Comments on: PSN Breach or Not: I Don’t Like Online Gaming Anyway

By: takemeseriously

takemeseriously — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 07:51:00 +0000

oh and regarding the bit about everyone being “obnoxious” and “unpleasant” online …grow up, and mute them. As the saying goes, “For you to insult me, I must first value your opinion”

By: takemeseriously

takemeseriously — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 07:48:00 +0000

Hahaha this is the dumbest article I’ve read on any site ever. It is completely worthless…its basically him saying “I suck at video games and ill compensate by writing an article on it and blaming everyone else for being too good” . How is that considered content? First, he talks about ONE TYPE of online game (and so we can all guess this guy sucks at COD) and decides thats enough evidence for him to throw the ENTIRE online gaming feature under the bus…solid reporting there…

Hey look im not saying your a dumb n00b for sucking at online games..no no you were clearly a dumb n00b far b4 that. Why not try A DIFFERENT game, if a particular gaming community doesn’t fit your taste? I’m sure there’s an online disney game where they cover swear words with flowers and butterflies so as not to hurt your virgin eyes.
Or like you said just ignore online games altogether..just dont waste the time and general IQ of the overal online community with stupid articles where you whine about something that is essentially YOUR OWN shortcoming.

And to the people that actually like this article…what is this a Losers Anonymous? You needed this article to validate the fact that you suck at online games? Well congrats you found ur soulmate. Btw I totally SUCK at online games like COD and that does not bother me at all. Online gaming is by far the BEST THING that’s happened to game consoles since their conception.

By: Steve Wells

Steve Wells — Tue, 31 May 2011 23:24:00 +0000

Agreed, on-line gaming presents you with the most obnoxious, racist and generally unpleasant microcosm of society that near-anonymity, (and the inability to slap someone upside the head for being a tool), can produce. Playing with friends is the only enjoyable option, the problem with that is arranging a time when everyone is not being forced by their S.O. to take them shoe shopping.

The store etc. being offline is mildly irritating, not being able to play online was little to no loss to me at all. I am aware however that thousands would think otherwise as not being able to play Black Ops could be a source of much frustration.

I’m still waiting for Sony to present me with an actually useful “gift” for the system being offline, as the titles they were offering I’ve either got/had or have little/no interest in. I’d rather have store credit.

By: Jishaxe

Jishaxe — Tue, 31 May 2011 15:36:00 +0000

Understandable points. I guess some people like it, and some don’t!
I personally love playing online, even though it can be frustrating playing against players with a greater skill, but I feel “disconnected” when playing offline. It just simply gives me a happy feeling to know that I am playing with people around the world who are also sitting at their Xboxes (for me) with the controllers in their hands.
Regards, Josh

By: Jishaxe

Jishaxe — Tue, 31 May 2011 15:36:00 +0000

By: Christian Haschek

Christian Haschek — Tue, 31 May 2011 12:06:00 +0000

such a noob :D

By: Peter Pan

Peter Pan — Tue, 31 May 2011 11:22:00 +0000

Couldn’t agree more. Every week there’s an article that goes ” and why I hate it / why it’s utter crap / why you are retarded if you buy it”. And adding to that the overall quality of these articles is quite disturbing.

By: Andrew Hall

Andrew Hall — Tue, 31 May 2011 09:29:00 +0000

I don’t like online gaming on consoles, on the PC however, can’t get enough.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 30 May 2011 21:30:00 +0000

You think I’m making this about me? Get real. I love this site, and I love to read Ben and Chris’s reviews, wach Rue’s recaps, etc.

And I don’t mind opinion at all.

But if you actually would, gee… I don’t know… get off Don’s tip and start doing your own research, you would see that this habit of posting controversial articles to lure in traffic works for about two or three months or so, but quickly alienates readers and traffic starts leveling off.

9 months ago, Tech Crunch was not only the single-most read tech blog on Technorati, but the 2nd most read blog of all. Go check what it is now.

