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Why do people bash the game they are currently playing?
plyrofmmo
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I play a lot of MMOs, Some full world others lobby shooters and others MOBAs but in them all where there is any kind of chat you always find someone complaining about the game THAY ARE CURRENTLY IN!!
I am amazed because if you think the game sucks or is "a turd" or nerfed to be unplayable, or "Full of noob kiddies that don't know how to play" why do you continue to login and play this game?
Can anyone explain this to me?
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Originally posted by laokoko
"if you want to be a game designer, you should sell your house and fund your game. Since if you won't even fund your own game, no one will".
Addiction.
Same reason someone in a casino will tell you never to start gambling while sitting in front of a slot machine.
Even though they hate the casino, they can't stop gambling.
Same reason a drug addict will tell you drugs is bad for you while doing cocaine.
Even though they hate the cocaine, it's hard to stop using it for them.
There are people who play MMO and aren't really addicted to it, they tend to play for the lore, or for the social factor.
But there's people who only play for the progression and to be more powerful, they tend to be addicted, they tend to spend a lot of money in cash shops, even though they hate the game, they keep playing.
The problem I see now, is that that addiction is being abused into money scams.
Women spending $400,000 on candy crush are the same people as the whales in F2P.
The amount of money being spent in F2P games is staggering!
I self identify as a monkey.
that, detective, is the right question.
back in myyyyyy days *makes his old man face* we used to play games we like, do things we like, and didn't do stuff we did not like.
as it seems, to some of the younger generation this idea might seem weird - we didn't do what had the most likes, we did what we liked most
"I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!"
Critical thinking, critique, assessment, refinement, and execution... it's the foundation of human cultural evolution.
If we were completely happy when we were happy, we'd all still be living in the 'mostly useful' caves and cooking over the 'entirely adequate' campfire.
'Bitching'... got us to the moon, don't knock it.
'Sandbox MMO' is a PTSD trigger word for anyone who has the experience to know that anonymous players invariably use a 'sandbox' in the same manner a housecat does.
When your head is stuck in the sand, your ass becomes the only recognizable part of you.
No game is more fun than the one you can't play, and no game is more boring than one which you've become familiar.
How to become a millionaire:
Start with a billion dollars and make an MMO.
I'd rather hear someone's opinion, good or bad, on a game with which they have experience. Now, I know people are saying, and will continue to say, "people will complain about anything", but if they're participating in the game, and they don't like it, it's a far more valid opinion in my mind than expressing hate because it has some aspect or mechanic which they don't like, having not played it.
Anyway, if "they" have played the game, say 20 hours (ish?) what's wrong with their opinions if negative? All I ask is they submit some form of proof like a pic or detailed nuance of the game, so I understand the standpoint is genuine.
I tend to see some selective perceptions on others views in almost every case. Someone says something critical of a game and they are hating on it. When it's often more a symptom of passion for the game.
The idea that we are some how signing up for a large partisan war and must tow the line no matter what is out of perspective.
Part of the problem is like someone said before: Addiction.
The other part is that many players (at least here) feels like the MMOs today is aimed for another audience. They still play since there is little else to choose from but feels like a lot of the potential of the genre is wasting.
I play GW2 and like it, but I myself wish there were more games like Eve who do their own things and not just look so much on what the competition does.
Yup. When I was in the Navy we used to say, "a bitching Sailor is a happy Sailor". My ship was always filled with happy people a few weeks into each deployment.
"If I offended you, you needed it" -Corey Taylor
no .. i can't.
I don't bitch about the game i am playing now ... all are fun .. otherwise, why would i be playing them?
I did bitch about UO .. cause i play a little of its beta, found it horrible, and quit. The only game i played for quite a while and bitch about is EQ ... mostly because there was little choice back then, and I regret wasting time on it.
well said
EQ2 fan sites
People bitch in general chat because they are looking for attention and/or validation.
You can yell at your monitor, but it's so much more satisfying if you can vent your frustration knowing that several hundred other human beings can "hear" you...
Letting off steam formed from the trials of reality.
People say what they really think and do what they really want when they're in a fake reality. Actions are a reflection of ourselves.
I don't suppose the complaint was entirely unfounded?
This ^
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There's honestly not much else to say on this topic. For example in the MOBA I sometimes play currently (smite) I constantly see people b*tching about the stupidest things. I see people swear the game needs X or Y (like they know better than the devs), and then when the devs make X or Y change they lose their sh*# and act like they never said the game needed such things to begin w/. Perhaps the most recent example being w/ the Nox changes (which nearly everyone said she needed, and now that she's not bottom tier, people are whinning again).
There are so many examples of this happening that I just stopped keeping track (not in that game specifically, but across all games). People get enjoyment out of playing backseat designer. They like having things to complain about. It doesn't matter what it is, or how close to perfect it is. Heck if something is perfect, people will just complain about that.
It's a long engrained part of human social behavior, and it's not going to change.
Hmmm, thanx for all the comments.
Some people have invested a lot of time so they feel obligated to keep playing to avoid "wasting" their investment.
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/how-the-sunk-cost-fallacy-makes-you-act-stupid.html
Waiting for:
The Repopulation
Albion Online
It's fairly easy to figure out. People will piss, moan, bitch, complain, swear, threaten, whine, insult and anything else they think they can get away with while playing their games because they are safe behind their pc/consoles and feel no shame in making others miserable.
Imagine if they did the same thing in real life at, say, a football or hockey game? They'd get their asses kicked...too bad it couldn't happen online.
Because people want sympathy for the "modern" sickness of our time: "I am not responsible for my own actions"
People make choices but because their expectations of what should be is is not the perceived reality they want to believe that what they are doing is correct. Instead of accepting that even games have real life issues as part of the culture of being human and playing online games. Its a community just like the ones that surround us. The issues stems from the inability to deal with the same issues they complain about in their ongoing life. But because they paid for it or spend time in it they perceive that they are entitled to voice their over emotional complaints. the same way people in Texas drive slow in the fast lane but will not move over because they pay taxes.
Honestly I have done the same things mentioned in this post. This is my take on "what" or "could" be the truth behind the question.
I don't complain about the girlfriend I don't have.
I complain about the girlfriend I have.
Same thing for games.