Have you been in a toxic game community?

[KnoxUK]

I've been playing rainbow six siege with a couple of mates, don't get me wrong its a really fun and competitive game (Really steep learning curb though)

But its seems that a moderate amount of the other players are just super toxic at sportsmanship in the game. They'd vote to kick constantly, team kill or spawn kill. :S

Have you guys experienced being in a toxic community?

 

[tae]

overwatch gets pretty damn toxic at times, but the worst was when i was an in game moderator for toontown rewritten. i've never in my life had to deal with so much garbage in one setting than when i was moderating for that **** show. i'd wake up daily to 50+ comments on my IG telling me to kill myself, calling me an "it" and a "heshe." people telling me to get r*ped or murdered and threatened to be doxxed and swatted. it was appalling. an online re-make of a disney game, who'd have thought so many little scum bugs would be slumming it on there.

 

[idiotdoomspiral]

trying out league of legends was a big mistake

 

[Oblivia]

Have to agree with the above - the LoL community can be pretty gross at times, but that's unfortunately just the nature of moba communities. I also used to play a ton of Halo 2 and of course you'd have people cussing at you and letting you know all manner of things they've done to your mom, but I'm not really the type to let things like that bother me and would usually just laugh it off.

Oddly enough, certain parts of the Pok?mon community could also be pretty harsh/toxic - namely on the RNG/research side of things. I moderated a site dedicated to the above and yikes... the number of 4chan threads that would pop up talking about how certain members should die and the sheer hatred these people seemed to have over a game that's supposed to be so cute and innocent was pretty off-putting to see.

 

[MapleSilver]

I used to post on the Overwatch forums and people there are very... special.

Have to agree with the above - the LoL community can be pretty gross at times, but that's unfortunately just the nature of moba communities. I also used to play a ton of Halo 2 and of course you'd have people cussing at you and letting you know all manner of things they've done to your mom, but I'm not really the type to let things like that bother me and would usually just laugh it off.

Oddly enough, certain parts of the Pok?mon community could also be pretty harsh/toxic - namely on the RNG/research side of things. I moderated a site dedicated to the above and yikes... the number of 4chan threads that would pop up talking about how certain members should die and the sheer hatred these people seemed to have over a game that's supposed to be so cute and innocent was pretty off-putting to see.

Wow, and I thought the Youtube Pok?mon community was bad.

 

[Alienfish]

Yeah, but stay away from the elitist community (pages) and you are good.

*cough FEH and Pok?mon cough*

 

[Bowie]

Yes, this one!

Kidding, kidding.

 

[BambieTheMayor]

overwatch gets pretty damn toxic at times, but the worst was when i was an in game moderator for toontown rewritten. i've never in my life had to deal with so much garbage in one setting than when i was moderating for that **** show. i'd wake up daily to 50+ comments on my IG telling me to kill myself, calling me an "it" and a "heshe." people telling me to get r*ped or murdered and threatened to be doxxed and swatted. it was appalling. an online re-make of a disney game, who'd have thought so many little scum bugs would be slumming it on there.

I LOVED ToonTown, but ToonTown Rewritten had a very toxic community. My best friend and I both downloaded it when we learned it existed and were really surprised by all of the people on there saying some... incredibly surprising things. I did find a few nice people on there, though.

- - - Post Merge - - -

Yes and no. I was apart of this certain game (and, though I hate to say it, yes, it was Minecraft. Though I haven't played it in years) community and it was surprisingly toxic; at least, the servers I got on were.

One of my friends was actually a moderator to one of the servers. He was told to kill himself, and was actually doxxed once. He was sent a very eerie picture of a map of his neighborhood. The next day he resigned and I never saw him on that server again.

I, however, didn't have anything that bad ever happen to me. I got hated on sometimes and got into quite a few nasty arguments, but that was about it.

 

[hamster]

everything is toxic/has some toxicity in communities, so yes

i also tink that a lot of people play in the toxicity at some point in their lives like a phase. ive been thru it a number of times, especially when i started on this website

 

[ellarella]

dota 2 probably had the most toxic community of the games i've played. it ended up becoming so bad i only ever played it with a full stack of friends so we wouldn't ever be teamed up with randoms.

 

[Hopeless Opus]

toontown rewritten. toontown online. league of legends.
nothing more needed lmao

 

[~Unicorn~]

a game i play has quite some toxic and offensive people, mainly because there’s no moderating in it....i’ve been a victim of bullying there because some people take personal problems like a joke

with communities, pretty much no. this forum is my only game community and it’s probably much better than the ones you guys are saying lol

 

[Lenndrix]

overwatch gets pretty damn toxic at times, but the worst was when i was an in game moderator for toontown rewritten. i've never in my life had to deal with so much garbage in one setting than when i was moderating for that **** show. i'd wake up daily to 50+ comments on my IG telling me to kill myself, calling me an "it" and a "heshe." people telling me to get r*ped or murdered and threatened to be doxxed and swatted. it was appalling. an online re-make of a disney game, who'd have thought so many little scum bugs would be slumming it on there.

Oh my gosh! Can I just... Apologize... On behalf of the entire human race? Thats really horrible. I'm so sorry you had to put up with that nonsense! Its really inexcusable.

This is why Im a lurker for a lot of communities of things I like... I suffer from anxiety and nobody's got time for that kind of harassment... And this goes for everyone on this thread who are sharing these horrible abuse stories... Y'all are some of the sweetest people, it sucks to know that you guys have to deal with this garbage...

