| ToastyJaguar said: play with your friends . |
This is generally the same advise I get from all of my friends. They simply say that it's not worth playing with strangers, because everyone thinks there some Internet tough guy behind their Xbox.
PS Toy? well, I wouldn't get offended, but a machine that's more powerful than many computers could just be referred as a console. I understand your analogy "if you play with it it is a toy" but that would also apply to sexual organs and partners so I guess it is not a perfect analogy. ..
Sexual organs serve a purpose beyond entertainment. The Xbox 360 does not. It's purely an entertainment device. It really does boil down to a toy, and people who take offense to that might need to check themselves. It plays video games.
I guess I was surprised by exactly how bad the Xbox Live community was. Hell, I'd been doing voice chat in games a long time. I used to do ventrillo and, before that, Roger Wilco (this was friend-to-friend). CS included voice chat and initially that community was terrible as well, but I simply assumed CS was CS and attracted those types. Other games I played attracted far more civil and intelligent players, in general.
I think it has a lot to do with intelligence. The more articulate people actually capable of understanding exactly what it is they're doing tend to be more fun to play with (they're playing a game, after all, not living the gangsta lifestylz). They're also more capable at communicating.
