DBD has the most toxic community ever ive seen

I've noticed the extreme toxicity as well. I've played a lot of mortal Kombat 11, and that is just as bad if not worse, but I understand that more since it's a 1v1 fighting game.

I think the balance of the game is partly the reason here. It's 4v1 with completely opposite roles, so balance must be harder to achieve compared to other multiplayer games.

Off topic: The Pokemon community is overwhelmingly friendly despite lots of children making up the player base lol

It's just how people are today. Someone fired a gunshot right through my window a month ago, like 1 meter from my head. People are crazy.

Sadly it's true, I had to stop receiving msgs on PS4 because people would often send me "I wish you were dead" msgs, which isn't funny at all, but there are also a few other game communities that are worse.

DBD's toxicity is at the point that it's obsessive. If you kill the wrong person in the game they will sit on your Steam profile and comment on it for twelve hours. If you kill the right person they'll stalk and harass you. You people are pretty crazy.

I don't understand your list at all. Besides for League of Legends... The other games you don't even have a way of communicating with your opponents. So how the hell are they toxic? I can say that I've ever had a toxic moment on CS Go, Fortnite, or COD.

Dude, those games have people being toxic to teammates, during a game, routinely.

I'm honestly doubting if you've played CS:GO in all seriousness if you're really going to claim you haven't had a toxic moment in that game. Let there be one guy who doesn't know the maps in even a silver ranked game and watch the abuse fly after each and every round.

I can only assume you just mute everyone every game or something?

At least in DBD it's written abuse after the game that no one really is compelled to listen to or read.

Fair enough, if you're playing with friends it will shield you from most of the toxicity in something like CS:GO or COD. Obviously with league unless you're playing ranked fives you're dealing with three randoms at minimum so it's always gonna be one guy who is the turd in the punchbowl.

It does warm my hear to see there are some positive people in CS:GO nowadays, in the years I played it once you were past silver it was cutthroat as all hell, people would say some downright ugly stuff to you if you weren't pulling your weight.

This game is definitely top 3. The game itself essentially encourages it with how much it punishes players for things beyond their control, and rewards them for exploiting well known issues that never get fixed. if an entire patch cycle was spent actually fixing half the broken mess in this game, the health of the community would improve.

Let's just say this community has a few bright cookies.

Also Ochido didn't really help to alleviate the already existing toxicity...

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Yeah. I have to agree with OP. Its the most toxic gaming community Ive ever seen. I play on ps4. Dedicated Killer. I turn the option to message me on or off depending on my mood, how many beers Ive had etc. The amount of hate messages I get is crazy. Even if I didnt camp or tunnel. I get messages telling me I did, Im trash, i should kill myself (LoL), ive had players wish cancer and fatal car accidents on me. As far as Im concerned the madder they are, the better I did. Its A PVP game. Someone's not gonna be happy with the result in the end. And you can't win them all. I think its the younger "entitled snowflake" generation mostly that doesnt realize that. If they cant win every time its not fair, has to be nerfed. People even try to invent rules that only benefit them. Like no camping, tunneling slugging etc. But they think to DC on the 1st time they get downed is cool. I know killers are toxic too, but survivors are so much worse, they had to put end game collapse in because of them. And you can bet if youre tbagging at every pallet, flash light clicking, not readying up in lobby, Im looking to take you out first. If youre the only one I get Im ok with that.

Yeah GTA5 online is right there too. The amount of people with super loud Mics, rap music blasting, babies crying, parents screaming in the background is crazy too. And the guys who just commit suicide over and over rather than get killed, to inflate their K/D/R. Just as bad as the DC'ers in DBD.

I wonder if the rankings influence toxicity. Are people more toxic at higher tiers? Is harassment more prevalent in middle tiers where try-hards fail time and time again to make red ranks?

I agree with most of what you said. Except the part about destroying other people's fun. That is the killer's job. And the survivors' job. Its PVP. Someone's gonna be mad. I usually do OK, Im not the best. Usually get 3 or 4 kills. Sometimes 3 or 4 get away. Thats how it goes. The problem(toxicity) is people who can't handle losing. They start messaging hate, harrassing other people because they lost. I've had people msg me after I wasted all 4 of them, got double any of their points, and the person is telling me Im trash, I have no skill. I camped, i tunneled blah, blah. Then they come on here begging for nerfs to anything they don't like. Ive even had voice messages sent on psn. Sounded like he was 8 years old. Shouldn't even be playing the game. Its pvp. Its competition. No one is entitled to win, easy points or a fun match every time. Ive had alot of matches where all 4 escaped but i was laughing the whole time. It was still fun. You win some, you lose some. Deal with it. If you cant handle losing you shouldnt be playing any competitive games.

People rage out in every game. But this game takes the cake for post match hate. I think its funny. That is until the devs start nerfing everything because sore losers cry about it. MoM & Ruin come to mind, theres alot more.

Some fighting game communities actually get together and play offline. They bring their toxicity out into the real world. Tournaments can be pretty messed up. There is a lot of sexual harrassment and occasional violence at the big ones.

Why is it that every time somebody's like "hey this game has a really toxic community" the first response is to say "bu-but other communities are worse!"

Like yeah man, there's usually a worse thing no matter what you're talking about. That doesn't mean that there isn't a problem here. Yes, sometimes LoL has a worse community but at least I see Riot trying to make changes and trying to resolve the issue. I see racist, vile crap all the time in the post game chat in DBD and I don't think the report function does anything. What changes have the developers made to try and fix their community?

"Behavior Studio's" creates a game that's meant to show human reaction... Will a Human playing Killer be completely horrible? At what cost will a survivor go, just to escape? Will they leave their teammates? Will they sandbag them? What will the community be like when we pit them against eachother?

This entire game is one giant social experiment to how horrid humanity can be toward eachother when it comes to putting their own personal gains over anothers.

Why are people comparing different games/ communities to DBD? That's the not the point here. More often than not, this community freaking sucks because survivors feel entitled to this and that and killers feel like they're owed 4 kills.

This is why I try to play both sides so I can see both sides of the coin. We all know this community is rough to get into and horrible for new players. How hard is it to NOT play like an ass? Forget about your precious ranks and pips and just play for fun? There's literally zero incentive to hit red ranks; no leaderboards to speak of. What do you gain for raging and being upset if you got outplayed or lost?