Comments on: Are There Really That Many Idiots Online? (Or Am I Just Lucky?)

By: vornn

vornn — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:44:32 +0000

i can honestly say, yes. lot’s of them.

I got in the beta for something or other, and in my first game (which was advertised in the server listing as a noob game) I was kicked because I was too noob. I uninstalled after that.

I have a tendency to play on one or two servers if I’m playing TF, and that way you get to know the people who lurk there.

: )

By: Sargon

Sargon — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:41:57 +0000

It reminds me of a joke.
A guy gets back home, and then his wife tells him “Be careful when you drive, I heard there is an idiot that drive on the wrong way”.
To that the husbend replied “Only one idiot? There a lot of idiots driving the wrong way!”

I will be very careful to call online gamers idiots. Sometimes people feel offended when you call people idiots, even if they were not the people you targeted.
But I guess you said it only to make a sensational headline.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:19:07 +0000

It also depends on your servers.

Online gaming sucked as a kid. So much aggro and hate going on.. I always left with a bad mood.

The only online game where I hardly met any idiots was Quake 3 Arena. Cool people all around.

Recently I was invited to an online game server (Counter Strike) where more mature players were gaming and it was really enjoyable (I was the youngest with 24 yrs.. the oldest guy was 43 years old).

By: Katherine

Katherine — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:36:58 +0000

You’re lucky. Also if you are a woman or look or sound like you would be a woman you often get an added dose of morons hitting on you no matter what you say or do. Or telling you that either you must be useless because of that fact, or they are surprised when you aren’t.

Perhaps you play games at a time of day that has less morons on though? Or play games that have less morons on?

By: Jim Perry

Jim Perry — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:51:54 +0000

I rarely play online with people that aren’t in my Friends list. A group of us may play against random people, but I can’t think of the last time I just jumped into a random game online. The amount of idiots out there is incredible.