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Will Multiplayer Get A Fix Next Gen?

But hey, go right ahead, I double dare you to. I dare anyone reading this article to go and turn on their PS3 or Xbox 360, pop in their favorite multiplayer game, and play online for an few hours, and see if you’ll be able to get through your session without some under-aged, immature, racist, or overzealous idiot stepping completely out of line and ruining it for you. It appears that now in this day and age, the only way to play with others online is to mute everyone and pretend that they’re not actual people. Because if you don’t do that, chances are, you’ll either get bullied, or get insulted and lose your cool, so instead of blowing off steam after a hard day’s work, you find yourself in a heated verbal battle with some kid somewhere, and now you’re so worked up and all ready to punch a cat in the face

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CustardTrout4251d ago

I think someone just got beat on a game...

csreynolds4251d ago

Possibly, but the author does make a valid point. A percentage of today's online gaming community is represented by nasty little oxygen thieves that enjoy nothing more than goading or abusing others for sport.

BrutallyBlunt4251d ago (Edited 4251d ago )

This is true and the only way to curb it is to have more accountability. That means no way of creating new accounts while you're warned or whatever measure they take.

Gamers need to be educated on the fact they don't have the right to ruin other peoples experiences. These services have their own terms that you have to agree to.

1. If someone constantly team kills for example they can have a warning attached to their avatar and sent to purgatory with other team killers. Perhaps a 24 hour cooldown period and if it keeps happening the penalty increases.

2. Racial and vulgar people should get a 24 hour voice/text chat ban and go up from there as well for repeat offenders.

3. Those who drop out and disconnect, in other words the poor losers. Have a logo above their name and the host can decide to keep them or drop them. After a certain period of time that logo goes away.

These are just the things off the top of my head. I'm sure there are many better ideas but the end game should be the same, a enjoyable experience for everyone. If people can't conduct themselves properly then they should just stick to single player games.

Gazondaily4251d ago

@ LevelHead,

In fairness, Xbox Live (to some extent) has attempted some of what you suggested.

"This is true and the only way to curb it is to have more accountability. That means no way of creating new accounts while you're warned or whatever measure they take. "

Completely agree here. The Xbox Live Gamertag actually helps in this regard because, obviously, you pay for the account (with the exception of free trials)and you can't just create profiles at a whim.

"2. Racial and vulgar people should get a 24 hour voice/text chat ban and go up from there as well for repeat offenders. "

Yeah this should be enforced more stringently. Unforunately, there are evidentiary problems with this unless you have recording software. So a possible fix for next-gen MP gaming and a welcome feature is built-in recording. That being said, my mate had his account temporarily banned on the PS3 for using vulgar language and there are quite a few people on Xbox Live that have been banned for inappropriate behaviour. Still- unacceptable behaviour is rife online.

"3. Those who drop out and disconnect, in other words the poor losers. Have a logo above their name and the host can decide to keep them or drop them. After a certain period of time that logo goes away."

Halo Reach tried to tackle this to some success. People who drop out or disconnect get temporary bans and it does work because I play with some players who do rage-quit a lot and get affected by this. But yeah, a more universal implementation would help (although, legit disconnects obviously somehow have to be taken into account).

I think in the end, it boils down to more admins for services like PSN and Live are needed. The online environment right now is replete with so many abusive and immature players that experiencing vulgar and hatred alluded to by the author is almost customary now when playing online, whether it be on PC, PS3 or 360.

Gazondaily4251d ago

Yeah I think so too.

There is always Party Chat or the mute function. Playing with your mates is the best thing although, I do admit, it is a shame people can't get along online.

BrutallyBlunt4251d ago

People are competitive but there's a difference between being competitive and one who's sole purpose is to ruin the experience for others.

There really is no perfect system out there. Some are obviously better than others. The best way is to filter your own friends but that takes time and limits your audience. A rating system never seems to work either. Look at Metacritic for example.

I have met a lot of great people online so it would be a shame not to have that element of surprise of finding good players.

Cupid_Viper_34251d ago

Haha, I don't know if it's as simple as you put it.

TheTimeDoctor4251d ago

nothing to fix. words can not hurt you. if you are offended by meaningless drivel, good luck getting through life.

Dusdg4251d ago

It's called mute and avoid. Both options are on live and psn. Now Live tried to have community's when you first signed up with players being casual and underground however people just selected anything they felt like and it did not really do anything. It would be nice if the community could be the one that put you in a certain pool of players and not yourself. That would help filter out kids.

Nate-Dog4251d ago

You're not really asking for multiplayer to get a fix but gaming communities and players. Fat chance of that happening.

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Please, can Call of Duty leave awful Netflix-style menus behind

Call of Duty games used to be streamlined experiences, but COD 2024’s UI could be another nightmarish clutter of streaming tabs.

