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Yes, essentially communication is a tool and any tool in a multiplayer game will be abused. Without playing any multiplayer Hearthstone, I can guarantee that so
by acoard 4y ago
Yes, essentially communication is a tool and any tool in a multiplayer game will be abused. Without playing any multiplayer Hearthstone, I can guarantee that some people would use "Well Played" after a mistake to insult players. Just like how in Rocket League people spam "What a save!" after an embarrassing miss.
I totally agree that it removes the richness. You lose out on any meaningful, even if small or quaint, connections, and might as well be interacting with an AI that triggers a "Well played!" at the end of the game.
There's no right answer here, it's an intractable problem since the beginning of the internet.
It reminds me of the Aesop's fable of the scorpion and the frog a bit. The problem is human nature projected into the internet.
> A scorpion wants to cross a river but cannot swim, so it asks a frog to carry it across. The frog hesitates, afraid that the scorpion might sting it, but the scorpion promises not to, pointing out that it would drown if it killed the frog in the middle of the river. The frog considers this argument sensible and agrees to transport the scorpion. Midway across the river, the scorpion stings the frog anyway, dooming them both. The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung despite knowing the consequence, to which the scorpion replies: "It is in my nature."[1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog
- ar_lan 4y agoI think it's just an aspect of competition, and people's ego. In most competitive games, human psychology is just as important as any other aspect, and trash talk has been around since forever in order to tilt a player. I don't personally view this as a negative. It's the team-based games where kids are constantly yelling or berating their teammates for missteps that are far more annoying and negative.
- happyopossum 4y ago> You lose out on any meaningful, even if small or quaint, connections An 8 year old girl should have other opportunities for ‘meaningful connections’, so I don’t see this as a huge loss.
- bee_rider 4y agoThe scorpion and the frog is my favorite fable, but I have no idea what the moral is supposed to be. It just seems like a hilariously nihilistic shaggy dog story.
- elefanten 4y agoAs a kid, I remember it being spun as "don't mess with evil." But as an adult, it seems like a rare (and perhaps valuable?) counterpoint to "don't judge other people" or "don't judge a book by its cover." Sometimes... those behaviors are adaptive.
- bee_rider 4y agoIt is weird because the scorpion, of course, dies too. And the frog was just doing him a favor. I think the moral is supposed to be: "Some people are just irredeemably awful to the point that they'll self destruct and take you down with them if you try to help them" which... I guess is true but pretty jaded for a children's story, haha. Although, old fashioned fables do tend to have that dark aspect.
- mike00632 4y agoI came here to say this. In Hearthstone specifically, players were abusing "Thanks" by saying it after their opponents made a blunder. Though, compare that to Facebook which knowingly allowed white supremacists to organize deadly attacks against BLM protesters, let ISIS recruit on their platform, and facilitated a genocide of the Rohingya people in Myanmar. Hearthstone is doing pretty well compared to that.