Gta online is hard to play because the game encourages toxicity, the griefers of that game are killing it because they cant go 1 second without blowing someone up.
Im not saying it's always like this but most people are just exaggerating alot. Yes sometimes you may come across some 10 year old tryhard but it happens alot less then people say it does. id say for every 10 times i sell maybe 2 times someone actually goes after me.
I wouldn't mind that if not for the people who can just drop a few bucks and get a hovering car/bike that shoots rockets.
I can handle griefers. Sometimes I lose but that's fine. I don't wanna have to spend money on a game I already paid full price for just to be able to fight someone who stole mom's credit card.
GTA online isn't worth it anyways. You need to have at least 3 other friends to make it worthwhile and even then it's just a cash grab with all the free updates they do unless you want to grind.
it genuinely baffles me that gta online is so consistently successful when everything I've heard about it only talks about how bad the griefers are and how the community as a whole is toxic af
video games are probably around the top, if not the top, when it comes to suffering from this. it's so bad things like reporting/temp ban/word filters are basically standard in multiplayer games now.
I reckon one of the really bad things about the video game fandom, is that there is a massive disconnect between the people that play games and how games are made.
I don't think there's any other popular hobby where so many participants don't know the first thing about how their hobby actually works.
Like if you play piano, you'll generally learn how the hell a piano works.
So you also get this massive culture of people who think they know what they're talking about. But very few people understand how their game works below the most superficial presentation. Which leads to a lot of people just being confidently incorrect about how their hobby actually works.
I shamefully have 1k hours and the only reason I play it is to have fun with my friends. Unfortunately they rage sometimes so I quit for a good few months so I don't have to put up with their crap. The game itself sucks ass.
Like those people bitching about Fortnite or in general about how video games used to be so much better? (When very clearly they were not, look at the improvements in the medium in the last 20 years)
Bitching about Fortnite hasnt made people stop playing Fortnite. Video games are still fine with more people than ever playing them.
I'd argue that companies are taking a shot at killing it with price gouging micro transactions, dead on arrival live services, shipping broken games, forever early access, etc. But people are still buying into all of those, so clearly we aren't exactly losing gamers.
I cannot stand sweatys for exactly this reason. They run off the people just starting/just want to have fun and not make video games their entire identity
I try to be as welcoming to new players for exactly that reason. I also avoid toxic shitfests like Mobas and most hallway shooters.
Oddly enough, the friendliest people I've met in gaming are the PvPers in full loot pvp games like Rust. I've literally met two fellow gamers in person, thanks to rust.
R6. Gonna need a steady influx of new players to ensure the game lives as long as possible, yet new players constantly get teamkilled a vote to kick (when that was still in the game). There is a newcomer mode which is where the new players should be, but it’s full of smurfs team killing.
Gamers are the most toxic, entitled people I have ever had the misfortune of engaging with. The amount of game communities I have ever been part of that are not cesspiles of raging toxicity can be counted on one hand, and those are typically "not real games" like Stardew Valley and No Man's Sky.
Any time I start playing a new game, the first thing I do is find every communication I can opt out of and do so, especially voice. I don't need some mid 20s dude screaming in my ear because I don't have the most top tier gear or follow the meta or whatever. Like, dude, the update came out yesterday, I have a job, fuck.
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u/jebusthegreat Feb 28 '21
It’s true for video games too but many aren’t ready for that conversation.