This is a disappointing outlook on online gaming. While I, too have often been disappointed by the average cretin that inhabits XBox Live, the PSN, or any other service, I have endeavored to find ways around it when feasible.
One way is by slowly building a decent group of comrades to play with and then set up private rooms. XBL's means of seeing your friend's friends list I think lends itself to this method. In a night of playing PGR3 or 4, I may only find one or two people who are decent racers and have some ethos about playing competitively, but over the course of 4 or 5 weeks, I eventually find enough of a group to have a room full of eight people and lock it down to just the guys whom I know will race honorably (or at least apologize, or let you by if they mistakenly take you out).
Another way is using a PC-based portal to the online community to find peope worth playing with. I have trolled the XBL forums and either started or searched for threads of people looking for non-cheaters to play with. Or googled for online gaming clubs (I recently joined Casual Adult Gamers) who have an ethos similar to my own.
While it is very easy to have a horrible online gaming experience by just jumping online and entering a quick-match, by using other tools to improve yor matchmaking, I think you can find a better method of hooking up with decent gamers.
- Vr/Gull.
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