There are plenty of multiplayer games I adore. However, it seems like every community has these “brain dead”, patronizing, or out right toxic elements that are just nasty. I’d rather debate politics than make suggestions in some gaming communities because the responses are just so … annoying.

As an example, I once dared to suggest that a game developer implement a mode to prevent crouched status from rendering on death cams so that players that are bothered by t-bagging could avoid it (after a match where a friend rage quit because someone just kept head shotting him – possibly with cheats – and then t-bagging). This post got tons of hate, and like -50 upvotes on reddit because of course someone should be forced to watch someone t-bag them.

Another example on a official game forum… I made a forum post suggesting Bungie use Mastodon (or really just something else being my intent)… The response I got was some positivity but mostly just “lol nobody uses that sweetie” and other patronizing comments.

Meanwhile studios themselves often seem to be filled with developers that understand this stuff is a problem, and the lack of sportsmanship (or generally civilized attitudes) does push away players. It just doesn’t make sense to me that no studio is saying “get lost” to these elements or implementing anti-toxicity features. I just want to play games with nice normal people, is that really so much to ask?

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    1 year ago

    if you’ve got voice cons off you’re just bming your teammates at that point tbh, I understand muting enemies and specific players

    the emote things never gonna happen in things like fornite cuz that’s where they make their money from.

    tho I will say rather than this silly disable the games should just have a freeze cam option that just posts up a pic of your corpse, tho this will contradict the emote moneymaker strat mentioned before

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      1 year ago

      It’s pretty typical that my team is all friends on discord or similar 🙂

      Definitely see the issue with monetization… but also depending on the game the emotes have value outside of this particular situation.

      Freeze frame (or just a black screen) is a good idea

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        1 year ago

        stacking and fucking around with friends is def a fun way to go,

        everything involving money is always hell tbh