Please, behaviour, listen to this

I'm sorry you're dealing with this. It's crazy how far people will go with their aggression. I don't really understand why end game chat is even a thing. It seems rare anything good comes of it.

This is one of the rare advantages of being on console. Someone has to be on the same platform as me to send me a message, and they have to go out of their way to do it. And if they're not very, very careful with thier wording, I can get them suspended or even banned. Not banned from the game, but banned form all online access.

I know people who want the chat to be universal and that's a big no thanks from me, unless they do something about how awful people are in it.

Yeah telling someone they should just isolate themselves within what's already a social endeavor is heartless advice. Not everyone is cool with being told to kill themselves over a video game. It sucks how often I try to message people with nice things only to find out their settings are private, because they're probably fed up with being harassed.

You play on PC because you enjoy the freedom that it gives you.. but complain about others enjoying that freedom as well? Just play on console if you cant bring your self not to close the in game chat... Your social anxiety is unfortunate not anyone problem but your own and hopefully your therapist. And I saying this from a very kind place the internet is already a terrible place riddled with censorship and voids of silence because people fear the back lash of talking at all already we don't need a removal of our in-game chat system here as well. Or some AI to autobans people

The gulf between "you play like trash" and "you should go die" is rather large, my guy. "Everyone should be able to say whatever they like, whenever they like, wherever they like" is the world's most unnuanced take. Even free speech has legal restrictions. Harassing people, hate speech, and threats can get you fired from your job or even arrested in the real world, so you shouldn't be able to type "#########" in something as trivial as a video game and get away with it.

First of all, BHVR bans for things like that, if they are too much. You dont even need to write a Support Ticket, an ingame report is enough.

Seconds, the solution to disable Endgame Chat is not bad or anything. You have a way to not have to bother with those Comments, so use it. Yes, ideally you should not have to do that, but you have to do it and you can do it. Not doing it is kind of strange IMO.

And third you are probably exaggerating or not being very nice when playing, from my own experience I dont really encounter toxic Behavior too much, but it usually happens if someone gets upset about anything which another player has been done. Sure, sometimes those are very insignificant things, but sometimes being upset can be valid. So are you doing anything special that you get negative Endgame Chats that often?

And unrelated - could it be possible that we played against each other yesterday? Have you played as Anon Sadako on Forgotten Ruins yesterday evening/yesterday night? Against a team which let Survivors go to second Hook Stage? Just curious, since you are writing very similar to that person I faced yesterday. EU-Servers.

Oh, I was just asking with my latest paragraph. But your reactions indicates to me that you are also not always nice in Endgame Chat if you come at me with that when I simply asked a question.

Makes sense, barely get any toxicity and Im from NA

Lol what are you doing to people that you get this much hate? Trust me I stick around for end game chats all the time never see anything snow ball to the claim you back except a few scenarios. You reply back and fan the flames. People who off unprompted saying the things that you claim do get banned just from in-game reports because if they do it against you they're doing it against other people. Yet you claim in 2 years. You never see people get banned for this kind of behavior. One either behavior isn't sending you personalized messages which is possible. Or two. These people are only saying things to you and the chats that they are reading shows that you are not helping the situation once again, I don't want to try to accuse you of anything, but your experience just seemed vastly different from mine. Not that I'm an arbiter of this type of thing, but I mean I've been playing games since the '90s and trust me trash talk was way worse back then

I've got a lot of thoughts on this so I'll just dump them all like I tend to do, but in the end, I just don't think BHVR cares. Until shareholders or the press or whoever they're afraid of gets an idea of how bad it is and it makes them look bad, I don't think they're going to change anything.

I've personally been keeping the chat closed recently and just played, never bothering with post game interactions. It's been alright. The games have been so ridiculously sweaty and sweaty players are the most vile in post game chat so nothing of value lost really. Some players take the game so personally it's unreal.

If BHVR wanted to make chat less terrible and much more manageable for themselves too, they could do it like this:

• Add an setting to completely disable lobby and postgame chat in the options, requiring a full restart to put in effect so you can't turn it on or off at will, you have to commit to it. This would also add a "no chat" icon to your name in post game screen, maybe even pregame lobby. Exactly how console players have it, no chat window whatsoever. This would also be helpful for players with chat, because they could see which players can actually see their messages. Console players without chat would obviously have this "no chat" icon, as would muted players, which I'll get to.
  
• Make chat opt out by default, so you have to go into the settings to enable post game chat and pregame lobby chat. Most players wouldn't bother turning it on, even on Epic Games or Steam, because of how toxic it is. It would quickly become a thing of the past and good riddance. If people wanted post game interactions, they could leave their Steam profiles open so people can comment there, or just leave post game chat enabled and hope they find someone else who's bothered to do so as well
  
• Add chat bans, or "mutes" that are separate from game bans. Right now, the only punishment BHVR can give to someone being vile in postgame chat is a game ban, which even I think is too harsh. It doesn't make sense to ban someone from the game completely just because they act terrible on chat. But if you add a separate ban for chat, it would lower the threshhold for what BHVR can punish toxic chatters for significantly. Exactly what would cause a ban would be up to them. They could even add some clear guidelines as like an info box next to the chat window, just so people understood what could get them chat banned.
  
