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What Makes People Hate Gamers?

April 29, 2010 in Blog comments 19

Ever gotten bad looks for sporting a gamer shirt to work? Ever been politely shunned from a public conversation? If so then Resumeplay.net might just have the answers you are looking for...

It’s no secret that gamers get some bad press: our reputation as a community isn’t as good as it should be. It’s not just the extremists either; we seem to have a bad rep with the general public. Gamers aren’t violent or bad people, despite what some critics might claim, so why do we have a negative reputation? These are the top five reasons why I think people dislike gamers, and what we as gamers can do about it.
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    BANDITO ATTACK Apr 29, 10
    because gamers suck.
    • 0
      Shattered Apr 29, 10
      quote BANDITO ATTACK
      because gamers suck.
      You've just alienated most of neo, gratz.
      • 0
        King X2* May 1, 10
        You sound sarcastic. You shouldn't.
    • 0
      Province Apr 29, 10
      It's because I'm green isn't it! >=(
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      Charuzu Apr 30, 10
      Well... When your dressed like harry potter your bound to get hated.

      I think this article is based in America because in New Zealand and Australia the only gamers that get shunned are the WoW players which is fair enough because there so busy doing 40 man raids that when do you actually see them, there most probably getting something to eat or going to class.

      Sports gamers if anything get the most respect for the general public.
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        Hideo1 Apr 30, 10
        Australia is gaming hell because even if the people aren't that prejudice against it the laws and the politicians abso-freaking-lutely despise you guys.
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    Hideo1 Apr 30, 10
    Play online with randoms for over ten minutes with mics turned on. I hate most gamers too, because the unfortunate fact is most of our kind are absolute *bleep*s.
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    Onvacation Apr 30, 10
    The sad truth is, most people who game seriously, have little to no social life, and the reason why becomes painfully clear after 10 minutes of turning your mic on on CoD or Halo
  • 0
    Spike Spiegel Apr 30, 10
    People who play COD and Halo aren't an accurate representation of gamers. While true gamers will play war games, they also tend to attract aggressive sociopaths. There's a great deal of COD players who don't play much else but the online FPS genere exclusively and any other type of game is "gay" to them. You can't call that a gamer nor use that as an example of why people hate gamers.
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      Hideo1 Apr 30, 10
      Gamers come in all shapes and sizes. Casual gamers are still gamers, for to be a gamer one has to play games as a hobby for a substantial amount of time in any given week/month, which they do. You can't just say they're not gamers because they only like one genre and you don't like them for it. If someone only plays one type of instrument, they're still a freakin' musician. 'sides, it's the same on Starcraft, fighting games, any genre.

      As for your point about that not being an example of why people hate gamers, it's a PERFECT example. The prison population in America consists of more black people than any other ethnicity (last I checked, anyway, but if not then consider it five years ago and shut the hell up). Does this mean black people are more troublesome than any other ethnicity? Does this mean they're all bad people? No. Is it a valid reason to hate black people as a whole? Of *bleep*ing course not.

      Do people still use it as a reason? You bet your ass they do.
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    ShadowGuard Apr 30, 10
    People hate gamers? that is not even true anymore... If anything, it is gamers hating other gamers. The public has more than accepted video gaming as a past time. Some gamers still see themselves has victims for some reason, but every male in college plays video games, gamers are not outcasts anymore, have not been for awhile...
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      Hideo1 Apr 30, 10
      Every male in college plays video games, so it's okay?

      You do know that the entire world hates students more than most other people, right? Most students being gamers isn't an argument for it being more acceptable
    • 0
      Province Apr 30, 10
      Pretty much every comment in here says gamers are socially frowned upon, and since you think otherwise we're all wrong right?

      We are hated, mostly by the upper crust patsy bastards who are in charge of things because we apparently 'breed violence'.
      • 0
        Hideo1 Apr 30, 10
        I say we prove them wrong by breaking their stupid, civilian necks.
        • 0
          Province Apr 30, 10
          Agreed, we shall start with the crippled and the elderly, then we shall take their woman and murder their men! When the dust settles the world with no longer hate the gamers, they shall fear us!!
        • 0
          Hideo1 Apr 30, 10
          No, no, no. You only aim for the old ladies if you're driving. You have to leave the crippled alone, just focus on the normal people, and then soon enough they'll realize they'll need to defend themselves and reveal their true robotic selves; then, when we've killed them, we blame everything on the cripbots and teach the children we kidnapped how to slowly torture everyone once they're released back into society a few years down the line.

          Once that's done we'll have a world full of insane children to hunt, and after they're gone I guess I'll just have to repopulate the place... with your mom.
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          Charuzu Apr 30, 10
          no wonder gamers have a bad name... seriously... wtf.
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          Hideo1 Apr 30, 10
          See, it's like I said above, unfortunately most of our kind are absolute *bleep*s

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