In my experience, FPS enthusiasts do tend to manifest some pretty bad traits that are less common among other types of gamers. Interesting.
Especially stuff related to "race realism" and various forms of sexism.
Especially stuff related to "race realism" and various forms of sexism.
The sad thing is nowadays this is bullying, sexist, racist, trolling and so on. It just made me laugh. I think the trash talk was always in this community.
This seems true, considering John Gabriel formulated his Greater Internet F*ckwad Theory[0] way back in 2004. But it's not a good thing. Some people just want to play video games without being subjected to racist, sexist, and ableist harassment.
It is absolutely ridiculous that someone who has never seen me, met me, know where I live, any of my history, my sexuality, my family can possibly achieve any of emotion that could ever be taken seriously enough to be considered bullying. It is stretching the term almost far enough to be meaningless.
1. One, or multiple, bad teamates make the match not at all fun (because the game snowbals heavily)
2. It wastes an 30-60 min of your time on a match predetermined to lose
3. The games are primarily played with randoms, and the matchmaking system has never been any good (starting from the original kick anyone who has to dl the game in wc3)
4. Player age ranges drastically, and younger players tend to be both worse and prone to raging (often fueled by their own misplays)
And you always get people who are relentlessly trying to avoid any kind of contention, which is more irritating than anything else.
FPS games really only feature points 3 & 4, as they're predominantly solo experiences (except by taunting the enemy).
But, imo, these things are both natural to the way games are designed, and really are not as bad as made out to be. Its an inherent piece of the games, and anyone going in with antithetical ideals is simply trying to play a different game (which is what the LoL anti-toxic developers pull, consistently misunderstanding the game in terms of its community, design and balance, as they try to rip apart the game to meet their ideals).
If I have a party on PS4 or am on my usual Mumble lounge its typically by the book raid planning. I've seen videos of really inappropriate and childish banter on other games so I know how bad it can get.
Its like kryptonite to the shit spewing gamer bros.