"The State Of Online Gaming"

I have had this topic on my mind for a long while now, but the status of online gaming has really pushed me to do this article now. Many of you know first hand how cheap online gameplay can become. There are kids & adults out there so desperate to win that they'll do so by cheating, hacking, or spamming their way to glory. This is definitely not how games used to be, and I'm seriously beginning to think it will spell doom for the success of video games in the future. The fact of the matter is that about every online game you'll find in the market today is vulnerable to exploits, and hacking. If developers do not figure out a way to secure a game from these "threats" then all hope is gone.

Early this morning I was getting in my routine fighting game session with some random online players. I know my friends say don't play with randoms, but I don't have many friends who play fighting games. As I began playing some 'King of the Fighters XIII' online I began to notice an all too familiar trend starting to happen. Nearly every player I went up against was spamming the heck out of projectiles, or using various exploits to ensure their victory. I had actually had high hopes for the game after having some really good matches a couple of days ago, but once I realized it was like every other fighting game I own I was truly saddened. The sad fact is that nearly every online fighting game that has been released so far is overrun by sorry players. I'm in no means exaggerating when I say this either. Many of my friends will definitely agree with me on this.

I have been keeping my watch for the release of a new fighting game titled "SkullGirls". It's a fighting game that is addressing the issues of spamming, and specific exploits that currently haunt the fighting game genre. My last hope for the fighting game genre lies with this yet to be released game. If it doesn't live up to the hype then I'm seriously thinking about giving up on fighting games. Developers need to read my article, and take a hint. The developers of 'SkullGirls' are at least addressing some of the issues that plague the fighting game genre, and I think it's time that others followed suit. With that being said fighting games aren't the only video games that have serious online issues.

It was just about an hour ago that I dusted of 'Gears of War 3', and played it a little while to soothe my heart that was broken from this morning's gaming encounters. I'm not the best Gears player out there, but I can hold my own as team support very well. As I played some round of 'Team Deathmatch' I began to notice something about 'Gears of War 3' that I hadn't noticed before. There was actually some serious camping going on! For those of you who have no idea what "camping" is it's simply the act of staying in one place for extended periods of time to get cheap kills from certain vantage points. I do realize that hiding is necessary in 'Gears of War 3', but it got to the point that it was utterly ridiculous. Camping also plagues the 'Call of Duty' series, but as most gamers I have become used to the bad gameplay in it. This too is a sad fact of the condition online gaming has taken. When things like "camping" have become the norm then developers don't bother to fix the said issues, because the gamers just don't care anymore. This results in a bunch of crap titles being released on the marketplace. It's a problem that definitely needs to be addressed if video games stand a chance of being as great as they once were.

In conclusion I simply want to say that I'm sick, and tired of the way online gaming has become. The lack of security is unnecessary, and the the lack of anti-exploit systems is even more so. Wake up all ye developers out there!!! If you don't do something about these issues now then your companies will ultimately be doomed to failure. That's a fact, and not me just speaking out my arse. I think I've said about everything I wanted to say on the subject. I'm hoping that games like "SkullGirls" will open up developers eyes to new ideas about making online gaming better. I do apologize to my readers for ranting & raving, but it's just something I needed to address.