Eh Whats your feckin problem A-hole

weiland79

So i got myself an X box when the slim came out a few months ago. I'm really enjoying the exclusives that i missed throughout out the years. Just finished Gears of war , Splinter cell:conviction and am currently playing Mass effect 1. I only have 1 friend on my friends list and i know him in RL which is fine. He recently convinced me to pick up MW2 which i already have for my PS3 and we have been playing that for the past few nights.

The thing is this.

What the hell is wrong with you X boxers? I've been called a Fvckin retard, Fvckin Cvnt told my mother is a Cvnt told to get fvcked and many many many other choice names.
It is not only 10 yr olds that shout this kind of abuse, last night i was abused within an inch of my life by two 'Mature' sounding scousers.
Why do a lot of people feel the need to act this way on Live? Is it just what people have come to expect so certain people feel the need to provide this kind of abuse? I don't know it's very odd.

Can anyone give reasons for this kind of behaviour? or Do any of you partake in this kind of behaviour?

Snakeblood

weiland79 wrote: »

So i got myself an X box when the slim came out a few months ago. I'm really enjoying the exclusives that i missed throughout out the years. Just finished Gears of war , Splinter cell:conviction and am currently playing Mass effect 1. I only have 1 friend on my friends list and i know him in RL which is fine. He recently convinced me to pick up MW2 which i already have for my PS3 and we have been playing that for the past few nights.

The thing is this.

What the hell is wrong with you X boxers? I've been called a Fvckin retard, Fvckin Cvnt told my mother is a Cvnt told to get fvcked and many many many other choice names.
It is not only 10 yr olds that shout this kind of abuse, last night i was abused within an inch of my life by two 'Mature' sounding scousers.
Why do a lot of people feel the need to act this way on Live? Is it just what people have come to expect so certain people feel the need to provide this kind of abuse? I don't know it's very odd.

Can anyone give reasons for this kind of behaviour? or Do any of you partake in this kind of behaviour?

People get mighty big when they can talk without consequence.

When I was ten I was playing atext based multi user dungeon for 5 minutes and I was swearing happily at people. I don't do it now, but it had a magic appeal for 5 minutes. For some people, the appeal can last for years.

folan

<to be said in scouse accent>alright alright calm down calm down. </to be said in scouse accent>

mute is your friend, man. as is report.

xbl lets people facelessly interact with others. some people are idiots. What happened to you happens to all of us. best bet is to leave them behind.

Dymo

Is this MW2 or all xbox games, I think it's the culture in MW2 some type of triable conduct like rival gangs, a bit like football hooliganism, everyone looking for a fight just because there the opposition. Or the other solution could be you are a Fvckin retard, Fvckin Cvnt your mother is a Cvnt unlikely though.

Raze_them_all

Get battlefield bad company 2. only ever had two mongs like that in all the months I've been playing it and i just left the squad and then ya can't hear them!

maximoose

i have to admit when i was younger and first got xbox live on the original xbox I was a complete little f*cker for doing this. I think it was mostly in retaliation at first, because at the time, and even nowadays, the majority of american players I was matched with were smug, arrogant pr*cks who thought they were amazing. it was great winding people up for no reason, the appeal soon wore off though.

I find now ignoring them and then teabagging them when I destroy them is the best response, its amazing how mad people can get over a video game.

gizmo

While some people consider the fact that every console comes bundled with a mic to be a good thing, sometimes I wonder.

Anyway OP, just ignore/mute them or better yet, only use teamspeak when in a party with your mates, that way you'll be sure you won't hear them. As for the practice in general, I heard just as much **** spouted by people during the CS days so it doesn't tend to bother me.

weiland79

It's funny actually because i'm only on level 16 on the X box but i've around the block more than a few times on the PS3 so know the maps inside out. People are expecting a complete noob and aren't happy bunnies when i hand them there ass. Cue abuse from idiot scouse cvnt.
Anyway mute all the way from now on.

