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Originally Posted by manofsparrow  That can backfire if you're losing. |
Yeah, especially when there's a voice chat function in the game.
I used to play wow with one of my friends who I worked with for about a year.
Everything would be fine until something bad started happening, like getting camped or something. He'd just get more and more pissed off the longer we'd play. And it's not fun to play with somebody who's just mumbling angry words into vent.
If you're getting angry playing a game you should first sit back and rationalize why you're angry in your head, that's a good way to clam down because you usually realize it's just stupid to get mad. Sometimes I start feeling angry when some guy keeps killing me over and over and I just can't get him, then I realize it's dumb to be mad because somebody is better at the game than me, or just keeps getting really lucky.
If you're still pissed off, just log off, play a single player game, or better yet, go do something else.
Nothing ruins online gaming experiences more than angry people.
The times in games when I have the most fun generally isn't when I'm doing really good and killing everybody or winning insanely good items very often, but it's when the people I'm playing with are all happy and having a good time. Not taking the game too serious. When it's like that we can be getting our asses beat down and still having excessive amounts of fun.
Not to say that a really intense battle can't be fun, but in general it's just not as good as when everybody is pretty carefree. However it only takes one person to get pissed off to ruin the mood for everybody.
Happiness is very fragile, you can become unhappy so fast. However when you're angry you generally don't just jump to happy in a matter of seconds.