Social Gamers - they ruin games

GAMING IS NOT A GAME!

People play games for many personal reasons : kill time; leisure/hobby; compensation tool; family bonding.

Gamers can be divided into : Social Gamers ; Serious Gamers (rated); Trolls

I jumped right into the virtual gaming world of MMORPGs thinking it is like playing Tetris or Bejeweled.  

Top-rated pay to play games are WOW (world of warcraft) and lately FFXIV (final fantasy 14) and of course there are the free to play games like Fiesta, ScarletBlade, Tera and so on.

From the forums I have read, Trolls reside mainly in WOW, which made it successful - to-date it has like 13million gamers.  Trolls are a specific breed of gamers.  People who are actually decent in their game aptitude so much so that they tend to be pests in a game.  Serious gamers mainly focus on the game content and that's what they log into for.  They do not get involved in general chats much except to organise a group to get the game content done. Social gamers are those who use the game arena to make friends and virtual friendship will take precedent over real life common sense sometimes.

It is the social gamers that break games.

These people tend to rally around like-minded social gamers.  Usually they do not have a real life that is exceptional and that drives them into the virtual world.  A world where they can assume another persona, to be someone they are not for real, yet occasionally brush with reality as they exchange Skype contacts or emails.  Social gamers depend on the bonds they have in-game to add value to their real life.  They become very distressed when caught out and when confronted, they become aggressive and will lie to maintain their virtual persona.

After 3 years, I know I am a troll.

I do not tolerate social gamers well and I certainly do not have the time to be a serious gamer.  I started gaming too late in life and I will never be able to have that split second 'situational awareness' that all rated gamers have.  They know how to read tiny icons (buffs or debuffs) that appear on the bars like a circuit board and they know just what it means.

So each time I log into a game, I wait for an opportunity to troll.  Trolling in a game is pretty much like how we are sarcastic in real life during a conversation.  Its the only thing that keeps me from getting bored, doing repetitive dungeons day in day out.  

Unfortunately, the social gamers always spoil the fun by either being too sensitive OR outright rude and obnoxious.  The famous words social gamers use always insult one's parents, making themselves sound like they are matured adults by calling one a KID or simply name-calling i.e retard (its a favourite insult word).  Social gamers like to feel like they know it all.  They are dead sure, they excel in the game, when in actual fact, they are just mediocre.

Lesson in point : as in real life, face facts squarely - no single person is perfect in every facet of life.  We can try to be, but it doesn't mean we are.  Gaming is the same.  I had to tell a group of self-proclaimed game elitists that people constantly join games and people need time to learn the game.  It doesn't mean they are better than the newbies.

People who game these days have an agenda - be popular since most won't know who they are anyways; its easier to be someone we are not over the internet.  Its easier to fib over the internet.  Just like how it is easier to proclaim love over the internet before conning them of money.

Social gamers should get their life in order and stop ruining game-play for others.  They paid for subscription so they feel they have the right to be there and be their virtual social self (which cannot exist in their real world usually).

News is, we trolls paid subscription too.  So next time we troll, try to 'fight back' with quickly thought out rebuttals, instead of name-calling.

Oh wait - they can't think up of a structured rebuttal quickly - if they did, they wouldn't be that desperate to have a social life in a virtual game.