Lately, the more time I spend in online games I’ve been (more frequently than before) coming across players that essentially don’t play games to their fullest extent. I’m not talking about grinding meta builds, sweating off in ranked game modes or combing through online forums for the best way to play. I am talking about ,for example, playing R6S and never participating in the drone phase, never using your operator’s abilities and never creating rotation holes. I don’t mind players not knowing what these things are or not playing the game optimally. I do mind simply turning your brain off and just run around to try and farm kills. This is a player not wanting to play R6 as they refuse to interact with what sets it apart and I can only wonder if this is because they are forcing themselves to play/like the game either because it has the “tactical” tag to it or because a popular streamer played it recently. Said players would be happier just playing another faster paced game. I am using R6 as the main example but there are multiple games when that also applies, like tanks in MMOs not marking enemies, people in BFs not spotting hostiles and drivers in racing sims refusing to let go of the gas pedal to take a corner. That’s it though from me I just wanted to blow off some steam and get my words out. GG
Edit: Peole are misunderstanding my post. I don’t care if people don’t sweat their balls off in a game. I’m not that good in most online games that I play either and I almost exclusively play single player RPGs. My point is that people that DO play a game in ranked for example, a pretty difficult co-op game or a survival hardcore sim and don’t interact with the game mechanics is an ongoing pandemic in gaming. If you play a game like HD2 and ignore your team and just treat it like COD zombies you are not going to win. Your team is going to lose and you won’t get any points for upgrading your gear or buying new stuff. You have to meet the game itself halfway. You have to interact with its mechanics that set it apart. You don’t need to play in the hardest difficulty, when you play games like R6S you don’t need to climb the ranked ladder- hop on quick play or unranked (once upon a time we used to have Terrorist Hunt). I mean to say that a lot of people buy into those games and they decide instead of playing the game the way they want to they play it the way need to. “I like to play the game casually” then play it casually- don’t hop on the most competitive modes of the game because YOU aren’t going to have fun. If you like chiller more arcade-y games then play chiller more arcade-y games there is no need to buy a game that by design is not for your tastes.
Edit (2): This is fun I like talking to you guys about this stuff!
I get it man, you’re playing competitive online games and not want to be stuck with randoms, but that’s just the way it is.
But I don’t suppose I have to tell you that you really shouldn’t feel obligued to tell people what should and shouldn’t be fun for them in games that they spent their hard earned money on?
School and job is exhaustive my man, add it to it how stressful and hard to learn online games are and it should be easy to understand that most people may not be willing to put extra effort into being competitive in them, but they still want and deserve to have fun in them on their own rules.
Like I’ve said it the post it’s not the “playing bad” that makes irritates me, everyone has a different skill level. What I’m trying to say is that people that run head first into the safe room in L4D and abandon their team, or people that play games like HD2 on the hardest difficulty and just run off from their team and spam stratagems. Clearly these types of players don’t want to engage in cooperating with other players yet choose co-op games. They end up not having fun as solo diving enemies ends up in death while the rest of the team has to cover for a +1 .
Every example you just mentioned is a demonstration of “playing bad” in my book. What would you descibe as “playing bad”? Just aiming issues? Or reaction times? Surely that would be to reductive.
Using competitive online games as an example in my post was a mistake. Think D&D. You can’t really play the game 100% how you want. You need to keep the other players (+DM) in mind. If your rolls suck or your plans don’t work out in the end doesn’t annoy me at all -its just a game after all. What I do find annoying is a player treating D&D as a single player RPG, running around on their own, trying to make the story resolve around themselves and not cooperating with the party. If that’s how a player wants to play the game maybe they should stick to living room D&D or Roll20. If said player joins a table at a local hobby shop some form of etiquette and understanding of the game is required. If they decide to play as a murderhobo that constantly ruins the experience of the other players they will be reprimanded or even kicked out. Instead they should either choose to join murderhobo games, stick to aforementioned living room D&D or start up a videogame. Play the game how you want by all means I don’t mean to take it away from anyone. Just know the when and how is my point. Just because you bought siege doesn’t mean you HAVE to play ranked. You like the game casually or play off work/college then join unranked or quick-play. Gamers today feel like they have to fit tightly in their respective communities instead of playing the games how they want to and that ends up ruining their teammates and ,most importantly, the player themselves.
Ok, thank you for clarifying, I get what you mean now. As I understand it you’re mad at players playing egotistically and treating others as NPCs. I would say that that is a more general social issue, that isn’t limited to gaming. Sadly, you’ll have to just deal with it.