What a shocker!
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The problem starts with these companies feeling obligated to police what you can say over chat. Just to be clear it's advertisers and payment services that necessitate that. The whole thing about trying to force a "non-toxic community" is a gaslight.
2 things can be true at the same time.
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One thing I don’t understand is why the built in tools for self managing are insufficient, such as mute and block. If willing, I would be open to hearing your experience with that.
These tools have improved immensely over the years. It was particularly bad in those days because there was no option for private or party voice chat and a lot of games came with 3-day trial cards for Xbox Live which allowed people to make tons of sock puppet accounts to evade blocking.
I don't really play FPS's any more and I haven't turned on an Xbox in about 7 years. I just play on PC now, almost exclusively with a gaming community on discord comprised of online and IRL friends. My experience is very curated now and the games I play either have minimal social interaction or are well known for their welcoming communities (eg Warframe). It felt a little bit like admitting defeat, but shutting off the public mic and just sticking to private VCs and servers has been a good way of dealing with it. I certainly don't get rape and death threats with a side of doxxing these days.
lol who downvotes someone’s factual personal account?
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IME in RL I don't get told to KMS because I'm not trying, I get told to KMS because my teammate won't rotate and I fail to defend a 2v1 while they're fucking around on the other end of the field. Or my favorite, where they'll fake rotate and then overcommit. Then I'm the one who doesn't rotate (even though I spent 80% of the match defending because "I got it! I got it! I got it!")
My favourite message to give on Rocket League:
IndiBrony: [TEAM] All yours...
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lol who downvotes someone’s factual personal account?
Welcome to being a woman on the internet.
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If a low stakes game makes you so furious that you wish for someone to die, you should not be allowed to play these games.
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I will never understand why the hell people tilt so hard for an online game. Aren't free time activities supposed to be fun?
Personally speaking, I think it's addiction to the game. I played the game Enlisted for a few years and became a veteran player. It irritated me so much when I got inexperienced players on my team and I was carrying. I insulted my team mates in the chat a fair few times out of frustration. It just wasn't enjoyable at all, yet I kept booting the game up every day.
Competitive online games really affect my mood, they make me so angry and I can't help it. It's unhealthy when a video game is actually ruining your day.
I just stick to singleplayer games now.
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Danish kiss is when you squirt cheese or fruit into their mouth beforehand
what about bavarian creme?
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I will never understand why the hell people tilt so hard for an online game. Aren't free time activities supposed to be fun?
Back when I still played ranked in online games, I always felt like if I didn't have Don't Stop Me Now by Queen playing in the back of my head... I just wasn't in the right mood to play.
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If a low stakes game makes you so furious that you wish for someone to die, you should not be allowed to play these games.
Agreed, they need to improve their skills enough to make it happen instead of merely passively hoping that the world improves itself.
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Let me put it in terms a normie can understand. You show up to a game of pick up basketball (local league) and one person is wearing high heels (off meta) the second person shows up late, and the third person doesn't know how to block a simple pass. How is that not gonna upset you?
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Let me put it in terms a normie can understand. You show up to a game of pick up basketball (local league) and one person is wearing high heels (off meta) the second person shows up late, and the third person doesn't know how to block a simple pass. How is that not gonna upset you?
What world do you live in where more people play basketball than online video games?
Even then, I don't think there's a way someone on my team could be so bad that I even raise my voice at them, much less verbally belittle them. Whenever I have a useless teammate I think "Damn, they must be new. I don't think we're winning this one." And then I do my best and I have fun.
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What world do you live in where more people play basketball than online video games?
Even then, I don't think there's a way someone on my team could be so bad that I even raise my voice at them, much less verbally belittle them. Whenever I have a useless teammate I think "Damn, they must be new. I don't think we're winning this one." And then I do my best and I have fun.
This is easily the bougiest comment I've read in a while. What world might they live in, where more people play IRL sports than more expensive online games?
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Just play EA games. You can say anything.
Fuck EA.
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I miss when we’d get French players on Xbox Live voice chat and playfully abuse in other in our own languages (I know enough French of that sort).
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Let me put it in terms a normie can understand. You show up to a game of pick up basketball (local league) and one person is wearing high heels (off meta) the second person shows up late, and the third person doesn't know how to block a simple pass. How is that not gonna upset you?
Aren't you playing games to have fun?
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Let me put it in terms a normie can understand. You show up to a game of pick up basketball (local league) and one person is wearing high heels (off meta) the second person shows up late, and the third person doesn't know how to block a simple pass. How is that not gonna upset you?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Let's put it in my terms: you're in a hostile takeover, you snatch us up for some green mail, but you're not expecting some poison pill to be running around the building, am I right?
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I miss when we’d get French players on Xbox Live voice chat and playfully abuse in other in our own languages (I know enough French of that sort).
I so miss þe playful abuse between strangers in game via voice. Nostalgia for a certain time this world may never feel again, expressed on a platform that is so anti casual-confrontation most won't understand or enjoy that time.
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This is easily the bougiest comment I've read in a while. What world might they live in, where more people play IRL sports than more expensive online games?
Wow alts that's sad. Anyways that's why you're defending your poor game play.
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What world do you live in where more people play basketball than online video games?
Even then, I don't think there's a way someone on my team could be so bad that I even raise my voice at them, much less verbally belittle them. Whenever I have a useless teammate I think "Damn, they must be new. I don't think we're winning this one." And then I do my best and I have fun.
Did I say raise my voice? That's how you'd react. Not I'm saying when people show up not ready ro play Damn right I'm going to let them know that's inappropriate.
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Meh. Just mute people. That's what I used to do when I played online. I understand emotions run high and people get frustrated, I'm not gonna let my sensibility and their bouts of idiocy (especially when the solution is so simple!) ruin their experience forever. And honestly, they're probably just actual kids... I'm patient like that but I understand some people take things more to heart and whatnot.
wrote last edited by [email protected]It's more that it's exhausting than anything else
I don't want to play a game where people keep telling slurs or being toxic towards others. It just ruins the whole experience
