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I have tried quite a few times to get into MOBAs (specifically Smite and somewhat recently the Deadlock beta) and every time I've just found myself not actually playing matches and just going to training grounds and fucking around. In Deadlock specifically I just fucked around and watched a couple of matches.
I've hovered over game modes and gotten cold feet every time because the idea of being treated like shit because I dare to be new to the game is just sickening. Yet I have seen a fair amount of people on the internet have fun and that just makes me feel like they're built different.
To be a bit more specific, it's not so much the toxicity itself, but the fact it's coming from MOBA players. There is just something about MOBAs that makes the insults hit harder. It gives less of the feeling of booting up your favorite game after work and more of the feeling of clocking into a second job with a boss that judges every tiny thing you do like you're defusing a bomb.
I've hovered over game modes and gotten cold feet every time because the idea of being treated like shit because I dare to be new to the game is just sickening. Yet I have seen a fair amount of people on the internet have fun and that just makes me feel like they're built different.
To be a bit more specific, it's not so much the toxicity itself, but the fact it's coming from MOBA players. There is just something about MOBAs that makes the insults hit harder. It gives less of the feeling of booting up your favorite game after work and more of the feeling of clocking into a second job with a boss that judges every tiny thing you do like you're defusing a bomb.