In your personal experience. what game has/had the most toxic community you have experience?

[Nec]

I think Overwatch is worst, I played a lot of competitive games for a long time, CSGO, R6 and have almost 8 years of experience with the League of Legends community, is bad but not as bad as Overwatch, I think is because is more easy to troll and be toxic in OW without being banned than League.

 

[Deleted member 3082]

Any MMO's raiding community.

 

[Pellaidh]

Black Desert Online's global chat was something else. TERA's as well, although not quite as bad. Those two get my vote.

Heroes Of Newerth is a close second. It was so bad it actually made the LoL and Dota communities look friendly in comparison, and that's not an easy thing to do.

PSO2 also had a bunch of people spamming porn with it's visual emote system among other stuff, but thankfully you could just stay away from the unofficial English channels and avoid most of it.

 

[Hippopuncher12]

I've heard LoL is pretty bad but never played it, Overwatch for me that I have actually played. Literally made me never want to touch that game again. WoW has had it's moments over the years but is mostly fine.

 

[Torpedo Vegas]

I haven't had to deal with any since I started playing without a headset, everyone muted, and I delete any message I get without reading it.

 

[DrArchon]

Dota 2 circa 2014-2015.

• People would hate anyone that queued in multiple regions, even if the person had a good connection
• Given how important communication is, people would hate anyone that didn't speak/write in their teammates' language (connected to the above point)
• Everyone thought they were better than the actually were so losing was never their fault and every time something bad happened to them it was because someone else didn't tell them about it or let it happen
• Hour long matches with punishments for quitting meant that you were stuck with this team for a long-ass time
• A lot of matches had one team steamroll the other but still take a while, so everyone was grumpy that the game didn't just end

And more things that I can't remember right now. It was a bad scene all around.

 

[Z-Beat]

LoL is the only game I've ever quit due to toxicity.

Can't even get out of the damn character select menu without shit popping off.

 

[Phoenix Splash]

Should have added "not counting F2P games".

On this matter, CS:GO prior to becoming F2P. It's probably more toxic now, too LOL.

Overwatch, too.

 

[HighspeedRefleX]

GTA 4 by a landslide

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luckily I wasn't confronted with any of that in 4 or 5. I was more focused on the SP part. I think it was some last-gen Fifa when some players were rage quitting and started to get too frustrated. A bit of frustration can't hurt and can make the gameplay more intense. Anything beyond that should be reported.

 

[Mesoian]

Basically all team based competitive games. Everyone is so quick to blame other people for their own bad play and will make exorbitant shows regarding it.

It's why I go back to fighting games, where if you lose and you complain, it's usually because you're just mewling tripe.

 

[stersauce]

league is absolutely the worst

 

[Deleted member 864]

Overwatch.

 

[Raboon]

CS:GO, it's impossible to play with randoms.. nowadays I only play when I can get a group of 5 friends together.

 

[Kamek]

Dota 2. Sometimes I'd get reported for no reason, and end up in SEA server for even more fuckery.

 

[EloKa]

I think the most toxic one is <insert_every_competitive_game_here>

 

[Arkanim94]

LoL easily.

 

[jawzpause]

Fortnite, almost as bad as kpop

 

[JahIthBer]

Classic WoW is pretty damn bad as a recent one, there is a lot of elitism despite 1.12 being EZ mode vanilla, it feels like people are role playing & pretending the game is harder than it actually is to stick it to retail, even if retails poor quality of late speaks for itself.

 

[Iori Fuyusaka]

 

[Caeda]

Competitive Super Smash Bros. Overwatch comes in second.

 

[aSqueakyLime]

Rainbow 6 Siege, but i guess a positive is that not too many people use voice chat, but when they do you can bet it will be awful

 

[ZugZug123]

Counter Strike. I got screamed at by multiple people on my team after winning a match, which does not even happen at DotA ( where everyone is salty during the match but get nicer if you win).

 

[Lobster Roll]

Any shooter mode where it's one-death and your teammates get to spectate you if they die. If you're the last one standing and you fuck up, be prepared to be flamed into oblivion.

