I'm a little surprised about all the threads about toxicity
Before I start, let me explain my context and how I try to understand everything to that topic.
I have play until near mid of last year 10 matches+/each day. Then I stopped playing mostly with month or weeks breaks and sometimes I have done and do besides that little test matches to see how dbd in certain technical aspects has developt.
And to come to the topic with this context: I am a bit surprised about the frequency of threads that talk on one way or another so much about toxicity.
Don't get me wrong - toxicity were always there, but without a lie - the most of my matches back in the day were with survivors who were either neutral, or friendly. Sometimes very friendly. I remember how I talked as killermain 15-30 minutes with several survivors in the endgame chat, after a match, sometimes.
I mean it was clear - I was the killer - they were the survivor but we have still talk nicley and with respect to each other.
What I read today here in those forums (since some time) gives me the expression, that this has died out in dbd.
Has so much changed, just in a year?
Would be a pity. I had love the talks in the endgame chat with the survivors about the match and dbd in general...
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I don't run into that much post-game toxicity. But people are also more likely to remember bad experiences than good experiences, so who knows.
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This. It's an outdated biological reaction from when our ancesters were constantly watching out for sabre-toothed tigers and the like. The brain remembers bad experiences more strongly in order to learn from mistakes.
Personally, I'm quite outgoing in the game, and will message people post match with compliments or jokes, so the messages which come back are usually friendly. I've not had that many bad experiences at all, but I guarantee I remember those better.
I'd say just go in with a positive mindset and be modest in victory and gracious in defeat. You'll find many more nice people that way.
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DbD has continued to grow in size, so it's not unreasonable to expect that more less-than-kind players might have been added to the population pool along with everyone else.
From my own experience, players have been much more verbally aggressive in the last few months. When I was grinding out the end of the Rift through August and September, I could basically count on receiving at least 1 nasty message from a survivor every time that I played DbD (on console to boot, so it took more effort on their part than the post-game chat on PC requires). It got so bad at one point that I actually disabled messages for a while to avoid some of this negativity.
Honestly, I attribute it more to heightened tensions from current events at the moment. The pandemic has surely been a stressful, inconvenient, and possibly frightening/dangerous time for a lot of people (along with various other concurrent events) and some players may unleash this extra frustration towards others online. Doesn't help that DbD's rather derpy balance of power can increase player aggravation pretty quickly and spark the fire that leads to toxic speech.
The awesome people do still exist, but their kindness and sportsmanship may be getting drowned out by all the noise from angrier players.
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I played some kill-trap pig last night. Tampered timer and jigsaw sketch, along with the game offering for flavor. The definition of RNG kills. Once it's active, it's totally up to fate if you live or die. I let everyone who got it off escape. And my reward? Teabagged at the exit gate. I gave up after 3 games, and then ran into a very wholesome SWF with names with "we boop the pig" but I was no longer playing the pig at that point; but still had a very fun and engaging match with ggs all around. I wondered where those players were just a few games ago.
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Actually, in my experience the game is less toxic now than it was a year ago. A lot of it really is monkey brain monkey braining. (Or pre-sapiens hominid brain pre-sapiens hominid braining, but that rolls off the tongue a little less.)
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I see very few dumb people like that as killer. I see a "couple" as survivor (i.e the number goes up to 1 in 15 matches instead of 1 in 30). The amount of times I've had people talk ######### at me in the endgame chat over my nearly 2 year of playing I could probably count them on 2 hands. So it begs the question: what the hell are you forum killer mains doing to these survivors so often that they go out of their way to talk ######### more often than not?
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Actually, I noticed a pattern: you get way more trashtalking if you write "gg" in the postgame chat. Looks like it is what opens a can of worms. If you don't write anything but stay in the postgame chat - you still get nothing.
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I've disabled the end-game chat so I don't know if I am experiecing toxicity or not. But then again, the reason why I disabled it in the first place was due to people shitting on me.
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People seem to chalk this up to bad memories being more memorable than good ones, or not encountering toxicity personallty, but OP is referring to an easily observable recent trend in threads about toxicity. We should focus on what is causing this to happen just recently and not before. I wouldn't know as I have been playing for about a month, but was toxicity just not a thing years ago, or did a coincidental influx of toxic players happen just now? Maybe it's related to a relatively recent game feature?
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