How TOXIC is our community? (Poll)

Worst so far.

I never thought that’d be the case after playing a MOBA.

######### christ, finally someone that say that he is doing a poll is actually using a tool like strawpool instead of asking people to answer 1 or 2 in the comment

It's a ######### christmas miracle

@KingB said:
Ever try to have a conversation here on the forums? Some people are nice and willing to have a constructive discussion. Most just repeat the same thing they heard elsewhere while having a condescending attitude, like how dare you disagree with them. 

Take that back you (Insert character main here)! You're just a salty try hard, Git Gud mate! (Insert Photoshop DBD meme here)!

@Vietfox said:

@Dustin said:

@Vietfox said:

@Dragonredking said:
[BAD WORD] christ, finally someone that say that he is doing a poll is actually using a tool like strawpool instead of asking people to answer 1 or 2 in the comment

It's a [BAD WORD] christmas miracle

Tbh i don't understand why there's no poll option when creating a discussion. I've suggested it twice, one in Wishlist and the other one in Forum Feedback.

There's a lot of suggestions on how to improve their forum but I'm convinced they're leaving it as is for now since it seemed like they stopped working on the forum abruptly during the time they were asking for feedback.

Like this thread is still getting updated yet I see a lot of unfinished stuff listed.

https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/765/beta-forums-public-changelog-and-wip-stuff

I'd honestly like to know the progress on some of that stuff.

This one would be awesome: "Ability to send a private message to another member."

Worse is that it is actually already implemented, but only moderator can use it, I got an mp from Peanit when I did a suggestion about the chinesse spam bot on one of the spam thread.

@Dragonredking said:

Worse is that it is actually already implemented, but only moderator can use it, I got an mp from Peanit when I did a suggestion about the chinesse spam bot on one of the spam thread.

I thought that was available at the start but they disabled it for users because spam. I said this about ratings but ratings / DM's should be disabled until you get 50 post for example and that would detour spam. Although one of the mods said that wasn't currently possible iirc.

Like yeah it would suck not having EVERYTHING at the start but it would prevent someone from just registering and flooding the forums with nonsense without a little effort.

I'll quit posting about this though sorry for derail @Nickenzie

Nickenzie said:

Recently, I been hearing a lot of people say our community is very TOXIC. While I agree there are some fog travelers who can be quite immature, I can't say I agree with the exaggeration that are community is the most TOXIC community.

Please tell me what you think in this poll:
https://strawpoll.com/w74gga1a

Additionally, tell me your reasoning on why you picked a certain number! Perhaps the majority of fog travelers don't know what the true meaning of TOXIC is or maybe some things seem TOXIC but aren't actually TOXIC.

Discuss.

Meh. Depends what toxic is because I myself have mistaken a supposed play as toxic before but I retract my opinion from that. However is t-bagging toxic or DCing? camping and tunneling? It’s hard to really even talk about these because survivor mains will say their side and killers will say their side and they tend to butt heads instead so I guess it is toxic In that sense. And even if you t-bag you should accept the consequences of the killer being toxic and vice verse of the killer is just camping then gen rush and t-bag him on the way out it’s simple. Personally I love it. It brightens my day seeing t-baggers because I love having the opportunity to crush their egos it’s hilarious. I’ve had a poor lad in the same match t bag me in the beginning to walking to a hook waiting for me to hook him for my 4K. I don’t even “tunnel” or “camp” when they t-bag me I just smile, get excited and focus and I just teach them a lesson lol. Does that make me toxic? Idek 
Edit: I’d say 5? It’s half-half because I mean I play console, no end game chat and I’ve had my messages set to friends only for a long time so I don’t usually get anyone messaging me after unless they really are angry and go out of there way to add me which I just block them lol. So idk 

@Dragon_of_Fantasy said:

@GodDamn_Angela said:
I gave it a 6.
It is an online multiplayer game so it automatically is inherently infected with toxicity. I've played many other online multiplayer games and, to be honest, DBD has its massively toxic players but all-in-all it's by far one of the better in that regard.
Just as quick examples of other games:
I'd give League of Legends a 9, maybe a 10, as it is easily one of the most toxic communities ever. SMITE is also pretty bad.
WOW is a 5. The community is tight and many are friendly but when it comes to joining groups you better be built exactly how they want you to be or GTFO.
I'd give FFXIV a 2, maybe even a 1, as it is by and large the best online community I've ever been a part of. Most everyone is nice and willing to help each other out.

