Mii identities and etiquette online

[Wintropy]

This is something I've been curious about for a while now, and I would like to gather feedback on it. The thesis query is thus:

Do people react to you differently in For Glory depending on the nature of your Mii?

We've all heard the stories about For Glory: after a heated match, you change your tag to "GG" and the opponent retorts with an insulting comment. We've all been there, and we've all experienced it in some capacity. Thing is, I've noticed that I encounter it very, very infrequently, at least relative to the amount I hear others mentioning it. I merely presumed that I was fortunate enough to meet a generous (and decidedly anomalous, judging by others' accounts) ratio of nice players online; it wasn't until my brother told me it's because my Mii is female that I realised that may indeed be the case.

To clarify, I don't think this is necessarily the case, and I am not going to be so cynical as to presume people are being nice to me just because of what they perceive to be my gender. Nevertheless, it's an interesting question, and I would like to get data on this sociological phenomenon: in a venue where all you know about your opponent is manifest in their Mii,
would your reaction alter depending on what it looked like and what conclusion you can glean from it?

Tell me what you think!

 

[Nexin]

While your Mii's gender probably has an effect on your reactions, I'm not sure if that is the only reason why you get mostly nice reactions. My Mii is a male, and I rarely ever get insulting responses either.

I've noticed that the characters somebody uses tends to change how others respond to them. For example, my main is Palutena, and it is extremely rare for me to be insulted, especially since I have began specializing with her.

I also used to have an Olimar as a secondary, and unlike Palutena, winning with him seemed to make everybody hate my guts. I believe I once shared a story here about how one player I faced complimented my Palutena, but when I switched to Olimar for the next match, he threw a bunch of insults at me because I was a "spammer".

Mind if I ask what characters your brother usually plays?

 

[Wintropy]

While your Mii's gender probably has an effect on your reactions, I'm not sure if that is the only reason why you get mostly nice reactions. My Mii is a male, and I rarely ever get insulting responses either.

It's quite possibly because I'm a terminal optimist and have an unflinching credo of faith in my fellow man, but it never once occurred to me that this is the case. Only when it was brought to my attention did I consider it a possibility.

Kinda hope it's not the reason, at any rate. I'd feel mildly aggravated if folks just patronised me because they think I'm female.

I've noticed that the characters somebody uses tends to change how others respond to them. For example, my main is Palutena, and it is extremely rare for me to be insulted, especially since I have began specializing with her.

I also used to have an Olimar as a secondary, and unlike Palutena, winning with him seemed to make everybody hate my guts. I believe I once shared a story here about how one player I faced complimented my Palutena, but when I switched to Olimar for the next match, he threw a bunch of insults at me because I was a "spammer".

Mind if I ask what characters your brother usually plays?

This is a very good point. I play a lot of Palutena as well, and while I've seldom received commendation for my efforts, I at least get a lot of very fun dittos.

I can definitely consider the Olimar fiasco a believable experience, in that my brother plays a lot of Olimar himself and gets a lot of heat for it. He has also received criticism for playing Villager, while he rarely if ever gets flak for playing DK, Marth, Robin or Wii Fit Trainer. He is an exceptionally talented player, though, and deliberately seeks to incur salt from his opponents - though he is very polite outside of battle, he is absolutely ruthless within, and this is naturally going to make him a divisive figure in the eyes of the community whom he routinely encounters.

 

[Nexin]

Olimar and Villager are definitely going to cause him to receive a lot of hate. A lot of players seem to have an irrational hatred of projectiles, so characters whose playstyles revolve heavily around them seem to get a lot of heat.

Olimar seems to get it especially hard due to how his Pikmin work. Running away while my Pikmin slowly build up damage doesn't go over to well with most players.

 

[ShinyGirafarig]

I am female too yet I play Duck Hunt so I get tags such as "TOOMUCHDOG", "NOSPAMMING" and on a team battle once I was on the wiining side so many time that when the other member of the team was finally on my team, he kept SDing on purpose to kae me lose (not like I would care at all, the other team just taunted and played around with me until the guy got booted for SDing too much. I guess it really depends more on character used rather than gender. However I do see racist related tags when I watch youtube videos of PoC playing For Glory. I am kind of wondering if there are sexist tags as there are for racist tags.

 

[1FC0]

Just use a female Mii with the name Hotty and play ZSS or female WFT and you may never get insulted again.

 

[Sean²]

I get trolled and insulted a lot more when the opponent has a really goofy looking Mii or one made to look like a character. Not sure why.