The Daily Grind: Your biggest MMO pet peeves

by Krystalle Voecks on Jan 16th 2008 8:05AM

Culture, Forums, Opinion, The Daily Grind

A recent thread on the Ten Ton Hammer forums about "biggest WoW pet peeves" caught our eye the other day. After reading some of the responses there, we got to thinking about some of the things in general that annoy us in different MMOs. One of the truly universal ones was gold-spam. It seems no matter what format they have to take, up to and including piles of dead gnome bodies arranged to spell out their domain, they'll do everything they can to annoy us. (After all, 300 dead gnomes, while great as a Horde member, still cause lag.) Another thing we agreed on was "1337 5p33k" (or "elite speak" for those who speak actual English) which just makes us want to hang people's characters by the toes and use them as in-game pinatas.

While those are two that many of us agreed on, there were far and away many other things that really annoyed us in various games. How about you? Are there any things that really make your skin crawl? For that matter is it the people or the game that trips your pet peeve off? Did they design in a pet peeve on you? Or maybe your pet peeve is how your computer behaves when running certain MMOs?

Tags: annoyance, biggest-wow-pet-peeves, forum-fun, interesting-forum-thread, leet-speak, pet-peeve, spammers, Ten-Ton-hammer, the-daily-grind, tth

Reader Comments (3)

The out-of-game community. Go to just about any MMO forum and try to have an intelligent conversation about something, and within a few messages someone will start injecting some kind of venom/hate into the thread.

This is particularly true if you post about things you like (STFU noob, that suxxorz) or things you don't like (STFU noob, that roxxorz), or if you ask for advice (STFU noob, learn2play!!1!omg!).

Ok, so in other words, no matter what you post... :)

Oddly, when I'm actually in-game and playing, the communities tend to be pretty nice. Yeah, you get the odd spat going on, but overall most people are just trying to have a good time. I dunno what it is about forums that turn so many people into haters.

"I dunno what it is about forums that turn so many people into haters."

My guess would be that the forums contain posters who don't even play the game. (and possibly never have) It's easy troll bait to pick on people's favorite pastimes.