I mean it’s like when you shake hands with the other team after a baseball game. Yeah it’s kinda meaningless but the act of doing it is valuable anyway.
I write gg for every match. Regardless of outcome. Also good to point out good behavior / plays to keep everyone’s spirits up. In games with all chat, I also commend the other team’s players for good plays (with a dash of healthy banter).
I’m more than fine with “gg” said by people that weren’t being toxic shitheads during the match, or are using it as part of “ur all terribads uninstall” after match salt.
Fair call. I usually go with ggs or ggwp for sincere and plain gg for just acknowledgement. I wouldn’t personally read someone saying gg as definitely salt, and I’d probably just gg back or ignore it?
Maybe it’s the specific games I play, but consistently in those games, it’s the person griping about how other people played or their loadouts or how the game’s sucked since a specific patch and that the weapons aren’t “skilled” enough or the like that then tops it off with a bitter whiny “gg” afterward.
Most certainly the case. In rts games the social convention is that “gg” concedes the game while leaving the game without saying “gg” is considered rude and implies some level of saltiness.
while leaving the game without saying “gg” is considered rude and implies some level of saltiness.
That’s odd to me, because I often see “gg” used immediately after or as part of complaining about the match or insulting the other team (or their own team).
Could be. I only really play Dead by Daylight now which has text chat in the post game. I’d say 50% of lobbies are silent, 30% are polite (gg/glng), 15% are good vibes (ggwp, discuss builds/strat) and 5% are dogshit (trash talk/whining). Even at one game in twenty it’s enough to sour it for me.
I can’t imagine putting myself through text/voice comms with randos in games like you describe. I played Apex for a bit and I went full text/voice mute. Not worth the angst.
“gg” is such an empty false-sportsmanship thing to say anyway that it’s more often than not used when people are mad at the outcome.
I mean it’s like when you shake hands with the other team after a baseball game. Yeah it’s kinda meaningless but the act of doing it is valuable anyway.
My problem is how often “gg” is used immediately after or as part of complaining about the match or insulting the other team (or their own team).
I write gg for every match. Regardless of outcome. Also good to point out good behavior / plays to keep everyone’s spirits up. In games with all chat, I also commend the other team’s players for good plays (with a dash of healthy banter).
My problem is how often “gg” is used immediately after or as part of complaining about the match or insulting the other team (or their own team).
That is totally fair. I try to make it obvious that I’m being genuine but you never know how it will be taken
I’m more than fine with “gg” said by people that weren’t being toxic shitheads during the match, or are using it as part of “ur all terribads uninstall” after match salt.
Fair call. I usually go with ggs or ggwp for sincere and plain gg for just acknowledgement. I wouldn’t personally read someone saying gg as definitely salt, and I’d probably just gg back or ignore it?
Maybe it’s the specific games I play, but consistently in those games, it’s the person griping about how other people played or their loadouts or how the game’s sucked since a specific patch and that the weapons aren’t “skilled” enough or the like that then tops it off with a bitter whiny “gg” afterward.
Most certainly the case. In rts games the social convention is that “gg” concedes the game while leaving the game without saying “gg” is considered rude and implies some level of saltiness.
That’s odd to me, because I often see “gg” used immediately after or as part of complaining about the match or insulting the other team (or their own team).
Could be. I only really play Dead by Daylight now which has text chat in the post game. I’d say 50% of lobbies are silent, 30% are polite (gg/glng), 15% are good vibes (ggwp, discuss builds/strat) and 5% are dogshit (trash talk/whining). Even at one game in twenty it’s enough to sour it for me.
I can’t imagine putting myself through text/voice comms with randos in games like you describe. I played Apex for a bit and I went full text/voice mute. Not worth the angst.