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[Multitallented]

I say gg in every game because it's a matter of sportsmanship. If you want to be offended then whatever.

[Sug]

I just say G.

[CeeKay Boques]

In sports, the other team doesn't show their back and walk off the field on the other team if they slaughted them, they still line up and shake hands. Just because the other team didn't do well does not mean they did not try their hardest, and it is important to honor that. 2 4 6 8, who d we appreciate?

[Coolant]

I used to disagree with OP's stance, because in MW4:Mercs most everyone said it out of habit, whether it was truly a good game or not. Now I have to somewhat agree. Although it's hard to read thoughts behind the words in chat, you can "feel" the sarcasm coming from players on the other team that just stomped 8 - 0 when they said "gg".

Edited by Coolant, 28 May 2013 - 10:45 AM.

[Bilbo]

Any game where I get to shoot at Big Stompy Robots is a good game, no matter the outcome. If it bothers you overly much, don't look at the chat when the game ends.

[Adridos]

You say GG all the time in chess or Starcraft where each side definitely had an equal chance at victory.

You don't say GG in team-based games, however, only when you really mean it and the match was truly equal and enjoyable.


Or did you no play any competitive game since who knows when?

[Frisk]

"GG" = Good sportsmanship

Someone replying to a "GG" with a "No it wasn't/isn't" is just a raging E-peener, similar to the OP.

Edited by Frisk, 28 May 2013 - 12:49 PM.

[Percimes]

Sometimes I answer to gg (lover cases) with 99 and because of the font used no one notice.

GL and HF... Gandalf, that's how it almost sounds like anyway.

[Goose]

This is Teh Internet, and saying "GG," or any of it's variants, when it was a blow out is an insult.

8-5 is probably the minimum for a game to be considered close.

Sportsmanship? You mean like that shown when a basecap happens?

If it was a close game, but you died early? Now we're testing your sportsmanship …

And this thread is here 'casue it's systemic of how Elo is failing us.

[Pyrrho]

Everyone knows so much about everybody! It's like we are all one.

Good game, guys. (GGG)

[BlackBeltJones]

Zerberus, on 28 May 2013 - 03:35 AM, said:

Disagree , though I rarely say GG to begin with.

This is called good sportsmanship.

Soccer teams and tennis players for example shake hands after the game, regardless of how one sided it was.

Old school quake and CS players do the same.

Attempting to be a civilised sportsman should not depend on how much you enjoyed the game.

With all due respect and w/o wanting to insuniate anything about you specifically, the problem is people getting their panties in a bunch when they lose and ******* in the wheaties of those that actually play for FUN and not to win at every cost with threads like these.

This has been debated to death before but I will say again that anything that requires little to no effort is not a display of good sportsmanship. If you think typing 2 letters makes you a good sport I am afraid you are wrong - being a good sport is something entirely different. I encourage you to offer a specific compliment to another player that struck you as good for any reason. You are not doing anybody a favor by saying "GG" and this minor expression you offer only satisfies your want to appear nice and fair and a good sport but in reality it doesn't make anyone but you feel good - you do this for you not the people you claim to compliment.

[Training Instructor]

"Good Game" was originally something said between people whose games were actually competitive.

8-0, 7-1, 6-2 is not competitive, it's a stomp.

I'm not a little league baseball player, I don't need my confidence boosted by you implying that there was something competitive about the steamroll.

You know how U.S. Rangers said "good game" to the VC during Vietnam? Sometimes they dumped the corpses of guys they killed into the middle of villages via helicopter.

[Training Instructor]

Major League athletes walk home with millions whether they win or lose, so it takes the steam out of a loss. It's a terrible comparison.

I'm getting paired with mostly random teammates that I don't get to choose, and who may be completely incompetent.

When I have no control over 7 of the 8 people on my team, I can play a great game, and get rolled because the other guys either make severe mistakes or are just terrible. Pretending that's a good game doesn't make you a good sportsman anymore than it makes a guy sitting in a deer stand waiting for a deer to come up to the feeder so he can blow it away makes him a good huntsman.

