Wow,
already the 20th of August! Time flies when you don't
know what happened to July. Anyway, the almighty sack
is back this week!
Our Next Topic Will Be:
Everyone knows the difficulties of keeping a hardcore
character alive, and when you die--well, it sucks! But
your story doesn't have to! Share your hardcore character's
death experience!
Now on to the feedback on last week's topic in
which we asked what your thoughts were on the atmosphere
presented by Battle.Net; here's what you guys had
to say:
From: Ed Resnick
Subject: Mailbag: Other Battle.net Players
Seems to me the overwhelming majority of people on Battle.net
are nice people, at least as far as you get to know. I
have found very few jerks, which is surprising since most
multiplayer games I've played had many of them. But then
again, probably all the [uncensorable
explicit] have flocked to Open Battle.net, hacking
and such. So I guess that means secure Battle.net is useful
in more ways than one!
Well, it's a known fact that RPG games tend to be void of the
excessive cursing and "l33t" talk much more
than shoot 'em up games...but with the enormous number
of so-called "newbies" to the Diablo series,
the rageful and linguistical plague seems to inch its
way further in...
From: Kyle Hendry
Subject: players on b.net
As far as the behavior of the people on bnet goes, I think
everyone is friendly and helpful. I've gotten my best
equipment for free, mostly from higher level players.
Of course, there are downsides. The joy of helping a newbie
may be a reward in itself, but killing andriel in one
hit takes away from the experience of lossing all your
gold and getting killed 10 times before getting to your
corpse. But, you do come across a trouble maker once in
a while. Some people may not like them, but I find them
to be an excellent sorce of entertainment. For example,
when some unfortunate person goes into a experience game
and goes hostile, the 6 or 7 of us just beat them to a
bloody pulp.
Ouch! Ruthless justice! Though I
do agree.
From: Daniel Schirra
Subject: Battle.net and It's Players
Well, I myself tend to frequent trade servers, as I almost
always have something I want to get rid of or something
I'm looking for. And far too often I run into self-serving
twits who feel the need to tell everyone, "ur stuff sucks
mines better what kind of moron do u think i am to trade
with u." Those people aren't very fun to be around [Indeed!].
Then there are the people who join servers where the person
closest in level to them is 10 below them and challenge
everyone to a duel. Then you have the beggars, who don't
even ask, they TELL everyone to give them stuff, who seem
to think Blizzard just gave everyone cool stuff they wanted
when the game first came out. Then you have the nice,
cool people, who only come around every so often, and
if you ask them nicely, they may take a few of your horrid-in-comparison
items and give you something you want badly because they're
in a nice mood. In the chatrooms, you've got your homophobic
racist anti-semitist spammer-llamas [Say
that three times fast!] to people who will
ask if you want them to help you take out Diablo or some
such. As with any large online game, you have a whole
spectrum of people playing. I attempt to be one of the
better ones, and if I've been running around for a week
with some item no one wants for God knows why (I had a
nice rare Halberd and Maul for a long while to trade,
and STILL no one's wanted the Maul; I traded away the
Halberd for an item of significantly less value just to
get rid of the damnable thing), or a bunch of gems I just
can't get rid of, I make some non-begging newbie very
happy ;)
Best summation of the online experience
I've seen yet...
From: Thoukydides Kostas
Subject: Battle.Net and It's Players- Mailbag Feedback
Well, I play mostly on the European server and I have
to admit that most players are very helpfull. There are
three main problems I notice though.
1. All the main channels are german infested and I don't
understand a thing, this problem persists also on the
game where two or more players from countries different
than mine (I'm Greek btw) will start flooding the screen
with their chatting, not so much a problem but still annoying.
I really hete it when a players comes in and says something
like "Is anyone German?" Before the chatting begins.
