler alert - they all are going to blame you even if you're the ones carrying your team).

Children also kind of get on my nerves mostly because of the disrespect. When I was ten, I didn't go around screaming profanity at my people when we played games like Grand Chase together and I inevitably got my tush kicked because I was younger and less experienced than my (usually) much older buddies. Nowadays you have nine, ten, and eleven year olds telling everyone to go die regardless of whether they win or lose. It's ridiculous.

Another one and oh lord, my friends are the worst for this, but I really hate when experienced players systematically sabotage/kill new players. It might be funny to you to 'Kill noobs', but I've seen promising players straight up quit in the very beginning because they got frustrated and how can you blame them?

Also, as aforementioned by others, THE SHEER AMOUNTS OF LAG.

Lag is a complaint another thing I hate is when you are forced to play with other people just to get better gear.