• Majorllama@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 hour ago

      When they got rid of the open voice chat between teams at the start, halftime switch and ending it basically went away.

      I do miss the halftime shit talk spam though. The picosecond everyone could talk to each other you would just get 10 open mics screaming random shit. One guy would just be calling the opposing teams top Fragger a cheating sack of shit. Someone else would bully the bottom Fragger on the other team for only having 4 kills in a half. Someone would blast ear rape music.

      A simpler time. haha

  • FinishingDutch@lemmy.world
    323·
    12 hours ago

    Harassment ‘of’ 10-17 year olds ‘by’ the game? My brother in Christ, 10-17 year olds ARE the harassment. As a 40+ gamer, I’m confident that we can drop harassment levels by 90 percent if those kids weren’t on it. Little sweaty shitheads are why I stopped playing multiplayer games.

    • CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de
      92·
      11 hours ago

      Unfortunately, that is not the case. In my humble experience, the most disgusting (and/because inexcusable) shit comes from grown up guys who were 10-17 years old 15-20 years ago (and they never changed). Online gaming is a hostile environment for girls and women, and it’s by far not only due to 10-17-year-olds.

      • ClamDrinker@lemmy.world
        1·
        45 minutes ago

        Pretty hostile to us men and boys (and anyone who identifies otherwise) who dont need to be toxic to cover up fragility either

      • Allero@lemmy.today
        13·
        7 hours ago

        Interesting. From my observations (I’m male, so take this with a grain of salt), women and girls are generally given positive attention - which might be unwarranted in its own right, but I rarely see hostility to this group of gamers.

        There is even a phenomenon of male gamers, especially among teens, to represent themselves as female to either just get more positive response in players or to actively abuse this for gaining social perks.

  • zymagoras777@lemm.eeEnglish
    71·
    10 hours ago

    I call BS, CS2 is not even on the list and it’s way more toxic than Valorant with all ruzzian shits playing it.

    • simple@lemm.ee
      3·
      8 hours ago

      Yeah this list is very dubious. FFXIV is possibly the chillest multiplayer game I’ve played.

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
      6·
      10 hours ago

      Still is. No idea how people are taking that as toxic.

      In WoW I was told to kill myself for picking a flower.

    • dephyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      12 hours ago

      I’ve played thousands of hours of that in the last 2 years, I’ve never seen any toxic behavior.

      Even when I die like 10 times in a dungeon everyone is always like “You’ll get there”. 🥹

    • GaMEChld@lemmy.world
      6·
      11 hours ago

      FFXIV is by far the friendliest MMO I’ve played. Overwatch definitely needs to be on the survey.

    • Lem Jukes@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      15 hours ago

      Yeah idk where those stats are coming from. Everything I’ve ever heard and experienced with XIV has been nothing but glowingly positive. I have never seen more welcoming and patient players in an MMO in 10+ years of playing online, than in XIV.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
    12·
    15 hours ago

    This is surprising. I thought Valorant was very strict on harassment since it had the biggest female playerbase of any multiplayer comp shooter. To beat dota in toxicity is impressive (however its probably only because no one under 18 plays dota)

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
    7·
    17 hours ago

    The difference is that its 30-40yo’s harassing you in Dota2.

    OH you aren’t playing to the exact meta in last years TI whatever…