No auto squelch, because Blizzard wants more community interaction. But the game is so toxic. The decks are toxic, the meta is toxic. Especially in wild, mage is so toxic. No one will ever accept a friend request, if they’re playing one or you’re playing one. Like what’s the whole point of not having auto squelch, if the community already doesn’t want to interact?
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Why should they add an autosquelch if nobody is interacting with anyone?
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at the beginning I accepted friend request. But after a couple of very unpolite and rude chats like: why you play the deck I don’t like you a.hole… i stopped accepting those requests.
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Because the only interaction is emote spam. There is no sense of community at all in this game anymore. Back in the day people would actually accept friend requests. Now everyone believes they will just be flamed.
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I deny friends requests because Hearthstone has no social features to speak of. I have no idea what I would want to talk about inside Hearthstone with a random stranger.
Games where socializing worked well are old-school MMO where you went on a 10-hour adventure with a group to a far away land. In those games I accepted friend requests.
To add insult to injury, it is not just the games that are far less social, the online demographics have changed too.
20 years ago, the average online gamer was an intelligent human adult, able to complete a sentence without cursing. Today the average PC gamer is a 14-year-old Fortnite player, I have zero interest in that community.
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I’m getting BMED while playing renounce lock. That’s how low this community sunk. It’s really sad what’s left, wild is the most toxic of all.
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I mean…If the 1 friend request I was sent after a game ended up with me being called a Mongolian (They consider it an insult I guess? I think Mongols are cool af though.) and un-friended, it’s kinda normal I have come to the decision to accept only some friend requests.
You mean back in the day when people met face to face and didn’t hide behind a PC with their identities unknown?
there’s only 1 occasion i accept friend requests, i am memeing AND the opponent was memeing as well.
those are ususally gg requests. Everything else, is 95% pure salt.
I’m not gonna waste my time for the 5% that isnt salt.
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There needs to be a community development.
MAke
When I accept people’s friend requests they MALD and call me bad words. That is why people don’t accept friend requests so the TOXIC community of people that want auto squelch don’t call them bad words. Auto squelches not being implemented is important so people can interact with each other while avoiding these vulgar words. I bless the blizzard employs for saving my eyes.
I hate this game. It doesn’t make me feel happy; it’s just toxic and psychological manipulation to get people to play more and buy more packs.
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You probably shouldn’t play it then. If you still are, I mean.
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Oh… Sorry about that… weeves ben en in the company of Rogues.
Put a bit more poison on da dagger tip Butters…
We need a reason to form groups, and hate other groups. Then at least we’d be friendly to other people within our own group. Maybe a 2v2 mode would do it. Maybe a Horde vs. Alliance event would do it. There’s also been a rumor about guilds in Hearthstone.
I do sometimes accept friend requests. Some of those friends are still on my list.
I can accurately predict how the interaction is going to go based on the game I’ve just had, how it ended and the speed the request is sent, with a few rare well mannered exceptions it’s nearly always white hot rage!
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Every competitive game you can play has toxicity in it, there is no escaping it. This is nothing unique to blizzard or anything. Some people just can’t stand to lose and feel like they need to take it out on random strangers for whatever reason.
Honestly one of the reasons I like playing Hearthstone is because I can play the game without being harassed or whatever. I don’t need to feel like I am part of an “in-game community”, that’s what the forums and Reddit are for.
I always accept friend requests, although 95% of the time it is just some angry dude wanting to rage after they lost a game. Last one was some secret paladin going on about how I had ‘perfect draw’ (meanwhile, he drew both of his secret swords early).
The Secret is to Just let them simmer down. I aceept most Friends requests, a day after they are sent.
Never got an angry message. People are mostly just momentarily tilted in ladder.
I send a lot of requests too, and most people seem to accept them.
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I don’t accept friend requests, but not because of potential meanness. I just don’t like being messaged by people while I’m playing hearthstone, and I feel obligated to chat with them.
I don’t really know what “having friends” in hearthstone means–all of the people on my friends list are from WoW, Overwatch, and Heroes of the Storm.
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