like sure get mad, but why tilt so hard you rage quit?
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I’ve been gaming since Pong on the Atari in the 80s. I’ve played a plethora of online team based games and I’ve never played one where people blame each other more than in Overwatch.
Now I’m not saying that’s the one and only reason why people tilt, get angry and quit so often in this game, but I’m willing to bet there’s a direct correlation between the amount of blame dished out on others and the amount of tiltage that ensues
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the reason why i’m asking is because i just had someone who tilted so hard and wrote in chat asking why i solo ulted them and they admitted to being super tilted over it and then promptly left after venting about it for a hot second, mind you i was just messing about in quickplay and getting solo ulted is pretty damn common especially as tanks goes.
for me that’s just tank life in QP.
I think people get tilted cause they cannot handle it being a team based game, they wanna do their own thing and can’t be dealt with being asked to switch heroes or getting singled out. Plus the amount of snowflakes existing in the world now. I blame the parents tbh, the snowflakes are just gonna get worse.
I see it irl everyday how parents let their kids do whatever they like and not putting down their foot and teaching proper discipline. Kids just scream and be toxic until they get what they want cause the parent is scared of being publicly embarrassed by the screaming kid (here I blame social media for everyone wanting to look like they have the perfect life and perfect kid)
Sorry for rambling and derailing, I’m just frustrated and it’s not getting better.
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It just comes from OW being so heavily team dependent. One person’s mistake or simply him doing his own thing at the team’s expense can cripple the team. In Call of Duty, people could carry and get a victory in spite of their deadweight teammates, and in Tekken, its a 1v1 meaning you have full agency. In OW, a wrong tank comp or a DPS Moira can spell doom for the team.
OW2 seems to try to address this issue. For starters, roles are being given their own passives. Correct me if I’m wrong, but all-roles can self heal out of combat with supports doing so the fastest. Scoreboards also seem to provide a clearer assessment of the match. The Roadhog is less likely to flex about gold damage when his is half that of the opposite team’s lowest.
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Only supports do that.
DPS, currently, have the passive of retaining some ult charge when swapping
Tank have steadfast (ie don’t get booped about as much)
you heard it a lot on voice chat xD
kids get away with murder these days. theres too much of it going on in the world. “Woke” community D:
Not sure what “woke” has to do with it. Everyone is woke.
And no one gets away with being toxic in game. There is just a process which takes time. Just look at he is isn’t around anymore.
He got a 30 day ban for being toxic. Claimed it was just banter and that people were “snowflakes”. Chances are that’s finally caught up with him and he’s received the next step. I hope not, but it seems likely given what he’s mentioned about how he is in game (and how I’ve seen him behave elsewhere)
there’s a saying where i live and it goes a little something like this.
if you are in the game you have to endure the game.
it means to not be a bad sport because it’s not going your way.
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I’ve competed in various sports and events throughout my years. It amazes me when people can’t just say “well played” when they’ve been beaten. This is not a problem unique to OW, and nor is it a generational thing. There has always been, and will always be sore losers and bad winners.
No harm in acknowledging you just weren’t good enough that time, or being humble in victory.
i agree with this. its the maturity of a lot of the games.
You ignored the “woke” question.
You are aware everyone is woke right? If you say you aren’t something is very wrong.
no it’s not really you have to be humble in victory or gracious in defeat, you can be upset, you can be angry but don’t take it out on people you’re playing with for it.
and really they’ve earned the right to gloat and bask in it if they win.
and you’re right it’s not an OW only thing or a generational thing, it’s a personal thing.
some people just can’t take it, however i think people could do more as a collective to teach others to not take it as personal whenever they cross that line.
there’s really no in-game thing that even tries to set you straight or try to encourage you to not be a bad sport.
but everywhere else you will find people who will.
i think the reason why people become a bad sport is because they are poorly socialized.
they probably didn’t have anybody who they felt close to that gave them that talking to.
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That is called being humble and gracious. You can be as mad as you like about losing, that shows you know you could do better. But you graciously say GG WP. and move on.
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why should i say “gg” when it was so stacked against my team that we had no chance? it’s not a good game when you’re destined to lose.
i used to say “not gg, too unbalanced” (even when we won) after a crap game
and smurfs/cheaters/etc dont deserve “respect” or “graciousness”
If you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all 
I don’t say anything if my team has rolled the enemy. But i do try to give compliments for ridiculously skilled shots midgame or funny moments like me and another person managing to kill each other. You can make any game at least neutral if you decide to. Not every game is or can be fun but a lot of it is down to yourself. You can always mute and avoid toxic people.
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that’s what i’m saying, you don’t have to say anything positive if that’s how you’re feeling but you do kinda have to endure it because it’s the social contract that’s expected out of people.
but yeah this is one of the reasons i really think random matchmaking is inferior to the old system of seeking out opponents manually on your own because at that point you can only take it for what it is and not blame the game for giving you imbalanced matches.
That isn’t happening though.
The reason game are one sided is because of mistakes and snowballing.
If you make mistakes and get smashed. Take the L, say GG and learn from them.
as long as the social contract “don’t cheat” is violated i see no reason to be postive about it