unfortunately this game is multiplayer based and you are going to have to deal with people like this.

besides, there is always singleplayer tournaments for your enjoyment

Auros right, there are jerks in every community. Find a group of people who you enjoy playing with and the game becomes a lot better. Luckily, the small Australian community hasn't got a single griefer in it, so I haven't experienced these kinds of players much.

Awesome! 

Just be glad you don't play DOTA.

My guess is you guys only play pubs, allstars or dota league.

From my experience i know that dota has a good community! if you know where you should be and what your lvl is.

There are tons of good leagues/inhouse clans in dota such as DCE, IHCS, DI which all focus on a particular point, like fun inhouse games with way beyond pub skill (dce) IHCS where you can play clanwar like games with teamcaptains and for the more community involved, very mannered players with some skill there is dota invite.

Now if we just give this game some time and let the community come around to creating their own leagues, Surely the good players will stay. I myself have already given this some thought and was thinking of creating a community/inhouse clan for Europe Demigod players with an IRC channel of sorts with a "password" or so to all the games hosted by the community.

It will get rather hard to check how good some1 is but this will come when the community becomes somewhat more known, the players host/play more games within the community, this creates overall people knowledge and by the time we seem fit, the community that had grown could become more skillbased by having people request others and having a couple "vouchers" or so say "yes hes bad" or "no hes good enough".

Obviously everything comes with penalties, such as leaving, disconecting, feeding etc. manners should not be the biggest issue but obviously IS gonna be somewhat looked at, you don't have to be friendly to every1 but your not suposed to go around calling every1 fucking retards, noobs etc.

I will be starting a topic on my own thoughts of creating such a league for demigod shortly.

Luckily i know your dead wrong, communities make games like dota, they detirmine some1's skill, manners etc.

I may have mentioned dota league as pub, but its a league, a community and a Very big one, one that might be bigger then just pubs therefor they have alot of influence on what icefrog does to the game

The same goes for ANY game with balancing issues! the devs will probably listen to the biggest voice! but when the good players mention things about balance in intervieuws or so, or big communities whine about it publicly then there will be attention on that point!

Why do you think they finally nerfed necrolyte, storm and all the overpowered heroes, why do you think TC got his nerf the very version after the one it got released in.

Communities make the ballance, believe it or not

cause there will be connection issues with america/asia from europe

I would love nothing more but american ppl in a europe league, it teaches new builds etc. but its just seriously not managable laggwise i think, there would be exeptions but that wouldn't be enough i think

But i would also be very open to trying!

I'm also finding rude players can be an issue.  I'm a noob and freely admit it.  In the first minute of a 4v4 game, I cap 2 flags as Rook and setup towers to defend and back off from 2 demigods coming my way.  The towers slow them down and my teammate just arriving on the scene as Sedna insults me and tells me to fight.  I'm out of mana and say so, but go ahead and see if I can get a few slaps in before running (I shouldn't have, but thought *maybe* I could still make it out since I wasn't alone).  Of course I get ganked (UB + Regulus), while trying to run, even tho rude Sedna provided a little health.  Sedna didn't fight... at least I didn't notice, if she did.

I avoid saying anything bad, but say something to him to see if he will stop being so rude and he responds with even more profanity.  I apologized to ALL, explaining that my teammate is being rude and that I was dropping from the game.  Really too bad, since it seems like it takes at least 3 or 4 tries to get a game going without someone losing connectivity in the first minute or 2 (that's REALLY gotta be improved a LOT).

I've got mixed feelings on this one, as I really didn't want to drop, since I know how much that ruins a game, but I wasn't going to be doing well with a jerk on the team that was shooting profanity my way.  What did HE do in the first minute of the game but walk up to the 2nd tower I capped and insult me and goad me into getting myself killed?  I can't abide by rude people and I hope I find some more of you great people to play with.  Only 1 of my 7 or so games has had a jerk like this, and most folks have been quite helpful with tips and advice, so I'm not saying the game is plagued by problems with the community, yet, but wanted to share my experiences from just a little while ago.

-Zen

I also agree completely with the sentiment that rude players make the game no fun to play.  If someone on your team isn't doing so well, I think it's perfectly fine to give them some tips or pointers (stay away from dgs for now, kill some mooks to level up, run when you see reg he kills you) etc.  This, however, is different than the way lots of the players seem to deliver advice.  RUN N00B is not a helpful suggestion.

I've also noticed a special brand of person who plays DG: the one who can do no wrong.  I was just playing a game where a Sedna on our team got trapped, through no fault of her own, by all three enemy DGs and died.  This was a good ten minutes into the game, but the third player on our team immediately types something along the lines of "DON'T DIE N00B."  It was the first death!  Not such a big deal.  Anyway, that same flamer then chases an enemy Erebus behind two towers and gets zapped and dies -- and then blames me for running away as TB with half health and no mana.  The kicker?  This guy isn't some pro -- he barely has over 50% win record.

It just saddens and frustrates me to see that this game, which is so fun to play, is full of people who don't have common courtesy and respect for others.  I know this is a problem with online games in particular, but lots of other online communities have much less trouble with this kind of thing.

Congratulations Vexerz, you just proved the point.  Your trollish attempt at attention highlights the main problem with this game: no accountability for being a douchebag.   What Stardock needs to do is put some multiplayer data IN GAME (like records, ratings) along with number of drops or other pertinent information.  Having this information be highly visible in the multplayer lobby would give players the ability to find players that are enjoyable.  Being able to add players to our friends' list IN GAME would also be highly worthwhile.

If you guys are adding this now, awesome.  Please put +1 to Douchebaggery for Vexerz from me.

You know Stardock is the publisher, not the developer, right? GPG is the developer, and last time I checked no one is sucking up to them.

I agree with the two posts above mine, which disagree with ItchyDustbin's post.

Even if Dustbin's post were true, why would sucking up to devs or complaining about utilizing teamwork equal a worse community than one in which anyone who isn't 'pro' is ruthlessly insulted and ostrasized?  (Hell, according to a friend of mine who really likes DotA, they are overall 'jerks' (censoring myself) to each other, too.)

So...brown-nosers (who don't even get any benefits from the brown nosing) and some level of whining is worse than a community where everyone seems to hate each other and has no qualms about making that hate known through a stream of foul language?

These things are not mutually exclusive.  You can be a good player, AND be polite.  Or better yet, just be quiet.  Don't say anything.  Your douchebaggery only takes away from good play.  Event if you are radically good at the game, no one will respect you for it, because no one will get past your mouth.  Other than 13 year olds who think the mere use of the word "pussy" is entertaining.

By being a douche, you're ostricising the players to which you are being douchey.  If new players have a bad experience as soon as they start, many won't come back. Players who act like you do are slowly killing the community.  There are other games out there that DO have good communities, and similar experiences.

The best gamers in the world are class acts because they are trying to grow the sport.  Look at Johnathan Wendel.  He could treat everyone like trash and still beat them, but he doesn't.  There is more respect to be gained by being a class act.

Just because you're online and anonymous doesn't mean you should be a douche.  I'm quite certain you don't act like this in real life.  Ask yourself... REALLY ask yourself... why you act this way.  What in your real life itches away at you so badly that you need to use something virtual to vent?

I know you won't do this, and I know this won't make a dent in your behavior.  But since the designers didn't add common functions to the game (ignore player, add friend, etc) to allow for community building, the point should be made.