Getting Kicked
Monday
Apr 13, 2009
Today, I was playing some Left 4 Dead, and I was doing rather well. I was playing online, and there were four of us versus four players as the infected. I was scoring the most kills, and sticking with the group. We got to one area, basically near the top of a building, and a Tank came out and was running around.
The group were hiding in an area, and the Tank was between me and them, so I started shooting the Tank. It turned, and came after me. I did everything I could to both get out of its reach and kill it quickly, but in doing so, I made the other three players on my team mad because they had to leave the safety of the spot they had picked out and come and assist me. I also was getting the most damage on the tank, an honor that one of the others had wanted, and thus, a dialog came up on the screen asking to “Press F1 to Kick David, Press F2 to Vote No”. And a few seconds later, I was met with the wonderful message that I had been kicked.
I was really frustrated. They were a perfectly synched up team of friends. They had a system, and I compromised it. Despite being a good player, scoring tons of kills, and basically taking down a Tank on my own, I was pushed from the game without a reason, second chance or anything. It really soured my gaming experience that evening, and I was in no rush to get back on.
These types of systems for kicking are so easy to take advantage of in games like Left 4 Dead where there are only four votes to count. On Team Fortress 2, it can take upwards of ten or twelve votes to kick someone, thus making it more social, and in my opinion, a little more fair.
I understand that there are people that ruin the gaming experience for other people, and need to be kicked, but I don’t think that my inability to psychically mimic the moves of the other players deserved such an immediate ban. It wasn’t like I was half the map away.
I know it is only a game, but rejection, in any form, isn’t very fun, and always bruises the ego.
Has a kick system ever been used against you in a way that you thought unfair? Let me know in the comments below.
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