Zeouterlimits

weiland79 wrote: »

What the hell is wrong with you X boxers?

Please don't label everyone. There are loads of great, friendly and fun people to play with.
But John Gabriel's Internet F***wad theory is in fully effect.
Anonymity & audience = Stupidity.

I had the exact same, horrible & terrible experience on Left 4 Dead 2 on pc when playing my first match recently.

Chris Dowling

Xbox Live hard men!!!! You'll find pleanty more of them out there, only way t resolve it wold be Jay & Silent Bob style like the end of Strike Back they use their money to track down all who talked ****e online about them called to their doors and knocked the living Sh*te out of them! :D:D:D

Adyx

Raze_them_all wrote: »

Get battlefield bad company 2. only ever had two mongs like that in all the months I've been playing it and i just left the squad and then ya can't hear them!

I used to play BF2142 an awful lot and the only time I got anything close to abuse (and granted it was text not speech and on the PC) was some idiot who accused me of using wall hacks when I killed him after hearing him bouncing (literally) around in a tunnel. I used to play MW2 on Live a bit, but the **** people would come out with was really off-putting. To be honest I'm thinking of selling my Xbox, not just because of crap like that but playing online is just more enjoyable on PC in my opinion.

Raze_them_all

Adyx wrote: »

I used to play BF2142 an awful lot and the only time I got anything close to abuse (and granted it was text not speech and on the PC) was some idiot who accused me of using wall hacks when I killed him after hearing him bouncing (literally) around in a tunnel. I used to play MW2 on Live a bit, but the **** people would come out with was really off-putting. To be honest I'm thinking of selling my Xbox, not just because of crap like that but playing online is just more enjoyable on PC in my opinion.

Battlefield are a Much more mature audience thankfully I've even played with a kid who was no more than 12 and he wasn't insulting!

johnny_ultimate

Headset x (The Internet + anonymity + 15 year old) = Trouble

Jayd0g

I'm in the same boat as the OP, after many years of playing friends' Xboxes finally took the plunge when Halo:Reach came out.

Enjoying the exclusives and very happy with my purchase.

But there seems to be quite a few abusive morons on Live, who freely abuse for the slightest thing.

Mute has seen a lot of use!

weiland79

weiland79 wrote: »

People are expecting a complete noob and aren't happy bunnies when i hand them there ass

Just thinking about what i said here and when i say hand them their ass what i really mean is do resonably well and shoot them in the face occasionally.

cableguy.ie

If you want to play MW2 with a few boardies you could look here and add a few to your friends list.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055952610

I played with a fair few of them before and had some good games.

But as was said before there are idoits in all games, At the moment they seems to be a lot playing Halo Reach and when Medal of Honour arrives there will be a lot playing that as well, but just mute or avoid them.

TheMooseInNam

Well, it's pretty much all been said before, both on this thread and millions of others like it.

If you want to use XBL, either find yourself some similarly minded people to play with regularly or mute the people you don't want to listen to.

Forum's like this have plenty of communities established for every game out there. If Boards doesn't have one already, then create one or just goggle till you do find one.

Don't worry, there's equally as many chilled out and decent people on XBL as there are morons, it's just hard to hear them above the screaming kids

Dubhthamlacht

LIGHTNING wrote: »

You get as many idiots on PC gaming as you do on live, it depends on what game you are playing. If you are playing something that requires some thinking like a flight sim you tend to get less idiots.

Totally agree with this. The amount of idiots you find in games depends on the game , not the platform. For me, MW2 and World of Warcraft have the highest proportion of idiots of any games I've ever played. Great games, but by god, there is some amount of numpties playing them.

Fingleberries

Not the words I would use, but suitably apt.

Asmodean

I see a lot of this in Halo and CoD than in any other game to be honest. Both those series in particular just seem to be a magnet to absolute w@nkheads. I played BFBC2 online for months and never had any problems, it seems to attract a more sensible crowd.

shoveltooth

Raze_them_all wrote: »

Get battlefield bad company 2. only ever had two mongs like that in all the months I've been playing it and i just left the squad and then ya can't hear them!

