Toxicity in games

[RepoOnly]

Well I learned over the years bullies are often people that has it bad at homes. Parents that drink or do drugs, or don´t care at all or does shitty ones believe their kids are angels when they are in fact a sociopath.

Yes I was bullied and beaten but I think some of them had it rely bad at home so today I wanna say I don´t hate them I pity them. I won´t forgive what they did but I have a better grasp on how things can be.

As a parent my self I learned that kids learn ALLOT form parents and I mean ALLOT so it often boils down to what do you wanna teach your kids. I always taught my kids NEVER hit people and if some one hits you call your teacher "sadly some teachers don´t give a F" Don´t hit back.

I also taught them never judge some one for who they are and especially if you don´t know them.

And I wanna think I did a good job because my youngest tries to be friend with EVERY one. And my oldest daughter came home one day said dad I like this girl and I said good for you as long as your happy do what makes you happy.



I may say i hate DEI and such but that because that shit HURTS more than it helps it´s force fed.
Im sorry for saying this GAME COMPANIES DON`T CARE IF YOU ARE GAY they pretend so you will buy more shit from them so when a company says they support you tell them to F off. Don´t hurray them.

 

[GardeniaSky's icon GardeniaSky GardeniaSky]

I stopped playing Smite because of player toxicity. I was playing the closed test of Smite 2. They allowed mics but not text chat, and every other match had some asshole talking way too closely to his mic and shouting slurs because the team apparently sucked.

 

[Patches]

I'm with you on this.

However not everyone is like you , what about people with autism for example? Navigating the net is surely not for everyone especially not for more vulnerable people.

I know of another web forum where a majority of users have Autism and they are often dubbed the meanest people on the Internet. I think some people just want to be coddled and treated like a kid in kindergarten their entire life on and offline.

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Who said I don´t have anything I got ADHD. But yeah I understand what you mean and it´s a very big issue but EVERY one complains but no one has a good solution that does not make you a criminal or ban people for saying something you don´t like or can handle.

Yeah hates speech is bad but today telling some one that is being dumb or does something doumb for stupid is a hate speech. Well if you don´t want to be call a moron don´t say or do stupid things then.

So I say this instead of saying what are your taught on assholes. Ask what are your solution to the problem come up with some ideas that don´t make you sink to their level.

All I see people moaning about assholes but no one has a solution.


My biggest issue with humanity as a whole today´s every one is crying about all kinds of things but not a single one offers any solutions.

words are words I am thankful to live somewhere where far less of them have great impact on life. This ties in exactly to what I said about people wanting to be coddled. Human life wasn't so easy 1400 years ago or many other times.

 

[dr grim]

A game where you can't at least mute other people mics is a deal breaker, sometimes we just want peace.

 

[Antilocal123]

Pfft imagine basing your entire personality around being insufferable, really says a lot about the person behind the screen…

:3

 

[GardeniaSky's icon GardeniaSky GardeniaSky]

Pfft imagine basing your entire personality around being insufferable, really says a lot about the person behind the screen…

:3

Yeah who would do that? That's crazy.

 

[thecrow2313]

People still bitch & scream playing Halo Infinite literally swallowing the microphone it's like the Xbox 360 days are still here.

 

[King_Fisher]

You encountered it at one point all of us certainly had a toxic encounter with another player in a game we played online we all know how it looks like and how it feels.

However there is something to toxicity in games where trash talking each other and even sometimes throwing slurs at each other creates for memroable and even fun moments.....is toxicity that harmful? Did it ever made you reach a point where you quit a game because of it?

Did you engage in toxic behavior yourself? Did you rage at someone during a multi-player game? I certainly did i also done my fair share of trolling in games ruining games people in lobbies were waiting to fill up for 2 hours straight!


Whats your opinion on toxicity? I find it necessary to keep a certain balance into the game community if everyone was so nice it will become mundane and boring but if everyone was so agitated and toxic it would also become boring and will push away newcomers what do you think...

I think that toxicity is only natural of games that reward high aggression, and within games themselves I do not think there is anything wrong with it. (Swearing excluded if the game is made for kids though, that is up to the mod team) I do not think they damage a game in long-term since well Leagues is still going strong, nuff said there.

But there is a point it goes too far when that behaviour doesn't stay in the game itself. Such as the players who put the L in sore Losers that went out their way to dox or stalk someone that beat them in a game or a player getting harassed for awhile like this one streamer's fanbase couldn't handle he got beat by some girl once so they picked on her. These are points that toxicity is harmful as some forget its only a game in the end. But I blame that on mal-adjusted players who clearly would bring problems anywhere first as there are plenty of rational players who still engage aggression.

For my experience it does pull me away from online games in general I did find fortnite interesting but I couldn't deal with Karen's babies who got mad I lagged or something in long term.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

Well I learned over the years bullies are often people that has it bad at homes. Parents that drink or do drugs, or don´t care at all or does shitty ones believe their kids are angels when they are in fact a sociopath.

Never had to deal with bullies but damn they seem to deserve an ass beating themselves and i won't feel bad about it.

I stopped playing Smite because of player toxicity. I was playing the closed test of Smite 2. They allowed mics but not text chat, and every other match had some asshole talking way too closely to his mic and shouting slurs because the team apparently sucked.

Thats the sort of toxicity that harms the game man where are the devs?

I know of another web forum where a majority of users have Autism and they are often dubbed the meanest people on the Internet. I think some people just want to be coddled and treated like a kid in kindergarten their entire life on and offline.

