Why this community is as bad as it is.
I first realized this after watching this video
in which the guy complains about toxic survivors and how whiny survivors are. he calls survivors b**hes and effectively name-calls the entire runtime of the video. It perfectly illustrates what I think truly ruins this community for everyone.
it isn't just toxicity, it's a lack of self-awareness and empathy. Survivors complain about things, and whether they are really unfair or just a skill issue, killers don't take them seriously and name-call, and vice versa. every criticism, be fair or unwarranted, is completely disregarded by the other side. The community effectively becomes a pawing match between each other like this clip from Buffy.
And then both sides go on to make rant videos about how annoying and rude the other side is as if both sides aren't equally rude. Killers tunnel, hit on hook, and bleed out survivors. Survivors t-bag and Gen Rush. There is zero difference in either side's level of toxicity, and if you think there is, it's because you only experience one side's toxicity because you main one side. There's always so much venom when people say stuff like "Oh you're a survivor main" or "Oh you're a killer main" as if the game doesn't literally have two sides in which both NEED to be played for the game to function. One side cannot go on without the other, so why must both sides try their absolute hardest to make the other side quit ???
When I see videos like this all I can think is about how pathetic it is. neither side is happy, but both sides act all morally superior than the other. There is no "war on killers", nor is there a "war on survivors", both sides are fighting with each other for NO REASON. This game is designed to be imbalanced because it literally has to be. And there can be some things that are slightly overpowered. There is no need to bully people for running things the devs still have in the game. I seriously wonder if half of this community even likes the game with how much they hate almost every mechanic. I personally don't play the event multiplier but that's just because I like getting flashbang saves, and with the Insta hook mechanic it's very hard to get them. But do I complain and whine and moan? NO! Do I yell at killers for using the Insta hook mechanic? NO!
If a killer is running the Vecna perk with franklins, you should just go "Oh well, I can't use my item. It's almost like I probably have hundreds of them." instead of harassing a killer for literally running 2 perks. And if a survivor is running Distortion, you should go "Oh well, I can't use my aura reading perk. It's almost like I have three other perk slots." I truly could not imagine being a BHVR developer, they must have so many gray hairs from this community and all our toddlerish bickering.
It's fair to go "Oh darn this perk is not fair" but it isn't okay to go "You should ######### because you're using a perk in a video game." Like??? We're grown adults are we not???
Anyway, thanks for reading this rant, hopefully, some of you will realize that the bickering is pointless and annoying, but I'm sure some of you will read this and go "WOW, his entire point is devalidated because……… he's an Ace main or something!!!!" But I truly don't care. Devalidate my opinion if you want, but you know it's true.
TLDR: This game's community is actively being ruined by both sides of the game pretending like the other side is at war with them, when truly they are both just getting angry at each other equally, and it is all very very stupid because it's just a perk/item in a video game. Criticism is valid, but bullying isn't.
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It's a game and no one wants to be the loser. Some people can't accept that and get tilted/angry and say things. I can understand the annoyance of playing survivor and getting tunneled, it's why you see people running tons and tons of anti-tunnel now. On the opposite end, Generators will fly if survivors do them which is why you see lots and lots of slowdown now from killers. The toxicity is just a side effect of be annoyed by seeing the same 3-4 killers every game with the same perk set ups and tunneling. On the opposite side it's gen speeds, flashlights, harassing killers in endgame for whatever reason, and dealing with certain perks/map offerings constantly.
Not saying it's right but that's the state of the game because of the "meta" currently.0 -
I've seen people talk like the person playing the opposing side is their opposition in real life and not like we're all people playing the same video game together. It's mind-boggling. If I'm playing survivor, the person playing killer is not my enemy, but try explaining that to some of the people in this community and they'll double down like we're in an actual war.
So often, instead of saying "they're playing to win," "they're playing for an achievement," it's "they're ruining my match." Everyone wants to punish others for doing something they don't like. Survivors hate killers, killers hate survivors, survivors hate each other. And some of it is definitely BHVR's fault. Like BHVR could create community challenges that foster a sense of community and working together towards a goal, but instead their "community challenges" are souped-up log-in targets. They could create an event that doesn't increase the animosity between killers and survivors, but instead they give killers tools to hook and kill faster while survivors need extra time to gallivant around the map to get the good rewards. BHVR's event design enhances conflicts between the roles instead of softening conflicts for a more casual experience.
So many people take this game too seriously, they take everything that happens personally, and they see every loss as a slight against them.
Not everyone in the community is like this, of course. There are plenty of perfectly fine, reasonable people to converse with. The problem is the reasonable people are not the loud people.
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I think the saddest thing is that this mindset came from the community itself. Everyone pushed for the right to be able to play the game however you want regardless of how it may affect the other side. And then it got surprised at how the community lacks empathy, plays selfishly, and insults, demonizes, and belittles one another… over a video game.
Kind of a monster of our own making really.3
