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Why is this community so aggressive?

Not only do people send angry messages in the game, but everyone attacks each other in the forums. I’ve never been part of such a salty and angry community so I’m just wondering why??? It saddens me to see people being so mean to each other. Like you can’t even voice your opinion without someone attacking you for it.

Comments

  • Dead_by_Gadfly
    Dead_by_Gadfly Member Posts: 3,772

    Because despite shat people proclaim its a competitive game and competitive peooke can get nasty

  • Ryuhi
    Ryuhi Member Posts: 3,915

    most of the problems in this game wouldn't be anywhere near as bad if the majority of the community wasn't the epitome of toxicity.

  • cheetocultleader
    cheetocultleader Member Posts: 1,260

    Playing this game enough can put you in a bad mood, and then there's your typical trolls too. I think it comes with the territory of PVP.

  • Nebula
    Nebula Member Posts: 1,400

    I've played PvP games my whole life and can tell you that in every game where you pit player vs player there will always be toxicity. People are naturally competitive and direct competition can bring out the worst in some people. It's just like how you see ######### talk in sports, or any game with a voice chat feature.

  • Slickstyles
    Slickstyles Member Posts: 446

    Smol peepee. Big aggressive.

  • Bovinity
    Bovinity Member Posts: 1,522
  • Ryuhi
    Ryuhi Member Posts: 3,915

    Seconded. That said, I feel that the online only aspect of it tends to be a lot less wholesome than the local in-person scenes. I'm sure thats not a coincidence.

  • MadLordJack
    MadLordJack Member Posts: 8,814

    Because the sides aren't even (yes, I know I'm stating the obvious, I know the game is assymeteical), the developers refuse to clearly define an in-game victory condition that actually works (right now we only have pips, and it sucks), and all of the broken things that someone can bring into a game isn't reflected in the scorecards. That gets coupled with the terrible matchmaking, general salty PVP attitude and a healthy dose of "I DS'd you so you MUST have tunelled me" and "I got my 1 facecamp kill so I won" mentality to provide the perfect melting pot of misunderstanding, where everything is subjective and the developers worship extremely basic statistics and refuse to take into account the large, glaring details that HEAVILY skew them.

    Seriously, my highschool stats teacher would have backhanded me from here to the next town over if I blatantly ignored so much data.

  • HarleyQuinn
    HarleyQuinn Member Posts: 247

    LOL that last bit had me laughing. But yeah you make some good points. I just wish there was a little more kindness, that’s all. It seems so often that it’s easy to be mean while being nice takes effort 🤷‍♀️

  • thrawn3054
    thrawn3054 Member Posts: 5,897

    Because people suck. People hiding behind the anonymity of a screen so more. Add to that years of frustration with the game itself. Balance and bug issues and the like. And people get pretty angry.

  • NinjaDette1
    NinjaDette1 Member Posts: 1,289

    It’s just a bunch of wild savages.

  • Deathslinger
    Deathslinger Member Posts: 570

    At this point I don’t know if the game keeps breaking me or the people who play it, either way I usually stop playing after I hit level one. So many other amazing games to play~

  • Ryuhi
    Ryuhi Member Posts: 3,915

    you just get to a point where you remember that you're voluntarily subjecting yourself to abuse. Thats not what games are supposed to be about.

  • seki23
    seki23 Member Posts: 833

    because the most important people who played the game were really toxic back in the day and some of them still are, lots of poeple copied them so is what it is.

  • jisp3r
    jisp3r Member Posts: 317
    edited July 2020

    Humans and internet... Everyone thinks they own the truth.

    Also it's a game.. Most of the players are still immature because of age

  • burt0r
    burt0r Member Posts: 4,166

    Additionally to that comes the protection by online anonymity. It is the same in every online PvP game with any competitive gameplay like lol, DotA, r6s, rocket league and so on.

    As soon as people are save from any repercussions except angry verbal retaliation, they vent their anger and frustration and let it rip. In in-game chats, voicechat, on the individual forum or reddit.

    This anonymity is the basis for all toxicity online because I think more than 50% of the toxic people online would not show such behavior in real life. Or their upbringing might have been rough.