What is a 'Pubbie' ?

[scottydog]

I've seen this word being used on the Chat.

Is this a derogatory word used by more 'experienced Players? 

Are Pubbie's useful?

 

Sounds like a great name for a Clan.

[Jack Marslow]

Pubbies are Public players. I.e. Players with no clan. It is not a derogatory term at all. Pubbies are very very useful if they are interested in helping out. Pubbies make excellent screening forces while the Clans fight the Port Battles that usually require lots of team work and experience in a full 25v25. I fing love pubbies. Some pubbies also play long enough and get enough experience that they become as proficient as any clan player. At that point you have a super pubbie. They are regularly brought into important battles too.

Edited March 30, 2016 by Jack Marslow

[SteelSandwich]

Pubbie is used to describe more casual player.

 

I see Jack beat me to it

[Prater]

It also depends on how one uses it.  Some people use it as a derogatory term, others don't.  For some it means casual, for others it means something like scrub or noob.

[Captain]

almost everyone is a pubbie but I know some people who arent

Edited March 30, 2016 by Captain

[scottydog]

I'm hoping to be awarded the 'Grand Order of the Super Pubbie' in that case.  Happy sailing and God bless us every one and especially the couragious Pubbies ! 

[scottydog]

That last post from me reads  a little bit conceited.  I've got a long sail ahead of me before i qualify for the Grand Order. Today we used caronades for the first time and managed to rake a Frigate which was on the other side of a 3rd Rate which the group was destroying. Oh well, practice will hopefully make perfect.

[Capt. Rice]

I use the term Randos  for people i dont know or pubs.

[Ratline]

Pubbies are Public players. I.e. Players with no clan. It is not a derogatory term at all. Pubbies are very very useful if they are interested in helping out. Pubbies make excellent screening forces while the Clans fight the Port Battles that usually require lots of team work and experience in a full 25v25. I fing love pubbies. Some pubbies also play long enough and get enough experience that they become as proficient as any clan player. At that point you have a super pubbie. They are regularly brought into important battles too.

 

Didn't it originate from the Goons on Something Awful? In that instance it most certainly was derogatory, and is still often used in a somewhat sneering sense.

[Sir Robert Calder]

Pubbie is a term I see more used in relevance in FPS games where there are a multitude of servers for players to publicly play on. Usually, the more experienced players will rather to play with a coordinated team at higher levels of play and begin to differentiate the accessible public servers from their own by identifying the latter players as "pubbies".

 

Obviously, the terminology is somewhat synonymous with how clan players and non-clan players are differentiated as in Naval Action.

[Ronald Speirs]

Pubbies is a term used to describe one always on the piss down at the local tavern nar it means what most have already replied

[Admiral 8Q]

"Pubbie"? Hopefully not referring to the "Pube Muppet" originally from NewGrounds...