 

[Deleted member 18379]

Any game where you can lose to other people. That's why I stick to single player stuff these days. I'm also not a fan of some of the RE community. It's always got to be a pissing match of which game is the best, or who the best character is. I'm guilty of taking part in those discussions but it doesn't make it any less toxic when everyone is trying to knock each others favorite game down a peg.

 

[Deleted member 49535]

League of Legends, by far. I stopped playing it because of that. After a day of work the last thing I want to do is fight with people with the mentality of a teenager.

 

[lightning16]

Overwatch was the worst for me. Dota 2 can be bad, but it's pretty rare anybody actually says much from my experience (though the times they do it can be brutal). Overwatch people just love to talk and never leave you the fuck alone.

 

[MorshuTheTrader]

It's actually hard to say. I mostly play console games, and no one really talks outside of parties anymore. The last time I really encountered a good number of people using the voice chat was back on the 360 in games like CoD4 and Halo 3.

 

[Deleted member 364]

Overwatch for sure

 

[Fujibayoshi]

Rocket League by far. I even had to turn off the chat because I couldn't stand it any longer. That never happened to me before.

 

[PancakeFlip]

I honestly think online in general has gotten more toxic as time has went on. I remember years back me and my friends were playing games while recording our reaction in a video chat room, a handful of people were on chatting having a good time. A guy comes on makes a racial slur and pretty much immediately got flamed by the rest of the random people of the entire chat. I don't think today people would be ready to deal with someone like that in a random online gathering.

He was rightfully called a piece of shit among other things and before he was able to type anything else he was booted. Fast forward over a decade, today if I'm in an online match and people start that same mess most people stay quiet, or try to remain moderate and if you try to speak up or defend someone attacked, you are almost accused of being worse than the toxic guy. Not sure wtf is going on with humanity.

 

[Mexen]

All pick

 

[JusDoIt]

Every online FPS eventually. It's usually when the game gets competitive too, like a month or two in.

I loved APEX and Overwatch at launch, but they both became havens for assholes.

After the first month of playing a shooter I go back to fighting games and enjoy the sweet, sweet silent teabagging.

 

[gitrektali]

Siege. This is what happened literally yesterday. I always play with my friend, and it's because I really don't like interacting with the community alone. Anyway, we're playing unranked, and this dude in our team is very good, and essentially carrying the whole team. I compliment him by typing "thanks for the carry! you're great". After that he wrote "really?" and I was like yeah. He teamkilled me in the next round, and when I asked him if he killed me because I complimented him, he was like "yeah, I hate compliments". Siege is my favorite multiplayer game, but the community is terrible. There are a bunch of idiots in ranked that ask you to say the N-word, or they start teamkilling, like cmon.

 

[SwampBastard]

I have muted everyone except friends for as long as I can remember, so I don't typically get exposed to people shit talking or whatever. In terms of player behavior, I would probably have to say GTA Online. Some of the blame definitely falls at Rockstar's feet; they make it very easy for griefers to find victims who will disproportionately suffer. If a player is trying to run a mission where they're selling a full warehouse of stock that it took tens of hours to build up, the game alerts everyone in that session as to what's happening and even puts them on the map to make it easy for antagonists to find them.

However, I still put the majority of the blame on the players who actually go after people like this. The game provides the tools to make griefing easier, but it doesn't provide the incentive. You don't gain any appreciable rewards for blowing up another player's shipments or otherwise ruining their missions. People do it because they're assholes and they think it's funny to screw over other players (who typically have little to no recourse to stop the aggressors while in the middle of one of these missions).

I absolutely love the game, but I won't run those kinds of missions in a busy public session. Fortunately, I'm at the point in the game where I don't really need the money those missions provide, so I spend the bulk of my time trying to help lower level players avoid the more toxic players.

 

[Komo]

I can't speak for LoL, but by god the experience with Overwatch was/is sickening.

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LoL players and even CS players is more just trashing your skills as a player if you do bad. OW is attacking you as a person and trying to make you feel like absolute shit and just stop playing games in general is what I've seen.