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LucasRuinedChildhood10d ago

Let's just leave Call Of Duty behind.

anast10d ago

The isn't for you anymore.

BlackCountryBob10d ago

If we’re beating that drum, can we also stop forcing anyone who wants to play only the single player to download Warzone and all updates BEFORE they are then able to do another download from the menu of the single player campaign. I don’t see why I need 150gb of downloads in several ways to play the single player mode only from a bloomin disk which should have that campaign on it already.

DefenderOfDoom29d ago (Edited 9d ago )

The UI is confusing to me because I have not purchased a Call of Duty iin like 8 years .Only bought CoD MW3 because 3 of my friends I have known since to 70s are playing zombies . But I am used it now .

smolinsk9d ago

The UI is the least of the franchise many problems these days. But yes the UI is also terrible.

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Players claim Fortnite ruined Call of Duty by letting in more corporate greed

Do you remember what gaming was like before Fortnite entered the gaming space? One of the biggest arguments was about loot boxes. Now we have conversations about crossovers, battle passes, and community outreach.

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GoodGuy0922d ago (Edited 22d ago )

Idk. Loot boxes did disappear and battle passes and in game purchases are all cosmetic. We get free weapons and maps post launch, any gameplay affecting content. I could care less about all the cosmetics.
I absolutely hated the days where weapons were locked behind a less than 1% chance lootbox pull where it'd take 5+ hours to have enough tokens to do a single pull and lazy remastered/remake maps cost you $15 each wave or $50 for the season pass that you didn't know what you'd get and these maps were only available to those that bought it so you get a smaller pool of players match with.

Tacoboto20d ago

The "good ole days" are actually what drove me away from COD and Halo 3/Reach. Halo 4 becoming a COD-like drove me away from that only a week or so after it launched and I beat its campaign.

It sucked way back then, going a month or two without playing online-shooter-of-the-moment, and then needing to buy a $15 map pack to play with the majority of the population or your favorite playlist. The "community" rejecting Spartan Points in MCC killed that game's support, too. No revenue = no support, plain and simple.

Cacabunga20d ago

That headline could easily be something Spencer could have said 😅 I had to check if it was really an opinion piece

KyRo20d ago

As times gone on, the COD battle pass has got ALOT worse so they can push people to buy the more premium battle pass which itself is a huge rip off and nearly half the price of the base game.

The cosmetics can be fine but they've taken it to far to the point of no return. Why make a military themed game then have rabbits, dinosaurs, cats, rats & z list rappers as skins? You wouldn't add a Lamborghini to a fantasy RPG to replace a horse and you would never see Mario have limb dismemberment because they know what they are. COD is having identity crisis but kids and streamer but then all

franwex20d ago (Edited 20d ago )

Call of duty can simply not copy the bad aspects of Fortnite? Or is that too out of this world? Like COD, a realistic shooter-just HAD to have Nicki Minaj running around? Or super heroes?

Inverno20d ago (Edited 20d ago )

Exactly! Trends don't all need to be followed. Plus where Fortnite got somewhat better with it's monetization, Acti got worse. Or at least Fortnite has lended itself more to the wacky stuff, and has put more effort and quality into that stuff.

jjb198120d ago

I prefer the battle passes with free maps than the $50 season pass that divided the community. I definitely feel that Fortnite had some influence on CoD having loot boxes with Blackout being introduced in 2018 with Black Ops 4.

PRIMORDUS20d ago (Edited 20d ago )

Actually Fortnite bullshit ruined Unreal Tournament. Epic are sellouts and I will never have that shitty store on my PC, fuck them and that shit bag Tim Sweeney. At least the community keeps the games alive, I still play UT2004.

StoneTitan20d ago

I mean cant really blame them for supporting the game that made them the most money and the most people player...ever?

Psychonaut8520d ago

Call of Duty ruined Call of Duty. They needed no outside assistance.

Ra303020d ago

100% correct! The makers of Call of Duty ran out of ideas long, long ago so they take ideas from other games like Ghost Recon, Fortnite and any other FPS game hat had success hell CoD remasters maps that they've remastered several times already then charge you again for it. Call of Duty is simply a cut, copy and paste and then put the $70 price on it every year. Activision and now Microsoft has been essentially remastering Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare every year since it was released in 2007 its to the point it's worse than the sports game like the Madden, NBA and others yearly sports franchises.
@Psychonaut85 is spot on "Call of Duty ruined Call of Duty. They needed no outside assistance"!

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Massive new COD Black Ops Gulf War leak lifts the lid on loadouts

The Black Ops Gulf War leaks continue with a list of weapon descriptions giving more info on what you can expect from new and returning weapons.

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