Entitled Players, do yall act this way in other games?
I've been playing DBD for close to 2 years now and gaming in general for like 10 idk. I'm confused, I've never been part of a community with so much entitlement and animosity towards the other side. Never before have I gotten lectures from players for playing the wrong way in their minds (accept when using a VAL in MW 2019). So to the entitled players, do you act like this in other games, or is it just this one?
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Sorry if you're not playing for my fun you're a ######### person. (joke)
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Why this game though? Like its not even like banter ######### talking. Its lectures.
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This is a good read about why DBD is toxic.
The game design encourages a lack of empathy.
http://gamestudies.org/2004/articles/deslauriers_iseutlafrancestmartin_bonenfant
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Yes
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Fun fact, nearly all other games have no "two sides" but a general pool of characters everyone plays from. Even a game with two sides like wow (horde vs alliance) shares all classes.
The asymmetrical pvp genre aside from DBD is pretty much dead and never managed to catch foot.
It lies in the nature of this game that there are player enjoying one side more Ethan the other for various reasons and identify in arguments more with their favorite.
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I only act entitled in this game as I am not emotionally invested in any other.
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I don't think that entitled players are here to tell why or even admit that they are entitled. I see them on other social media sites.
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The thing that really sets DBD apart from your typical toxic VG garbo is the crazy level of "rules for you, but not for me" mentality you see in the community, stemming from a near total lack of perspective from a huge portion of the player base.
I'd be interested to see an accurate accounting of how many players exclusively or primarily (95%+) play one side, I think this asymmetry is the key to the whole thing. I mean that seems kind of implicit, really, psych/sociology 101 type stuff.
I have no way of proving it, but I would bet that a huge portion of DBD players play one side almost exclusively, and view the other side with ignorant disdain. If you ask most people will say they play both sides, but I think that is to lend credibility to whatever argument they happen to be making, and probably only cross over for the occasional daily.
It's kind of understandable, if you want to git gud at a chosen role (and don't have thousands of hours to burn), choosing one and sticking to it seems like the best bet (though it really isn't, since "knowing your enemy" is pretty important). And I think a lot of people really enjoy the tribalism, and lean into it; really identifying with their preferred side.
I don't a have a ton of hope that things will get better in this regard.
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I would say I play killer 90% of the time and rarely surv. If you look at social media like Tiktok, you can clearly see how many claim to play both sides regularly(and how toxic they really are), but in truth they only play one side. The surv complain about killers and killers about survs. Nerfs are constantly being called for to weaken the other side even more than it already is without.
But let's be honest...Dbd players would be less toxic if they were punished as well.
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Look at games like Fortnite, Call of Duty, Battlefield, ect. It's all the competitive games that have toxic communities.
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But this game isnt a comp game, this game takes very little skill. There is nothing to be gained from this game out of all games.
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Most definitely
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Probably not considering most games don't have "sit there and do nothing until you're kicked out of the game" as a core mechanic.
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That's why I usually run the perk in most of my survivor games. I like it
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It is when you add SBMM. That's what competitive games use.
My point is that competitive players tend to be the saltiest/hateful. They'll all find in SBMM games.
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Ask the developers. They are the ones breeding this toxicity with the way they balance the game. They even called mori's "toxic" in a live stream but keys were just fun..
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Power trip because of 4vs1.
They want to feel superior to others.
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Unless you're saying something that's a racial slur or would get someone charged with uttering threats if it were said in real life the developers don't seem to think it's toxic. The toxicity comes from the top down.
The developers have spoken out more strongly about farming (they don't like it) than they have people whose only goal is to make other players miserable.
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What exactly do you get in CoD out of the match? XP, just like in DBD.
Everything is competive as long as you want to play it competive.
Hell, shrek is officially being played competive.
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