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Huge rise in toxic endgame chat.
Haven't really played much in the last 6-12 months apart from checking out some of the new updates and killers. Decided to reinstall a few days ago and there seems to be a huge rise in toxic endgame chat. It's literally every 2nd game you get 2-3 people talking crap regardless of the outcome. I made a few in-game reports, but came to the conclusion I really can't be bothered with that kind of toxicity anymore so just uninstalled again. Before it seemed more tolerable with maybe 1 out of 5 games getting some disgruntled survivor giving it all that in endgame chat, but it's definitely took a more serious tone now with a lot of swearing and trash talk.
BHVR definitely need to take a look at more serious action on this kind of behaviour & start dishing out account bans for extended periods of time. Its really not a good look for the game. Maybe it's not really changed at all and I just tolerated it before. Having spend so much time away I can see why newer players would be put off by this and why DBD has a reputation for having such a toxic player base.
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I'm on console so that chat box doesn't exist for me, but I thought our PC cousins could turn it off if they wished to?
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You can't stop people from chatting toxic. If they threaten you or your family, or dox you or something, please report it, of course. But yeah, trash talkers are gonna trash talk, and this game's got it about as bad as you'll see. Someone said something interesting recently, that games that have been around for 10 years or more have the most toxic fanbases, because of the elitism. I've been guilty of it, as have countless others, expecting all players new and old to know exactly what to do, to always perform excellently. But that's simply not human. Although, I'm less focused on players needing to play good, and more focused on the balance and matchmaking being good, so that casuals would theoretically not affect us much. But I digress.
What people really need is to stop seeing every play the opponent makes as a personal attack. The play can be unfair, OP, skilless, miserable, whatever you want to call it. But how do you know? How do you know that it's the intention of the other person to make you feel mad or powerless? Because literally, there's so many people who assume that, every match they play. They had a super easy match? It's either "That was a nice, honorable opponent" or "GG EZ!" They had a very hard match? "Oh my god, this person is SO TOXIC!" when they're just playing the game normally, to win, or sometimes even to have fun, people have that reaction still. Just emotionally detach yourself. You can get mad you lost a match, or that someone was legit being toxic like tbagging, hitting on hook, or post-game trash talk. But not everyone is out to ruin your day specifically.
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why do players complain about players being toxic in chat when they can just turn it off? If PC players hate it that much just give it to console.
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