I’m not the first one to comment on Siegler or Arrington or Lacey or any of those fools who turn out tabloid garbage in attempt to get a rise out oftheir readers.

And you know what they did in response to all the criticism they were receiving in their articles? They called their audience losers, switched to Facebook comments, and continued on, now confident that their BS could continue without anyone calling attention to it.

BGR is starting to follow the same path. Engadget and Gizmodo… well their traffic hasn’t been formidable in years, save for Giz’s handling of the iPhone 4 story.

GigaOm is another blog which is like a TechCrunch lite, and though Om Malik breaks good stories, the heavy number of opinion he injects into each scoop damages his credibility and his traffic, according to ALexa.

This is not an isolated incident and not about me. This is about a bold new content scheme that blogs have decided to troll their readers.

Again, wake up and do some thinking for yourself, if you even remember how. I’m not trolling anyone here. I’m not saying anything simply to give a rise out of anything. And I’m not stating opinions just for the sake of controversy.

I’ve just given you what… 5 examples of this BS on other tech blogs and you would probably be the first to deny it or say I’m making it up. Well, sir, kindly go stick one up your ass.

Slash ought to fire this guy before their traffic suffers.

By: Elias Valdez

Elias Valdez — Mon, 30 May 2011 15:11:00 +0000

Look, if you want to read a really intelligent discussion about video games go and find any article by James Portnow. Or even better, find the show “Extra Credits” on the Escapist Magazine. Here is the link: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/extra-credits?page=1. It will clean your system from anything you’ve read from Don Reisinger in the past.

By: Josi Puddles

Josi Puddles — Mon, 30 May 2011 00:43:00 +0000

Fantastic Article man, I agree 100% but did not really care until i read this.. your black ops story is the SAME AS MINE. decent game that the players ruined for me.

I pwned my playstation 3 and i have not looked back.. i would rather have an ipad2 then a playstation 3. and im planning to buy and asus transformer tablet… so thats about how i feel lol..
Again. great article.

By: Josi Puddles

Josi Puddles — Mon, 30 May 2011 00:43:00 +0000

Fantastic Article man, I agree 100% but did not really care until i read this.. your black ops story is the SAME AS MINE. decent game that the players ruined for me.

By: Prmbase

Prmbase — Sun, 29 May 2011 20:46:00 +0000

I almost have the exact opposite problem from the author of this article (aside from the cursing and juvenile nature of the users). Though I don’t play games all that often, I’m very skilled when it comes to video games. I play single player on the highest difficulty level possible because I want to get the must out of the game (and my money) as possible. My friends (who play as much if not more than I do) simply can’t say the same. Any bottom line is whenever I play the people around me it almost always ends up in a lambs to the slaughter situation. They just can’t compete at my level and more often than not refuse to play against me.

There’s no way around it. If I want to play another human being it had to be online because that’s the only place where it’ll be atleast interesting for the parties involved.

By: Robotako

Robotako — Sun, 29 May 2011 16:02:00 +0000

I agree with this article 100% particularly most online games are endless which I can honestly say it is not for me. Offline RPG games are still the best – FF series! FTW!

By: Guest

Guest — Sun, 29 May 2011 07:56:00 +0000

I agree with the article, I’ve never liked online gaming myself. It might be ok for people who like hit n run stuff. I like my games with a lil more character. LA Noire, Heavy Rain , MGS single player is what I’m talking of.

By: nick gakis

nick gakis — Sun, 29 May 2011 06:30:00 +0000

i totally agree think the mgs series they are story driven game even though they do have nice multiplayer . i some times don’t even play the multiplayer

By: nick gakis

nick gakis — Sun, 29 May 2011 06:30:00 +0000

i totally agree think the mgs series they are story driven game even though they do have nice multiplayer . i some times don’t even play the multiplayer

By: Conrad

Conrad — Sat, 28 May 2011 22:51:00 +0000

Some of us don’t use the online services just for games, but also for other purposes like Netflix, Hulu Plus, etc. I for one would be extremely upset if Xbox Live was hacked and MS handled it as badly as Sony did.

