Dear AoCZone readers,
to make my point clear I first have to sketch the situation that lead to this post.
I was playing a 4v4 Arabia match in the NPL. I'm a newbro (probably around 1250 in the NPL), so I was raped pretty hard, even though it was a lobby filled with 1250-1300 guys. I was the pocket and by the time I hit castle 2 players were already knocking at my door busting my ass with a decent amount of knights. My flank didn't do anything, neither did my other pocket even though I flared. These guys were just to strong, but here comes the main point of the story. My flank totally raged while asking what I was doing. I said I tried to boom, but was attacked 2v1 and he rage quitted after he couldn't defend from the army that moved from my base to his.
But he didn't think it was enough to keep it at that. No, he looked for me and started chatting with me after I left the lobby asking me again what happened. After I basically said the same thing and some kind of 'sorry that I am such a newbro and suck with the meta' he continued to rage. 'you always go fc into knights', 'l2p' and so on. I knew about the harsh environment that is known as Voobly, but this was the first encounter with such a madman. I don't mind people playing competitive, but this is just too much.
First of all, I don't think you'll help people much by raging at them for being a newbro. He said learn to play and you know what: losing is one way of learning the game. Raging at people isn't. Second of all, why be such a hard play and chat with me after the game? Wasn't a: 'dude l2p' during the game and rage quit enough? I'll probably never understand people like this.
Fair enough, I probably shouldn't have joined a 4v4 arabia on Voobly, but man, relax. I understand you want to be competitive, which isn't bad per se, but learn how to handle your rage.
Another point that came to mind when encountering this guy is the meta in general. There is a meta for a reason, but isn't Age of Empires bigger than that? I love this game because of the complexity of all the different civilizations and corresponding set of technologies. I don't like this game for high APM and playing 1v1 ararbia hun wars like a robot. I understand people absolutely love their arabia hun wars, but when I see no megarandom lobby whatsoever on Voobly it makes me kinda sad. Why not explore different parts of this game that we all love? When you play a map pack like megarandom, lightrandom or any other set of map packs without a meta you have to improvise, adapt and use your brain to outsmart your opponent. That is what I love and I'm disappointed to see that not a whole lot of people agree with me on this (well, at least I can't find them on Voobly, maybe I should look a little better, but you guys can help me with that).
My main point of all this is not to find any comfort because this dude was so hard on me. No, my main point is that I wish the Voobly community would be a little bit more like HD players that are in general a little nicer and casual. I understand you want to be competitive and that you might be mad at your team mates for being absolute newbro's, but help them instead of raging. Besides, I do see more megarandom lobbies on Voobly and when I start one it definitely fills up a lot faster. So yeah, the solution is simple: I'll go back to HD and maybe return to Voobly when I'm a little better than I am now.
Thank you for your time
to make my point clear I first have to sketch the situation that lead to this post.
I was playing a 4v4 Arabia match in the NPL. I'm a newbro (probably around 1250 in the NPL), so I was raped pretty hard, even though it was a lobby filled with 1250-1300 guys. I was the pocket and by the time I hit castle 2 players were already knocking at my door busting my ass with a decent amount of knights. My flank didn't do anything, neither did my other pocket even though I flared. These guys were just to strong, but here comes the main point of the story. My flank totally raged while asking what I was doing. I said I tried to boom, but was attacked 2v1 and he rage quitted after he couldn't defend from the army that moved from my base to his.
But he didn't think it was enough to keep it at that. No, he looked for me and started chatting with me after I left the lobby asking me again what happened. After I basically said the same thing and some kind of 'sorry that I am such a newbro and suck with the meta' he continued to rage. 'you always go fc into knights', 'l2p' and so on. I knew about the harsh environment that is known as Voobly, but this was the first encounter with such a madman. I don't mind people playing competitive, but this is just too much.
First of all, I don't think you'll help people much by raging at them for being a newbro. He said learn to play and you know what: losing is one way of learning the game. Raging at people isn't. Second of all, why be such a hard play and chat with me after the game? Wasn't a: 'dude l2p' during the game and rage quit enough? I'll probably never understand people like this.
Fair enough, I probably shouldn't have joined a 4v4 arabia on Voobly, but man, relax. I understand you want to be competitive, which isn't bad per se, but learn how to handle your rage.
Another point that came to mind when encountering this guy is the meta in general. There is a meta for a reason, but isn't Age of Empires bigger than that? I love this game because of the complexity of all the different civilizations and corresponding set of technologies. I don't like this game for high APM and playing 1v1 ararbia hun wars like a robot. I understand people absolutely love their arabia hun wars, but when I see no megarandom lobby whatsoever on Voobly it makes me kinda sad. Why not explore different parts of this game that we all love? When you play a map pack like megarandom, lightrandom or any other set of map packs without a meta you have to improvise, adapt and use your brain to outsmart your opponent. That is what I love and I'm disappointed to see that not a whole lot of people agree with me on this (well, at least I can't find them on Voobly, maybe I should look a little better, but you guys can help me with that).
My main point of all this is not to find any comfort because this dude was so hard on me. No, my main point is that I wish the Voobly community would be a little bit more like HD players that are in general a little nicer and casual. I understand you want to be competitive and that you might be mad at your team mates for being absolute newbro's, but help them instead of raging. Besides, I do see more megarandom lobbies on Voobly and when I start one it definitely fills up a lot faster. So yeah, the solution is simple: I'll go back to HD and maybe return to Voobly when I'm a little better than I am now.
Thank you for your time