In bc2 you can hear only your squad members chat ( 3 at the most ) so the risk of verbal abuse is minimal and as raze said you can leave the squad if you do encounter abuse.
When someone does send me abusive messages I just reply back ''Love you too'' and then block communications

TheMooseInNam

shoveltooth wrote: »

When someone does send me abusive messages I just reply back ''Love you too'' and then block communications

The difference is you deserve that abuse, Shoveltooth!

I'm guessing you've sent out a lot of love over XBL then

shoveltooth

TheMooseInNam wrote: »

The difference is you deserve that abuse, Shoveltooth!

Love you too
*Puts Moose on ignore list*

Adyx

LIGHTNING wrote: »

You get as many idiots on PC gaming as you do on live, it depends on what game you are playing. If you are playing something that requires some thinking like a flight sim you tend to get less idiots.

I know and I wasn't trying to suggest that PC gaming is some sort of holy grail compared to Xbox Live. But this is my personal experience on the two platforms. Even in MW1 which I played very regularly on the PC, the other players were, for the most part pretty civilised. I think on-line console gaming has become a victim of it's own success, as has MW2.

Optimalprimerib

I must be so average at these games i am invisible. Never had any trouble.

CornsnakeKeeper

My xbox live voice setting is at zero, and has been for months i turned it up one day just to see why they were all chatting (not too common that eeryone but me has got a mic on in hardcore search on mw2) and it was a load of ten year olds going nuts, sad how there parents let them away with this, especially so late at night!?!
I only turn my voice setting back up when i am in a party with friends.

UrbanSea

weiland79 wrote: »

It's funny actually because i'm only on level 16 on the X box but i've around the block more than a few times on the PS3 so know the maps inside out. People are expecting a complete noob and aren't happy bunnies when i hand them there ass. Cue abuse from idiot scouse cvnt.
Anyway mute all the way from now on.

I was the same. I think I was like rank 5 and with a ****e class when I went into a game of free for all with some fellas of various larger ranks and won the match in about 4 minutes.my score was treble the nearest I think.

Shammy

weiland79 wrote: »

So i got myself an X box when the slim came out a few months ago. I'm really enjoying the exclusives that i missed throughout out the years. Just finished Gears of war , Splinter cell:conviction and am currently playing Mass effect 1. I only have 1 friend on my friends list and i know him in RL which is fine. He recently convinced me to pick up MW2 which i already have for my PS3 and we have been playing that for the past few nights.

The thing is this.

What the hell is wrong with you X boxers? I've been called a Fvckin retard, Fvckin Cvnt told my mother is a Cvnt told to get fvcked and many many many other choice names.
It is not only 10 yr olds that shout this kind of abuse, last night i was abused within an inch of my life by two 'Mature' sounding scousers.
Why do a lot of people feel the need to act this way on Live? Is it just what people have come to expect so certain people feel the need to provide this kind of abuse? I don't know it's very odd.

Can anyone give reasons for this kind of behaviour? or Do any of you partake in this kind of behaviour?

I have mw2 on ps3 and 360 , abuse is givin equally on both consoles, its sometimes better on the ps3 as most users dont have mics but sometimes worse as thoses that do have mics have their volumes on full blast.
You can set your settings to friends only which means you can only hear/talk and send/receive messages to people that are on your friends list.
Its the game that brings out the abuse unfortunately, there is rarely abuse given on games like bc and graw , but yet cod and halo are full of it.

Shiminay

Am I the only person in the world who's set his XBox up to block all voice comms from people who aren't my friends? Seriously, why would you bother with the stress of listening to these tards?

Wooden Jesus

Even if you mute people some of them go out of their way to send you messages. Call of Duty and Fifa have a serious amount of mentally challenged people on

Grumpypants

I just switch on the headset and leave it next to the tv so i cant hear any of them.

