Way too much Toxicity

[Stellyria]

I've noticed since the start of Season 1 there's been a HUGE spike in toxicity, ESPECIALLY in comp. Comp in S0 was good sportsmanship, nice people just playing and playing good. Everyone saying GG at the end of the game and such.

But now it's just little man children crying and being rude because their team lost (and usually they're an instant-lock DPS with 7/15/2 or something). It's not even just when a team looses. It's also from wins as well. The amount of sore winners and losers is exponentially more than S0...so what happened? Did all the OW people come over to try to ruin this game too?

[Kitt 🌟 Stargazer]

Ever since I started gaming online ( Quake 1 back in 1996 ), I've started matches with "Good Luck and Have Fun":
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3408426466

and ended Matches with "Good Game Everyone! Thanks for the fun!":
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3408406211

I have yet to fail me at making tons and tons of new friends while playing games online... Is it really just that difficult to do for people?

[Chaosolous]

I've never encountered any unwarranted hostility in this game or online in general. What are you talking about?

[Koochie Krumbs]

This is gonna be a rough take; but I enjoy the toxicity and hostility. Really throws me back into nostalgia of high school with minimum worries and where i'd stay up hrs in playing COD lobbies with the Xbox360/ PS3. Those lobbies were funny as heck and sometimes this games reflects that. If anyone crap talk, i crap talk, and to me that's part of the fun. If it bothers you beyond after the match, i suggest just take a break and remember at the end of the day you got bigger issues to deal with besides random people tryin to blow some steam on a video game.

[Necessary Evil]

i end with bad game in all chat, all game

[/dev/random]

What else you would expect from adult people, who are still fans of superheroes?

"Oh look, I'm 30 yo unemployed man, living with my parents and Captain Murrica is my favourite character bc he has a shield etc etc"

[Nostalgic-Heretic]

To each their own. This is the first game ive really gotten into competitively and Bming is part of the fun. Its fun to rag and be ragged on.

[HermaPrince]

people become toxic when they're at their 14th lose streak. ngl if i see someone playing like ♥♥♥♥ while i play strategist and tank i get pissed off fast.
i went from silver to bronze 3. i was not in a good place, and kept being teammed by bot like players. a lot of bronze players have no business in ranked.

but if i play dps i sftu, bc tank and heals are doing their best and my only job is to right click and do some hit and run if I play melee or stay the hell out of the warzone if i play ranged.

[Ice]

Sucky move of the devs to place everyone in Gold

Former Low Diamonds getting matched with/against former GM's

And Gold Elo is a bloody war zone with People climbing from silver and former high ranked players

Im currently at Plat 2 rn and players are still up on each other's throats

My climb to Diamond in S0 was a breeze cause everyone was still learning the game and we all started at Bronze so when climbed we earned the rank, in S1 The median was Gold and it became a cesspit of toxicity (good luck climbing out)

[󠀡󠀡]

Maybe stick to single player games if your gonna cry about it

[Shade]

The ranking system will balance out in about another week. You still have good players making their way through bronze silver and gold. So they get upset if they feel you didn't do your job.

[Nihil]

I don't see anything special here. All of these kind of games attract a huge toxicity flood, Especially in competitive/ranked modes where people taking everything way too serious and personal. That's why i never play comp.
I would rather play a chaotic uncoordinated game where we loose but nobody really bets an eye and can have fun, than play on a toxic wasteland.

[Spencer]

Originally posted by Kitt 🌟 Stargazer:

Ever since I started gaming online ( Quake 1 back in 1996 ), I've started matches with "Good Luck and Have Fun":
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3408426466

and ended Matches with "Good Game Everyone! Thanks for the fun!":
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3408406211

I have yet to fail me at making tons and tons of new friends while playing games online... Is it really just that difficult to do for people?

I'm also from the days of Quake, but I don't talk to people in-game. There is no purpose. In the days of Quake, there too was trash talk and toxicity, just not as popular because the game had a higher bar of entry. What use is to listen to the enemy team talk trash? Match chat is muted all game, every day.

[Nihil]

Originally posted by Spencer:

Originally posted by Kitt 🌟 Stargazer:

Ever since I started gaming online ( Quake 1 back in 1996 ), I've started matches with "Good Luck and Have Fun":
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3408426466

and ended Matches with "Good Game Everyone! Thanks for the fun!":
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3408406211

I have yet to fail me at making tons and tons of new friends while playing games online... Is it really just that difficult to do for people?

I'm also from the days of Quake, but I don't talk to people in-game. There is no purpose. In the days of Quake, there too was trash talk and toxicity, just not as popular because the game had a higher bar of entry. What use is to listen to the enemy team talk trash? Match chat is muted all game, every day.

Also don't forget that people didn't got so offended by every bad word in the chat back in those days. We looked at the nonsense message and shrugged it off.

[X-Psibian]

I have noticed less toxicity in OW 6v6 lately, so you may be onto something there OP...

[Mister Sir]

Originally posted by HermaPrince:

people become toxic when they're at their 14th lose streak. ngl if i see someone playing like ♥♥♥♥ while i play strategist and tank i get pissed off fast.
i went from silver to bronze 3. i was not in a good place, and kept being teammed by bot like players. a lot of bronze players have no business in ranked.

but if i play dps i sftu, bc tank and heals are doing their best and my only job is to right click and do some hit and run if I play melee or stay the hell out of the warzone if i play ranged.

I know what you mean. It is hard to stay positive when you go on insane losing streaks and know for a fact that most of those games are lost by sheer luck. I play all roles pretty consistently, with like 3 solid characters per role so I can usually tell wtf is going on where or what needs to be done to win. Silver ranks have been an actual disaster this season. Last season started late and got to gold pretty fast, stopped there for a skin but right now... sheesh, my back is ♥♥♥♥♥♥ beyond belief trying to carry these teams and it is not even like an egotistical opinion, it's a fact. So it is mighty hard not to ask your team wtf could they possibly be ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ doing while I am solo holding the point vs 5 people longer than I should be, in less than pleasant tone.

So moral of the story, people better ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ try their best or gtfo of ranked cause I am and many others are sick and tired of this lobotomite experience we been getting. Also if you sucking, swap the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ character or at least admit that hey, my bad dudes cause I do that when something not working out. Also obviously I am not gamer or I do just solo carry everyone to diamond or something, I do have bad games where I under perform and I usually be first one to admit it. Yet god ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ forbid I ask someone to swap or wtf are they doing, suddenly it's me crying and taking it too seriously. Like mf get the ♥♥♥♥ out of ranked if you are so cool and do not care, go play with AI if you do not care to win so much.

Between having to be solo pusher tank who lives of health packs and having more dmg than dps, or a dps in a team where I am only one with positive score and only one who is taking better positions and trying to flank, or a game as a healer where I have to heal while holding the objective while also killing enemy team dps.... it is quite ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ maddedning having to lose anyways and have some termite try to tell you with full brovado that you are the issue while the game statistics say otherwise. Also no, I am not exaggerating. I am literally constantly having games where I have to keep team alive while also doing job of at least one more role that I am not even playing.