Man, I was having a good night playing Warcraft 3 online. It’s late, so most kids are likely asleep (kids are very immature online). I won 3 games tonight, but one of the people on the opposing team for game 2 thought I sucked (for some reason, I don’t know…I was doing the best the whole game).
Well, he starts spamming me. A lot. Even when we mopped up all his units, he kept spamming me. I squelched him it was so annoying. Well, after that I started another game. During the game I unsquelched him 5 different times, and EACH TIME he was continuously spamming me relentlessly. After winning that third game, I unsquelched him again, and still going at it, was saying stuff like “I bet you almost died…I bet you barely won” blah blah blah.
So, not only was he spamming me, he was also actively finding where I was (in a game, or a channel if you’re not in a game), and also checked my score to see if I won or lost! :rolleyes:
I confronted him in a public channel, where he was spamming me from. I was very concise in denouncing him as a spammer, and though he has played over 1100 games total on War3 BNET, over 600 of those games were losses, and he was on the same level I was.
His response: “Monster104 sucks because he maphacks!”
Riiiight. :rolleyes:
I just squelched him for good after that, and bid everyone else a good night.
Why are there such people? Why would anyone spend 45 minutes of their time to spam a total stranger who kicked his ass in an online game? What’s wrong with assholes like that? It’s quite sad, really…
I was just quoted the l337-speak I am always greeted with on BNet Stuff like that drove me away from both Bnet and CS. Annoying as hell to be accused of cheating.
If experience has taught me anything, it’s that the only good way to play multiplayer games is to have a wife and a best friend who play multiplayer games. I don’t even bother trying to find opponents on GS and battle.net and such anymore; I just get Mrs. RickJay and Ricksbestfriend to buy the same game, and recruit a few other buddies.
I haven’t tried Battle.net in years. Why? Because every single time I tried playing Diablo with strangers, some moronic teenager using cheat codes would suddenly start assassinating the other characters. Blizzard said they’d prevent that in future versions, but obviously there’s always a way for somebody to show his lack of quality.
Didn’t think I’d come across an anti-Battle.net thread on the first page of the SDMB so soon after joining…
Yeah, B.net has devolved into an utter mess. I haven’t played WC3 enough yet to have the confidence to play online, but I’ve been playing Diablo 2 online for 2 or 3 years. There is no longer any reason for legitimate, non-hack-using, non-“bugged”-item-using people to play on Battle.net, excepting those who truly love to duel, and even then, finding a legit player to duel is nigh on impossible.
The only viable solution would be to charge for playing online, I think. I wouldn’t pay - I’ve been playing for so long that the fun is nearly gone, and certainly would NOT be worth the 5 or 10 bucks per month necessary to keep programmers working on keeping the servers hack-free.
WC3 is somewhat better, the random pairing with your levels makes it more likely you aren’t going to get paired with some 500 win maphacker. My main beef with random team is we will have two of us working together, then Captain Dork decides he wants to attack the enemy base by himself, gets slaughtered, then it is esentually 2 vs 3. For some reason that idiot is always on my team, and yelling at him doesn’t help. the other problem is guys with Napoleon complex, who bark orders rapidly, then yell at you for not doing what they say (“Why didn’t you move up your forces?” “i was defending my base from the rush that was happening!” “freakin n00b!”
Spammer man from the OP (or should i say spammer 8 year old) needs to get outside, the sunshine will do his leatherly pale skin some good, and maybe he’ll get hit by a bus and do us all a favor and die.
I still have fun playing WarCraft III and StarCraft on Battle.net, but the large native population of prepubescent illiterate sociopaths is annoying as all hell. Usuall when I run into them I express astonishment that their parents let them use the computer, then /ignore them. It’s REALLY a bitch when their stupid username is something like {E7X}Il|1um1n84ro0O[1337]. I don’t want to type all that shit in during a game just to squelch them!
Anyways, reconcile yourself by knowing that the acne scarred punks that are insulting you have psychological problems and will never get a date.
Once, I was accused of maphacking in Starcraft because I anticipated the other guy’s attack after he marched all his units right past my Overlord. I don’t know if he didn’t realize that Overlords have the capacity to see or what.
It’s stuff like that that makes you stop playing public games altogether. I’ll second the notion that it’s all about getting a group of 4 or 6 friends together to play.
me, my SO and umm a group of about 10 or so of his friends get together every once in a while and shoot, bomb, or starfall the holy crap out of each other about once every two or 3 months… lots of fun, and if they start talking smack you can just walk across the room and punch them… ahhh…
I’s sorry you have bad experience in the battle.net, Monster.
Hey, you managed to log onto battle.net without getting spammed with: “me korea, gogogogogogogo, kekeke, me uber l337 gosu.” And then that weird-ass smilie face they all do, as if were somehow insufficient. I swear, every 13 year old korean boy alive must be playing on battle.net constantly, and naturally they know no English so talk to English-speaking players entirely in l337-speak.
Sit in a chat room long enough, and you’ll find the 3-4 kids in each room who respond to any slight by accusing the other person of being a “fag”, as if they know no greater insult. That’s if you don’t just get “I pwnz j00 n00b.”
Thankfully, I play mostly Diablo 2 and I don’t duel, so nobody will ever be pwnzering me.
I hate the maphackers in Starcraft, I don’t play public games there for that reason. Maphack is allright in Diablo 2, unless you’re dueling, because it isn’t about attacking any other players, it’s a competition between you and the monsters, so I say hack away. It’s not really a hack anyways, in any of the Blizzard games, because it’s entirely client-side. It just takes the information packets that were sent to your computer when you loaded the game and decodes and displays them. It’s cheating if you’re in a player v. player competition, but it isn’t really harmful in the way a real hack is, one that sends phony data packets to the server.
When I first got Starcraft and got good enough to whip a whole mess of computer opponents I tried out Battlenet. Sucked so hardcore. Everyone was retarded, both playing bad and being whinny annoying bastards. I played a few games and then decided I didn’t want to associate with these individuals even indirectly.
Stuff like that drove me away from both Bnet and CS. Annoying as hell to be accused of cheating.
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