Why are so many people toxic?

I’ve played HS for years but lately people seem to be more toxic and emote more and more lately. I’ve always tried to have good sportsmanship and say well played if its a win or lose.

But many games I’ve had to leave to b/c my opponent didn’t want to take the win and would just spam ‘wow’ trying to get me to concede.

Is there a point in being so rude? Is the community just that bad?

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What you’re experiencing is a very disconnected, push button generation, raised on cell phones. I’m sure you’ve seen them on social media. If you play retail WoW you’ve seen them in trade chat.

No one likes them, not even their own selves.

Give Battlegrounds a shot. I haven’t played this xpac in favor of it.

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Because the game doesn’t take any skill and they smash the emote button when that oopsie I win drop. And they didn’t do anything to earn the game.

So my first order of business is to squelch every opponent at game start because even though 1000s of posts have been made over the years for auto squelch - they haven’t given us one yet.

Folks can say what they want about me but when the game goes into - I’ll call it bad luck mode because so I don’t get flagged and timed out. My cotters goes out the window.

For example That Rogue.
Play Quest
Steal 2 cards
Steal another card
Steal another card Quest Complete now Rogue is immune.

Putting the pressure on getting close to single digits and turn 7…

Zilliax. Its just ridiculous how Zilly is always there. Okay, how can I minimize the setback? Can I still pull this off? Well no, not when the Rogue stole Paladin Twinspell Life steal our his Bazaar Ogre…

Ah those steal cards that hand the game to the rogue every time with Zilliax being so dependable. So, I dont care about the person person I have to play against. To me they’re just a AI bot playing the game anyways.

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The only time I see emotes is when I forget to squelch.

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I find it really amusing that people get so triggered from premade emotes. Like that’s all it takes to make you guys rage?

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I think that just happens when people play this game too competitively. Maybe more “tryhards” came to Hearthstone, but it might just be variance that it seems to be getting more.

The problem is that by design you can only win when the other loses. So even if you would care for your opponent you can’t win without making them lose. And losing just feels bad. Most likely they lost some games or maybe they just had a bad day, but they play to feel good and therefore to “celebrate” this victory they now “rub it in” to get the most out of this victory.

That’s why I always advice people that they shouldn’t play this game competitively. Just play it for fun in casual or even better with friends.

Playing competitive games to have fun is like drinking salt water. If you don’t know of the salt and its effects you would think there’s nothing bad about it. So many people drink it and get “salty” (pun intended).

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People who emote even though they won on their turn - ignore them and concede. End of story and YOU have managed to stop yourself from wasting 1 more second of your life.

People who emote if they might be losing - how is this supposed to make anyone upset? It’s not like they rope burn the timer! And even if they did rope burn, burn them back! There is no need to be upset or feel offended by such players.

Because society has become far more entitled today, because of things like social media and irresponsible reporting etc… “fake blah blah blah”

Honestly it’s just easier to be mean today than it was before you could physically “tell” people what you thought of their attitude in a game hahaha… but I’m old.

Be good and eventually the people will follow, we hope.

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The good people still vastly, VASTLY, outnumber the bad.

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If you are offensive to me, then I have the right to be offensive to you! :face_with_symbols_over_mouth:

I’m not an auto-squelcher, but if I get two sarcastic "wow"s or two mid-game "greetings"es, I squelch. (I’ll allow one because maybe their hand slipped or they were trying to make a good-natured joke that I didn’t get.)

There’s nothing I can do when the player is losing and they rope every turn… but when that happens, I remind myself, “They’re clearly enjoying this game less than I am, and yet they are choosing to make the game last longer.”

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Its the game mechanics not the emoting. When they emote now its oh yeah, forgot to squelch again.

Just spent 40 minutes roping some Quest Priest with all the Rezz spells yada yada yada in casual. Testing out a new anti Druid taunt wall deck yet after I made it I no longer see it.

But, was surfing youtube etc for 40 minutes while the match went back and 4rth down to 4 cards each before I was out valued. We traded minion copies back and forth Muerte, Convincing Infiltrator, the 5/5 get 5 health end of your turn.

I knew I was going to lose after the matchup as again my design is looking for a specific class. And since I knew the ho-hum to come I just ignored the game and played on the other PC.

Got a friend request after! That makes me happy :slight_smile: Like y favorite part of playing Hearthstone.

This is what you have in a children’s card game with the cell phone generation a bunch of dumb brats that spam button clicks because no one taught them better. I fear for the future when these kids are in charge of stuff like the nuke button and spam that button.

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Competitive environments with lots of RNG elements will inspire toxicity in any community. Also some people really dislike playing against certain decks or archetpyes.

I would attribute any recent rise more to increases in RNG elements and card powercreep than a change in the community as a whole. Do I really want to sit here while the rogue ropes me bouncing lackys around and picking his game winning discover options before playing a 14/14 edwin? Well no, not really. Oh look the embiggen druid just pulled his buffed winged guardian out of his dead with the quest and I can’t do anything against it, yay.

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When that happens just turn on the TV and sit there. He wants you to concede so why give him what he wants?

I use to get annoyed at the emotes. Like when the opponent has lethal and you still take your turn thinking ok maybe I can swing this and then they emote a well played 5 times before actually ending the game.

Now I found emotes funny. I just emote right back win or lose.

Can’t let ppl you are never even going to have any other interactions with in life besides this game bring you down. If you do then you’re gna have a bad time.

You know; I don’t want auto squelch. It would mean “I” would have to take extra steps to turn the emotes on. Maybe even 2 clicks of a button! I don’t have time to do that in my life. I need every second to murder your player character. Making me turn on emotes would cause undue emotional and physical stress to my body and pysche. This is why you will never get it. EVER.

just miserable people trying to spread that misery. i only emote greetings if they emote it before i can hit that squelch. making posts like this is the exact reason why trolls, troll.

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You could have conceded and gone on to win 10 gold in 40 mins.

That would require him to win three games in those 40 minutes, which is difficult because he is not very good at this game (oops apologies, I mean, “the RNG is rigged and the cards are always dealt in an unfair order and everyone has Zilliax”).