 

[ImaLawy3r]

LoL players and even CS players is more just trashing your skills as a player if you do bad. OW is attacking you as a person and trying to make you feel like absolute shit and just stop playing games in general is what I've seen.

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It's why so many play without joining parties or team chat.

 

[Tawpgun]

Of what I personally have played...

Overwatch can get pretty bad. People are very elitist in that game.

But one game I haven't heard mentioned is Rocket League. People are somehow super toxic with just pre set words/phrases. If the other team nails a super fast aerial shot top corner that is physically impossible to save they will spam WHAT A SAVE WOW

They will go AFK to type out how you aren't rotating while they ball chase because obviously they are the only ones who should touch the ball.

It can be very annoying. You get toxicity from the opposing team and your own very consistently.

 

[bbq of doom]

Either League of Legends (haven't played in a solid 8 years, though) or Overwatch.

 

[LiK]

Overwatch. It actually makes me hate people who play it.

 

[Altered]

ffxiv pre HW was pretty bad. People treated new tanks like shit and in the summer 2014 patch, the community was at each other's throats over rare monsters that roamed the overworld.

 

[Karak]

I so rarely ever find this in games. I feel a bit blessed. Other than that, youtube comments probably. Much of that is sadly spurred on by the creators themselves. But overall most places are adequate.

 

[Kirksplosion]

I play a ton of overwatch and i'm very active in comms; i'm the main tank and i shotcall pretty much every game.

i get very little toxicity, mainly because i'm bossing everyone around and people mainly listen to me and i keep things pretty chill. of course, when things go to shit, it can get pretty toxic, but at that point i just mute.

overall, i'm very happy with my overwatch experience from a toxicity standpoint. i didn't start playing till a year or two after launch and all the horrible stories i expected a shitshow.

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This is my Overwatch experience as well. There's some toxicity - especially when I play with my Indian friend - but it was minimal in my experience. I wonder if it's a console vs. PC thing? I could imagine it being worse on PC when you can sort of anonymously type out toxic shit in text chat, but actively voicing the toxicity in comms is less common? Or it could be my level of play in comp - I'm in low-to-mid plat, so maybe everybody kind of knows they're not the best of the best, so it's not so anxiety-filled, ha.

I don't know, but I've got over 1,000 hours in the game and based on my experience in the game it's very weird to read people consistently picking it for this thread. I mean, I hear more girls/women in comms in this game than in any other game I've ever played, and it rarely gets sexist which was always a relief. Honestly, with my years in gaming chat, hearing a girl voice can immediately trigger within me, "Oh fuck here come the toxic misogynistic assholes", but it doesn't happen often at all in OW from my experience.

As for the thread question - I'd probably just pick Call of Duty because I have to instantly mute everyone. It's awful.

 

[tiebreaker]

Dota. From any game I've played, nothing comes close.
I'd guess other popular Mobas are similar.

 

[LilScooby77]

GTAO hands down. Especially kd warriors taking an easy way out before the patch.

 

[tr1b0re]

This is the main reason I avoid competitive games all around

I game to relax and if some random jackoff online can just ruin my evening out of nowhere, then its just not worth it to me

 

[Selphie]

Overwatch by far, so many people in plat who think they are better than they are so they criticize everyone but themselves for everything.

 

[*Legion*]

Overwatch's toxicity makes Siege look like a drum circle.

 

[Sanka]

Any teamgame, especially in ranked, can become extremely toxic. Especially ones where direct contact with teammates is common.
Though I personally don't care. As long as I don't have to look at or listen to hate speech I don't really care.

 

[Deleted member 3183]

Overwatch easily. With your competitive ranking tied so closely to the outcome of each game AND being a game that depends so heavily on teamwork and team comp. If people are not playing optimally, others get *upset*.

 

[Herbz]

Any games (even offline games) with kids in my house. They're insane when I'm regarded with video games (and general stuff in life).
One example is a kid saying "suck" 24/7 everyday since 8-10 years ago. "I will kill you, u suck". He turned into an adult a year ago and still does it. If that's not insane/fucked in the head I dunno what it is.