So much chaos. We had most of our team in Voice chat during a QP match about 10 mins ago. 5:16 seconds into it all hell breaks loose.
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Play by play
Enemy Pharah boops our Ram
Myself as Zen gets pinned by Rein.
He tosses me off the map.
I HS and kill the Pharah while being launched.
Our Rein pins the Enemy Rein (booped).
It’s one of those you had to be there moments. But during that time, we’re all in chat laughing and having a blast.
Replay code if you want to see what happened during it. All this morning I’ve had wild matches with teammates in voice chat just having good laughs. Randoms btw.
This community as a whole is so much more than toxicity. When you can go into the game with a good attitude, it makes everyone have a better experience overall.
The players here “can” be toxic, but the vast majority, is either quiet or just having a fun time.
Really, the OW community is not perfect, but compared to LoL, R6, CS:GO etc, OW is a friggin candyland.
Most people don’t realize how chill OW is, until they’ve seen the hell-holes in other online shooters.
The people whining here about toxicity (which does exist), just need a dose of League, then they’ll discover a new-found appreciation for this paradise.
I think what’s more of a factor, humans tend to focus more on the negative aspects of interactions more often than the positive. Then they allow any feelings associated with it to linger. This is why we have so many threads from players who can’t seem to move on from something they didn’t like. Whether that’s a loss, an enemy sombra spawn camping them, a Mercy/Pharah duo, hacker, supposed smurf, or smack talk. All of those in any combo place them in a state that feels worse.
BTW, sharing a few paragraphs from Alyson M. Stone, PhD, CGP
Licensed Psychologist, Certified Group Psychotherapist
According to Harvard brain scientist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, ninety seconds is all it takes to identify an emotion and allow it to dissipate while you simply notice it. When you’re stressed, pausing ninety seconds and labeling what you’re feeling (eg., I’m getting angry), tamps down activity in the amygdala. MRI studies of the brain show that this “emotion labeling” calms the brain region involved in angry outbursts and helps you regain control. Dr. Bolte explains.
“When a person has a reaction to something in their environment,” she says, “there’s a 90-second chemical process that happens in the body; after that, any remaining emotional response is just the person choosing to stay in that emotional loop.”
“Something happens in the external world, and chemicals are flushed through your body which puts it on full alert. For those chemicals to totally flush out of the body, it takes less than 90 seconds. This means that for 90 seconds you can watch the process happening, you can feel it happening, and then you can watch it go away.”
When you play the game because you enjoy it and don’t sit their nitpicking every single little thing that doesn’t go your way or the result. When you’re more concerned with what you’re doing than what some random person trying to enjoy the game is doing. When you don’t treat the game like work and don’t turn the playing environment into a toxic cesspool.
LoL is a really toxic gaming community, I can attest.
Not only that, but you can’t even fake it till you make it with that game. Everyone will be all over you until you quit playing a character you’re not a pro with, and make you go play against the CPU.