2.Many players (mostly newbies) are under the impression
that what they kill (in their line of thought) is theirs
and you MUST give it to them. They just don't understand
that it is finders-keepers out there. Everyone has lost
a rare item because they weren't fast enough and we don't
need a whiner asking for what is rightfully ours. Once
I had a guy go hostile because (heaven forbid) I "stole"
a set shield. When he came out to fight I had to chase
him all around hell until he got back to the wp :) I hate
to admit though that I died as I was writing something
like "come out and fight" near the waypoint and he ambushed
me :( (stupid! stupud!) [Not good,
not good I say!]
3.Illiterates. Many people just don't know enough English
and I have to "decode" everything they write if I am to
understand them. Aside from these archetypes and the pks,spammers,lamerz,cheaterz,
and all the other wonderfull examples of players [They're
in Europe too? Damn. I thought you guys had it made]
things are pretty nice.
From: Charles
Subject: Battle.net and It's Players-Mailbag Feedback
Hi, well I've played thru all Tribes, Quake 3 but not
UT. In Tribes I've found people to be sometimes cool and
strategists willing to do co-op but I've also found lonewolves
who only go in and take it solo in sniper style, but one
thing for sure is usually their are defenders, base repairers
and just plain out fighters. Playing quake 3 I've only
seen rockets flying around. Noone talks usually and they
don't complain when they die nor do they laugh when they
kill or win. Usually just a GG is said at the end of each
game. With UT i've never been online so I ave nothing
to say about UT. Now Battle.net is much betterm their
are people who share, but these types of players are VERY
rare. some people just join, NEVER talk and just go solo
to get exp while most of the others join and share items
to people who could use them (ex: necro to wands as paladins
to scepters).
B.net class behaviors:
- Sorceress: Ive found sorceress the most firendly, usualy
depending on otehrs to protect them while they throw out
some nasty spells.
- Amazon: I've seen very little amazons but most are cool,
very sharing as in they'll give up items for nothing all
the time.
- Barbarian: As being a barbarian I mostly just defense
the girls, amazon and sorceress, while smahing shit. Most
of the ones I meet are "I can do it myself" and go off
never waiting for others.
- Paladin: Same as barbarians except they seem to wait
a bit more before a ffight starts.
- Necromancer: Some are good and curse alot of baddies,
but most just make guys and think it's enough and sit
there and wait for the fight to end. Their is pretty much
just every type of player on B.net. Sharing ones and selfish
ones. But for me now I meet more sharing ones since the
selfish are mostly like that to newbies who usualy want
items to look cool in the channel too.
Well, the main reason you don't
see much talk on Quake 3 Arena is most likely because
all the "popularity leeches" as I like to call
them have left the game for other more popular ones (namely...nah,
we won't name any). Therefore, by the property of reduction
(?) you get only the hardcore fans who are so immersed
in playing the game that they lose all primeval methods
of communication--or something like that. Anyway, that's
another story.
I'd have to disagree on your stereotypes, however: I really
think you should divide them into types of people...not
D2 classes--as singling certain people to their D2 class
would be very narrowed and misguided at best.
From: Ben Nelson
Subject: People's behavior on the servers
I'll be upfront about this, due to the lag and a very
bad connection I spend very little time online.. (that
and I'm letting a friend borrow the game for now)
However, I have found that the fiew times I have been
online with a fiew exceptions, have been good experiences.
I've found people willing to help out, and give me stuff..
pretty good stuff, too.
I'll admit, it wasn't a set item or anything, but it was
a good feeling to know that some people are nice out there.
I have had some problems with a person 40 levels higher
than me trying to pick a fight.. (yah, right, do I look
stupid, a tenth level character taking on a level 50)
But the sane response to that is to simply leave the game..
(and I did)
But other than that I've had little problem. And as to
the people who complain about people keeping you from
your corpse... remember, you can just leave the game and
get your body back when you go into the next one [Exactly].
In other news, you know what I would most like to see
in a version 1.04 patch? Some sort of admin abilities
for the people who set up a game. Imagine how enjoyable
it would be to give the person who's hovering over your
corpse to pick you off again das boot?
Remember, money is relatively easy to get.. at least they
don't get to loot your corpse....
Yes. The kicking feature would be
a nifty option to have...
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