Before I read the headline, I was like “Hey, that’s my hammer, I wonder what this is about!”
Is this why everyone is antisocial online now? Nobody talks in games anymore :(
It’s not just the psycho assholes looking for people to hammer. It’s hard to want to engage with voice chat when the general public has no fucking concept of mic discipline. Nobody wants to hear the conversations happening around you. They don’t want to hear you eating. They certainly don’t want to hear your background music. Use push to talk.
Not this exact reason, but yeah I hate most people I encounter in games so I stay away from multiplayer stuff, which sucks because that’s all devs want to make anymore…
an extreme example of a phenomenon that academics call “internet banging”
Really? We call it that?
How do these people figure out where their opponent lives?
Obviously he went there to bang the other player’s mom, and decided to take it a bit further.
Modern social media that demands irl info and dumbasses who can’t figure out how to fill in false information into them. If I got into an online dispute like this, I’d just give them the address of some police barracks. Let them have fun with charges on an attemped swat on the cops.
The game was ArcheAge.
This is the line the victim said to the attacker once the attacker was subdued:
Leeper quipped that his only answer to Kang was: “It will be a long time before you play video games.”