Let's Have Some Fun, Gamer's Ettiquette 101

It has become evident to me that because this whole online gaming culture is fairly new to some people a few of you just don’t know how to act online. For whatever reason it may be or they may have, some gamers just exhibit rude, obnoxious, volatile behavior. Some people have personal feelings as far as playing with certain races or genders; as so it is their right. The blunder here is that we often forget the most important thing about gaming and that is: it’s SUPPOSED to be a FUN, HAPPY, AND ENTERTAINING experience.
If you find yourself getting into verbal conflicts constantly, getting or feeling the need to make threats, or if you have found yourself so angry to the point where you need to smash or break something, then you, my friend and fellow gamer are doing something wrong.

Need I mention that there are people of all ages who game online. The adult gamers should always take that to heart before we provide harmful environments and demonstrate poor leader ship qualities to the children and teenagers we may be gaming with. I also want to highlight that some adults behave worse than the teenagers and children that I've played with.
To help improve all of our online-gaming experiences, here are some easy things you can do to avoid some petty online conflicts and help to provide a healthier atmosphere for yourself and others:

1. Don’t get angry if some one randomly drops into your session or lobby and curse them out.

Usually that just means that they searched for a public game and was randomly placed in your game. This means YOU the HOST or LOBBY LEADER has to LEARN how to set your games to PRIVATE or FRIENDS while you play online. This will save you the head ache of getting agitated and annoyed by random people joining and leaving your game.

2. If you are kicked from a lobby before the game begins, no sweat then, the game hasn’t begun so I don’t understand why you’re so mad. Simply look for a new game there’s hundreds of thousands of people online and chances are you’ll find a game worth playing and even make some friends that will help you have some real FUN.

3. If you enter a public lobby game and some one greets you negatively don’t get angry and bash them in return; just know that it’s because they too have already had a negative experience so now they are overly defensive towards anyone they don’t know. Politely or calmly say your handle and that you were randomly placed in their game or maybe you and they have a friend in common. 9 times out of 10 they will stand down and explain or apologize for their hostile behavior.

4. Some one is using racial slurs? Are they making harmful threats or things of this nature….Simply report them; block them as well. Why go back and forth with them and get into a war? This is not going to change their ideas or beliefs. Besides this doesn’t sound like much fun and I thought that’s what this was supposed to be about.

5. Xbox live or Playstation home is not a dating service; at least it wasn’t the last time I checked.


So fellah’s keep that in mind when you get online and hit on a chick and she responds in a way you didn’t expect. No need to get graphic because you got rejected; I am sure it has happened before, maybe even all the time especially if you are hitting on someone who most of the time has an animated picture. Then you wonder why you are not having fun…smh

Let’s all help each other enjoy the online experience and practice some etiquette.

Happy Gaming.