1. Dota 2 (this game makes me so mad when I play it that I literally can't anymore)
2. Counter-Strike GO
3. Overwatch
2. Counter-Strike GO
3. Overwatch
In your personal experience. what game has/had the most toxic community you have experience?
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For me it has to be rust, I mean the community is just dreadful and players kill you because they always think you are going to kill them, just the same as dayz
I've not played LoL or OW competitive. For my experience this would have to go to WoW. So many obnoxious assholes I dealt with over the years I played that. FFXIV is much more chilled out.
Honourable mention for Pokemon, which I've just given up on ever discussing properly due to how nasty the discourse tends to get these days. Even here.
Honourable mention for Pokemon, which I've just given up on ever discussing properly due to how nasty the discourse tends to get these days. Even here.
Of recent memory this is my clear winner.
I only played HoN during beta and definitely not by the time it officially launched. Didn't notice anything then, but given the target demographic for this game it doesn't surprise me at all to hear this.
I never played Overwatch but this all sounds like par for the course for MOBAs and team hero based shooters.
Rocket league OCE server is worst I have experienced. Especially high ranks... people there live to fuck you over
i'm not big on MP/PvP so i'm sure it's just scratching the surface of what's out there...
but Division 1 dark zone in the game's heyday was naaasty. F and N bombs left and right. not even through salty "bad losers", like every player encounter i was a f***** and n***** and go fuck yourself coz reasons
but Division 1 dark zone in the game's heyday was naaasty. F and N bombs left and right. not even through salty "bad losers", like every player encounter i was a f***** and n***** and go fuck yourself coz reasons
Rainbow Six Siege made me turn off text and audio chat and quit playing with randos... so that. People would just say slurs all the time, team kill, yell over small things... it was awful.
Overwatch. All the regular MP shitbags plus wannabe try hards in causal mode screaming about player picks and performance instead of finding a team to play with.
i never really got too involved with any communities, but i remember having some vile shit flung my way back when I used to play Halo a decent bit
in fact, it was my experiences with Halo that caused me to get used to auto-muting and only doing party chat, never talked to a single random person through all the Gears multiplayer games I played
in fact, it was my experiences with Halo that caused me to get used to auto-muting and only doing party chat, never talked to a single random person through all the Gears multiplayer games I played
Not a game, but people in the beta/unreleased game collecting scene can be colossal pricks. Big money in it, so imagine how one might react when they discover their unreleased game is announced for release/public auction by someone.
I -was- going to say DOTA 2, but it's Heroes of Newerth(or at least it was, now the game is dead so eh).
Holy SHIT the playerbase was insufferable.
Holy SHIT the playerbase was insufferable.
I usually tend to stay away from MOBAs due to the infamous toxicity (also I'm not good at them).
However, I think Siege and Overwatch have been very toxic experiences for me.
However, I think Siege and Overwatch have been very toxic experiences for me.
Don't play any MOBAs but I've heard they're pretty bad.
Probably Overwatch from what I've experienced?
On the opposite end of the spectrum, ESO and FFXIV both have excellent communities. Escape From Tarkov too, though maybe that's more of a shared suffering thing.
Probably Overwatch from what I've experienced?
On the opposite end of the spectrum, ESO and FFXIV both have excellent communities. Escape From Tarkov too, though maybe that's more of a shared suffering thing.
I could kind of tune out the LoL community (though they were still bad), but DotA 2 was unbelievably shitty.
Same.
This....and it is not close at all.
Although maybe swap 1 and 2 around.
Times were WILD back then.Xbox 360 Uno
My answer is CSGO Competitive when solo queuing. So many wannabe pros that absolutely flip their shit and buckle when wins don't fall into their laps. It's like, easy there, champ we're not on FACEIT for ladder play or anything here; johnnysmokes420 over there is high as fuck and I haven't practised nade setpieces in maybe 15 years so chill.
I don't play a lot of that kind of game to compare but Overwatch was bad even in training against AI
I play Overwatch and LoL but not super competitively and I found both of them to be pretty horrible. LoL you will just get attacked by people if you aren't doing what they think you should be doing.
I've been called some pretty bad names by my team mates WHILE WE WERE WINNING because they though I should do something differently.
I've been called some pretty bad names by my team mates WHILE WE WERE WINNING because they though I should do something differently.
I rarely play online, but I would say Siege
i love the game, but am very much a casual player. A week ago I jumped in to play some terrorist hunt co-op, hadn't played in several months.
get into the first match and get team killed right away, intentionally. No reason. Dude shot me as soon as the round started.
got into another match and the same dude was there, killed me again. Really annoying.
