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Toxicity Isn't Gone, People just work around the loopholes.

ChaosFormula·2/6/2015, 2:37:04 AM·1 votes·426 views

There's a chat. And then there's the game. People who are toxic are not stupid. They will not write toxic things but do toxic things in the game. They care about the victory so much more than the players they are playing with. People feed, so what? People are bad at the game? SO WHAT? Does that mean you should exclude them outside the game? When they talk no one listens, when they ask, when they direct no one cares, just because of little numbers on the scoreboard. Everyone's playing to have fun, isn't that what video games is about? Isn't playing with other people and a community and competition suppose to make ourselves good about participating, even when we're not as good? Winning is fun, that's great, but at the expense of the other people playing with you? There is no morality on the fields of justice, only scoreboards. I have myself been frustrated, but over time I got to to know other players as people, not as the number on the board. There's calling people out on the game, and then there's making them feel like they shouldn't be in the game with you. "I love league of legends but I hate playing it" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxAabW7JfTQ It defines the only thing wrong about this game, and that has been community ever since the game started to become so large.

3 Comments

Epicusmaximo2/6/2015, 3:16:23 AM1 votes

Video games are no longer about having fun for the vast majority of people, real life ambition has been replaced by a pseudo digital ambition. No longer are people's heroes Astronauts, theoretical Physicists, or great generals like Patton and Eisenhower.

For my generation, a hero is some worthless cunt of a woman on TV who had their kid at 14 and now she's famous for it, or some kid who can't even lift his own weight because he's played video games all his life and aspires to be one of those new digital "athletes".

For some idiotic reason, our current generation lacks any true ambition, so what happens? Video games replace ambition, because all those kids want to be the new "athlete". To most of the gaming world, being "highly rated" carries more prestige than holding a PhD.

Humanity is doomed imo.

mirAcIe2/6/2015, 8:07:51 AM1 votes

When you report someone, there is a text box where you describe all the person did in detail.

But yeah, I play this game strictly for fun, so I don't have problems like you've described, because I still got to play the game. It's silly to have overly huge ingame ambitions without looking at your own performance 10 times more than at your teammates performance.

Jubbinaut2/6/2015, 8:29:40 AM1 votes

I have yet to hear of something a player can do in the game that is both toxic and undetectable by the systems in place to detect toxicity. If you know of something, I'd love to hear about it.