Testing proves Xbox Live Users Are Bigger %@#$!'s than PSN Users

A.I. Hess of Burn360 writes: No matter what online gaming service you play on, you can't help but run into screamers, singers, team killers, and people who's sole intention is to basically annoy and in-turn spoil everyone else's fun. This is noticeably more common on the Xbox Live service. Why is that? We have come to the conclusion that there are two reasons why Xbox Live users are bigger %@#$!'s than PSN users.

[Bereaver]

Did we even need tests?

[GreenRingOfLife]

Its not that there are more of these people on Xbox Live, its that its easier to act this way on Xbox Live. On PSN, barely anyone has headsets. Its hard to trash talk without a headset

and even if YOU have a headset to trash talk, You are probably the only person in the server with one so its like talking to a brick wall. Theres of course always the option to mute them

So in other words, on 360 you can mute the trash talkers and keep the normal folk unmuted, and on ps3 you can mute the trash talkers and.. talk to nobody else

[Tinted Eyes]

This was already known though, I mean the average PSN user is 28. XBL is probably at 16 or something.

[Shadow Flare]

Alot of this is down to including a headset with the console. You're just giving the retarded among the community the means of acting like a douchebag

[-Alpha]

That's terrible proof.

Age doesn't mean somebody is more mature. It's that kind of logic that 13 yr olds use when they think they are so grow up for playing Gears 2 while spitting down on LBP for being "kiddy"

People love to think that just because they are older they are more mature.

A lot of older users are total jerks, especially when a younger user is on the mic. They bully younger users far more than younger users bully others. This has nothing to do with age. I don't care if users on PSN are older, I am fine gaming with anybody of any age as long as they are mature and play a game well.

PSN users keep acting as if they have the more mature community and then appeal to age, and then try to say "there are sooo many 13 yr olds on LIVE". The fact of the matter is that:

a) Age doesn't mean your mature
b) A much larger percent of users on LIVE have mics to use and abuse than on PSN

I don't get what people are trying to prove with this. Don't like somebody, just mute them anyway.

[rroded]

having been on both id say live is worst a lot worst actually

how much of that is due to the fact teh mike comes standard and the average age of their users i cant say but im sure its a large part of the reason....

[Major_Tom]

nope, just not an xbox live princess

[-MD-]

PSN has the illusion of being more mature because nobody has a headset.

[LordMarius]

360 fanboys have an illusion that no one uses a headset on PSN

[GiantEnemyCrab]

Just looking at the way many of the douchebags act on N4G I don't believe for a minute that PSN is any more mature than XBL. Just go into Home for an hour and you run into the same types of people.

I've been on Live for many years and did run into a few douchebags but it's super easy to mute them and they are literally gone forever unless they create a new Gamertag. It takes less time then it does to write a whiney flamebait fanboy trash piece like this.

As someone who is respectful to all gamers no matter what service I'm on I find being labelled an %$#&^$ offensive.

[LordMarius]

ok but I dont use my mic, haha?

[ClownBelt]

You seriously comparing this garbage community to the actual players on the PSN. Laughable at best.

I sure act differently when I'm in this site since everything's here about flaming and trolling.

[-MD-]

This site brings the hate out of me.

I managed to stay away for a long time but it's black hole pulled me back in.

[-Alpha]

Yes, everybody on the 360 is born with a mic, but this BS about proving PSN is more mature is insanely stupid. The fact of the matter is that it's an unfair comparison when one side doesn't pack mics while the other side gives mics bundled with the system. Yeah, you will RUN INTO more annoying users on LIVE but that doesn't prove LIVE's community is more immature. This always is a tactic of PS3 users to try and bag on LIVE's users as if there's is more mature.

Also, just as much as mics can enable people to be idiots it also allows for great teamwork and communication, something that the PS3 doesn't always have with spotty mic users.

[young juice]

"I managed to stay away for a long time"

mmhmm

i have a blutooth, it came with my cell.
but i dont use it unless im playing killzone 2 or bc2 demo with some friends

[Major_Tom]

I have a headset, I don't use it because I'm not a chatty cathy who needs to talk to other dudes about totally irrelevant things while gaming.

[-MD-]

In other words you're anti-social.

@intelligent guy aka young juice, I played World of Warcraft for a long time take a peek at the date of my comments.

[jack who]

yet another waste of space

[GiantEnemyCrab]

Yes, what is with this freakin garbage it's been on the increase ever since X10 if you ask me.

So these guys calls all XBL users arseholes because he runs into some idiots on Live. Mute and you never have to deal with them again.

It's XBL 101 and if this guy can't manage to mute people then it's his own damn fault.

I am always respectful on Live so to be lumped in with the asshats that his article even admits is on every service offends me.

[Mista T]

the hypocrisy of N4G ^^^

[Major_Tom]

Can you really have the audacity to spin or mask this fact? Seriously, XBL is full of kids, homophobes and douchers. I've met a lot of respectable people on PSN, some douche bags but not nearly as many over XBL.

[Fragger2k8]

The only reason it seems so bad on Live is because there are a lot more players with a mic. What's sad though is that from my experience, almost every single player I have played a game with on PSN that used a mic was a total moron. It's always either music in the background, constant background noise or other people talking, a 10 year old singing, or someone just being a typical douchebag.

If I were to go by what I've came across, I would say it's about 1 idiot out of every 3 people with a mic for Live, and 1 idiot out of every 2 for PSN. Take note that I do play MW2 on PS3 a lot, and also the BC2 demo, so that has something to do with it. I'm sure those games would be a heck of a lot worse on Live, since there are more players with mics there.

One thing that needs to be done is both consoles need a reporting system that actually works. The way reports are handled in RuneScape is the best I have ever seen and used. You just go to report, type their name, then select the category you're looking for, hit send, and bam, there you go. A report will be filed against them and staff members that are dedicated to just checking over those reports will have a look at it.

Now it wouldn't work exactly the same for a game like this because of the use of mics, but a similar system would still work wonders. People who get these reports against them could get a black-mark on their account, and it would stay with their account for good, or a set amount of time. After so many black marks they'll either be muted temporarily/permanently, or banned temporarily/permanently, depending on how many black marks they have total, and what the reports against them were about.

I really, really hope that when they next consoles come out they'll have a real and easy, yet effective, way to report players. It's something that is needed big time.