I see everywhere about how toxicity is ruining the game’s feeling but let’s get real: the toxic people are not sudden troublemakers, typical Biff Tannen or stereotypical 1980’s bullies that just came to play the game and ruin it for everyone else, they’re not some kind of inconsiderate jerk who makes a bunch of noise at night or anything of that matter.
They’re normal people that are getting pissed at the game. Banning them is a joke in itself.
I’d say that the toxicity people turn up into is like a bug that needs to be patched or fixed, like a sociology bug and not a C# ingame bug, but by the way they deal with it, it’s like a bug that is still inside the game but the devs are removing any reports from it as to say “no, that bug is not happening”, when it is, and it’s still unsolved.
And people are always commenting on this, what’s pissing them off inside the game, yet they still somehow keep on ignoring it after all these years. For sure the game felt like it had a lot more carry potential than before, but there’s still things that just don’t keep up.
Nobody, or rarely anyone, likes to play healer. People like playing healer? sure, I’m not denying that, but I sincerely believe that the way support healers are structured inside the game is badly or poorly designed. For some people, healer is boring, for others it’s just unrewarding. Just for the record, in tf2 they made the healer support have an actual 100% invincibility, or insta-kill ability as an ultimate, because nobody liked playing healer in the demographic they had.
A lot of people have a tendency to aim at casual games more than they do heavily competitive ones. And overwatch tries to take itself so seriously, so “competitively viable”, that it stops being fun and it’s just elitist, an “only people with 200 iq and grandmaster mental development is allowed”, because everyone else that doesn’t manage to accomplish that goes away. Consumer-wise that’s bad because it’s not an inclusive game, people MUST play the way you want them to, you order them to, and not the fun way they wanted to go with. Company-wise that’s bad because your playerbase is chopped for every time you ply them to be YOUR way, your “1 tank 2 dps 2 supports” way, and not in a way that is open to so many people.
I have heard “don’t like it, don’t play it” so many times and everyone who always says it is always unaware of how grossly ugly that is for the game. Making a game be only played by a specific mindset, for a specific group of people, that also excludes everyone else who is not part of it, has about the same level of inclusivity as making a game be full of white, conservative men, and nothing else. If inclusivity is their end goal with this game, they’re doing it in the most elitist and discriminatory way.
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Discrimination is synonym for sexism and racism btw.
The only thing we can do is report them. however the fact that we don’t know how well this is detained or how sever the punishments are from being too toxic makes you often wonder how ‘‘good’’ their system really is.
I consider smurfing to be real threat when dealing with toxic behavior because they can create more accounts and repeat this cycle in a continueing way.
I agree with most of this excluding the game being elitist.
The games supposed to be competitive. I want it to be competitive. There isn’t a single other fps game that scratches that team based itch.
Id rather it dissuaded players for playing it casually in a ranked setting. If we could at least have separate balancing for casual and competitive players that would be a nice middle ground between casuals and competitive players.
Casuals will never enjoy what competitve players do the same way. Vice versa too.
So I agree it would be better to cater to both, but that means competent management and people who care heading the helm of the company.
That also means there needs to be a mutual understanding, if you go quickplay or arcade dont be a nerd. If you go ranked dont be hyper casual.
The likelihood of any of this happening is very low.
As someone who peaked 4.5k, 4.6k and 4k respectively as well as scrimmed at a 4.4-4.6k level I miss competent enemies as well as competent team mates. Now its just qp 2.0, and no matter where I play im technically smurfing since GM is currently overrun with boosted plat-diamond players. Sometimes even gold and silver.
So if we could separate the community into 2 groups and give them the game they want, win win right?
Overwatch will always be toxic. It’s an FPS where you have to rely on 4 other people, and their performance will result in your rank going up or down. Whenever you hit SEARCH, you’re essentially betting your happiness vs. someone else’s. Happiness in Overwatch is derived from taking it from someone else.
Lie/Lies are very powerful words, in order to lie to you, first of all, I have to know who you are and for what purpose am lying to you, since I don’t know who you are automatically there is not also purpose, solved.
When you create a statement you automatically have to back it up with facts other wise that statement would be completely meaningless. So you can either keep your statement as a lie, like you just did or finally accept the truth.
I actually have been harassed by groups of teamplayers many times in competitive before so i dont know where this is coming from?
And also, why are we comparing? People that are toxic no matter how small this is inside a game should be resolved as these people really need to seek proffesional help.
Because it can never be resolved… everywhere, where there are competitive behaviour there will be toxicity, so if there not much toxicity in ow compared to other games, we should be proud…
Please do backup your claims if you think thats not the case. Me on the other hand have experienced this many times before.
Making it difficult and harder to believe that you “assume” that overwatch is the least toxic game as a competitive game that exist.
There are many instances where my full team provoked me in a toxic way without me provoking them and or staying silence. Simply because of what hero i picked.
and you are not? i told you in my thread to leave it alone as i was not interested in your opinion. and yet you still keep coming back.how is this not toxic and i am?