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I'm all for co-ordinated effort, but where I get gun shy is some a-hole trying to be a Sgt. or trying to lead the mission like actual lives are at stake. At the end of the day, I'm playing this video game for fun. We go in, we might end up getting a strategy going, and its laughs and jokes or a myriad of swearing if we get overwhelmingly curb stomped, but its more cathartic than angry. Like the other guy a friend of mine and I "screwed" out of his rewards... we had explained already that a) we had not yet run a ToO yet; this is literally our first drop. I play PvP, but usually control, as people have an objective besides wholesale slaughter to divide their attention between frags and hill captures, and the fact that its 6v6 chaos, and b) Simms literally does not do PvP ever. He said he tried it once and didn't like it too much, so, he literally did everything else. He raids with randoms and grinds on planets, but crucible has pretty much been a rarity, and as such, the Mercury map the trials run on was 100% new to him.
So, how'd the kid react? He proceded to act like things were "common sense" and get legit angry and disparagingly sarcastic. It was like he lives and breathes this shit.
And sadly, guys like that is partly WHY I can't get my regular crew to squad up (the other part is unwillingness to grind because of life/time constraints). Halo PvP, for example, is 90% to 95% private matches. We get our shots off, talk shit, its instant grat, and it's fun. As I've said before, I don't mind the grind. Its distracting to me. Not everyone feels the same about that. But we all agree that treating any of it like truly SFB takes all the wind out of the sails and it disengages everyone.
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