Over 30 companies, including Riot and Blizzard, join forces to fight toxic online behavior

See what I mean? You are being a behindorifice just because, while I'm in a forum trying to make a point and asking a very valid question, you are just being toxic for the sake of it. Good luck hurting my feelings though.
 
I can't be the only one that isn't concerned by this? Jerk players are always around, whatever happened to just ignoring them? Maybe I am missing something here.

Jerk players have always just been background noise for me as far back as the mid-nineties. Like I said maybe I am missing something here and the harassment is continuing off game as well?

In World of tanks ,I regularly get someone look me up in chat in between maps just to bash and trash,me just because they lost and need it to be someone elses fault.which for some snowflake kids could be offensive and degrading.for me its an excuse to return the bash and trash, and chase them under their bed and terrorise them until they cry..I love it .
don't bring your feelings into an online Game ,simple.I call out substandard players on team that don't even try, but trash someone because they don't have the Xp. is just plain immature.there has allways been toxicity ,in online gaming ,it's part of any game and sports.and the jobsite,school,etc,etc.
 
See what I mean? You are being a behindorifice just because, while I'm in a forum trying to make a point and asking a very valid question, you are just being toxic for the sake of it. Good luck hurting my feelings though.

Since I genuinely feel sorry for you, I will give you a proper response. Some people just do it for the amusement, myself included. You are such an easy target for me that I honestly don't even have to try, and that goes with many people online. You literally just have to recognize that a person doesn't really care to engage with you in civil discourse that you so thoroughly seek...you ignore those people and they go away. Every game/life/situation will have its bad apples but perhaps consider they are doing it for fun and not really taking every game with a stick up their a$$. Do I have games that goes to waste because I get trolls? Hell yea, I troll them back and just enjoy myself. Again, the notion of people's feelings getting but.thurt is very real and the snowflake epidemic is worse than ever...which is why I don't stop trolling because if people can't handle a little online banter, then they will utterly fail in real life. I'm completely anti-PC so the more you try to point out valid points or criticisms or anything remotely civil, I will come at you with full force because I, and many others, will not silence our enjoyment for the sake of "being nice" and "politically correct". Games are games...they are made for entertainment, I didn't log on to be considerate of anyone's feelings.
 
Work on improving the games, pricing and gamer satisfaction. Wasting time, effort and money on a social engineering experiment is pointless. Have a block and ignore function (properly inform people that it exists), investigate the players with the most blocks/ignores, job done.
 
While it would be cool if the burgeoning practice of being an ******* to strangers online could be mitigated, I have no confidence in the ability of these companies to do it.

I play Rocket League occasionally, and there's rarely a game in which one of my 2 teammates isn't some bitter, petulant brat. It's similar in CS:GO. These kids (some times adults) just take out their frustration on anyone they can online. I mute them, or mess with them and laugh, but I can see how it'd bother many people. I personally would much prefer if people could be civil and play the game. Trash talk is fine, but that's not what this is in many cases.

A large contributor to this trend is the popularity of team-based games that match you with random players (LoL and OW are two more examples). Unless you're playing with friends, there's no sense of camaraderie, just strangers being matched with strangers. As for the people who do play with friends, they get matched against strangers on the other team and then take out their bitterness against one another.

It's a lot more than trash talk; these are troubled individuals expressing their frustration/unhappiness in unhealthy and ineffective ways. I don't know the solution, aside from better parenting and changing the world--good luck with that.

Anyway, these companies won't simply ban half their users, and they won't undo whatever damage has made them the sad, sardonic people they are. Even the pre-packaged positive messages, like Hearthstone and Rocket League use to some extent, are just spammed sarcastically. The root of the problem is the users, and there's little hope that some lame positivity campaign will help in any way.

There was a time when people were mostly friendly, or at least civil, in online games. It's interesting how far that civility has deteriorated in modern games. I can guess the reasons, but this is long enough.
 
3 year olds being proud of being 3 year olds... you can't get any more brickwalled than that ;)
 
While it would be cool if the burgeoning practice of being an ******* to strangers online could be mitigated, I have no confidence in the ability of these companies to do it.

I play Rocket League occasionally, and there's rarely a game in which one of my 2 teammates isn't some bitter, petulant brat. It's similar in CS:GO. These kids (some times adults) just take out their frustration on anyone they can online. I mute them, or mess with them and laugh, but I can see how it'd bother many people. I personally would much prefer if people could be civil and play the game. Trash talk is fine, but that's not what this is in many cases.

A large contributor to this trend is the popularity of team-based games that match you with random players (LoL and OW are two more examples). Unless you're playing with friends, there's no sense of camaraderie, just strangers being matched with strangers. As for the people who do play with friends, they get matched against strangers on the other team and then take out their bitterness against one another.

It's a lot more than trash talk; these are troubled individuals expressing their frustration/unhappiness in unhealthy and ineffective ways. I don't know the solution, aside from better parenting and changing the world--good luck with that.

Anyway, these companies won't simply ban half their users, and they won't undo whatever damage has made them the sad, sardonic people they are. Even the pre-packaged positive messages, like Hearthstone and Rocket League use to some extent, are just spammed sarcastically. The root of the problem is the users, and there's little hope that some lame positivity campaign will help in any way.

There was a time when people were mostly friendly, or at least civil, in online games. It's interesting how far that civility has deteriorated in modern games. I can guess the reasons, but this is long enough.

Now any yahoo can get into PC Gaming. It used to be a more niche market that was regulated to "nerds" which in return were usually much more intelligent or at least not obnoxious. The internet as a whole even in chat rooms seemed a lot less obnoxious.
 
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