A new study has found that 70 percent of gamers avoid certain games because of ‘toxic communities’.
Big part of the reason why I enjoy cooperative games nowadays like Risk of Rain 2, Helldivers, Deep Rock Galactic, etc.
You can occasionally come across a toxic person, but the broader communities in said games are amazing on the whole.
Deep Rock Galactic is better than most in this department. (I haven’t played the others you mentioned.) I like how it supports only predefined shouts. “Morkite here.” “Rock and Stone!”
Unfortunately, griefers still managed to ruin my night more than a few times. (And I couldn’t report them, because for some reason, all of their usernames were in Chinese, which I can’t read.)
I enjoy Smash Bros. Both in playing Ultimate and watching Melee. But I never want to go to another smash tourney, or hang out with other smash fans again. I used to be part of my university’s smash group, and looking back I only got a long with a few of the people there, and everyone else was a fucking toolbag, or an incompetent manchild. I remember having an enlightening conversation with someone who tried to convince me women were incapable of playing melee competitively due to the shape of their heads and motor skills. I remember the smell being soo bad at one tournament, that I ended up forfeiting one of my matches so I could go home cause I couldn’t take the smell anymore. One of my best friends, who was a brilliant Robin player in Smash 4 was called the “N” word multiple times cause people couldn’t handle losing to him, and the tourney organizers would do nothing about it. I main Ness in both 4 and Ultimate, and almost got a controller thrown at me cause the guy kept running into my pk fires. and a local game store stopped hosting smash tourneys cause people wouldn’t stop breaking shit after losing, and shit kept getting stolen after tourneys.
Great news, the Melee community has weeded virtually all of those terrible out, though I’ve heard that most of them I’ve heard just went to Ult (whose community is fairly disconnected). I used to avoid the entire game because of the community, but now that it’s not being run by people in their low 20s or younger, I actually finally picked up the game.
Definitely, I avoid online playing as the plague. Except with friends. I enjoy couch coop with my wife a lot!
Pick out one headline that kept me from picking up COD type games.
I avoid online games all together for this reason
Rocket League is alright so long as you can manage getting spammed WHAT A SAVE repeatedly after getting scored on.
It got so bad there’s even a setting now to disable “nonessential” quick chats, so things like “what a save!” and “whew” don’t display
Yeah I know a lot of people will just turn chat off for that reason.
Try out pve and coop games or game modes, they are usually more chill. Or find yourself a friend group who will be down for some coop and private games.
Absolutely. I enjoyed playing a bit of Smite at one point in time (mostly that big open area map) and some Heroes of the Storm, but I’m not a big MOBA guy. Decided one day to give League of Legends a try, why the hell not ya know?
I have never been called a ‘fucking fag’ and been told to kill myself more times in a 5 minutes period of time in the entirety of my 40 years on this flying shitball of a planet. Not in public school, not on Xbox Live while playing Halo, not from my abusive family, never.
Uninstalled that shit 10 mins later and went back to TF2 where I get called that only once an hour.
I enjoy League mechanically, played a lot, but it just got to be such a net negative that I can’t do it anymore. I enjoy trying my best to win and I adore that feeling of a team coming together, but the toxicity was just too much.
They got more aggressive about banning people for chat stuff a long while ago. But the same people just find ways to be just as toxic with game mechanics and other more subtle communication.
That’s why I liked hots, the capability to block chat from the start and for everyone.
It’s not really a problem in non-competitive modes, as people usually just use on-map alerts.Disabling voice/text chat is usually my first go-to with almost any online game cause of shit like this lmao.
Yeah, I don’t know what it is about the League community, but they are some of the worst people I’ve interacted with in games. I’ve heard that apparently Riot has cleaned up their community a bit since the early days, but first impressions are tough to overcome.
I’ve heard that apparently Riot has cleaned up their community a bit since the early days
Shit this was just a few years back so this was the cleaned up community lmao.
Eve online…those guys are toxic AF
I’m looking at you overwatch, and really any mp I don’t actively play on a regular basis.
At least Siege now they get the spicy dorito so you now they’re toxic and can mute them right away
Not game-specific but those types of games certainly were a big factor.
I used to love playing with my school friends. Yet slowly but surely they became very toxic to play with as they became bitter in adulthood. Now I only play single player and stick to text chats with them.Smite: During my third game I’ve never been insulted like that in any other videogame.
DOTA2 advise new players to turn off communications. How did it come to that?
I only play PvE
In a way, I can understand.
I’m really looking forward to Starfield. One of the most compelling selling points: no online play.
I just want coop. 8 plays but no online stat tracking. Just let me play with friends how I want to play. No matchmaking. No leader boards. No anti cheat.
That’s why I play Fromsoft games offline
