I’ve never posted on here before. I play on PS4 and today was my worst gaming experience ever. I lost a couple games in a row and this one player avoided me the first game and totally destroyed us on the opposing team the second game. Then they proceeded to send me toxic messages about how bad I was. I’ve been getting these post game hate messages a lot lately I’m in low diamond. But after this last message I couldn’t help but cry. I suffer from severe depression and Overwatch was the last thing I had left that gave me a little bit of happiness. But when things like this happen it ruins my life. So please, if you feel like sending a hate message or toxic message to brag about how good you are and how bad the other person is, don’t do it. It could seriously trigger them and make them contemplate suicide. Just putting that out there. You may think I’m over dramatic but words really do hurt some people deeply. Please control yourselves there’s no need for so much hate and evil behavior in some video game. I’m no longer going to play overwatch as much… maybe not at all… just because the player base is so mean spirited. Thanks for ruining what little happiness I had left trolls. Hope you feel accomplished…
Play if you enjoy the game. Don’t let others ruin the things you love with their gross attitudes. You’re giving them power over you they shouldn’t have.
Set your profile to block all incoming messages before you play, go out and have fun without worrying about hateful messages, and then unblock a little while after you’ve finished if you’ve got friends who message you on there regularly.
People will never change, and in this world now where egos are getting more and more inflated, you’ll never find joy in the things you like if you allow others to always ruin it for you.
They’re mean because they’re petty and small and it makes them feel big and important by being so, but they will think of it no longer after they’ve said their bit and you’ve ignored them.
Stay strong, stay resilient, keep your head up and play on. Quitting’s not the answer if you like the game; thwarting their attempts to get off on belittling you by preventing that possibility is a much better solution.
I’ll try not to let it get to me. It saddens me how many people are like this though. It’s truly disappointing. At least there’s still people out there like you
My dad’s a torb main and used to get this all the time when we play together. When I was at his place I changed his settings to friends only. It’s all you can really do unfortunately.
Better to have them waste time typing up the message only to not be able to send it, might help them cool down.
Edit: if you need someone positive to play with from time to time if you don’t want to play alone but also want to use voice chat I can add you on PS4.
Wish I knew about these settings sooner… lol. My boyfriend changed it for me just now. I’m extremely shy so I don’t make call outs. Not sure if you would want to play competitive with me haha. That’s all I really play. Thank you though
Oh I usually only play quickplay. I get too frustrated for comp and lack the time I used to have for it.
I was pretty bad at callouts too for a while because I didn’t want to use voice chat because of my squeaky for even a chick voice but playing with a few trusted friends has helped that a TON.
Normally I’d agree. But I’ve seen someone get upset at my dad playing torb and walking to him to give him armor packs.
There’s some really bad apples on PS4 because of the younger demographic and accessablity for kids and teens.
Rule of thumb, if they sound like they could voice act for a cartoon character, they’re probably pretty good to stick around.
My two best online friends I made in a comp game when I was Dva and they were making me laugh with their commentary so I helped pocket our healer (which was one of them) that was nearly a year and a half or so ago. We grouped and climbed quite a bit that day, good times.
It’s silly because that’s exactly how in-game reports are handled. Enough players accused you of being a witch, you get burned.
Back on topic though, it isn’t outside the realm of possibility that this player experienced this. I get the impression they might be hamming it up a bit, but I wouldn’t call them a liar. Angry messages get sent through PS4’s online features no matter what the game is, and as far as I know players often don’t get punished for what they say in these messages, leading to smug, raging and barely english texts.
Luckily there are options in the PS4 to automatically block messages from players who aren’t on your friends list, and my advice to OP would be to use it. It is a far better solution than to expect Blizzard to have any degree of control over PS4 private messages.
I try to follow the philosophy of “If you are gonna say something, say something nice.”
It does happen, but on rare occasions. Had a preteen spout some racist homophobic slurs to me and my friends playing GTA Online.
We convinced the rest of the server to vote to kick him and the server was better for it. A couple of days later we got a message from PlayStation saying action has been taken.
I find it worse on pc because match chat is a thing. But yeah, people who add you just to berate you are the lowest of low.
Hamming it up? I have literally gotten death threats via personal messages on PSN. You really believe people do not message you about how you suck? Rofl. What world are you living in? Like… It happens all the time.
Usually it is bad players trying to come at me because I wrecked them. In OP’s case, it sounds like they went for the low hanging fruit. But I promise you… People do send messages like that. It is not even vaguely rare.
I didn’t call them a liar. In fact, I stated in my post that what they got was more than likely. When I said hamming it up, I was referring to the other 2/3rds of OP’s post about their personal feelings. And even that is just my own opinion.
Back when I was level 12, had a level 100 and some moira angrily write 24 (I think, I deleted them) messages about how terrible I was at rein. I have had other such situations, but that was the most memorable as who even wants to type messages on a controller, let alone 24. Anyway, just be you and don’t let their rudeness ruin your experience. I would suggest taking a break for at least half an hour after two losses in a row, just to avoid tilting and getting toxic.
there’s no need for so much hate and evil behavior in some video game. I’m no longer going to play overwatch as much… maybe not at all… just because the player base is so mean spirited. Thanks for ruining what little happiness I had left trolls. Hope you feel accomplished…