And this is the co-op mode, I can't imagine how nasty people must get in the ranked competitive
i love the game, but am very much a casual player. A week ago I jumped in to play some terrorist hunt co-op, hadn't played in several months.
get into the first match and get team killed right away, intentionally. No reason. Dude shot me as soon as the round started.
got into another match and the same dude was there, killed me again. Really annoying.
And this is the co-op mode, I can't imagine how nasty people must get in the ranked competitive
A lot of games that have a strong competitive scene are bad. League of Legends is bad. God forbid you ever just want to try a different character for a certain spot (even in non-ranked) and people act like you just shit in their bed. Overwatch gets pretty bad too. R6 Siege has moments too. It's one of the reasons I don't play these games anymore. I've got enough toxic bullshit in my life without it being in my stress reliever (video games).
CSGO was pretty brutal a few years back. If you were the last man standing and lost, team mates could be brutal. Verbal abuse and bullying was/is pretty rife on there.
On the other end of the spectrum, I met some really nice folk on there too.
On the other end of the spectrum, I met some really nice folk on there too.
Zelda: Refusing to let things go, infamously toxic about reviews scores.
Overwatch: Sexism, WAY TO FOCUSED ON THE META, bossy.
Pokemon: So much infighting, smugness, egotism and toxicity
Smash: The amount discussion and overreactions around every character reveal is ridiculous and that's not going into the BS they competitive fanbase pulled years back sending death threats and abuse to anyone playing Bayonetta.
Kojima fans: Take hero worship too far, elitism, playing victim when called on the former two.
Edit: WOW: Both times I tried this game, the game chat was way to toxic and just wasn't fun to play.
Overwatch: Sexism, WAY TO FOCUSED ON THE META, bossy.
Pokemon: So much infighting, smugness, egotism and toxicity
Smash: The amount discussion and overreactions around every character reveal is ridiculous and that's not going into the BS they competitive fanbase pulled years back sending death threats and abuse to anyone playing Bayonetta.
Kojima fans: Take hero worship too far, elitism, playing victim when called on the former two.
Edit: WOW: Both times I tried this game, the game chat was way to toxic and just wasn't fun to play.
While many of the games mentioned may very well have the highest proportion of general-purpose assholes and trolls, I'd like to throw an honorary mention to any complex PC game concerned with European history, from the middle ages all the way up to and including WW2.
Games like Mordhau, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Hearts of Iron, and such.
These games have the highest proportion of actual, dyed in the wool nazis and white supremacists in my experience.
Games like Mordhau, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Hearts of Iron, and such.
These games have the highest proportion of actual, dyed in the wool nazis and white supremacists in my experience.
Gears of war. I think it's aesthetic just brings out the toxic try hards. It's a real sweaty game, all the characters trash talk and there's executions you can do to piss people off. When you Kill somebody a message shows up on screen like SMH or some shit. And the game hasn't changed that much from 2006, so you got long time players who love to shit talk other people.
My experiences are a little different because I automatically mute everyone and have my PSN messages to Friends Only, but Rainbow Six Siege was pretty bad with the team killing, voting to kick, etc.
Rocket League got really toxic really fast.
I stopped playing Overwatch in late 2016 so I don't know how the community is now (according to this thread, not good)
Rocket League got really toxic really fast.
I stopped playing Overwatch in late 2016 so I don't know how the community is now (according to this thread, not good)
Overwatch. I've been playing online since 2004 and tried several games and genres for longer periods of time. While people in the past joked about CoD with all those kiddies it is nothing compared to Overwatch because many players like to think they gonna be the next grandmaster and go full rage mode once it doesn't goes their way. They constantly blame the team and other players and just not in a constructive but the most annoying and insulting way. I have NEVER encountered that frequency of slurs, douchebag behaviour and rage insults in any other online game. And it's not simple trash or shit talk, it's not even a different league, it's a complete different galaxy.
I've heard LoL is bad but I never played it. For me it's been Overwatch. The nature of the gameplay just promotes a toxic culture
I don't play a lot of online games, but I've had more bad experiences than good w/ Overwatch, so that. In terms of communities outside of actual online MP games, it's gotta be Pokemon and Undertale... they're games I love, but communities I avoid.
On the flipside of things, FF14's community is amazing. Only had a single instance of a bad apple during a boss fight where they got mad at me... it was my first time fighting that boss, and they were pissed that I didn't know every mechanic ahead of time.
On the flipside of things, FF14's community is amazing. Only had a single instance of a bad apple during a boss fight where they got mad at me... it was my first time fighting that boss, and they were pissed that I didn't know every mechanic ahead of time.
