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[ScrapIron Prime]

Tier 1 Smurf, on 07 July 2022 - 02:49 AM, said:

gg =/= ggez or ggclose

Exactly. "GG" is not rubbing it in. "GG EZ" or "GG close" can be.

[D o z e r]

Agreed. If you feel like your team rocked it in a lopsided win, just say GG in team-only chat. If it is a close game and the enemy team played well then say it to them, good vibez! But it is absolute a douche move to say GG to the other team when its something like a 12-0 blowout. How could it be interpreted otherwise?

[Zeddicuus]

@ Dozer It could easily be misinterpreted. There are a lot of players that, when they say GG, they actually mean it. Whether it was a blow out or very close game. Not everyone is saying it to be rude or a poor sport. There are people that genuinely mean it.

If a player is interpreting it as insulting when they read GG from a the team that won 12-0, could it be the loser sees it that way since that's how they might mean it if the game went the other way?

Edited by Zeddicuus, 07 July 2022 - 09:36 AM.

[Nightbird]

when to do it: when you feel like it
when not to do it: when you don't feel like it

it's impossible to not offend someone who can be offended by a simple 'gg'

so that shouldn't be part of the equation.

[ArmandTulsen]

Gasboy, on 07 July 2022 - 02:14 AM, said:

It's not sensitive at all. The people taking it as an insult are the sensitive ones.

This. Anything can be offensive to the wrong person. A bright yellow shirt can be offensive... Offensive to the eyes of some.

Edited by ArmandTulsen, 07 July 2022 - 11:39 PM.

[Zeraq]

When one team stomps the other team 12 to 1 and says gg in all chat, all i see are people that need to play on the highway.

[Dauntless Blint]

I just say it most every other game, it's up to you if it's sarcasm or meant genuinely.

12/0 defeat "GG" by the winning side is classless though.

Just have to remember for some people this game is the only source of dopamine they're getting in their life.

[YueFei]

Some people really needed the experience of playing sports in school. Even if you get stomped, the other player not giving you a handshake and "good game" at the end would be far more unsportsmanlike.

If you get stomped, don't be mad at the other player, be mad at yourself for letting him stomp you. Own your mistakes and weaknesses and bad habits, don't blame someone else. That's how you get better.

[Novakaine]

Dammit Command they were just kids!

[VeeOt Dragon]

honestly i never use the text chat so i never GG. now in VC with my own team some might think me salty but i won't give a "Nice Game", "Good Try" or any other such comment unless it was at least better than a 12-6 game. (though if its 12-6 on the dot i will just call it "Mediocre") my most common comment though in a bad match is "if i'm in the top 3 players you know you done ****** up" as i am an average player most of the time.

yes i can be salty at times but there is only so much stupid one can take in a day (most of the bad losses i can see coming in the first minute or so of the game, oh it doesn't change the effort i put in but i can still see it coming. especialy when you make simple calls that could turn things around and everyone just continues on into the rotation of death.). oh i make my share of mistakes as well and i hate meta, finding it boring, so i rarely if ever us meta builds unless its the only build that works well on a chassis (even then i tend towards more back armor than your average meta player.)

Edited by VeeOt Dragon, 25 July 2022 - 02:29 AM.

[Quintal Arwe]

I don't have any problem with either team saying gg. Saying things like 'great farm' or the like is a different story though. In fact anyone talking about 'farming' players, in general, I see as classless human beings.

[hbgpanther]

People will post as they want and overall I align with the people who more or less say "Don't worry about it". There is little to gain by being bothered about a few bytes in chat even if it was more clearly abusive (in which case report). That said there are a few conventions I like to use as etiquette.

I think an 'all chat' GG is merited when the game is close, ie, it was not a stomp on either side. If it was a stomp in my favor I would prefer to GG team side only, perhaps reciprocating in all chat if the enemy posts there or just dropping an o7. I can see how being a stomp victor and typing 'GG' can be taken poorly, but again I'm not bothered if it happens vice versa. I think it would be best to assume good faith especially if you don't have context and there are quite a lot of people who just do it for sportsmanship.


Suffixing with 'ez'/related on the other hand crosses into 'a bit rude', even childish at times, but again not something to be too bothered with.

I find myself more vexed by members of my own team who either spend the match whining after they pushed too far in the first bit and were smacked (it's quite amusing if we turn around and win) or the people who spew on comm especially at the end if we lose as if it will change anything. In context that will always be a bit more frustrating than whatever two cents the other team has.

[Kroete]

In my youth we thaked the other team for the match and said good match, if it we all had fun (means close match or something realy strange or funny happend). But that seems different in other countrys, cultures or sports.
Sure you will have allways some poor guys that needs the private-tv feeling to feel better (you know, you will allways see someone thats stupider, uglyer, fatter, poorer, ... in the privat tv), so they use it as insult.

But most time i just think about:

[ScrapIron Prime]

Sorry, but I’m not going to bail on sportsmanship if the team I’m on wins by “too much”. I’ve even had people in 12-5 wind throw back in my face when I said “thanks for the game”, which I thought was less potentially “offensive”.

the fact is, some folks are ONLY happy when they win. You can’t control how a toxic person reacts, all you can control is yourself. Don’t say “gg close”, just say “gg” or “tftg”. If they get offended by sportsmanship, that’s on them.

[Marquis De Lafayette]

Oh no….we are back again to this discussion….it’s been a couple of years, but please let’s not explore the psychology of “gg” again….

[Teenage Mutant Ninja Urbie]

Marquis De Lafayette, on 25 July 2022 - 06:49 AM, said:

Oh no….we are back again to this discussion….it’s been a couple of years, but please let’s not explore the psychology of “gg” again….

it's a never-ending-circle.
as it is with ~98/100 other threads around here.

kinda like the lion-king, but .. (even) worse.

Edited by Teenage Mutant Ninja Urbie, 25 July 2022 - 07:39 AM.

[TheCaptainJZ]

YueFei, on 24 July 2022 - 07:45 PM, said:

Some people really needed the experience of playing sports in school. Even if you get stomped, the other player not giving you a handshake and "good game" at the end would be far more unsportsmanlike.

I understand the intention there, but since we totally lose that context online where you are neither seeing the other person, nor is there a online etiquette book where saying "gg" in a loss is actually common and normal in online play, it is no surprise that most people (I assume) see it no different than "teabagging." This has more to do with norms and expectations of behavior.
But, knowing now that some players actually mean it sincerely makes me less bothered by it when I see it.

[Curccu]

In some cases where there are my old friends from comp teams or opposing comp teams I have played with in the past heck yeah I'm rubbing it to their face with gg/ggclose if my team stomps them and I except nothing less from them to me in mirrored situation, if one cannot take that amount of insult without chuckle... internet in very scary place.

And if someone random who I don't know takes butthurt from that... maybe you need bit thicker skin to use internet.

[Rondoe]

YueFei, on 24 July 2022 - 07:45 PM, said:

Some people really needed the experience of playing sports in school. Even if you get stomped, the other player not giving you a handshake and "good game" at the end would be far more unsportsmanlike.

If you get stomped, don't be mad at the other player, be mad at yourself for letting him stomp you. Own your mistakes and weaknesses and bad habits, don't blame someone else. That's how you get better.

This right here pretty much sums it up for how I think! Very well said!!

[Burning2nd]

you all a bunch of sensitive little children

I will GG you till my dying breath