I've never been a huge online gamer. I only seem to pick up a game and want to play it online AFTER it's been popular.
Such as my resent attempt at online gaming mastery. Battlefield 2. It's been out since 2005. It's 2008. I just bought it a few weeks back. Needless to say, I'm behind the curve when it comes to skill involvded needed to be Uber sweet.
.... I guess I just assume the good players would of left on to better greater games that aren't three years old. No, what I always seem to stumble into is a world full of monsterously good players who can seemly pick you off from worlds away.
Basically my combat effectiveness in online games is pretty the same as Tanks and Soldiers against Godzilla or that Turtle-thing from Cloverfield. Useless, they just keep on trucking while I scream "WHY WON'T YOU DIE!" after unloading crates of ammunition into a fiendishly evil 12 year old child from Niggeria who just knife killed me in a gun battle.
I always seem to end my games with this thought... "Yeah, well if we were on AF I'd of banned you already... so there!"
Not that makes it any better.... The internet > me.