I think it's usually a positive thing. I do it myself when the game is pretty much set and want to make sure the other person gets the message rather than a "gg" after everyone has left.
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Wow, gg is so complex...LaChouetteOrtho wrote: ↑27 May 2021, 23:28 Laziness, mostly, and also the fact that a lot of people don't hang around for even a second once a game is over. The longer the sentence, the less likely they are to see it. If I've been chatting with a player during the game, I'll tend to make more effort.
I don't really see how TNX would be better than GG though. To me, GG is more of a "I had fun, a shame you lost/congrats on your win". Thanking people for the game, while polite, does not really imply you had fun. You could simply be thanking them for their time, despite the game being awful and boring.
I'd say that typing 2 letters is definitely faster than making two clicks with the mouse (automatic messages and then the message itself). But that's mostly a nitpick.Ze Monstah wrote: ↑28 May 2021, 00:23 So you have to write "gg" (2 letters) but you only have to make a click for "thank you for the game" or "good game" or any of the other auto-messages (I will have to see after the next game, exactly the automatic messages).
Of course you say that, being opposite of what I say.
Not sure I understood completely... :snmego wrote: ↑28 May 2021, 07:05 Personally, I preferred it when you'd just have an automatic mechanical "gg" when the game ends, it just simplifies things. No misunderstandings, no hard feelings. I think that, the same way you might find issues with "gg", there are other issues with other words like "thanks for the game" etc..
I feel like, when I say something like "Thanks for the game", I have to ask myself first, "was it a good game?", and when I end up saying it, I feel like I'm disrespecting my opponent by saying, "hey, the game wasn't good enough/you didn't play well enough for me to call it a gg", and this act of judging whether the game was good enough for me to call it a good game feels unnecessary.
When I finish a game, I mostly want to disappear, maybe discuss it if there was something interesting. (Which, 90+% of the time doesn't happen). I mostly want to move on to the next thing. Just saying "gg" solves things immediately, it is like stating the game is over, goodbye game&opponent.