What's wrong with people?

I decided before I logged for the night, I would try some PvP. We win 3 battles, then the fourth battle we lose, I had been attacking the monk, and when I ran out of energy I split off and starting attacking some warrior that was attacking me. After I die, I look at the messages, and one of the people starts yelling at me calling me an "idiot piece of trash" and swearing at me and stuff. Ok, now I see where you were saying "I am attacking so and so" thing, and now I know you focus fire, but was it really necessary to get so angry?
When I try to say calm down it's just a game, they say that it's not the game they hate, but me. Honestly, we lose one pvp battle and you're hating people?
Why do people take it so seriously? Yes I am a noob, you can point out mistakes without being a total prick about it.

Because people want to be uber, and own. They never want to loose. It's the competetive spirit of some people.

Oh, and they can NEVER make a mistake.

I agree with you that it's not a good idea to yell on people, but that's what i do. Well, i just can't do anything with it sometimes.
By the way "calm down it's just a game" thing just makes me significantly more angry. For anyone who yells on you this phrase means only that you don't care about a game, your teammates, winning etc, you're just wasting some free time in it. Of course, some other players (including me) will hate you because you effectively said "sure, i suck, but i don't care so get lost" instead of whatever you said in your post here "everyone will learn after a while, no reason to be that angry".

You really think yelling at them will make them better players, and not just make you look like a pompous, high-handed prick?

Something similar happened to me the other night as well. Was questing(Yak's Bend to Lion's Arch) & I was a N/Mo... keeping my team alive. Then we get to the swamp area right before Kryta & my team starts taking a lot of damage so much so that the monk & I couldnt keep up... not to mention the team was running thru the poison water... I'm trying my hardest but I cant keep up... my energy gets depleted, monk dies & I die. Then this...this..this ahole starts raggin on me.. saying I am the worst healer ever. Never mind the fact that all thru the quest(Yak's Bend to Lion's Arch) prior to this I had been saving & healing my team. But nooooooo he has to rag on me constantly... finally we get to Gates Of Kryta & he starts telling ppl not to select me as a party member as I am the worst healer ever to play the game. Blah blah blah on & on he went. Tell you what... if I had been in the same room with him in person I would have beat his a**. F'n punk! He had absolutely no clue has to how hard it was to keep the team alive then. None.

I really despise aholes like that. Ungrateful, think they know everything, quick to blame someone else for thier stupidity & so on.

Mebbe I should develop a lethal virus that kills only stupid ppl....

It is the nature of the beast. PvP is a competition. Some players thrive on competition, and losing, to them, is the end of the world as far as that particularly competition is concerned. Not to mention, most people don't know how to check their emotions, especially in games or online in general. The anonymity of the internet serves as a one-way mirror: they can express whatever they feel like whenever they feel like it without the potential for direction repercussions (or any real world consequences).

When you see someone like that, move on. Sure, you may suck. We all suck at some point. You could always shift the blame and say, "Hey, I know I suck. But, you know what, you decided to team up with me. That means you suck at choosing teammates." But, that wouldn't solve anything, would it?

My advice: Join a guild. If a guild sucks or is great at PvP, they should never come down nearly as hard on you. If someone in my guild flipped out on another guild member for losing one match (or even a small series of them), I would make them walk the plank.

~ Captain Blackguard of the Pirate Ninjas

Aye, most of my guild are already good at pvp from what I've seen.

But when we have a few who aren't we take em to the tombs or an arena and teach them.

I got to admit, sometimes I'd love to yell at people by myself, not at you that is but some are acting so damn stupid especially on PvE, little example, I hate it when people run away in battle with full life because they think we couldn't beat a group...well we indeed can't beat some groups if the half team runs away because the its a 6 vs 7......damnit, stupid %#$! Also hating it when people run into mobs without letting others rest....or when the healers attack insteat of stay back...

You really can't read or you're just a troll?

Ask the rest of the team if they think the persons behaviour is valid, if no one responds - quit. If someone responds and points them out to be complete idiots, then they go silent, now that someone has put them in their place who isnt the object of their hatred.

A lot of players are young (minded) children, 12 - 15 acting like 9 - 11. They expect heals and rez' just like they expect their dinner on the table at 6pm. My bro is 16 and hes a guild leader for an IOS guild on GW and hes quite mature, so im not being ageist here

btw: I yell shit loads lol But.. I dont use words like idiot & stfu.

