My sister was just playing SF2HD and as she was playing, I tripped over the cable and powered it down, obviously. No big deal I thought, it's only a game. I plug it all back in and set her back off to go. Upon returning, there's a voice message from a guy calling her a "Fucking shit bastard". I can only presume it's a disconnect loss/win thing, but regardless, why do people get so worked up over that, and get so angry at video games.

I say this as she's only 8 years old, and for someone to be so offensive is ridiculous.

Indeed sir. She goes on to play a few games of SF online, and gets harassed by this. It's such a foreign concept to me, getting so worked up as to record a message and insult someone like that.

Immature people with the power of anonymity is a bad, bad thing.

Yeah people can be real douches about stuff like that.

The saddest thing about it is - most of these people wouldn't even bat an eye lid at you in real life.

I don't see why MS can't crack down on things like this. It's one thing getting abuse mid-game, but where someone sends you an offensive message, it should be made available to moderators as soon as a complaint is made.

Did the TC file a complaint?

Yeah, having people disconnect during ranked matches is pretty aggravating, so I see where this guy was coming from. Although whenever it happens to ME, I usually send them a calm text message saying something like

"Pulling the plug because you're loosing? Not cool, man." Then I usually get one of 2 responses. Ether something like "Sorry, i've got a bad connection, it was a mistake." then that's fine. Or I get something like "Hahahah QQ Fuck you cry" then I send back something nasty and give them a bad feedback.

I sent the complaint ASAP, hopefully something will happen :)

XBL is the worst when it comes to this as pretty much everyone knows by now. Its just something you have to accept. I'm not gonna act like that message was just at all, but to him I'm guessing he just saw a player who chose to disconnect before they lost and got really pissed off.

"My sister was just playing SF2HD and as she was playing, I tripped over the cable and powered it down, obviously. No big deal I thought, it's only a game. I plug it all back in and set her back off to go. Upon returning, there's a voice message from a guy calling her a "Fucking shit bastard". I can only presume it's a disconnect loss/win thing, but regardless, why do people get so worked up over that, and get so angry at video games.I say this as she's only 8 years old, and for someone to be so offensive is ridiculous."

I've had someone say something along the lines of "I'm going to track you down and stab you in the face you fucking wanker". Being an adult this sort of thing is easy to take and ignore, but you really shouldn't let an 8 year old child on live.

"I've had someone say something along the lines of "I'm going to track you down and stab you in the face you fucking wanker". Being an adult this sort of thing is easy to take and ignore, but you really shouldn't let an 8 year old child on live."

Well, personally I HATE it when people I'm about to beat disconnect from the game. So I can understand him/her not being too happy about it. Still, you don't need to be like that.

"MattyFTM said:

"I've had someone say something along the lines of "I'm going to track you down and stab you in the face you fucking wanker". Being an adult this sort of thing is easy to take and ignore, but you really shouldn't let an 8 year old child on live."

Did you ever get stabbed in the face?"

"TooWalrus said:

"MattyFTM said:

"I've had someone say something along the lines of "I'm going to track you down and stab you in the face you fucking wanker". Being an adult this sort of thing is easy to take and ignore, but you really shouldn't let an 8 year old child on live."

Did you ever get stabbed in the face?"

Guess."

"MattyFTM said:

"TooWalrus said:

"MattyFTM said:

"I've had someone say something along the lines of "I'm going to track you down and stab you in the face you fucking wanker". Being an adult this sort of thing is easy to take and ignore, but you really shouldn't let an 8 year old child on live."

Did you ever get stabbed in the face?"

Guess."

Damn. I'm sorry Matty, which eye did he get?"

After playing the PS3 for a while, I actually savour the lack of voice communications. The only people with mics on the PS3 are people who give a damn about tactics in-game.

He probably thought you were the jerk for quitting before a match was over. He had no reason to believe otherwise. I'm not defending him, it doesn't matter if someone disconnects, you may not recieve your win but you shouldn't go on a vendetta against them sending them terrible voice messages.

"After playing the PS3 for a while, I actually savour the lack of voice communications. The only people with mics on the PS3 are people who give a damn about tactics in-game."

Don't D/C.

CL60 said:

"Don't D/C."

Worst response ever.

She's just a child playing a video game, Boggles my mind.

"After playing the PS3 for a while, I actually savour the lack of voice communications. The only people with mics on the PS3 are people who give a damn about tactics in-game."

"Well you can block all messages from anyone and block voice chat in the privacy settings I believe. That way you never have to hear anyone that is not on your friends list or anyone at all. I think that you can also set up a child account that will do all of this for you."

The internet is a place full of jackasses and being anonymous only adds to this behavior.  Whenever I get a message like that I just file a complaint and if I'm playing with some friends I have them do the same. 

One time in Call of Duty 4 me and my friends were playing and the other team was stacked so it was like 6-3 and we lost.  So i get this message from a kid on the other team saying something along the lines of 'kid your nothing, just nothing' so the next game comes around even teams.  I kill him a few times and he quits the match, so I send him the same message.  He replies by saying he will hack my account come to my house and stab me in my sleep.  So yeah there are a lot of weirdos and immature people on Xbox and everywhere else kids can hide behind a TV/Monitor.

Sometimes I lose faith in humanity based on my time on live.

"My sister was just playing SF2HD and as she was playing, I tripped over the cable and powered it down, obviously. No big deal I thought, it's only a game. I plug it all back in and set her back off to go. Upon returning, there's a voice message from a guy calling her a "Fucking shit bastard". I can only presume it's a disconnect loss/win thing, but regardless, why do people get so worked up over that, and get so angry at video games.I say this as she's only 8 years old, and for someone to be so offensive is ridiculous."

"Sadly this is a reality that you just have to live with. People are incredible jerks on the internet. I was playing SF4 about a month ago and the power went out in the whole building, and when it finally came back the day after, i had a message from the guy saying i was a "f**king p*ssy f*ggot".... all you can do is ignore it really."

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CL60 said:

"Don't D/C."

Worst response ever.

"

"I sent the complaint ASAP, hopefully something will happen :)"

Im guessin ur gamer region is underground??

I once got a message from a mexican guy calling me a "fat american donut", after messagin him back a few times tellin him in not American, he apologised for calling me that and a beeeeeatch.

That's the reason I stay away from fighting games, 1. because I don't think they're fun, and 2. If you go online, you will always be matched up with some guy who knows every combo and absolutely rapes you and then if you even disconnect and have to leave for like an appointment or something, they will get so mad it's ridiculous, I mean..seriously, it's a game.

There are people on XBL all the time that act like that. It sucks. I know, but I just ignore em'.

It's a shame some people go haywire with the voice chat and just flame anyone and anything. Those are hard to ignore.. but mostly we have that shiny mute button to our help.

thats why most xbox users are a bunch of little retards

Not to beat a dead horse with a stick or anything, but...

hey when me and my friends play xbox we cuss like a bunch of sailors..... oh shit....we are a bunch of sailors.... and all my marine coworkers/ buddies cuss a lot too... so much so that "curse words" are nothing more than normal everyday words to us and everyone at the shop/in the military...