Notorious T.W.A.T

Every game has them, just as real-life...... That 1 player that everyone loves to hate. It not necessarily a jealousy thing and neither is their behaviour. Its a lot of both invariably !!

Its the inane gloating after a gank
Its the retarded counting skills ("we're outnumbered! need more players" when they have a 2:1 advantage)
Its the using any spolit going and calling it skill
Its the way they have LOADS of followers that follow them around like puppies
Its the "play my way or I'm taking my ball home" mentality
Its the game forum BS

So, its a lot of things..........

Now you may all think that this entry is inspired by getting my ass kicked in-game and I'm just acting butt-hurt. Well actually far from it tbh. It actually originated from a conversation seen in a faction chat channel last night and relayed to me by my guild leader. This player was talking about how they had just beaten a smaller gank squad of my faction. Now a smaller group than yours cant be a gank squad can it?  And gloating about killing an inferior sized group is hardly impressive? But this is the mentality of the person, and its a daily thing, possibly even an hourly thing!!

Now my ethos and most of those I play with has been to just play of the enjoyment. We're not interested in making a name for ourselves, being looked upon as "uber" and certainly not wanting to be judged as twats. In the main I think we achieve that, although we have had our moments on both ends of that spectrum ;)  So why do these other people feel it necessary to act the way they do?

e-Motivation

Well, I'm back again having recovered from a particularly nasty bout of pleurisy.

Having not done any gaming for a few weeks I was looking forward to hitting the ground running and getting back to my winning ways. Well I managed a couple of really good play sessions before I found myself strangely de-motivated by literally ALL my online games? With this is mind I've been trying to analyse what is causing this lack of enthusiasm.

Is it the individual games themselves? I'm a fairly broad spectrum gamer with MMORPG's and FPS's my more prominent choice, but even the RTS games I have are played with/against online opponents. I cant pin down anything with the games that has changed or is annoying me or whatever.

Is it the people I play with?  I have a great bunch of online friends, many of whom are also now genuine RL friends (I have been to 2 of their weddings and been cited in 1 divorce) so I'm pretty sure its not them, and any opponents I play against are just some random person that I really have none or very little feelings towards.

Is it me?  Well, maybe thats the crux of the issue?  The one thing that is constant with my gaming is me. I'm happy enough in myself. Work's going ok, home life is pretty good, not overly stressed, social life is sorted. Hmm, what else is there?

I'm honestly at a loss to explain this apparent lack of motivation. Hang on........... "apparent" lack of motivation?  Maybe I should look at what I've actually done lately, gaming-wise.

Ok, so here's the summary since I returned from illness: -

Thursday - (MMORPG) PvP'd for about 3-4 hours racking up an impressive kill tally. Nearly a full group of guild mates were involved. Logged to play an RTS but only managed 10-15mins before quitting to watch tv

Friday - (RTS) 2 hours killing people on my favourite maps, then log into the mmorpg for a couple of hours pew-pew. Not much happening so log off and go back to the RTS

Saturday - no gaming as went wedding suit shopping (not my wedding!!) and then enjoyed a sun-drenched BBQ

Sunday - some RTS, some MMO then beta testing an upcoming game for about 4 hours

Monday (last night) -  home late, loads of phone calls but managed 4 hours on the mmo

Ok, so on the face of it there's still quite alot being played, so where are these feelings of apathy coming from?  I think it can be down to the TIME that I'm typically playing and that I'm hitting some kind of fatigue barrier? I am going to bed earlier than I used to. OMG I think I've cracked it !!!

I'm getting OLD.........