I enjoyed my game

The Öutcast·11/11/2016, 7:01:59 AM·2 votes·444 views

I lost my last game, and yet, I still enjoyed it immensely.

I did die a lot on an unfamiliar champ, I didn't do the most damage, I wasn't the best player in the game.

Yet I enjoyed myself, because I didn't care about the outcome.

I didn't care, I was just playing for my own amusement.

This is a massive paradigm shift for me. I stated my intentions that I did not care about the outcome of the game, I stated my apathy for the opinions of the other players on my team. I did try my best, I was cordial with my teammates as well as the opponents (one particular opponent asked for a suggestion on a build and I offered an educated opinion respectfully).

However there was one particular player who took it upon himself to consistently call me toxic. My apathy towards his decisions in the game, as well as towards the decisions of all my fellow players, somehow offended him, despite seeing visibly that I took steps and actions in order to try to win the game (this was a normal game, not ranked btw).

My expressed apathy was seen as toxic by this player as well as one other in the latter end of the game (people tend to look for a scapegoat, so why not the guy who doesn't care?) Despite all this treatment, post game results came in, I had less deaths than 2 players on my team, I did 2nd highest damage to champs, yet somehow I was toxic, or was I? I had fun during this game, I really did. I enjoyed myself.

tl;dr If I do all I can to win a game, yet express complete apathy towards the game I'm playing for the sake of my own enjoyment of the game, is that toxic?

2 Comments

The Öutcast11/12/2016, 4:07:23 AM1 votes

no responses yet, bumping to see if there are any fresh opinions.

President Swa1n11/14/2016, 5:29:48 PM1 votes

I don't believe it's toxic, but it really depends on how you interacted with others in the game. I understand you were constantly apathetic and cordial towards your teammates decisions, but this isn't inherently indicative of whether you were toxic or not. For example, if one simply said "I don't care" every time one was told something, I would take that to be toxic. In fact, I don't think there's a common and practical way to be cordially apathetic in a game while making use of the chat function, although I could easily be very wrong (you may correct me). If I were you, I would simply not use chat at all.

TL;DR it depends on how exactly you interacted with others ingame.

PS: I believe you didn't get any comments because your title wasn't clickbait enough TBH :P