it's the holidays, meaning some people may be a little more down than usual. lets take this seriously and remember humans are on the other end of these Gods in the game. you honestly don't have a clue if your last shit talk session could push someone over the fence on an irreversible decision. this may get deleted from a mod, but i wanted to bring notice to everyone that this is a form of cyber bullying and people actually lose their lives over things like this. you can get mad when losing, but lets at least acknowledge when things are becoming a bit inhumane.
No kidding man. I was on a 9 game streak with Nieth in joust. The tenth, they weren't making good decisions this duos I played with. Anhur who ended up starting to talk shit to me telling me to just afk that im not needed. He ended up losing the game for us by pushing right when I backed and dying with his buddy in a 2v3. He ended up with the least damage too, saying I wasnt doing anything, when I was more focused on peeling for these noobs most of the time with CC. Shit like that is what makes people leave the game is toxic idiots.
Agreed, be kind in all things you do.
I had an experience where I was feeling angry (not typing or spamming VGS) and I was frustrated over a player running it down and making it unplayable. I realised when they got on mic, it was a young kid and they were singing to themselves, really sweetly and innocently.
It made me take a step back and realise that it might be newer players, might be a young kid on the other end and I had got angry assuming their intentions.
It was an arena too, literally 0 reason to feel that angry over it. Just play the game and enjoy what you can control and offer help to people struggling rather than any snarky/negative comments.
I love this take especially the last part
Mute button
It's good advice for someone stuck in a game with an annoying person but that's kind of a pointless retort to what OP is talking about.
Responding to:
"Instead of screaming obscenities at people over a game of smite - consider the human on the other side of the screen and have empathy."
With:
"Mute button"
Is like responding to:
"Instead of violently attacking people who support a different soccer team to you - remember that football isn't actually important and life is precious"
With:
"Pepper spray"
Not the same at all actually
The efficiency of your answers is commendable but you're not going to get very far in furthering anyone's understanding of your take if you don't offer up something more
Someone shit talking online is not the same as being physically assaulted
Mute button instantly solves the problem - the guy could be shit talking but he no longer exists in your world. He is just wasting his breath.
Pepper spraying someone who is assaulting you does not instantly remove them from your world. There is still a screaming person to deal with and the further consequences of being assaulted.
But that wasn't the point of what I was saying was it?
I was saying the message from OP was an effort to make some people second guess their salty nonsense and your reply was suited to someone asking how they can stop someone being effected by somebody already giving off salty nonsense.
It's directed at the sender and you're giving advice for the receiver. Which seems silly
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Ive been wishing everyone merry Christmas and happy new years in the post game lobbies for assault.
I also make it a point to say "gg (enter name of worst player on other team)". Its a funny way I can poke at the guys who did good.
Literally just finished a game where the enemy team was just shit talking in post game chat and our Sylvanus was trying to tell them to fuck off. The funniest thing was that their Thor was spearheading the shit talk even though he did the worst in the entire game and had by far the least impressive k/d. Hope that Sylvanus chose to just leave the chat, there's nothing one can do to stop a bunch of people from spouting shit like that.
If you mentally cannot handle the abuse of the internet you should definitely not be playing a f2p moba. Everyone had to take their lumps while trying to lean the game. The game is its community if you can’t handle that then it’s not for you. Part of the fun is baiting someone into being toxic and ruining them for it in late game. Then it’s your turn to trash talk because you won.
OP - 'maybe don't be completely awful to people, especially at a time of year that can be difficult for people going through hard times'
You - 'here is why you are wrong'
Wild.
Believe it or not, it is entirely possible to see a completely stranger in the video game who is, for example, 'playing less skilled than the enemy team because matchmaking dumped them out of their depth' or 'doing badly because they are trying to practice a god they haven't played' and not be a total piece of shit towards them lol.
I find toxic players genuinely entertaining. I laugh at them having demented breakdowns over shit like 'they got ganked once' or 'the only nearby teammate wasn't dumb enough to follow them into a 2v5'. That doesn't mean their embarrassing babyrage should be encouraged. It's a team game and if you want to win - which I'm guessing most people do - then being at least a vaguely decent human being towards teammates has a definitively proven track record of helping get that win.
And some people use games as a mechanism to get away from whatever genuinely tough shit they have going on IRL, what's the benefit or justification of other people going out of their way to create a shitty hostile environment for them and for everyone else?
To get them to quit and stop ruining games or give the motivation to get good. We all went through it in the beginning, its part of the game and a Reddit post won’t change that. If you’re that sensitive find a different game like cooking with cookie for example.
'To get them to quit and stop ruining games'
The more people who quit, the fewer people matchmaking has to choose from, and the more likely it is that you will get lower quality games going forward. Even if only very low skill players quit, that means there are fewer of them to be matched with each other and more likely to be put in games out of their depth.
'If you’re that sensitive...'
I guess you just didn't even read the bit about me finding it genuinely funny to see people have complete psycho rage fits over nothing. That's okay. Not everyone is blessed with an attention span beyond that of a toddler. Keep at it champ.
Oh I definitely will thank you 😊 Also I wasn’t talking about you. Funny how you got defensive though while implying you’re not sensitive.
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