Haven't done one of these in a while, but, I wanted to talk about something that's killing me about Splatoon. Splatoon 3 is a multiplayer game, it is supposed to be fun. Whether you play competitively or casually, it is supposed to be fun. And I have been struggling to have fun lately because of people who want to spawncamp, and who want to make the game unenjoyable.
Point A: Splatoon Player Gets Banned
If you aren't on Splatoon twitter, an individual I won't name got banned from online play for a month for spawncamping during Clam Blitz.
This was the team who lost.
This is the team who won. And, I'm going to show the full results screen minus the names.
What do you notice? Perhaps, that the people who won, didn't finish the game, and only threw in a single clam the entire 5 minutes? Because they wanted to XP farm?
This is absolutely embarrassing to do, first of all. All because you want to sweep the casual players. And guess what? This is what makes people not want to play the game anymore.
And frankly, I haven't been having fun playing as of late, because it just feels like "fuck the casuals lololol" maybe this is a very minute gripe, but I just want to play casually. I have been getting so angry just trying to play casually because it gets stressful, and I can't leave spawn. I suck at the game competitively, I literally just want to level up my catalogue. I've gotten to level 50. I wanted to get to level 100. But because of how people act in battles I feel so stressed, as stupid as it sounds.
I just want to play the silly squid game and not feel like I'm passing a kidney stone.