 

[Princess Mipha]

Well, I play League of Legends, aka League of Toxics.
I personally was toxic as well, because I hate it when people
say **** about my parents. The amount of times that people told me
to kill myself must've been about 1.000 times, ayyy.
Meanwhile I got a warning because I told once someone to shut up, lol.

My boyfriend got his second account perma banned not a long time ago,
because he was really.. REALLY toxic.
Since he has his third account he finally seems to be more calm though.

 

[Midoriya]

Every gaming community has toxic people.

Wizard101, Toontown, Toontown Rewritten, Overwatch, Rainbow Six Siege, SoulWorker, Closers Dimension Conflict, Elsword (eh, somewhat on this one. It's alright now), etc....

Actually, there are toxic people everywhere in life. Both on games, forums, and in real life. It made me want to do something drastic to myself last Spring, but I ended up continuing to live because I know it makes me stronger.

I'm still not the same person I used to be. The same laughing, na?ve, gullible boy that everyone loved. Now that I'm an adult and I see how harsh reality is, I face everything like Neji from Naruto. I remain distant and aloof, and if someone challenges me, I take them down with words. If not words, then action.

To be honest.... toxic gaming communities kind of made me a monster. But in a way, they helped me. While I lost a lot of friends along the way, I also gained a lot of friends, and it helped me learn about life too. Not ending it last Spring here at university also made me realize even more things. Mainly that I'm one of the strongest people I know for overcoming Aspergers (Mild Autism), severe depression, and anxiety on my own.

But that's enough about me. If you need to know more, feel free to VM or PM me. I'm always open now. I had a complicated past, but all I want to do now is help rewrite History and be a shining star for the countless people that helped me make it this far, including my family. All people were created equal, but they also have the choice for great good or great evil. That's what I hold in my heart.

I love everyone in life as friends. I have had countless conversations about the deepest of things at bars and other places with past families, friends, older adult men or women, where I would drink Sprite (a soft drink) and go into the deepest of ways of thinking or "philosophies," and they would generally agree with me. I would run for President too if I had to, but that's not what I want to do in my life.

No matter what, I will never call it quits and I will never give up. Even if everyone is laughing at me every minute of my life. I never wanted pity from people, just acceptance.

EDIT: I also wanted to say that if not for TBT, and all of you in the past and those that are still here, I would have never made it this far either. So thank you for it. You guys keep dragging me back here because of how kind everyone here is generally. And one day, I'm going to get you for that.... hahaha....

"If I'm kind to everyone I meet in life, I'll die without regrets."

#NeverEverQuit
#LoneStarGrit
#TexasRangers LLC

 

[Tessie]

Guys I have been playing online video games for 15 years and having been an admin for a top server, let me tell you, the internet used to be full of extremely nicer people who followed the rules and played the game for it's purpose and to make friends.
I had over hundreds and hundreds of online video game friends...in fact my current boyfriend that I've known for 13 years is one that I met from an online video game community.
When I was 18 years old (almost 10 years ago thats depressing as heck) the online gaming community started to be introduced with "trolls," and get on the decline. Now, it's all there really is.

I used to be an admin for a server so I've dealt with people's behavior for a while which used to be very tolerable and the most biggest offense was just not playing by the rules. Being an admin NOW you literally risk you life. When I was 20 and still an admin for a server, I temporarily kicked a player for putting another player's IP on blast.
This no-life ended up making a WEBSITE about me, by stalking me and gathering my information, where I live, my phone numbers, pictures of me, information about my family, and going on these messed up forums asking for someone to kill me as he provides information and he'll pay money.
He also swatted my best friend (in real life) who was playing with me by reporting that she shot and killed someone in her house and she ended up having over 15 police vehicles on her street.
I reported this online harassment to the police, even provided the website, but they couldn't do much and just said ignore him.

I ended up just having to quit the game for good because it wasn't worth it. And I really loved that game too.

Point is, online video gaming has turned to poop over the years and it really use to be pleasant and even addicting time when you played with normal people who were behaving how they would in real life. I have no idea what is going on or what will happen with the culture on the internet anymore.

 

[deuces]

TOONTOWN REWRITTEN. that was VILE lmao i would never bully anyone but i made some jokes and immediately got told to die and threats on my life
they cray i swear, i still play to this day but im spamming back nines so i hardly have issues but BOSS BATTLES are where the crap show begins
also FNAF like two years ago. ew. i got spammed with lewd art and that was... an experience. ew again.

 

[tumut]

I L I K E D O L P H I N S L O L I M S O R A N D O M X D

- - - Post Merge - - -

The Clubpenguin community was extremely toxic. My CP gf, pinkeeeee29 emotionally abused me and that happended in 2012 and I think about it everyday

 

[Jade_Amell]

Any game can have a toxic community. But I've personally experienced it in Overwatch lately. I don't play Comp but even quick play or the arcade can get toxic when people get salty about losing or being killed multiple times. Or god forbid you're playing their main character wrong.

 

[Midoriya]

Point is, online video gaming has turned to poop over the years and it really use to be pleasant and even addicting time when you played with normal people who were behaving how they would in real life. I have no idea what is going on or what will happen with the culture on the internet anymore.

You are exactly right about this last paragraph. People act rude online because they think hiding behind a screen protects them, but it doesn't.

There ARE still good communities of MMORPGs' and other games that have good fanbases, but they are FEW and FAR between. I am just thankful I am where I'm at, to have the friends I do that can help me defend myself at any given time.


The fact of the matter is if you use the internet, you should say things you would only say IRL, and if you feel like you would not say it, then it is probably not a good idea to do so to people you know nothing about....