Yeah, on the forums its super easy to get ganged up upon and ostracized for having a different opinion than the masses, but even in game, it’s nigh impossible to add people to the friends list since everyone now uses “only accept whispers from friends list” and everyone is salty. I’ve lost count of the number of games I’ve lost because people give up and afk after losing the first few teamfights. Also I’ve received nasty whispers for being on the winning AND losing teams, sometimes by three or more players at once. Not to mention the systemically abused reporting system…
EDIT: Even now, just a few seconds ago, I got called an idiot for banning Kael’thas in draft when the guy wasn’t even showing a character. Am I supposed to be able to read minds now? Bloody disgusting people we got in our tiny community.
If you look for a groupe of yes man waiting for agreeing on everything you say then you are on the wrong forum. There will allways be people who disagree with you. That is also how a forum works. A forum full of yes men that follow only your opinion is a dead forum.
I have that setting, but it doesn’t stop friendship requests. I’ve made a few friends who have added me after a good match. If I’m in a match where someone has been toxic and they send me a friend request, of course I’ll decline that one. You can usually work out the difference in intent here.
I speak out if someone is unfairly dog piled on the forums, but on these forums, it’s a very rare occurrence. This community really isn’t all that bad compared to others.
I forgot why I had general chat turned off until after I made an alt.
Somehow I keep letting myself get sucked into arguments where I’m trying to tell Bronze-Silver players and very likely middle schoolers or younger why “ is/isn’t bad” and they just refuse to hear a word of what I’m saying.
I like to consider myself a patient man but after being told I’m wrong in exactly one fashion over a dozen times while they don’t provide any counter points, I’m gonna resort to some name calling since negotiations have clearly broken down.
At which point I’m told I’m the toxic one and I’m getting reported.
I ain’t a saint, and I ain’t gonna apologize. If you’ve got the nerve to whine about something but no acumen to converse with then why should anyone respect you?
Like one example, someone was whining about Varian being OP, I checked his match history and he only had 1 game played as him and it was a loss. Clearly doesn’t understand the hero but still feels the need to complain about it.
I’m adverse to using toxic to define anything, just as I am from avoiding calling things cancer unless it’s a certifiable fact that it’s killing the game.
I can hold my own in a conversation and reasonably thick skinned, so I don’t often get aggravated to the point that it impairs my reasoning or judgement, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t have some encounters with some absolutely asinine people in this game.
It’s better to mute people who show that they can’t be reasoned with or the kinds of people who will start a game by flaming and blaming teammates the second anything goes wrong.
I preach cooperation when possible but you just can’t reach some people through a screen if they’re not open to it, and attempting to bond with every teammate can be an exhaustive endeavor. It’s better to just cut your loses and do what you can with gameplay alone because communication isn’t always the best route.
This is all without considering the times I’m just messing around in chat and it triggers multiple people because they think I’m serious.
Every community has it’s ups and downs.
Not every HotS player is an awful person but the ratio of having friendly and cooperative teammates to having teammates who are mostly tilted and making poor calls feels very skewed in the negative direction.
Every single time I’ve logged into General Chat the very first things I see are rants about any Hot Button political issues. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are indeed all children.
I’m invincible. Not really. Since another thing people can abuse is the report system by just making alt accounts to spam report. It has happened, and it was a disgraceful display all round.
Clearly doesn’t understand the hero but still feels the need to complain about it.