With the start of season 5 my friends and I started seeing a significant increase in toxicity. Not to say it wasn’t common before, but we used to only get one or two matches per day that had someone being toxic, but now it’s pretty much every other match where you have someone spewing “gamer words” in chat. I used to feel it was worth putting up with that stuff for the few matches where people were being nice and making jokes and just having fun, but now I’m considering joining the “disable all chats-gang” because of how bad it’s gotten.
How has it been for y’all though? Have you also noticed an increase in toxicity, or has it remained the same, or even decreased in your experience?
i think it stays the same. Sometimes I have to turn off the chat because i’m a player whose nickname is written in Cyrillic which by default means to most now that I am a “bad” Russian
well ignoring the fact that one of my dps called me trash at brig while my teammates were saying i was hard carrying, 99% havent been experiencing it. but ive def noticed a LOT of toxicity recently.
Given I imagine a huge chunk of the crowd waiting for PvE who left after the disappointment were more of the dedicated, casual types, it would make sense that more toxicity would be noticeable if they left.
Of course it could just be anecdotal, but the logic is there.
Honestly it’s been about the same, but I noticed since I started playing Support way more often, I get way nicer teammates. Sometimes I do bad, but I had a session recently with an awesome team, and when 4 of us all matched into the same game together, team chat was awesome. Just a bunch of “WE GO AGAIN!” hahaha
Same amount of trash talk (just mute and report), but the increase has been trolls who sit around spamming hello and doing emotes in game because they’re only playing to get their amount of games in for challenges. It’s made it playing 5 v. 4 because of this.
No meaningful content and broken promise on meaningful content = people mad, and nowhere to vent their frustration properly, so they take it out on each other. Not surprising.
The game became free so every toxic selfish player create many alts and to play against lower skilled players that refuse to play on their main. They don’t care being muted/ban because they can just create another alt.
And the non toxic players obviously will leave the game because why would a sane person put up with it so only the toxic players will stay and their numbers increase.
The word toxicity should be replaced with coaching. Think of it like that-the folks telling you that you are tier lvl trash at the game are just coaching you up!
Got that yesterday… Im soo mutch use to toxic PPL in this game that the complement I get feelt like attempt to moking me and not gona lie I was confused like AM I complemented that I made sniper like kill with none sniper hero from longer dostanie than previous widow state or it was more like “oh nice shot from that “skill hero” spamer”.
It’s the same as it was before because Blizzard and the ignorant posters on this forum refuse to believe that removing chat with the enemy team would reduce or permanently prevent toxicity on one side. Heads in the sand pretending everything is okay or deflecting the toxicity blame onto team chat so they can continue harassing the other team.
Basically Blizzard could easily put a stop to most of it for good but they won’t despite doing it for World of Warcraft and Heroes of The Storm.