You shouldn't take it too personally. When someone gets into a great streak they tend to blow of steam at a certain person if things go wrong.

Don't take it too heart mate. There are a lot of good people here and also not all good people are having a RL good day and even they can be a'holes sometimes. That's just life.
You really just need to laugh at it sometimes. And since we are on the topic and giving examples, I loved this one PvE Mission:

All the way through the mission we have 1 player who just kept running off ahead. All the time giving us abuse saying: 'Your all way too slow'. 'Your taking too long to act like a team'. 'I am used to people working as a team far quicker than this'.
It was so funny. I wish I could have made him stop in RL and read what he was saying. The three others of us in the party were acting as a team. Keeping together, covering each other, bringing down monsters in an organised way. It was this lone-rogue who was not being a team member but slagging us off for not being in HIS team of 1. lol

In the end he ran off and died. We carried on the mission without him! lol. He quit before we completed the mission. We 3 went through to the next zone and he had to do it again! - Speed and Haste are not the same )

you always have the little button to not see his words. you could put him in your friends list and put to ignore him too

Well who cares about that someone screams at you like mad.
First of all, ff you suck in game dont say it. Second you can allways yell to in return.

I've been on both sides of the coin. I've yelled at people and I've helped them out. I have a few pep-peves, and if you touch on them I will tell you exactly what I think about it.

You think that's bad?

I was in a PUG last night and it was actually a very good team..for the most part.

We were making our way through 'the wilds' mission (Not the easiest one in the game.. ) and the only problem was our monk(Mo/N)...he just kept running into melee combat with the monsters and dying, ignoring us when we told him to stand back and heal.

At one point there were two paths, one with a lot of monsters, and a second road which lets you avoid them.

Our entire party took the second path, except for this monk who just decided to run into the monsters and lure them to us.

You really do have to wonder about some people...

hahahaha what a hero he was.

unfortunatley i've had many pve groups with morons like this in. There's teamwork, yes, and if you're not working as a team i understand people get annoyed; heck i do. But when these morons run off on their own, expecting you to rescue them when they end up in the middle of 12 enemies, or when tehy start saying "stop. wait. now you all do x action while i do this then when i tell you do this ..." and basically trying to take charge... ugh. and of course those same people usually end up saying "This group sux! you're a bunch of losers that cant play!" then they leave the game and your remaining group wipes out the area in no time at all.

sure i can understand swearing if you die. lol who doesn't?! but not swearing AT your team. and i hate when people die then say "rez" as if you'd leave them tehre. *rolls eyes* im not gonna leave them there, i need the fire power and back up. But you can't always rez straight away; maybe not enough energy or you're still in danger of death yourself.

thing is groups like these, i'll still never abandon them. I at least finish the mission with them, because if i leave they'll keep just mucking around and getting annoyed etc etc. Plus I hate people who just leave without a word. Sure if you have a good reason to leave, by all means let me know, thats fine! But when someone has a paddy and just quits, leaving us all in the shit... gee thanks mate Of course as soon as i get back to town i'll immediately say "gotta go afk a bit" and leave the group, then put them on ignore.

There's no point in reacting to these people though. I did the Wayward Monk quest with some. Oh jeeze... was that... er... interesting. The point between travellers vale and iron horse mines... we kept going back and forth between it. Someone would say "do this" and someone else would be halfway through saying "do that" then we'd go through, so we'd immediately be dragged BACK through so this person could finish their suggestion... then we'd go through and half the group would be under the impression we were carrying out the first tactic, and the others would be trying the second.

When we finally got it sorted out and actually worked as a team (after around 20 tries), the quest was stupidly easy and over in about 5 minutes.

I know that I say rez when I die. Now I ask nicely "Rez me when you can", but sometimes noobs dont even bring a damn rez sig.

Thats one of my pep-peves.

Or the classic up arrow..

"Rez pls"
"Rez pls"
"Rez pls"
"Rez pls"
"Rez pls"
"Rez pls"
"Rez pls"

Whilst everybody else in the party is still fighting...

(I have a lot of things to rant about when it comes to PUG's. )