gg is arrogance

You are rude to say gg when you win!

You are rude to not say gg at all!

You are rude to say gg when you lose!

You are rude to not resign when I want you to!

You are rude to resign and not let me checkmate you!

You are rude for offering a draw!

You are rude for not offering a draw!

I guess there is no way to please people.

 thats.. thats pretty something.. id proberbly do something about that if i were yyou..

just talk it out ya know.. communicate. no need to depend on symbols and 'universally understood' initialisms.

also, 100 comments ftw ^^ 

KillaNinja and LukePoga are right.  gg should be initiated by the loser.  gg is a taunt.  quite honestly with the annonymity that the internet offers I am shocked when someone is generally polite or nice before during or after a game.  social norms reserved for in-person interactions don't apply and therefore our inner a-hole is more easily accessed(no pun intended). 

I use "gg" and "ggs" often, but not with the meaning you've assigned to it.

ok im just sayin here, don't mind me at all, but "but gg means owned" means i got ishyouz.  if your gona talk to me and not anticipate i got chips on my shoulders, and you think you're bein polite but i interpret you all wrong, your just basicly sayin "ooba booba binky boink". im just letin y'all know.  if its a friends game or friends with benefits obviously you say whatever and i'll be frinds or mores withya.  but if not, don't even try bein all polite cuz i'm not takin it that way.  just sayin.  okwtflolgb. 

ok im just sayin here, dont mind me at all, but gg means owned. if your gona play me and not even say hello to me or anythin, and you say "gg" after you win, your basicly sayin 'hahahaha noob owned lol'. im just letin y'all know. if its a friends game or whatever obviously say whatever you want but if not, dont say gg to me. im just sayin.  kthxbai :)

I like your paranoia. All the greats were a bit paranoid.

I can't imagine what you really mean when you say gg or U GoT OWWWWNNEDD N00b when you win *SHRUG* if you feel thats what people mean to you when they say what they say 

well, gg is better than f u in my very humble good opinion.

 Hardly anyone expects the "Sloth-in-a-Box" !

1. I say hi.

2. No reply.

3. I get beaten.

4. A gg for me.

5. I wish he swallows this gg a googolfold.

I say good game after every match, win or lose.

It's polite. If it was a genuinely good game, I'll say something along the lines of "I really enjoyed that game, thanks."

I guess we all come from different cultures and so can take different meanings from the same words.  To me GG means just that, a good game, win or lose.  There are many games where I have managed to lose from a definite winning position.  U know I have played well, right up to making that critical mistake that costs the game.  So when my opponent says GG, I know its genuine, just as I will use it.

Remeber that it is a game.  Win or lose, it costs you nothing but time to play, and if you start to feel that it isn't a good game when you lose then maybe its time to give up.

(words from a real noob)

  i usually give and get gg bcs of tight game and only way to seperate the winner n loser is just cost by small detail  who is as good as u. or  if i play 1200 who stretch my brain ..they deserve a gg .

i think its only arrogance if u know u r better player n  play againts much lower level than u for many time like more than 3  times and win them all ...kinda showing off. low level opponent need games to improve .accept their challenge n give them 1 or 2 quick game.. if 3 its showing off.

 GG is not arrogance ..its gd feeling when i get gg if i lost . especially againts higher rank opponent or as gd as me .

+1 (or the guys who take the time to taunt you for the combination you missed) I know you can disable chat but you don't see it coming and always having it disabled is not fun

And another rule I wasn't aware of ;-)

"Rub salt in the wound"? I doubt that. On the sports field, it's customary to shake hands and say "good game" after play has finished. It's a courtesy, no more or less. If the other team had been unsporting somehow, then "good game" is perhaps out of place, as might be the handshakes. I expect "gg" is used online because we do-so-love short acronyms and most of us are too lazy to type out "Thanks for the game." Or would that be arrogant too?

some people say gg even if they've lost. i do it loads!

It really depends on the situation. I sort of agree with what KillaNinja's point, but it makes me hard to do so with the wording of his original post (sounds like he is just angry because he lost). But of course I understand how he feels, as there are indeed many players who say "good game" just to rub in the loss. And on the other hand there are players who say it with courtesy. But you know for sure that some players say "good game" with arrogance as I have faced many opponents who follow it up with more offensive comments and others that only say it when they win.

I think "good game" should only be said when it really is a good game. Not when one side is dominating or one side makes a blunder or many blunders. If you dominated your opponent the whole game it isn't a good game. If your opponent wasn't playing very well and made loads of mistakes then that isn't a good game either. But if both players had a long fought well played exhausting game I would always admit "good game" even if I lost. I tend not to say it as the winner unless the loser says it first (just to avoid any miscommunications).

A simple "gg" compared to something like "wow that was a great game, nicely played, etc" is very different.