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[Zeraq]

If you are on the winning team, do not say gg in all chat before losing team does.
It only makes you look like an *******.

[ScrapIron Prime]

I don't think the order in which a comment is made is going to matter to someone who is sore about the match result.

[Gagis]

Yeah, I don't think anyone cares about someones made up etiquette to such detail.

[Relishcakes]

Zeraq, on 03 July 2022 - 09:28 AM, said:

If you are on the winning team, do not say gg in all chat before losing team does.
It only makes you look like an *******.

The thing people have forgotten these days that words cant kill you. You'll live if someone says GG before you.

[Knownswift]

Always GG.

Especially if MTslayer is in the game.

[Vorpal Puppy]

Personally I think 12-7 or closer qualifies for a 'gg'. Getting a gg from the red team when they just stopped us 12-0, classless.

[Douglas grizzly]

if my side is the one that gets curb stomped which happens alot when other side is all pre made teams, i never say gg due to my side getting 4 kills or less especially now that i am havin severe internet problems. think of providers like givng me a 40mps or less download and 10 upload. am raising a stink with my provider over that.

[Nesutizale]

Thinking that every GG is meant as an insult is a strange view of things to me.

I say GG when I had a fun match, no matter of I won/lost or how the outcome was. When I got stomped or stomped the other side myself, giveing a GG as a compliment that the reds provided me with a fun game is what I do and I respect that from the other side too.

People are so negative these days. Not everyone wants to piss on you and its also allways a matter if you take the shower or walk away...so to speak.

[Zeddicuus]

If you're getting upset simply because I said 'gg' before you did, that's not my problem. I do it when I had fun with the round, win or lose I don't really care. I just want to have fun. if I had fun, I saw gg. if I got stomped, odds are I did something pretty stupid and had it coming and the opposing team did a good job. Typically I'm pretty quick to pop that out once the round ends.

Even if a match ends 12-0, it's still a gg if the opposing side put up a good fight.

If someone sees me as 'classless' because I said gg and genuinely meant it because I had fun, your viewpoint is not my problem.

[Kiiyor]

For me, gg isn't an insult. It's pretty rare to see professional footballers rant at the opposition before petulantly sulking off the field instead of shaking hands at the end of a match.

Win, lose or draw, it's a mark of sportsmanship in my view.

Doesn't always translate to the desolate salt blasted plains of internet based play but whatevs.

ggez is another story.

[w0qj]

+1
It's called sportmanship

Kiiyor, on 03 July 2022 - 04:54 PM, said:

...Win, lose or draw, it's a mark of sportsmanship in my view. ...

[LordNothing]

Vorpal Puppy, on 03 July 2022 - 12:13 PM, said:

Personally I think 12-7 or closer qualifies for a 'gg'. Getting a gg from the red team when they just stopped us 12-0, classless.

my only standard is that the game must have been fun. there are good losses and bad wins. stomping the enemy into the ground isnt always fun unless the enemy gave us everything they had. sometimes the mm throws a team to the wolves because it cant do any better. if they fought well and lost, no matter how the teams were stacked, its gg. take it as a complement. i wouldn't consider a turkey shoot where we just killed everyone without resistance a gg. those are disappointing no matter what side you are on.

Edited by LordNothing, 03 July 2022 - 06:00 PM.

[Tromoskyon Rex]

I get your take on this but it seems like it depends on how you mean it when you say it. Ill say GG after literally every game because win or lose it was a good time because Im loving the game. GG when I lose means 'wow you kicked our teeth in good job' ; GG when we win 'thanks for the fun game, better luck next time'. I get thinking it's malicious or 'classless' but for the vast majority of people Id argue that isnt the intention.

[Kanil]

Lockheed_, on 03 July 2022 - 07:48 PM, said:

maybe think about where you picked that idea up in the first place and stop associating with these people. they seem to be very eager to live a miserable life.

Offensive GGs are pretty offensive in games that typically end in one side conceding, rather than playing out to a victory condition -- the winner hasn't actually "won" yet, even if their victory is more or less inevitable.

In these sorts of games, any GG by the winner is not all that different than someone in MWO throwing out a GG when the match is 10-2 and not technically over yet, and you don't have to be eager to live a miserable life to imagine how that could be considered a **** move.

That said, MWO matches are basically always played to conclusion, and GGs after conclusion are only offensive if sarcastic, which is difficult to judge.

[W4R GOD]

gg means exactly that, good game. Any offense taken is purely your own.

[Bamboozle Gold]

Gagis, on 03 July 2022 - 10:02 AM, said:

Yeah, I don't think anyone cares about someones made up etiquette to such detail.

All etiquette is made up.

[cazeral]

GG should always come from the losing side first otherwise its simply grinding the player's nose in the dirt.

If you want to say something, then, TYFG - Thank you for the game or o7 is far more respectful if you have to say anything at all (saying nothing is neutral and really cannot deliver insult or praise making it far more preferable).

I do notice that a lot of posters on this thread say it's sportsmanship or common courtesy, yet having thrashed you in QP and FP with my main, only one of you will ever say "GG" when you're on the losing side and even then, not that often. Kind of contrary and perverse wouldn't you say?

[Gasboy]

w0qj, on 03 July 2022 - 04:57 PM, said:

+1
It's called sportmanship

I've never witnessed a winning hockey team wait til one of the losing team's players to offer their hand before the winning team will shake hands.

You have an odd idea one what sportsmanship is.

[Teenage Mutant Ninja Urbie]

Gasboy, on 04 July 2022 - 02:18 AM, said:

I've never witnessed a winning hockey team wait til one of the losing team's players to offer their hand before the winning team will shake hands.

You have an odd idea one what sportsmanship is.

otoh, and having played hockey (field- and indoors, not the icy kind) myself in my 'youth', you don't exactly say "good game" when you just trashed some poor souls with like 7:0
-the same is kinda true for an 12:0 in mwo.

yes, the 12kill team may intent to just be sportsman-like when uttering "gg",
on the 0-side it often is read as being sarcastic when somebody describes a slaughterfest as "good".


best to just avoid the whole mess.

[ScrapIron Prime]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Urbie, on 04 July 2022 - 03:21 AM, said:

otoh, and having played hockey (field- and indoors, not the icy kind) myself in my 'youth', you don't exactly say "good game" when you just trashed some poor souls with like 7:0
-the same is kinda true for an 12:0 in mwo.

yes, the 12kill team may intent to just be sportsman-like when uttering "gg",
on the 0-side it often is read as being sarcastic when somebody describes a slaughterfest as "good".


best to just avoid the whole mess.

No, but after a 7:0 match, both Hockey teams still line up and acknowledge the other team. Same with baseball and football (both kinds). Its sportsmanship, you don't avoid it.

I treat saying "gg" the same way. Sportsmanship.