You should add me on Steam and we can play some games when the time zones align. I play with my brother in law a decent amount and we tend to stick to friends only games because he's 11 years old and some people can be real assholes for no other reason than finding out someones a kid.Originally Posted by Jiro
As for the topic, I play a ton of Starcraft 2 and I'd say it's maybe 50/50 in terms of decent folk (or at least silent folk) to jerks. But I find the guys who are usually jerks aren't quite as bad as other games. Often it's just them being in a strong position in a custom game and doing a bit of trash talking like telling someone to leave because they're such a noob. In what should come as a surprise to no one, this of course triggers my natural response of doing everything in my power to draw the game out as long as possible simply to further annoy them.
Of course, there are the occasional people who are just jerks, often resorting to the old standard of blaming their team. Sure, sometimes it might be justified and maybe you did lose because your teammate wasn't that good or made a mistake the cost you big time, but if people are going to complain about it, they shouldn't play team games. Often I find, after looking at their records for 1v1 that the people who complain the loudest are the ones who aren't very good at all, but they mostly stick to team games so that if they win they can feel good about themselves, and if they lose they have scapegoats.
Oddly enough though, I've found most shooters I play like the various CS games and TF2 have great communities by and large. I can't say I've run into many jerks in any of them, and when I have, they usually get vote kicked or banned for it.
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