Fair enough Lee. Was meant to be a bit tongue in cheek. So you do have many friends on here, you just don't keep them in your list. Can I ask how you join multiplayer games if you don't mind? Do you go with whatever randoms you get hooked up with or do you somehow communicate with those on your sheet to coordinate games?
I hooked up with a few randoms when I started the game in 2009 and was lucky enough to find lots of people with integrity (i;e Lvietri, Bollox, Thunderbird, Claremoreblue, Vabighack, jeffdos924, Iconian, Fuzzygazz, just to name a few). These days about the only time I hook up with a random player is in MP or MPC so if they quit it certainly doesn't bother me a tad. I build friends from MPC matches when I like the person or by reading the forums and respecting the way a player communicates.
I too have run the gamete of having no friends in list for meter reasons, but after a lot of tracking found out it really wasn't as big of an issue as I thought. It also got really lonely!
This site and game are built off being social and respectful. The motivation of the OPs post is to be able to blast people for quitting a game, which I don't agree with. While I have never once quit a mulitplayer game because of a bad start or shot, I have had several do it to me and just laughed it off. I hold myself accountable, but if I try to get inside the heads of our diverse community I'd go crazier than I already am.
lee22sharon: Blanket statements such as yours should have some qualifications.
I'm already far too verbose. Asking me to qualify all my statements is asking for 3-5 page posts! I've always respected the way you communicate Lee and still do. I'm just sick to death of this meaningless (to me) topic.
People quit for whatever reason. Fine. But asking for the right to blast them for it goes against the spirit of the game.