I agree as these were similar reasons of how I rated DbD. Especially LoL where you can be stuck in a 30-60 min. match and 2-3 people are arguing in chat. Feels like a waste of time especially when players don't want to leave b/c they don't want to get timed out or lose rank. Not sure if it's different with today's LoL, but that's what I remembered in the past playing mostly for rank.

I haven't played in nearly 2 years (since Camille came out) but I assume it is the same if the LoL Forums are any indication.

The results are pretty clear. The vast majority voted that the community is more toxic than not. I voted 6. I feel that the community is more toxic than average, but not as bad as some people think.

Baby, can't you see
I'm chatting
A guy like you should [BAD WORD] [BAD WORD] [BAD WORD]
It's [BAD WORD]
I'm reporting

@The_Crusader said:
Hands down the most toxic community I've ever seen. The only game where I have to make my steam profile private and change my username constantly.

That is totaly my post. Never have i ever encountered a community this toxic, and i play games (pc, console, board, and cards) in different communitys for over 35 years now, and started online games about 21 years ago. I never had my steam profile private before i played this game. now it is. Change my name from time to time.

The main problem from my perspective is the fact that a lot of players are killer or survivors only (or at least it seemed to be that way). In other games, your enemy today can be your ally tommorow, and since most games are symetrical, most people tend to see the same problems. Here, the "solo-playmode-players" have absolut oppsite goals and views, with some player like myself playing both sides almost equaly.

To me, toxic is mainly disrespecting your fellow gamers, no matter which role they take in this game.
Thats why i belive tbagging is toxic, because in the majority of cases it is meant to be.

But most of the time, its not the killer that is toxic (although that might happen too): Most of the time its the survivors, basicly encoraged by bad game design. Endless looping is as boring and frustrating as camping and tunnelning, but all three are not only fair strategy, but sometimes needed to achive your objective. But being on the receiving end can feel very toxic (especially when one side uses additional advantages, that makes the strategy more effective, and sometimes unnessesary (like having a rank 1 runner with his swf rank 13 vs the rank 13 killer, or being an experienced killer in lower ranks due to rank reset or deranking.

Also the excessive points one single player gets from unhooking (while the one luring the killer away or just being a second too late or just being more cautious (or the one not wanting to do the unhook while in terror radius)) promotes a "me vs other survivors" mentality.

A redesign for assigning bloodpoints might help here (no extra points for hatch, only 2k for survivel yourself, + additional blookpoints for each other surviving teammate).

10 has the most votes. What a surprise. I main killer and barely get any toxic survivors so I still don't get it though.
I'm guessing some of those people believe simply looping, gen rushing or mildly camping is toxic.

Honestly I would love to see the age statistics for this game and specifically the users here. I can't imagine many people who grew up playing Halo 2 or the early COD could say this game is any more toxic than them. People literally screaming ######### into your ear the whole match.

Vietfox said:

@brokedownpalace said:
People literally screaming ######### into your ear the whole match.

Isn't that lovely? :chuffed:

It's a real treat. I always played a pink Master Chief so you can imagine the names I got called. The thing is I don't put stock in the opinions of strangers over the internet.

GodDamn_Angela said:

I gave it a 6.

It is an online multiplayer game so it automatically is inherently infected with toxicity. I've played many other online multiplayer games and, to be honest, DBD has its massively toxic players but all-in-all it's by far one of the better in that regard.

Just as quick examples of other games:

I'd give League of Legends a 9, maybe a 10, as it is easily one of the most toxic communities ever. SMITE is also pretty bad.

WOW is a 5. The community is tight and many are friendly but when it comes to joining groups you better be built exactly how they want you to be or GTFO.

I'd give FFXIV a 2, maybe even a 1, as it is by and large the best online community I've ever been a part of. Most everyone is nice and willing to help each other out.

Lol I loved ff14. It just depends on which server u get. Goblin was cool and leviathan for the most part was cool but leviathan had the super try hards who would BM u if u didn't know every single dungeon mechanic like the back of ur hand. Goblin had people who would kindly explain the mechanic if u struggled with it