Genuine question. I physically cannot comprehend the mindset being the actions of some people.
Things like spamming “Is this easy mode”, or typing any form of “diff” in the chat. Not to mention slurs, etc.
I genuinely cannot understand how people can enjoy outwardly proving to the world they’re no older than 10. Can someone help me get into the mindset of why the hell people are like this? It makes absolutely no sense to me why people seem to be so proud of blatant immaturity.
I assume they’re children.
Probably because this is a thing immature people do.
Banana ladder experiment. Solo monkey tries to go up ladder to get banana, gets electric shock in response. Put more monkeys in, new one climbs but gets interrupted and beaten up by previous monkeys. “That’s how things go here.”
Now while we aren’t monkeys, we are still beings of patterns. So somewhere at some point perhaps not in OW people started getting really vile with each other and kept at it while newcomers thought it to be the way things are.
So now in most gaming cultures we are sort of stuck in a loop of toxicity being annoying and bad yet accepted as normal so you and anyone can do it too. “That’s how things go around here.”
Takes some rigorous effort to monitor and heavily punish toxic behaviour akin to how Final Fantasy XIV handles it to at least reduce it.
It’s upbringing. Some hasn’t seen enough to know literally any better. Most people follow the herd and do not have an independent thought.
Ignorance is something widely cherished these last 10 years and it’s increasing fast. Especially in the west.
I think it’s got to do with the following: People play video games to release pent-up frustration but because they are doing so, they often have a low tolerance to frustration in the game, so if anything doesn’t go their way, if the matchmaker didn’t create an entirely fair match, if the supports aren’t making them effectively immortal by showering them with 300 hp/s every waking second, if things just don’t work out for them the way they expected it, then they get toxic.
I think it boils down to a simple misunderstanding with those people: Competitive PvP games like Overwatch aren’t meant for settling down but rather, they are meant to entertain through challenge and competition.
There’s games you play when you need to vent and there’s games you play when you’re bored, and if people get these two mixed up, then toxicity can be a result.
most of it is the lack of maturity from Children and adults. They talk big and act like they are an adult. When clearly they aren’t.
The other problem is the game itself is designed to be toxic (by design). They unfairly build matches in hopes that the game is “more competitive” to bring the idea that this game is challenging, when clearly it really isn’t.
If all abilities were put on equal cool-downs and had equal adjustments on damage output. With each playable character that had equal health pools. The game would simply be a bland game, without annoying things like one-shots and “cheese”. Which again strips away the “competitive” aspect of it. Especially one-shot KO crits.
Ultimate abilities are the major thing that truly makes this game a slump. Because players can hold onto a game breaking “super crit” that allows for drastic shifts in the match. If those abilities were removed. It would slow down the pace of the game and perhaps even out some problems. But players want those 3,4,5 or team-wipes to bring action to the game.
Games like this have strayed away from what they were originally built as, and turned into a redesigned “mush” in hopes of some marketing design that brings more players to it.
So yes, by and large this game is designed to attract the toxic player to it, in hopes that they foam at the mouth, throw rage into chat and bring negative attention.
A result of people who can’t separate fantasy from reality.
Because it gets a reaction out of people.
People will be people…
Because it’s a game with competitive aspects like real sports, and trash talk is part of sports. Just hit mute, or toggle off chat if it bothers you so much. It’s not really toxicity because it seems like that’s what people label anything that they don’t like, no matter what was said. There’s always the block and report buttons too.
toxicity exist bcs
character like hanzo exist
character like him make you feel anger
bcs spaming characters have a 1 shot potenial 
Sounds to me like someone is projecting 
Because of increasing feces of matchmaker.
That is the main reason alone.
I’d say it’s mostly because of children and immature people.
Tilt is another big factor, some people don’t realise that tilting at team mates helps no one. And ive done this a couple of times when the matchmaker decides im going 12 and 0 today. Im trying to be better tho.
Sometimes if people arent in voice chat things said in text chat can come across a different way because theres no emotion attached. Like i once said how did you die to a frozen junkrat to a teammate because i saw the kill cam and it was really confusing because it looked like a shot came out of the junkrat after he froze. But my team took it the wrong way.
Some people develop a complex once they reach a certain rank and if everyone isnt playing to their standard every game they think it gives them the authority to abuse their team-mates
Because it’s the internet. The place where people can be anonymous and face no backlash simply by walking around with an anime profile pic.
i feel like toxicity actually increased in overwatch 2 despite blizzard saying they was gonna be more strict with things
welcome to competitive multiplayer
people are jerks
To many directions for a overly complicated game.
Live service games change. People hate change.
Competitive games generally attract aggressive personalities. Since sportsmanship isn’t really encouraged in gaming like in sports. This is the result.