Sorry that you had some bad experiences with people. I think a lot of the problem with people being toxic in PvP comes from, like Snoz said, a lack of success and a lack of willingness to accept the reasons for that. So they lash out at others and blame them.
My advice would be to try your best to find chill people and add them to btag. Pugging is always going to be a gamble on whether they will be ragers or not. Building a network of people that don’t treat you like garbage makes the game 10000% better, especially in PvP.
I have rarely had someone log into other characters just to yell more. Then again I dont really ignore anyone and calmly explain things. If I had just joined a BG like OP said I would have just told him just joined 3 mins ago and it never goes past that if it does I just stop reading what they are typing. Instantly ignoring people tends to trigger the crazies.
A lot of times with these harassment posts, I cannot tell if they are serious or not.
This sounds a little extreme. There’s games where I can screw off in regular random bgs… and NNOTHING like that happens… for the 15 yrs of WoW I have played… being whispered doesn’t happen that often. When it does… embrace it. Makes it more competitive.
Logging to alts??? The extreme insults towards uuu in arena LFG??
I chalk it up as bad luck or troll post tbh.
I’ve lfg a ton for arenas. On classes I barely know how 2 play… ppl chill.
Mb u??
I was fortunate enough to find a couple that love pvp from this forum.
We have qued probably 5 or 6 different comps just trying things out and it’s been chill the entire time. Finding the right people makes all the difference.
The entire game is toxic due to the competitive nature of it. Only place I’ve seen little to no toxicity in is a leveling guild. Even then you’re at the whim of people to be helpful and polite.
Gamers as a whole aren’t a friendly bunch anymore.
Maybe, but the main idea is that the PVP community is toxic. I don’t know if that’s the right word but they are certainly combative. You can just look at the arena forum subsection to see that.
I understand that the PvP community is full of toxic competitive players. But if he came up with a fictitious incident to support that, he’s kind of a troll.
I can’t think of a pool of gamers that doesn’t have toxicity in some form or another.
League
Call of Duty
Counter-Strike
Fortnite
Apex
FFXIV (Yes, the competitive scene has toxicity. It’s not name calling but they will avoid you.)
Minecraft
I would argue gamers generally want competition. And as the poster above me said, competitiveness brings toxicity.