There is a trend that I notice when playing online Xbox live MP games like Battlefield 3, BF:Bad Company 2, Call of Duty MW3, Frontline Fuel of War, Soul Calibur V, and others out there. One thing I can truly take away from the experience is that the general online community sucks. They do whatever they can to win at all cost even if it means cheating, hacking, spawn killing and or trapping and other forms of exploiting.
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Like Bad Company 2 for instance, as of right now there is a small dedicated group of people playing this game and all of them only play one map: Arica Harbor. Oh how I hate thee…You see 98% of the players on this game every time they play will take all the flags and then sit inside your deployment and spawn kill you. Now there is debate about this very thing and some people say you deserve it if you play bad. I disagree. The game is not meant to be played this way if anything these players cause people to not want to play this game.
Many times I have been playing and the thought process of mine is that I simply refuse to spawn kill even if the opportunity is there. I won’t do it. It’s unfair and takes ZERO SKILL TO DO. These players on live and you know who you are think that because they do this they are somehow the greatest players in Bad Company 2. Well I am here to say you’re not. Your nothing, your cheap and downright not skilled at all. Just like COD players who spawn trap this also doesn’t make you a better player just because you memorized a map, this makes you a person who was never good at the game and had to result to low tactics to get a kill or two at the expense of the other players who want to have fun and end up yelling about it and selling the game later on.
Fighting games are no different. In Soul Calibur V for instance people rely all the time on unblockable counter attacks and standard unblockable attacks or they spam to death people like Sigfried and or Nightmare with the same two to three moves over and over and over until they win. You see, in Soul Calibur V each character has 9 pages of moves, about 10 to 12 per page, but you would not know it playing online. People are generally cheap and it sucks when someone is using Patroklos and uses his spinning sword uppercut time and again. In one match I counted the number of times someone did this and after three rounds which don’t last long by the way, he used this one move 44 times because it hits LOW in the game and blocking low is more difficult than it was in Soul Calibur IV.
I play fair, always do. I refused to use that cheap crap Tactical Light in BF 3 because yeah so 80 yards away in broad daylight I am blinded completely by this and that works because…..????? Well I would not use it because when the word got at about it everybody was using it. I remember games where the entire other team was equipped with it. Knowing that it basically was a free kill if you shine it at someone else. Cheap, really cheap I hate that in BF 3. And they still have not fixed it even though DICE says they fixed it. No they did not. That’s what my problem is with these games.
People say it’s that competitive nature for these online MP games and that all you just have to accept it. No I don’t, nobody should. It’s something that you can complain about on someone elses gamertag when you file a complaint. Exploiting, Cheating, playing the game unfairly. The online community just sucks the entire fun out of the game and for what? Some K/D ratio that really amounts to absolutely NOTHING!!!!!!!!!! People are fined in real sports for this very thing, cheating, exploiting. You hear about steroid use and helmet hits from people like Harrison of the Steelers and they get in trouble, and these sports are competitive right? So what the difference in a video game? There isn’t really when it comes down to it.
So I leave you the player who cheats and exploits and spawn camps and spawn traps and hacks with this thought….you know some players out there are new to live they are new to MP, give them break if you see a low-level player out there you may turn a player off to MP forever causing them to cancel their live subscription for all you know. If not that they may trade it back in or simply sell it to someone or some game store out there. I mean yeah this is going to fall on deaf ears but honestly if you play the game as it was meant to played by Infinty Ward, DICE, Team Soul, CAPCOM, EPIC GAMES, then in all reality regardless of your K/D ratio, everybody wins and that is a game I would want to play.