Yeah some people want positive attention only , worth mentioning seen some of it here

I think that toxicity is only natural of games that reward high aggression, and within games themselves I do not think there is anything wrong with it. (Swearing excluded if the game is made for kids though, that is up to the mod team) I do not think they damage a game in long-term since well Leagues is still going strong, nuff said there.

But there is a point it goes too far when that behaviour doesn't stay in the game itself. Such as the players who put the L in sore Losers that went out their way to dox or stalk someone that beat them in a game or a player getting harassed for awhile like this one streamer's fanbase couldn't handle he got beat by some girl once so they picked on her. These are points that toxicity is harmful as some forget its only a game in the end. But I blame that on mal-adjusted players who clearly would bring problems anywhere first as there are plenty of rational players who still engage aggression.

For my experience it does pull me away from online games in general I did find fortnite interesting but I couldn't deal with Karen's babies who got mad I lagged or something in long term.

The problem is the behavior starts in the game and eventually spills over other branches of life , if it was properly punished and contained this wouldn't happen.

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Whenever I think of game toxicity, my mind always goes to the Valorant streamer who had one of her teammates threaten her with something abhorrent. It’s one thing to be CoD lobby levels of bad but if it gets to that point, I’m not gonna turn on voice in that game.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

Whenever I think of game toxicity, my mind always goes to the Valorant streamer who had one of her teammates threaten her with something abhorrent. It’s one thing to be CoD lobby levels of bad but if it gets to that point, I’m not gonna turn on voice in that game.

Really? I thought valorant was the more progressive CSGO

 

[King_Fisher]

Never had to deal with bullies but damn they seem to deserve an ass beating themselves and i won't feel bad about it.


Thats the sort of toxicity that harms the game man where are the devs?



Yeah some people want positive attention only , worth mentioning seen some of it here



The problem is the behavior starts in the game and eventually spills over other branches of life , if it was properly punished and contained this wouldn't happen.

I can't agree with you there when there are plenty of players who know how to control themselves outside of the video games. I think you got it backwards really It's more likely to do with a person's life that spills into the game. (Likely in part an individual was poorly raised by parents who failed to reach how to control their anger or else they would use gaming as a healthy outlet for aggression.)

 

[Kamako]

I use to love offending people in online play. Never about race or sexuality or some mundane bullshit like that. I'd just rag on them for their lack of gaming skills, usually by going on mic and calmly saying something like "Wow, [username here] is terrible. Anyone looking for easy xp, aim for this dude".

"Nice shooting, Kid!" and
"Who let the pipsqueak play?" were always fun to use when speaking to a youngster playing an 18 rated game.

"Who put bots on easy?" etc etc.

Co-ordinating taunts with teammates was always a joy as well.

The best toxicity I ever saw though was from this mythical PS user I found on a Dark Souls 3 group called "Estonian Mafia". This one guy would upload gameplay of him beating n00bs with total ease, legitimately. And all to often, these sore losers would dm him with pure salt, saying stuff like: "Y u gotta cheat F@#_#£?".
To which he would then respond with about a paragraph or two of the most eloquent prose I've ever read, insulting them, their gameplay, their upbringing and their future life prospects. Then he'd upload the message chain to the group.

It was beautiful.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

I can't agree with you there when there are plenty of players who know how to control themselves outside of the video games. I think you got it backwards really It's more likely to do with a person's life that spills into the game. (Likely in part an individual was poorly raised by parents who failed to reach how to control their anger or else they would use gaming as a healthy outlet for aggression.)

Why not both ways? It may be that or that.

I use to love offending people in online play. Never about race or sexuality or some mundane bullshit like that. I'd just rag on them for their lack of gaming skills, usually by going on mic and calmly saying something like "Wow, [username here] is terrible. Anyone looking for easy xp, aim for this dude".

"Nice shooting, Kid!" and
"Who let the pipsqueak play?" were always fun to use when speaking to a youngster playing an 18 rated game.

"Who put bots on easy?" etc etc.

Co-ordinating taunts with teammates was always a joy as well.

The best toxicity I ever saw though was from this mythical PS user I found on a Dark Souls 3 group called "Estonian Mafia". This one guy would upload gameplay of him beating n00bs with total ease, legitimately. And all to often, these sore losers would dm him with pure salt, saying stuff like: "Y u gotta cheat F@#_#£?".
To which he would then respond with about a paragraph or two of the most eloquent prose I've ever read, insulting them, their gameplay, their upbringing and their future life prospects. Then he'd upload the message chain to the group.

It was beautiful.

That's actually funny poor guys must have really had a bad time dealing with this

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Really? I thought valorant was the more progressive CSGO

Tbh I know not much about either, I’ve never heard anything on the side of CSGO

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

Tbh I know not much about either, I’ve never heard anything on the side of CSGO

Counter strike as a whole not just CSGO suffers from hackers and an overwhelming number of non English speaking russians , one time i played counter strike source and joined a random server , it was full of Russians/Ukrainians who kept speaking nonstop and spraying weird stuff like putin and Russian flag or something like what the hell? Where are the big tittied anime girls everyone uses as their spray? Anyway 1 hour later my head was like earth in orbit just going round and round due to all the Russian words i heard nonstop at that moment i was gonna throw every slur i know and invent new ones the moment i saw a russian person online I'm over it now.


I would go on to troll Russian players in half life deathmatch

 

[DrunkGecko]

I literally never use voice chat