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You have a mixture of old gamers that argue that "gaming was way better in my day when you had to walk 50 miles uphill just to lan party so we all had to love each other, so Im gonna get mad at every little thing wrong with these noobs do" and you got newer people who are like "Oh man I can be super crappy and no one will care because it's just a game, and there's just million of players, so who cares if I'm a jerk this one time? It's just a game, I gotta have my fun!".
Well, all you can do is just promote better sportmanship.. create your own communities within the bigger gaming community... I mean you can't change everyone else, you can only change how you reaction to it. So either help grow a better side of the gaming community, or try to find ways to enjoy it the way it is.
It's honestly not that bad, it's just less centralized now that it's grown away from just single game communities, and into a larger steam community. Go hunting for what you want, and you can still find it. =)
Large cities might have tons of people in a relatively small area, but how many of them actually know each other? Small town, on the other hand, it's not so uncommon to at least know your neighbours. It's actually not surprising that things have become more detached as the overall user base has grown and the internet has allowed for more faceless interaction.
Generalizing is generally retarded.
The gaming community hasn't changed aside from more people joining it. This kind of mindset is really getting old.
That is like saying the human species isnt degenerating.....
Take a step back, look at the world on a whole.... (heck, or even look at the US alone man, lol) oh......... Its a cesspit and a degenerating mess, same as its inhabitants.
People here forget how far we have come in a relatively short time. It's only four hundred years since Christian factionalists were resolving their differences by burning each other to death. Within my lifetime a landlord could advertise their property "No dogs, no blacks, no Irish" lawfully and without general censure. I've seen BBC footage of a 1970s Police Sergeant explaining to a rightfully outraged black member of the public why it was acceptable for a Police Constable to call him a '♥♥♥♥. So not only was it said, not only did a Police Sergeant support that it was said, a Police Sergeant supported it was said in the presence of a BBC camera crew. These days both officers would be fortunate not to be instantly dismissed.
We will judge falsely if we view the past with sepia nostalgia for something that never was. Pre the 1960s in the UK there was heavy censorship to ensure that art never accurately imitated life. So early times we're steeped in bad language, bullying, and violence - but these realities were heavily sanitised in the media of the day.
Anonymity gives a greater scope for churlish behaviour and more importantly an inability to avoid people whom you steer a wide radius around in real life. But like the OP who wrongly complained that the forums were overrun by small cadre totally hostile to Steam even the majority of posts in a FPS like TF2 are instructional, requests for help, giving information, or chit chat. Boasting reflects a sizeable minority, and outright abuse a small minority. But the set up here makes it relatively difficult to pick on one person.
If you analysed the comments both here and in game the bulk would be supportive, non committal, or politely oppositional (as this one).
The truth is that in this platform mainly accessed by residents of democracies these forums (and the bigger ones like Facebook and Twitter) are models of civic conduct in comparison to the intolerant slaughter occurring elsewhere on our planet.
S.x.
Nintendo vs. Sega loooooooooong before Steam.
I noticed this attitude in several communities/social media sites (of course with different topics, but the attitude is similar) - maybe just because there are way more people and therefore more douchebags or maybe what NightOwl wrote - that you just ignore the bad things first...