Wow.. Talk about stooping to a new low. I've tended to notice gamers in Europe have a much better community with each other than the US/Canada side. For the most part, they're congratulatory and friendly even when competitive play is involved. However, I've been to enough major LAN events across the country over the last 10 years, and I've seen the difference among the North American side of things. I've seen kids in fistfights, breaking each others computers, getting arrested, getting stabbed, stealing.. all because they 'hate' the other player for being too skilled, wealthy, arrogant, whatever. I believe a lot of it has to do with the competitive culture in North America when compared to Europe.Originally Posted by 'Elix',index.php?page=Thread&postID=85714#post8571 4
An example, in Europe, upon meeting someone new, people generally ask what someone likes to do for hobbies and what they're interested in. In America, people tend to ask what you do for a job. When I meet Europeans, they ask what I'm interested in, and I talk about sports, cars, music, movies, etc. When I meet Americans, they ask what I do for a living, and I say I'm a software engineer. In North America, it's an immediate gauge on wealth, and it's not at all like that in Europe.
I don't know how single play is like on EU servers, but on US servers, it sucks. Unless you know everyone in your party personally, or have a long gaming history behind them, or are mature (usually that also means over the age of 20 or so), then you're basically guaranteed to have the immature players rolling on loot that should go to a player that would benefit from it more. That's the *primary* reason I started dual and then 5-boxing. I don't have to deal with immature assholes ruining the game experience for me.
You're in the EU forums, and you apparantely know nothing about what is common for the US multiboxers to experience from singleboxers on a daily basis. That's the reason we have so little tolerance for someone who comes out bashing multiboxers like we're the devil. Don't be fooled.. so many of these hypocrite singleboxers would gladly jump into multiboxing if they were willing to afford it. A lot of the hate on US servers is envy.
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