Sounds like good ol OW. It’s not a new thing that magically appeared with OW2. I had the same and even worse experiences in OW1. Imo not much changed community wise. People being whiny and blaming everyone but themselves was a core part of OW since release.
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It’s been a bit of a mixed bag for me recently. Just yesterday I had this match: J7QK4Z where no one was taking the game too seriously and everyone was just goofing around, making jokes and having fun (emoting with the enemy team and whatnot) and it was a very wholesome experience.
But then recently I also had a match with someone who’s name was literally just the n-word (written in funky text to avoid suspension), and they spent most of the match just typing nasty things, ruining the match for basically everyone.
Most matches are just quiet though, people just play the game and no one says anything, at least in text chat (for all I know people could be screaming at each other constantly in voice chat, but I haven’t used it in years and have no intention to).
I’m really sorry that your experience has been mostly negative. I genuinely hope it gets better for you. If the toxicity gets to you too much then taking a break or disabling chat might be the only good options, since Blizzard’s moderation is…uhhh…well it is what it is.
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Doggo at this point I’m not sure if it’s possible for you to say anything positive about anything. Every single post from you feels like it’s written on an empty tank of gas.
A shift in demeanor and a break from online interaction would be good for you. Standing on summer’s doorstep, I mean this in the nicest way possible, but please go touch grass. Just lay in it on a bright warm day and relax a bit. Unless you’re allergic of course, then go for a walk in the woods on a sunny day , the vitamin D and fresh air will do you some good. It’s overtly clear this game, this community contribute to you nothing but despair and depression. At some point you need to just break free from it.
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People suck. Off mic, 
yeah, I will [female dog in heat] and moan; but I never say stuff on mic–unless some pissant starts something. It’s because of the anonymity. People think they can be asses and no one will know who they are.
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A lot of people on the forums do this though, not just me. The game is infuriating many people but we still love the game and want it to be good again.
It’s hard to throw away something that gave me so much joy in the past.
Yeah I should go do other things sometimes but I don’t really… have anything else to do. Games are all I have and ngl I do not like going outside by myself due to social anxiety. It’s icky.
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Ladies and gentlemen of the jury - we present exhibit A.
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You are part of the problem.
The Free to Play effect
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This… F2P was a bad move… 5v5 was a bad move… Role Queue was a bad move… They keep making mistake after mistake after mistake…
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Little sociopaths abusin the one and only power they have in life, anonymity
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Mhm. It’s why I quit.
People genuinely just look for anything they can use to be mean to others, and it’s even worse in quick play. Like people are just genuinely trying to just be as awful as they can to others and don’t really care that they’re doing so.
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Win only challenges for the battle pass was a bad move… not keeping the hero’s balanced was a Bad move … locking heroes in the BP and later pushing them to needing 30 wins in that role to unlock WAS A BAD MOVE
am i missing anything else ?
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What makes it suck the most is how sometimes I feel alone in that sediment and we’re all just lumped into a pile to be more easily dismissed. The same thing is happening to me too. There’s no catharticism. No one should ever be punished for caring.
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Nah. You can’t trash talk back and then complain that it didn’t go your way.
It was obviously an immature troll that wanted to get a rise out of you and your teammates, you took the bait and they didn’t.
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This is so wrong. Sorry, but game literally gives you tools to escape it. You can mute chat, block people, avoid people. But instead you choose to be naive and fragile snowflake, expecting everyone to behave nice and polite in f2p game title.
Sure, i agree. People should be nice to each other, but they are not. Not always at least, thats why you have muting, blocking and avoiding at your disposal. Banning reported players will solve nothing. Most of them havent spent a dollar, and all they can do is create another account. Stop being a snowflake and start blocking and muting if you cant look at the world from higher and much more sane perspective.
Flamers are joke. Their life is so boring that playing a game is everything exciting happening in it. They are sad, but if you allow that sadness to impact you, with all the tools at your disposal, that is all on you. And i should know, because there was a time, when even i couldnt help myself sometimes but to flame back.
Best way to get back at these people is ignoring them. Not giving them any way to boost their egos. Its what i did. Its what i suggest you do too.
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Frustrated players who put theor selfworth on gaming.
It is sad.
I think it mostly has to do with the genre, and that in most PvE games, they’re inherently less competitive because you’re not competing with anyone except yourself.
Like, you can only get angry at yourself if you fail, not other people.
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Like how I died 5+ times to a big miniboss. I didn’t yell at the boss, I yelled at myself to position better and time my attacks.
I have every comm option turned off and it’s still annoying because the mm is all screwy. Icky.
I don’t know what heaven y’all played in for OW1. But all of this existed in OW1. The only difference is instead of leaderboard it was the flaming for medals.
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I have to agree.
I don’t know where all these carefree, toxic free games were.
It’s like when people ask for 6v6 for tank synergy and peels. I played that game for years and didn’t see a single game where a single tank peeled for me.
It was Dva and Roadhog on my team versus Zarya rein on 2CP most games. A living hell.
Nostalgia must taste better than memory.
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At the start of the game, before it became overly competitive.
When game became competitive and winning became of ultimate goal for everyone, toxicity appeared and started to grow over time.
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