Really starting to hate modern gamers...
 

So this is a bit of a vent, and rant... I'm 29, got into online gaming around 98/99. One of the things that drew me in was just how many awesome people I got to play with, and the fun times you'd have playing multiplayer in whatever it may be....

It seems like in the past few years, the gaming community has gotten worse....

It feels like the annoying 12 year olds in call of duty from 8 years ago are fellow adults now, but they grew up to be shitty adults. Any of you feel this way?

I just played a game of CS GO, and on the 2nd round being the last person alive on my team, I kill 2 people and then die and we lose the round, and my team vote kicks me, and I get a 2 hour ban..... I'm sure the guys on my team thought it was just frikken hilarious, but this kind of trolling seems rampant in all aspects of gaming now, it's like it's awesome and coveted to be just outright toxic to people you are playing with.


Anyways.... it's sad to see the next generation of gaming culture ruining one of my favourite sanctuaries, is it too much to ask for people to not be entirely shitty to one another while doing a recreational activity that is supposed to be centred around FUN?

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In 1999, the average online gamer was in their thirties. Today, the average online gamer is thirteen and has never been hit in the mouth.

As a 30something playing modern games you just have to learn that most the people you are playing with are kids and they are stupid and don't know any better. Having a 14 year old son i can see how 12-14 year old act anymore and it basically the same way they act in video games. It's a instant gratification society anymore no matter how hard you try and steer them away there is always the peer pressure to be a dick to someone etc. Too many parents out there that don't give a rats ass about teaching their kids such things as manners and morals.

Gaming isn't about playing games anymore. A lot has just become a pissing contest that you pay to enter into. Sad, but inevitable.

Will never forget the time I hit "random" on Battlefield 3 and entered a metro map with a huge ticket count (which meant the game wouldn't end for probably an hour or more).

What I didn't realize straight away, despite knowing that EA had ca$$$hed in by giving everyone the chance to run their own server how they wanted, was that I was on the enemy team to the admins of that server.

What had been a progressive stomp by the admin team was almost evening out. Holy shit, I was killing too many of them too often. Guess what happens next? They move me to their team... I stopped playing for a couple of minutes and got kicked.

People are assholes. It's on P99 too (blue particularly with camp lawyering). Some people, if there's an opportunity to be a total dick, will make that move every time, though we are blessed here considering what's "out there".

Assholes in Counterstrike? I'd expect that.

There's always Magic the Gathering Online... if it ever gets completely out of hand on the internet you know that'll be a safe haven ;)

Hearthstone is fun to play too because there is no trolls to deal with or raging kids.

Welcome to the world of CS:GO. A fuxking terrible game.

Yes, the quality of online gamers, indeed "gamers" in general has significantly declined over the years. I think it all began with crappy "everyone-can-be-a-winner" games like Halo and such.

The culture has changed. I would prefer to not play with any of the younger bratty types if I could keep from it.

I used to play Zombie Panic! and was banned and perma-banned on several servers for the exclusive reason that I was significantly better than everyone else by a massive margin. I was accused of "hacking" or "auto-aim" when they couldn't fathom how crappy they were. Instead of improving themselves it's easier to bring others down.

Also, a lot of those who never played EQ back in the day and came from WoW are some of the nastiest people. Also, they are nearly worthless players in general.

In my opinion the Golden Age of Gaming was from about 1995 to about 2003~

It's probably that you're older now and hate younger people because they are annoying little shits, which I think is pretty much the natural order of things.