Culture shock

[Justg]

We're always looking for faster and better ways for people to communicate. I have the four quick-chat buttons set up for things I say alot: (Howdy, woot, lol, and gratz).

At the very least shake your phone to wave people!

[Tobikuma]

Nah I mean Culture Shock. Im American and we say hello or something silmiler, or for us "men" we do that nod of acknowledgement.
So yes I agree with the hot keys Its not that hard to say HELLO AND THANK YOU.

And also I said with playing with the Japaniese/asain culture we AMERICANS showed them respect by conforming in the simplist way as to type /bow in our chats.
As Americans we were more at ease with our own just saying a greeting of our culture like "sup"?

As Americans if your bartender, waiter, cashier, desk agent ect ect ect..... didnt greet you, you would find that rude. It is american culture as most to GREET in someway in showing you realize the person being there.
And there is just NO excuse to not say thank you.
70 mp to raise, your a waste of my MP is most cases becuase you went off alone to something you cant handle, your too low for the lvl, yadda yadda yadda
Yes some deaths happen that arnt result in ones own stupidity and I feel its my responsibility to raise, where its not so nessecary to thank.

[Splurd]

We're always looking for faster and better ways for people to communicate. I have the four quick-chat buttons set up for things I say alot: (Howdy, woot, lol, and gratz).

At the very least shake your phone to wave people!

I frankly find it quite hard to do. Have to wave it so hard that I cant really play normally. I've shaken it till my ordination flips and I'm still not waving. Maybe my characters are just introverted.

[katlanta]

Excellent points Pixxie and AmonRaa. I guess I shouldn't respond to stuff when I'm tired and cranky! Seems to make me think the worst of people.

Tobikuma -- I totally get what you are saying. As I said earlier I have played MMO's for over 10 years and have been very socially active in them. However, I mostly don't play MMO's anymore and when I do I don't group. The trend in courtesy online has been going steadily downhill and I just got tired of dealing with all the nasties. Not just those who don't say please or thank you but kill-stealers, exploiters, name-callers, hate-mongers, etc. I have had wonderful in-game experiences and have met and continue to meet great people, but that percentage is down to the point where it is just no longer fun for me interact online. If someone initiates non-negative chat with me I will happily respond but I won't initiate contact unless forced to do so. And, if I'm forced to group in a game I just won't play that game. Unless, of course, it's one my son plays too -- if he is rude to me I will ground him!

[katlanta]

Justg -- Thanks for the info -- I didn't know you could set up quick-chat thingies. That is cool! The "shake to wave" thing is nice too but not something I would use. I pretty much only play portable games on my iphone these days because I have rheumatoid arthritis and the DS & PSP make my hands ache. Shaking on the iphone (ipod, etc.) is one of my least favorite features for the same reason. I am a pretty tiny minority there so just my 2 cents, not a complaint. ; )

I do love large role-playing games and Pocket Legends is one of the best for the iphone, so thanks for that too.

[AmonRaa]

My quickchat links are : hi there, thx(for friending me or rez), nice item!, and "please don't spread up!"(utterly annoyed by dudes who rush alone in a 30+ maze, die and ask for rez)

To go back to the idea of "bowing to asian players", that's half-ignorant half-insulting imho... I'm from belgium, I wouldn't like people throwing me chocolate waffles as greetings....

Last time a friend tried to be "polite" to a japanese guest, he put a baby spoon on the table because unsure of whether fork'n'knife were okay... that's plain ignorance. Still funny as hell though.

[AmonRaa]

oh, and it seems like ingame, many people take the "shake iphone/handwave" as a "please follow me" request lol

[shruthi]

I agree that people don't talk much. It's too hard to chat during the game. I understand, it's not a necessary.
Thanks you for sharing thread.

Regards,

[flyingscv]

I play on a galaxy tab which is humongous compared to my girl friends who do on their iphone and i can see how hard it is to type on such a small scrren. so i guess the limitation is on eqpt. once it comes out on pc it should be a lot easier to chat i think.

[blurryeyes]

I think it is the nature of iphone in size limitation, in my experience it is slow to coordinate playing the game and typing at the same time.

Imagine if there was a pc version. Id be happy to type more. I always chat when I play mmorpg games like diablo, but for the iphone mmo rpg games i dont even bother to talk much unless nececcesary

[DOAPSaint]

I just use the wave emote for hello and goodbye lol.... and I've seen a lot of people who do the same
You can't really chat with people while doing runs unless you're waiting for someone or just chilling around for some reason after killing the boss
And you always hear "REV PLEASE!!!!"

[vulgarstrike]

who decided to necro this year old thread...

[Noctale]

Since this thread has already been necrofied(?)...

The answer is:

Because the majority of PL's players are kids under the age of 12.
(Correct me if i'm wrong)

[Beez]

I frankly find it quite hard to do. Have to wave it so hard that I cant really play normally. I've shaken it till my ordination flips and I'm still not waving. Maybe my characters are just introverted.

Frankly, I find it quite hard to read your font color.

[Fyrce]

I use a lot of emotes, like laugh, celebrate, dance, etc. Others seem to also.

[Pharcyde]

The Pocket Legends community is a lot nicer than most other MMO's. People are polite most of the time and you get to build good friendships. Mainly this happens on the forums or in casual games/townes. I myself rarely talk when I am in dungeons. It's just too hard to type and fight at the same time with a ipod 1st gen that almost freezes completely when more then 3 spells are going off at once.

I frankly find it quite hard to do. Have to wave it so hard that I cant really play normally. I've shaken it till my ordination flips and I'm still not waving. Maybe my characters are just introverted.

I have the same problems. I wouldn't be surprised if I have shaken some parts loose in my ipod with how hard I have to shake it to get it to wave. Then it will casually wave randomly by the smallest movements when, lets say, changing positions to get more comfortable.