Online Gaming: We Have Reached A New Low
- Scribbled on November 27th, 2007 by Devin Grimes
- Filed in Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Xbox 360, Off Topic, WTF
While I’m not under the affected orientation, it’s hard not to cringe at what the Xbox LIVE online community has become…or has always been. The above video, courtesy of GayGamer.net, depicts one LIVE user’s experiment when signing onto Halo 3 with the GamerTag “xxx GayBoy xxx.” Apparently, he didn’t do anything to provoke any of these NSFW comments, either. This, dear reader, is the reason we have more mature gaming communites, such as those at affiliate site 2Old2Play.
(Via Kotaku)
November 27th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
After playing some random folks in CoD4 beta I’m not surprised, actually, this is tame compared to what I heard.
I’m not sure when it became ‘cool’ to drop the N-bomb every other word. The F-bomb…heard that for years, but singing out of tune homemade songs involving the N-word a few dozen times, calling people the N-word and having your buddies laughing about it… this is cool?
I reported them all, sure, but they all had a 5-star rep and I didn’t hear anything but cursing and slander against black folks. As a white boy I’m fairly disheartened to know this occurs on a regular basis.
Unfortunately, most of them had thick southern accents which plays into the stereotype…
November 27th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
The anonymity of the internet brings out the worst in people.
That being said; I laughed at some of the comments in the video.
November 30th, 2007 at 5:14 am
Wow, people are really screwed up. It’s because of people like this (not the gay guy) that make me ashamed that I play online games, and I’m a gamer… Good job to GayBoy for posting that video, now all we need is the gamertags