So I’ve been starting to get very fed up about the trash talk, the insults, the cussing, the horrible things people are saying online in general chat and in game. Starcraft 2 is a fun game but it seems like a very toxic community. BUT there’s still cool people worth chatting/playing with. Everquest had a very friendly community…Does anyone know why people are behaving so horribly on this game?
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The game is in a very toxic state of meta is why. Different people at different skill levels and different ways of seeing how to draw out success. Starcraft has always had these, but in the last 3 years sh!t has not made sense to alot of people.
And the community hasn’t been empathetic to the challenges of others. Instead a lot of people who feel like they are winning for the first time in their life also feel like they deserve it.
the result is a bitter truth on display in many many games. its how we all really feel clinging to a games whose meta is broken and wont change.
Is there any game where it is not the case? Dota 2 has not a single game, where someone wouldn’t mention your mom. Valorant at least tries to fight against it, Overwatch 2 for example ignores it. SC2 community seems to be toxic, because in sc2 there is no punishment for them at all, even if you report them, there is no one left to ban them. Long time ago I turn off the automated join in the general chat, what I suggest you do too.
In team games a big way blizzard could crack down on toxicity is disabling the ability to attack others in team games or at least have team killing be reportable except in cases were someone else is already attacking teamates or open a blocked path.
How do you imagine that? These players would simply build a wall with engeneering bays or smt else and you will be blocked. Without the ability to destroy it, because friendly damage is off. There is no way to stop that unfortunately, except doing it manually with customers support, but even there the rules of the game do not forbid it.
I think that it should have made a priority to design the game in such a way that this would not work but not cause problems for the because this results in a lot of toxic behavior. How this would be implemented? Here is a few ideas:
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AI that detects if a player has built a closed gap around a certain area that negatively prevents players from passing through certain areas while also accounting for players just not being quick enough to raise and lower movable buildings like supply depots. The AI collects data on SC2 games for a long time and keeps being fed data until it becomes very good at detecting situations like this accurately.
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Have it against the rules to attack teammates for no good reasons. A moderator looking at a replay can easily tell if someone attacking a teammate is doing it out of a malicious means of sabotaging the game vs just destroying something to pass through a blocked area or something like that.
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The system records how often team killers destroy team mates buildings. If it happens enough then team killers start to be placed with other team killers and they get marked with an icon that indicates they are a frequent team killer until enough games go by they don’t team kill anyone.
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Require a purchase of LOTV to play ranked.
Team killing is also tied to peoples ability to easily make new accounts and avoid the consequences. Because if someone doesn’t care about achievements or bought much on their account they don’t have much to loose if they get in any trouble. People playing ranked should be required to buy a LOTV license to play. At least for ranked. This would also cut down on smurfing.
- Barcode names and names with jumbles of letters should be against the rules.
In every other game owned by Blizzard names like these are not allowed. The anonymity allows toxic behavior like this due to the reduction in repercussions for them.
- Make the game money through more skin releases, expansions and DLC.
This would allow a higher budget for the moderation team to actually do their jobs and programmers to help get systems like this in place.
I guarantee you that if Blizzard implemented all of these changes there would be a sharp decrease in the amount of teamkillers and also smurfs.
The support of sc2 ended few years ago. There is no one left who would implement that. So you can find the discord community and play with premade team or accept the current state, as it will stay like that forever.
Its unfortunate, but yea.