Examine what you're saying here. You're saying because YOU don't feel bad when you do it to others, it's okay. And because people retaliate, that makes your initial act of rudeness ok, as if that's what the other party wanted.
Just because someone returns your behavior doesn't mean they LIKE that sort of behavior, or are even okay with it.
> It's nice to vent and I don't think other players in PUBG care at all.
How would you know if they did care?
Trash talk has a long history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trash-talk
The whole point is for the other side not to like it and get knocked emotionally off-kilter and lose focus, giving you a competitive edge. It's part of the metagame.
For most online games I don't see how the latter could ever be considered an improvement to the game.
You can "regulate" this away as a tournament organizer/gamedev company if you wanted to (i.e. allowing allied team only chat or allowing players to disable chat visibility altogether)
This isn't what I said, you're putting meaning where there is none. I just think it's fun when people retaliate.
> How would you know if they did care?
I wouldn't, that's why I wrote "think".
Your comment and all the downvote tells me people at HN probably don't play PUBG that much.
Context is interesting, but it just means that overall, you’re only sometimes acting like a jerk.
You might just be a jerk.
These days I don’t bother because everyone’s a jerk.
Trash talk is also not the same as engaging in trolling. Telling someone you’re going to kick their ass is perhaps reasonable trash talk in some cases. Calling someone racist or sexist epithets is not.
Please don't take my comments to mean that insulting/mean behavior is OK, though. IME many commenters across the web are far to quick to hurl insults in situations where they have no idea how they'll be received.
I see quite a lot of the latter, but I try to play on well moderated servers and servers with votebans.
In the game I play when someone joins who is annoying they are generally called out as "whoa did you just arrive from CoD?"...
When I see rude chat messages, I just instantly block that person.
Its not enjoyable and it makes it hard to use chat to coordinate the team.
Although this thread is so loaded it seems that any suggestion of the possibility of a benign explanation is met with being downvoted into oblivion like you... so let me finish with "this is terrible and all men are bad", there I think I've covered myself.
You're right about how in some context trash talk is expected & part of the game, but maybe it'd be better to play games in which one doesn't practise insulting, mocking & killing others. Maybe it'd be better to play games which encourage our better virtues rather than our worse vices. Maybe the world would be a better place if we pretended to love one another rather than hate one another.
Sounds like very boring games. Being rude in PUBG helps me being nicer IRL. That is what matters to me.
It can't be just me who thinks and acts like this? Context matters a lot in my opinion.
Although, I am never rude to someone IRL or even on a more serious note outside of online gaming. It's nice to vent and I don't think other players in PUBG care at all.