06-01-2011, 05:13 AM
Too many opinions about the various comments made, and not enough give-a-shit to post them, but I did want to comment on a few things.
1 - I have seen the 24 hour bump rule listed before in something, but no, I'm not going to wade through looking for the link because "being right" isn't that important to me in this situation, but it is there.
2 - I pugged in Vanilla for UBRS a decent amount as well as ZG (UBRS was a raid). I knew people who pugged Ony and MC a bit, but I never did myself since I spent more time in AV knocking horde off the bridge with snowballs. Priceless.
3 - Actually, its widely accepted that the largest number of assholes in LoL are from the lower ELO brackets, not the highest. Its there that every single god damn player is "stuck in ELO hell" and "being held back by the noobs they are teamed with". There are definitely some cocky ass people in the top. HotshotGG and Reginald are well known for being arrogant and trollish. Grackis is well known for frequent raging. That said, all three (more so the last two) are known for releasing guides on a regular basis about characters and discussing new builds with the community. This is similar to StarCraft 2, with certain players being very well known for ragequitting in actual tournament games and even flaming their opponents, in tournament broadcasted games (I don't recall his name, but there's a very specific person I'm thinking of here). Then where StarCraft 2 has Day9 and other great commentators that release replays and guides regularly, LoL has TreeEskimo (widely accepted as the best commentator/streamer and the least raging) and pretty much every other high ELO player - they nearly all stream. Top WoW guilds could fall into that category as well. So I'd say the majority of the players in online gaming that create the "fucking asshole" persona we all know and love tend to be in the low to mid tiers. Hell, even in Magic I notice that almost all the pros are fairly cool guys all around, with a few being obnoxious as shit but not being the majority (GerryT, I'm looking at you).
1 - I have seen the 24 hour bump rule listed before in something, but no, I'm not going to wade through looking for the link because "being right" isn't that important to me in this situation, but it is there.
2 - I pugged in Vanilla for UBRS a decent amount as well as ZG (UBRS was a raid). I knew people who pugged Ony and MC a bit, but I never did myself since I spent more time in AV knocking horde off the bridge with snowballs. Priceless.
3 - Actually, its widely accepted that the largest number of assholes in LoL are from the lower ELO brackets, not the highest. Its there that every single god damn player is "stuck in ELO hell" and "being held back by the noobs they are teamed with". There are definitely some cocky ass people in the top. HotshotGG and Reginald are well known for being arrogant and trollish. Grackis is well known for frequent raging. That said, all three (more so the last two) are known for releasing guides on a regular basis about characters and discussing new builds with the community. This is similar to StarCraft 2, with certain players being very well known for ragequitting in actual tournament games and even flaming their opponents, in tournament broadcasted games (I don't recall his name, but there's a very specific person I'm thinking of here). Then where StarCraft 2 has Day9 and other great commentators that release replays and guides regularly, LoL has TreeEskimo (widely accepted as the best commentator/streamer and the least raging) and pretty much every other high ELO player - they nearly all stream. Top WoW guilds could fall into that category as well. So I'd say the majority of the players in online gaming that create the "fucking asshole" persona we all know and love tend to be in the low to mid tiers. Hell, even in Magic I notice that almost all the pros are fairly cool guys all around, with a few being obnoxious as shit but not being the majority (GerryT, I'm looking at you).
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