I just don’t get how people come to a conclusion that the community is toxic. I mean What is toxic about it? I find nothing disturbing here other than people with different perspectives striving to make their point. Blizzard really invokes people’s creative side and people keep coming up with ideas they would love to see be made in the game. People who are very passionate about overwatch feel like they should be the part of the change too just like me making posts about how ana deserves DOUBLE NADE!
The people who complain about how toxic the community is feels merely like a defensive instinct to denial of their ideas by the community because its unreasonable(okay ill stop asking for double nade sheesh it would’ve been so perfect for balance). The community isn’t toxic its merely filled with passionate people venting but everyone has good thoughts they just don’t type it out because people who have voice have established that the community is toxic.
when i was around level 3 and had just got the game i was playing widow for the first time to try her out. someone on my team said “whoever was playing widow the whole time, you suck.”
Oh it is fine to express opinions and have your own perspective. It is not fine to express them in a way to intentionally hurt someone else, or to be so ignorant that you believe that your own perspective is always the right one and everyone else is wrong no matter what they think.
Opinions and perspective aren’t what makes it toxic, being close minded and hurtful makes it toxic.
It isn’t, the problem is millions of people (supposedly) play it which attracts all kinds of different types of people. You get the mean people, and you get the soft people who forget about the block button
You’ve made a nice wall of text about how your experience in the game has been overall better than others.
The keyword there is ‘your experience,’ wherein the problem lies when you try to argue its justification to put down everyone who has had a bad experience because they must be lying or misrepresenting.
True there are some people who prefer to have a team built around for them as they are less trusting due to the solo queue system etc but the ratio of understanding people to submissive people is not so high that you can call it toxic. We never talk about the good people we meet because bad things tend to stick to our head doesn’t matter if its your birthday some stranger mocking you will just have you thinking about it all day. Even if we don’t really have 1 million people playing the game we all do come from different cultures. Our cultures have thought us to stick with our own ideals.
Were I come from mocking a player about a skill is way of bonding it has been for generations not just the new one but I did come to understand later that some people take words seriously. Not because they are too sensitive but because they respect every word from another person. It took me time to evolve because its not something I am trained on a daily basis. Promoting the topic that ‘Overwatch is toxic’ merely makes people close minded rather than enjoying the already good people around them. If you are to convince me that majority of the community is toxic then I would probably trust people less which just hurts the real majority of good people.
At least in my personal experience, I can’t tell you how many people have heard my voice in chat and either told me to get back in the kitchen, or even hit on me.
There was even this one guy who wanted me to send him a pic of myself on Snapchat! I said no, and then he proceeded to throw the match.
Toxicity on the forums is very quickly dealt with, and most of it is plain censored to begin with.
In game, though? My gods, it’s insane. Just tonight there was a player on the enemy team who kept typing racial slurs into the match chat, completely unprompted, for the whole game, even though nobody was responding to him. I then encountered a player who, after losing, typed vicious things about his teammates into match chat and rage quit. Earlier this week my team got into a shouting match, calling each other names and throwing horrible insults, then I was muted because I asked them to relax. About a week ago a player on my team harassed our Mercy in voice comms, using explicitly sexual language towards her because she happened to be a woman who happened to be playing Mercy.
And that’s just within about a week and a half.
Toxicity isn’t passion. Toxicity is harming other players and making the community an unwelcome, threatening place.
when i first started playing a year ago, at lv2, i was told to kill myself for playing symm and beating higher level people, among other things that weren’t so horrible but were still definitely toxic behaviors. even still, people are so awful to me if i pick symm or torb or even moira.
i also regularly have slurs thrown at me for not pocketing a dps when i’m the only healer and have to heal 4 players outside of the one demanding to be pocketed. the community does have quite a few positive people that will stand up for you from time to time, but it has a lot more of the really loud and toxic players that screech at you for making 1 mistake or not playing how they want you to play or not pocketing them etc etc.
Okay boy…
Have you played with other genders? People who are disabled or are trying?
Have you played with people other than friends for a while? And played something that isnt apparently “meta” (because people care about meta… apparently)
Because that’s where it starts, and that’s how I saw it.
Not sure if you saw the forum, a player was silenced for playing Torb because he had a fractured arm.
And as well as a girl getting told she was a Putrid SL*T
Am I in denial that the community isnt toxic? No, I’m stating a reason why it’s toxic because of these example.
