I personally believe toxicity is a good thing and we need to see more of it in modern releases. It hardens you up and helps separate the chaff from the strong - the dedicated fans willing to put up with it and adapt - and the whiney e-girls, basedboys, and shitheads.
Plus having that stark contrast between pleasant people and degenerates makes the pleasant, friendly people you meet stand out more. That's unironically how I met 90% of my friends from back in the day.
By policing toxicity, we're harming the games and the playerbase.
Toxicity and gatekeeping as a whole are actually useless at best and damaging at worst because all they end up doing is making more and more devs specifically try to counter them in increasingly more draconian ways that are consistently exploited against people just trying to play a fucking video game.
On top of that, no one wants to just sit down and play a game just to have some 10 IQ subhuman screech in animal noises about him not being a "true fan" or some retarded shit. It consistently hasn't worked for Warhammer 40k, DND, World of Warcraft, MMOs in general, Shin Megami Tensei (if anything the gatekeepers had the opposite effect where people are now getting into the SMT games out of fucking spite of the cringey elitists) and many more.
The only place I can think of this actually having an effect on anything is Monster Hunter, but that's because the playerbase is so fucking elitist by nature that they turn away literally everyone, not just casual fans.
Luis Wood
It's shit in Titanfall 2 though. There's no quit penalty or anything, so invariably every game has some fag talking shit who gets BTFO and leaves, ruining the game for everyone. Every match is a one-sided stomp.
John Howard
Not gonna lie I know some of you faggots are ending the games by telling new players to fuck off cause they got the game on Steam and I genuinely don't understand what the fuck you want a dead game for. Destroy them, but don't tell them to go away. For fuck's sake.
Brayden Diaz
That's also another point too, sometimes if anything the gatekeepers are the ones who need to be gatekept rather than "casuals." I'd rather have people who are here to have fun and play a game to completion stick around even if they do harmless shit like have bad takes on video games or not understand the meta (because frankly, fuck the meta in ALL video games, no one should be expected to play a certain way or be chastised for not doing so by sweatlords) than a bunch of spergy losers who will quit or go apeshit at the drop of a hat.
Like, look at this guy, barring the fact that Overwatch is a garbage game with too much dev control on player creativity and exploration of the sandbox, would literally anyone passionate about their game want to play with a fucking retard who throws just because someone asked a simple qusetion? youtube.com/watch?v=ficGvj1A6Ic&feature=youtu.be&t=22
Because I sure as fuck wouldn't. I just wanna play a game, not live in someone's faggot larp about "saving gaming" or some retarded nonsense.
Josiah Lewis
This is why tf2 (team fortress not titanfall) outlived overwatch. Tf2's community feels genuine and real while OW's feels sterile and fake because everyone is to scared of being reported
Carson Gray
I'd rather kill titanfall than let it fall to casuals
Anthony Gutierrez
Overwatch feels sterile because the devs literally control the meta with a vice grip and prevent experimentation whereas Valve has not only openly supported it but tuned their game as much as they can to open it up. Stacks are possible and you can make them work, and the game is highly configurable. It also doesn't hurt that the game has had a steady groundwork for almost a decade now.
Not a fair comparison. The modern TF2 fanbase is very different from the original fanbase and there's a lot of overlap between them and your average overbabby.
Owen Rodriguez
>I would rather my game not be playable than have people to stomp in it or people who can improve this is what i mean, you are literally just a larper caught up in your fantasy of "saving gaming" and other retarded bullshit.
Lucas Hall
oh I will save gaming AND the white race by making sure casuals never play titanfall again
Asher Robinson
people are unironically stupid enough to think like this
What does that even fucking mean, for fuck's sake. The game hasn't had an update since, what, last year? I can't even remember since I kinda fell off after the grappler nerf then came back.
Jayden Perry
Sounds like someone’s in the pipe five by five
Josiah Martin
Holy mother of based you actually changed my mind while still keeping a level head, good work user
I take a sort of monk's way to things. There's just no fucking reason to spend all day raging at people on Zig Forums.
That said TF2 is a fucking enigma of a game because the fanbase right now is just so weird. You have people trying to make it into a competitive shooter, people trying to fight those people, people who want the game to be a bitcoin farm in the form of hat trading, people who want to live the glory days, memers, kids, and so on. TF2 legitimately has something for literally everyone and the only other game I can think of where you could closely compare it is Destiny, where lorefags, PVPfags, PVEfags, raid fags, and bros who just wanna shoot stuff with their PSN/Xbox friends can all play together with some sense of comaderie.
I personally do not enjoy TF2 because I'm a fucking boomer who was raised on Quake Fort and TFC but I recognize there is some genuine magic to the game even if I heavily dislike the direction it's gone vs launch.
Basically what I'm trying to say here is, you attract more niggas with a Colt 40 than a Glock 40.
Owen Bennett
I tolerate shitty communities knowing they filter out fragile, easily offended cancer who inevitably ruin everything if allowed to metastasize.
Gavin Bennett
OW is genuine cancer. I used to play a few hours back in 2019 and it was not only clunky and cluttered as hell, but everyone's fake as hell. I hate how they give people XP/coins for commending others. Like I didn't get voted as good healer because I did a decent job, just because people want their gay XP.
Mason Lewis
I've played many hours when it was origin exclusive and had none of these problems. It's all steamies' fault.
Jordan Clark
> The modern TF2 fanbase is very different from the original fanbase and there's a lot of overlap between them and your average overbabby. this is unfortunately very true, just last month I saw someone on the other team get kicked for racism.
Cameron Murphy
>start game >get killed by a better player >again and again >NOOOOOOO THIS WASN'T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN IT'S MY TURN TO WIN What happened to this generation? Either you put in the time to get better or you fuck off.
>Oh no, someone crouched over my character, the horror! This impacts my experience! >Oh no, a retard in a game over the internet is calling me mean names, the horror! What? Having fun fucking with him? No! This game is ruined for me! What the fuck is this retard/hole expecting? It's not like people play videogames to have fun and fuck around. The most fun part of online multiplayer was every kind of retard you could met. There were so many personalities. Nowadays it's just a bunch of faggots sitting around not even using their mics. Man, i miss having some retard call me trash and me fucking screaming in extasy when i got to kill him.
William Hall
>the most toxic community ever literally lol
Mason Adams
i hate how nobody talks in multiplayer games anymore partly thanks to cocksuckers like the one in OP anymore
Jayden King
"people"
Anthony Bennett
I'm here to play vidya, not to talk about your gay meetup. If you want conversation, ask your mom or take it to Facebook.
Best way to combat toxicity is by focusing on making a good game that is fun to play regardless of community circumstances, trying to tackle the problem by policing behavior directly is a complete waste of time and money for everyone involved, it's how your game gets mismanaged into oblivion a la Overwatch
Nicholas Cox
>"better player" Smurfing sure makes you look good, buddy.
Isaac Green
You act like a dick, you get shown the door out. This has always been the rule and you can never change it, deal with it faggots.
Gabriel Gray
that all you got? higher, cunt
Robert Cruz
this.
Michael Smith
I suck shit at Titanfall 2 but I still love it to bits. This guy is clearly to used to calling people faggots and niggers in TF2 and wasn't expecting people to say it back to him.
