“Why is it toxic” to say a completely unnecessary, unhelpful thing that will only serve to make someone feel bad over a video game?
Are people really this obtuse?
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“But WHY can’t I be horrible to people over something petty?”
You can say whatever you want with your mic off and your fingers off the keyboard. Your salt is no one else’s problem.
Look on the bright side: if you stop aggro-ing your team in chat, you’ll get suspended a lot less.
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It’s called chronic forum disease
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It’s toxic because it’s mean and you sound like you’re making the tank hold the entire team’s gameplay on their own shoulders when YOU can contribute, too.
Translation: Get over yourself, help your allies.
there’s nothing wrong with getting mad at something, anger is equally to viable to any other emotion. you just don’t get to take it out on other people. it just makes other people just as upset as you, if they weren’t already. No good comes from that
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I say tank diff as a compliment. In team chat.
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Maybe because despite me trying my best and still getting wrecked by the other team, it doesn’t make me feel very good to have some NPC on the team (who usually isn’t doing so great themselves) blame the tank when it may or may not actually be the tank’s fault.
So yea. Say “Tank Diff” or anything like that and get reported
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Tank largely is the most impactful role in terms of stability of a team. If you have a bad tank you have no one to buffer the enemy attack. You are severely at odds without them.
Yes the game doesn’t revolve around one person but you have one role that is much more impactful than others.
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People who type tank diff tend to be coping dps players or the enemy tank that knows they’re getting outplayed but wants to save face while not looking at the scoreboard and seeing they weren’t the one winning the match but instead having someone on their team actually carry.
Typing tank diff is cringe and massive cope.
Having it in your name however is based.
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Because this is not nice
Having a sandbag makes the rest of the team feel bad too. So i guess everyone elses feelings don’t matter. Sadge
Tbf Tank is objectively and factually the most impactful player on the team and the Devs flat out admitted this in the patch notes for this season by changing the matchmaker to prioritize equally skilled tanks over any other role on the team lol…
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You can say it but blame Blizz instead of the tank. It’s a game design failure.
Because the scoreboard is public. We can all see when a player is performing badly. A teammate’s poor performance doesn’t give you the right to be an a**
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I don’t think it’s toxic. I will liberally dish out tank, dps, support diffs where valid. Especially after suggesting solutions to them. What’s toxic is the liberal use of the word toxic, and its association with the slightly abrasive all the way to genuinely offensive acts.
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When does this ever help anyone?
It’s just a cope for losing.
Sure they might actually have been playing bad, but dropping a “diff” at the end of a match has likely never helped anyone it’s been directed at and if all you’re trying to do is make YOURSELF feel better because you told them… then it’s pretty toxic.
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Indeed. But it is not necessarily the most impactful role. Two DPS or two supports can easily make up the difference. A tank is not literally two people worth of value. That’s more or less impossible unless the tank player is just amazing and the two bozos are, like, useless. It has been known to happen.
-coughs- as some others said it’s not just “one” persons fault its usually multiple and or a mentality thing in the team of not willing to “work together” that ends up losing games. a lot of the games I tend to lose as a tank seem to come down to the fact the enemy team are willing to counter me as the tank but because people on my team chose to hard lock all game long and never even thought of the idea to make a switch to benefit my hero we end up losing then they get mad and say “tank gap” when a lot of the time it has nothing to do with a tank gap. Whether you run into a OTP or not… playing with your tank is beneficial… but a lot of people choose to get insta mad/frustrated that someone plays a hero they dislike and choose to play the complete opposite of their play style and then go HUH WHY I R LOSING???.
Tank “may” be the most impactful player or role on the team but if the entire enemy team counters them then they are screwed because even if they keep switching it will keep happening. However, in a lot of cases that I seem to lose my dps never once switch to counter the enemy tank or dps, or even a support they just perma hard lock their main and will then be complaining in chat saying that it’s a tank gap because they just wanted to play their favorite hero all game and don’t want to admit their inadequacies.
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I do not expect anyone to switch given that I refuse to swap heroes myself, but we should definitely trying changing up our playstyle if things are quite obviously not working. These kids be the Vaas definition of insanity. Which is just wrong.
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it’s cause people play this game one way, while the dev’s create it another. Most people have a small amount of hero’s they main and never deviate from them. But the game itself is designed as a “counter swapping team game” which was one of the first of it’s kind and it just honestly feels awful compared to every other competitive game I’ve played. I would much prefer the locked hero’s like LOL or dota at least then if I am rocking a enemy team they cant hard counter me to oblivion after dying twice and then I have to constantly swap or have the worst time of my life cause my team wont do the same.
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