Well, this thread pretty much explained EXACTLY why team based games frustrate me so goddamn much. Everyone's a solo player who thinks they're the god of strategy and "I'll do my own damn thing" and "don't gaf about others fun".
Gee. I guess I had higher throughts about people.
And this is what I call a bunch of whining. We are not so different, Mana and I.
On one hand, you have me openly admitting to you that my choice to play a game in the evening is about my own entertainment. I'm sure it must be completely shocking to you that I could care less about random people on the Internet. And on the other hand, we have someone like Mana complaining that people like me are ruining his fun because we don't play the way he wants us to.
Two sides of the same coin, from where I sit. He's concerned about his own fun, which tragically involves my cooperation… No, even worse!… which involves my capitulation. Not once have you said one word of concern about my feelings or my level of enjoyment. Because you don't care. And neither do I about your feelings. Unfortunately for you, it appears that your enjoyment depends on me, but my enjoyment doesn't depend on you! I'm going to do just fine with or without your cooperation, I'm most likely going to win the game, most likely going to be rocking the KDA, and I'm going to have a great time doing it whether or not you support me or play the meta.
And that's really the flaw here, isn't it? I don't need you to do well. I don't need you to feed me CS or kills. I don't need you to play the meta or gank, or build your character in a certain way. Because of this, I'm not going to blame you when things go wrong, and I'm usually not going to thank you when I do well. Because I can do awesome on the field and have my definition of fun without you. I challenge you to do the same.
I should also add that, random MOBA games do not play like pro games. Because of the lack of structure, communication, practice, hero matchups, so on and so forth, it's just not going to be the same. If you want to play something structured, you need to recruit your team and set it up the way you want. Otherwise, the authority that you have to declare what you want to happen on the field is no more and no less than my own. In fact, because I'm usually smarter and better at the game than anyone else, people should be listening to me. But they don't. And it doesn't frustrate me because I don't expect them to follow me.
Adjust your expectations and learn to handle yourself on the field instead of blaming everyone around you. It will make you a better player. It also builds character to take responsibility upon yourself for the way the game progresses instead of mentally defending your ego by taking credit when things go right but blaming everyone else when things go wrong. I have been accused of cult behavior, narcissism, and being a sociopath in this thread, but I would say that I'm just better at introspection and observation of group dynamics. It's brutally honest, and that rubs people the wrong way. But we are in the off-topic thread!