• As a little bonus, add a "GG" button for players that they can click if they enjoyed the match. Clicking this would show everyone you said GG, and everyone except yourself gets 3k extra bloodpoints, like you're gifting everyone else in the lobby some points because you enjoyed playing against them. You could also see who else used their GG button. Maybe you could have some stats that tracked how many GGs you get in your matches, how many matches you say GG yourself, some percentages, etc. If you're in a party, it only counts as one GG for the whole party for obvious reasons. Kind of like the commend systems in Dota, League where you can give other players some props after the game

With this, there would just be less post game chat interactions since fewer people would be using chat, and fewer people that did use chat would use it in games where everyone else had it disabled. Thus less stuff for BHVR to have to moderate in the first place. Plus, the GG button would be a small positive thing where you can choose to reward other players if you enjoyed playing against them.

If you wanted more social interactions, you could still add others either on the platform you're playing on if they're on the same platform, or even directly through DBD if they're not anon and have friend invites on. Or just keep your chat enabled. So the social aspect would still be there. Of course people would still add you on your platform to talk #########, but at that point you just have to tweak your settings on that platform. Still don't get why console players don't get anon mode, must suck for them.

Hell, if they wanted DBD to be more of a party game, BHVR could actually add voice chat to DBD too, but only for players in the same party, not solos. This seems like a no-brainer to me. Wouldn't it be cool to have a game with a console player, add them, get in a party with them and be able to talk to them over voice chat, all within DBD? Of course though this would need to be moderated kinda strictly so survivors wouldn't add people to harrass them in a party since they couldn't talk to them through chat.

I feel like the chat issue is almost entirely solvable by giving the players more options, and clearly signalling to toxic chatters that are mad after a game that "Hey, nobody has the stupid chat enabled, nobody wants to talk to you, shut up and deal with it instead of lashing out like a child." For now I just don't bother with chat at least on killer. It's worthless to me and there's no friends to be made unless you're playing survivor anyway.

So I love you takes they are all good and well thought out the GG button honestly do a lot to help the mood of the community. But you said it in your own conclusion this basically kills chat in the game. ALOT of effort when kill switching it would be easier and have the same effect.

The OP needs to realize that coming to dbd to "make friends" is going to have speed bumps as this isn't a social game it's very anti-social by design. It's a competitive (1) vs 1v1v1v1 with shared goals you will actually benefit from screwing other survivors over on a regular basis. Go to the park or random online chat rooms if your looking for everyone's greeting to you to be nice and cheery but people a lot of people in this game are gonna be heated by the end of the match like it or not and you won't be able to change that and you shouldn't want to! As mentioned this games don't get much less social as a online game then this. So ask of people want to be friends and move on.

Those were the wild west days and I don't miss it. That toxicity turned me off to multi-player for years. Even now, this is the only one I play, and I'm glad there's no VC.

As a DBD player for 4yrs, I have NEVER had game chat on, nor will I ever because: As long as I’ve played ANY online game there has ALWAYS been people who truly say some foul, awful sh*t. Look, I grew up a tomboy around bikers and the military so I’m not offended by much, I’ll play the teabag game as much as the guys because it’s just funny to me. But some people do take things way too far and there’s not much anyone can do about it…it’s the internet where people can be whatever awful person they want to be, and most times they do get away with it. Everyone’s real brave behind a keyboard/controller. It sucks but it’s true. I’m sorry you had to deal with those comments, they are horrible, but you can block chat from those people, and I recommend keeping chat blocked from all but the ones you feel comfortable with. I’ve never had to read crap like that because I have it blocked. Only thing I deal with now is not being able to play certain survivors sometimes because of the BLATANT racists that exist in the world. That is not BHVR problem, that is across gaming/internet/etc problem. The racist players don't even attempt to hide it and I’ll have to switch over to a more mayonaisse character if I want to play at all- it sucks. People suck. I play games to have fun, relax, etc not to deal with more stupidity. Until people learn to be better humans, all of this crap will continue to exist. Play your game, turn chat off, and don’t let the idiots get to you. Haseyana, feel free to send a friend request if you’d like and I’ll be happy to accept.

it comes down to mmr as it always has. Mmr and sbmm has been a cancer to video games since its inception. Back in the 2000's multiplayer was ment to be fun nowadays we gotta play like our lives depend on it leading to terrible games that ruin peoples mood and they take it out on other people who are just trying to have a good time.