By: Immersion

Immersion — Sat, 28 May 2011 22:47:00 +0000

The best games are still single player games, I could list them and the one yet to come out but I won’t bother. I don’t care what anyone thinks GTA4 was a single player experience even though it had a online multiplayer mode.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 28 May 2011 20:52:00 +0000

… anyway

By: Pradyuman Vig

Pradyuman Vig — Sat, 28 May 2011 20:47:00 +0000

If you don’t like the cursing, just mute it! Do you know what that is? PSN is a major part of the PS3, and is a big thing for most people. Stop whining.

By: Pradyuman Vig

Pradyuman Vig — Sat, 28 May 2011 20:47:00 +0000

If you don’t like the cursing, just mute it! Do you know what that is? PSN is a major part of the PS3, and is a big thing for most people. Stop whining.

By: JohnJohnJ

JohnJohnJ — Sat, 28 May 2011 20:05:00 +0000

Author, you admit you lack the playing skills and you admit that’s why you don’t like PSN/Xbox Live. Because you lose a lot. LOL. I don’t really see the purpose of your article. ~yawn~

By: JohnJohnJ

JohnJohnJ — Sat, 28 May 2011 20:05:00 +0000

Author, you admit you lack the playing skills and you admit that’s why you don’t like PSN/Xbox Live. Because you lose a lot. LOL. I don’t really see the purpose of your article. ~yawn~

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 28 May 2011 19:52:00 +0000

TheGaySayer has a point though. This opinion piece isn’t even smart. It doesn’t bring anything to the table for it’s reader’s to chew on. It’s mostly whining. If you’re going to call yourself a columnist, at least get up the creativity to write an intelligent opinion piece.

But I guess if you enjoy sucking the teat of everything this guy puts out, be my guest. Everyone will happily let you. :)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 28 May 2011 19:52:00 +0000

But I guess if you enjoy sucking the teat of everything this guy puts out, be my guest. Everyone will happily let you. :)

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 28 May 2011 19:46:00 +0000

Yea, gaysayer you’ve said it before.
Why don’t you go somewhere else, and quit trolling these articles.
We won’t miss you.
Buh Bye!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 28 May 2011 19:09:00 +0000

I think I’ve said this before but I’ll say it again because I’m close to not reading Slashgear anymore at all:

Stop writing these articles.

I like Davies, Vincent, Rue, and everyone else, but you are bringing down the whole quality of the site in an MG like fashion. Haven’t you wondered why Tech Crunch’s traffic has been leveling off?

Because their strategy — and yours — of trollbaiting your traffic is failing.

And it’s not because people just stop or learn to ignore YOUR articles. They leave because they realize TechCrunch is willing to keep Siegler and all those other trolls on board no matter what kind of work they put out. Therefore, the good writers of TC get shafted in the end and go down with the ship.

You will do that to this place too. I can’t in good conscience support this kind of BS and I’m sure many more feel as I do.

By: Ihatedon

Ihatedon — Sat, 28 May 2011 18:59:00 +0000

Get with the program. This idiot DOES NOT CARE WHAT YOU THINK. He is TROLLING for page views. What other fool has a whole column devoted to things he hates? When was the last POSITIVE thing he said about anything?

WISE UP. DON’T FEED HIM.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 28 May 2011 17:41:00 +0000

You do know you can mute other players right? Makes dealing with those obnoxious blow hards a lot easier.

Anyways this seems to be less of “there’s no value in online gaming” and more “I don’t like twitch gaming.” Try out zombie mode some time, it is more strategy and teamwork and you don’t have to worry about being completely outmatched.

tl;dr=There is more to online gaming than twitch gaming.