[Kissamies]

Old argument that spans many games and gaming communities. My take has always been that if you always automatically type "gg", it doesn't really mean anything. I type it when I think it really was a good game. If I'm on winning team, I usually wait for someone on the losing team to say it first. If it was a steamroll, but I'm impressed by the team's coordination, I say "gj" on team chat.

Neverfar is right in that if you really cared, you'd say more. Sometimes I do, but I'm lazy and slow typer.

[Lukoi Banacek]

I say GG if it was a hard fought match, regardless of the final score.

And frankly, if I say it....regardless of how you or anyone else feels about it....what are you going to do? Nerdrage me to death in chat? I'll just ignore your dumbshit, immature attitude anyway, so feel free to vent and type to your heart's content.

Btw, I've asked Devs repeatedly to put in an ignore feature (part and parcel of so many online games) so people can ignore the trash talk of others, the poor-sport versions of GG, the insipid trolling etc because I think it would really help people's enjoyment of the game to put some people on ignore.....but that doesn't mean I won't ignore ya in the meantime if you're too thin skinned to deal with things like an adult when someone types two letters into the chat window.

[Frisk]

Neverfar, on 28 May 2013 - 01:13 PM, said:

I find it absolutely hilarious that some guy defending the vapid robotic utterance of "gg" no matter what babbles about "sportsmanship" yet talks down to the people in this thread with a smug condescending sneer.

I don't see your sportsmanship. Well, maybe I do, but it's the self-serving narcissistic kind that you do for your own benefit, not your competition.

Neverfar, on 28 May 2013 - 01:13 PM, said:

I find it absolutely hilarious that some guy defending the vapid robotic utterance of "gg" no matter what babbles about "sportsmanship" yet talks down to the people in this thread with a smug condescending sneer.

I don't see your sportsmanship. Well, maybe I do, but it's the self-serving narcissistic kind that you do for your own benefit, not your competition.

This makes me smile.

The fact you put a lot of thought into it makes me all warm and stuff and an edit?! You shouldn't have.

I don't expect you to understand... but back in the old Mpig days a "GG" was the internet equivalent of a handshake.

[Keifomofutu]

Frisk, on 28 May 2013 - 03:17 PM, said:

This makes me smile.

The fact you put a lot of thought into it makes me all warm and stuff and an edit?! You shouldn't have.

I don't expect you to understand... but back in the old Mpig days a "GG" was the internet equivalent of a handshake.

Nobody wants to shake the hand of a 4-man that felt it necessary to all roll stalkers/poptarts just to be extra sure that they would never risk having a competitive match(not saying you specifically do this), but types like this seem to throw out multiple GGs the most. I'll tell you where to stick that handshake...

Edited by Keifomofutu, 28 May 2013 - 03:31 PM.

[jakucha]

I prefer for it to be only said if it was actually a close game. Otherwise it's very easily mistaken that they're trying to brag about an easy win, whether they actually are or not.

[mack sabbath]

Kraven Kor, on 28 May 2013 - 09:26 AM, said:

Yes, because Major League sports teams sulk off and skip the handshake at the end if they lose by a certain amount.

Oh, wait, no they don't, because part of Good Sportsmanship is Winning and Losing with Grace and Composure. Dignity.

Stomp or not, you @#$%ing say Good Game because that is what we have been doing since Little League and 1st Grade Gym class.

You always encourage the losing team, and you should never be ungracious in victory or defeat.

You've made the faulty assumption that most video gamers actually see direct sunlight and participate in sporting activities.

Edited by Die Primate Die, 28 May 2013 - 03:58 PM.

[Lukoi Banacek]

Neverfar, on 28 May 2013 - 03:54 PM, said:

Complaining about complaining is still complaining, champ.

You apparently have a thin skin about us NOT liking those two stupid little "sportsmanship" letters that come from typically arrogant snobbish "elite" gamers.

I'm not complaining about complaining "champ," lol.

I'm simply stating my stance on it. Clearly you fit into the crowd that sets some sort of arbitrary, imaginary lower limit on when GG is acceptable and when it isn't. I'll continue to say it whether folks like you dislike it or not, when it suits me (as explained above) and apparently, you (among others) will continue to be upset about it.

Welcome to the internet

Luckily for this wee portion of the net, there's an ignore feature (ironice that PGI has one on forums but not yet in game).