Unbelievable Rudeness!

[Sanctify]

Kids these days. When I was 13 I was playing vanilla WoW. Waaayyyyyy more provocative than this fairy tale. My advice, teach you kid to have tougher skin OR don't let your 13yr old play an online game. It's so different now than the old days, way more creeps and weirdos. Just look at some of the threads here, for example (looking at you ppl who want playable children).

[SturmChurro]

Kids these days. When I was 13 I was playing vanilla WoW. Waaayyyyyy more provocative than this fairy tale. My advice, teach you kid to have tougher skin OR don't let your 13yr old play an online game. It's so different now than the old days, way more creeps and weirdos. Just look at some of the threads here, for example (looking at you ppl who want playable children).

I think I was playing stuff like CoD (the good ones). That was an experience.

[Liam_Harper]

Kids these days. When I was 13 I was playing vanilla WoW. Waaayyyyyy more provocative than this fairy tale. My advice, teach you kid to have tougher skin OR don't let your 13yr old play an online game.

It says a lot when the victim is the one being blamed.

Yes the child will have to learn to handle it. No it still isn't acceptable. No you should not quit online gaming entirely if rude behavior upsets you, even adults can have a temporary break down over a particularly bad pug run. I would quite freely bet a lot of gil that at least half the playerbase has felt like not playing due to rudeness at some point.

Threads like these spread awareness. There's nothing wrong with that. Sometimes players who might be nice people otherwise have stressful days, get frustrated in a shaky run and snap and lose their temper, unaware who the person behind the screen might be or what effect their words might have. It might make a few people think twice before throwing abuse in their next run and even that one gesture prevents someone elses day being ruined.

[Vahlnir]

I would quite freely bet a lot of gil that at least half the playerbase has felt like not playing due to rudeness at some point.

I have had those days where rude behavior sorta ruined the game for me enough that I had to step away for a couple hours or even until the next day, but there's usually other things at play such as illness, a lack of patience to begin with or even just having a bad day all around. So yeah, it's definitely a thing, but I don't think it can necessarily be blamed on the bad behavior of players exclusively sometimes. Even when such factors aren't a thing, it has to take A LOT for that to happen, and that itself tends to be the result of multiple instances of encountering jerks. I'm speaking largely for myself but I would doubt that I'm the only one. I will admit though, a lack of player intelligence is what gets me more often than bad behavior. lol