Zeouterlimits

Wooden Jesus wrote: »

Even if you mute people some of them go out of their way to send you messages. Call of Duty and Fifa have a serious amount of mentally challenged people on

The minority though, especially in comparision. Could count the amount of abusive messages I've gotten on one hand, and I play MP almost every night.

bennyc

We used to counter the kids on gears 1 by having one of the lads putting his wireless headset on full volume and anytime he put it down on a flat surface there was a screeching sound think it ws a fault in those headsets , anyway we would leave it for a few minutes and usually shut the mouths up. Mind you the same lad got a warning recently over having something in the line of "all yanks are knobheads" as his gamertag.

deathrider

Personally, I like silently out-gunning them. Not on MW2, as I don't play it, but on other games where people's mouths are far bigger than their brains. I often pack a head-set with the mic turned off so I can hear them rave and rant, but can't reply, and then simply shoot them. They get a lot more annoyed when you're bringing the fight to them without hauling your own verbal abuse back to combat theirs.
Of course this doesn't always work, as sometimes you get the kinda players who have the skills to back up their boasts... in which case, ouch!

stopusingoil

FPS for children/low IQ adults : MW2

FPS for intelligent mature strategists : BFBC2

Seriously, don't play MW2. You may think you are playing it because it is the best FPS, but you only think it is the best FPS because it is the most popular FPS, and the only reason it is the most popular FPS is because so much money was spent on marketing/advertising for Call of Duty games.

If however, you are looking for a game that is as simple 'aim and shoot' then keep playing MW2.

And for those of you (moderators) who think this post is off-topic or unhelpful look at the first line I wrote. It answers OP's question so get off my back :P

TheMooseInNam

I just posted this over on the gamertag thread and thought I'd post it here too.

Anyone interested in playing Battlefield Bad Company 2, Boards has it's own community for 360 users. You'll easily find the thread for it. It's one of the most popular 360 threads.

We always welcome new people to play with us. We have plenty of slagging and messing on the thread. We refer to ourselves as the IRL clan but we're more of a bunch gamers who enjoy playing the game together instead of with randomers.

All we require is that you don't cheat or boost and that you've a mature attitude towards gaming and online interactions with other players. We don't tolerate the type of behaviour you hear on MW2 or Halo... I'm sure you know what I mean

We've also got a second thread running for the same members to play the upcoming Medal Of Honor and Black Ops games.

TetraxShard

I've played quite a bit of Reach and MW2, and I've had maybe one abusive person. My advice? Don't play Team Slayer/Team Deathmatch, it just attracts the most ignorant yokes. Objective gametypes are more fun anyway. Just my opinion though.

v3ttel

Kharn wrote: »

Am I the only person in the world who's set his XBox up to block all voice comms from people who aren't my friends? Seriously, why would you bother with the stress of listening to these tards?

Yeah, I've done that before, because the games I play most (MW2 and FIFA), seem to attract a ridiculous high amount of retards.

The problem is, that in FIFA, you can't use your player hub to accept clubs invites from people on your friends list if you restrict communications to people on your friends list. The whole thing gets blocked.

Tempted to give BF:BC2 a go, just from what people are saying in this thread.

mlindsay215

If you think only just Xboxers are like this you are a fVcking cVnt.

I have the playstation a laptop and the wii, and guess which console doesn't have assholes on it.

I shall say no more......

(For the eejets out there the wii has the least assholes on it).

mlindsay215

TheMooseInNam wrote: »

We've also got a second thread running for the same members to play the upcoming Medal Of Honor and Black Ops games.

Fixed for you.

TheMooseInNam

mlindsay215 wrote: »

Fixed for you.

Of course you won't buy CoD:BO, there's no bushes to hide in :D:D

BlitzKrieg

assholery is not something inherited from owning a microsoft product. The thread is borderline trolling and clearly Mlindsey fell into the trap by getting abusive.

So as per charter one week ban for Mlindsey with my sympathy and a lesson in not feeding the troll

and thread closed to stop the madness.