Whats the most toxic game you have ever played

[mjs warlord]

For me the answer to this question is a no brainer it has to be Dota2.

I tried it about 5 years ago and was shocked by the abusive behaviour of a lot of the players , i dont know if vote to ban somebody has changed but you used to be able to click vote ban a player without giving a reason. I even remember getting abuse off my team mates AND the opposing team for making silly mistakes .... i used to say ... hey you used to be a noob at one time ... and you can guess what the replies were.

Last year i tried it again and the same things were happening so i got rid a second time.

Now that i have a fast internet i was going to download it again but i looked at the steam discussions pages to see what is happening now , ok so this is only a game but some of the postings i was reading shocked me. The keyboard heros as i call them dont take any prisoners , if anyone says something they dont agree with your history. Most of the thread are about people talking about cheaters , hackers , smurfers and boosters. When you see the replies that some of these threads get i dont know why the person making the reply does not get banned.

I am puzzled as to how such a good game turned so bad.

One thread even said a tenth of the users were banned for smurfing but hundreds more were left alone ....... i wont print what else the guy claimed was happening as i may get into trouble.


I remember many years ago dota2 was used at esports where you could win bucket loads of money and a story hit the magazines saying that a team who had repeated victories for many years decided to boot out a long time team member. As payback the guy went to the organisers and showed them how his old team mates were able to cheat without being found out.

 

[Colif]

I don't play multi player games unless I have too (DIablo 4 being last) and I don't use a headset or talk to anyone in games.
I also generally don't look at forum posts of games I enjoy as well, the 1st line... I don't care what other people think if it doesn't effect the game.

I don't need to do either to know you are right, and its a good reason to not change.

Shame most new games are online only now as how else are they going to sell you pixels.

 

[DXCHASE]

The most toxic games truly only fall under the PVP genre. Mine would be Counter Strike/Counter Strike 2.

Probably the last game i played really competitively and those lobbies are full of toxicity. I find it in Call of Duty, Battlefield, any MP really but CS takes the cake.

 

[Alm]

After playing Counter Strike, I purposely avoided toxic games like Dota2. You would get people having a go at people who weren't good, women, literally everyone.

I got voted off one game for losing as the last man on my team at the last second. Admittedly I probably could have avoided it, but I haven't been back.

 

[GSarge]

League of Legends

The world was a more peaceful place before October 2009

 

[Pifanjr]

I played a little bit of DotA 2, but I don't remember if it was toxic. If so, not so much it was memorable. I can't think of another game that would be more toxic though.

 

[Frindis]

Rust: You build a small 1x1 wooden shack and feel proud about your accomplishments. It got all you need: a cute fireplace, a door, four corners, roof, wooden box and a tool cabinet. You also got yourself a bow and some arrows, pants to protect your snake and some pumpkin as food/water. Life is good!

Then you hear a strange sound at your door and suddenly your door is blown up by a group of fully metal decked raiders. You grab your bow and place one shot in a raiders armor before you are gunned down. You hear faint laughter before your eyes finally close.

While tea-bagging your corpse they, in the most squeaky voice possible, tell you (in voice chat) to go kill yourself because you can't build and can't shoot. So then you respawn as a naked again, walk down to the water and drown yourself in the Rust ocean. Then you respawn again and again and again and again until oh so many hours of gameplay when YOU, yes YOU, can finally take turn all that anger and sadness on all those naked people. From a giant base in the middle of a starter zone and with the most toxic gun ever made in Rust, the LR sniper, you place one perfect bullet after the other.

Then you laugh, eat some food from some fresh spawns corpse and suddenly it finally dawns on you that YOU have also become toxic. So you jump from the roof while screaming out of your lungs and faceplant in a bush that some fresh spawn is picking berries from. He takes your lovely LR sniper and goes on a raid against some local toxic players that used a double barreled shotgun to his face while he was opening his 1x1 door.

 

[Pifanjr]

Rust: You build a small 1x1 wooden shack and feel proud about your accomplishments. It got all you need: a cute fireplace, a door, four corners, roof, wooden box and a tool cabinet. You also got yourself a bow and some arrows, pants to protect your snake and some pumpkin as food/water. Life is good!

Then you hear a strange sound at your door and suddenly your door is blown up by a group of fully metal decked raiders. You grab your bow and place one shot in a raiders armor before you are gunned down. You hear faint laughter before your eyes finally close.

While tea-bagging your corpse they, in the most squeaky voice possible, tell you (in voice chat) to go kill yourself because you can't build and can't shoot. So then you respawn as a naked again, walk down to the water and drown yourself in the Rust ocean. Then you respawn again and again and again and again until oh so many hours of gameplay when YOU, yes YOU, can finally take turn all that anger and sadness on all those naked people. From a giant base in the middle of a starter zone and with the most toxic gun ever made in Rust, the LR sniper, you place one perfect bullet after the other.

Then you laugh, eat some food from some fresh spawns corpse and suddenly it finally dawns on you that YOU have also become toxic. So you jump from the roof while screaming out of your lungs and faceplant in a bush that some fresh spawn is picking berries from. He takes your lovely LR sniper and goes on a raid against some local toxic players that used a double barreled shotgun to his face while he was opening his 1x1 door.

I've never played a multiplayer survival game because I know it would go exactly like this.

It reminds me of the Survival Logic series from Viva La Dirt League:

View: https://youtu.be/fEK-hi91b6Q?si=0FJiw-41RPMc4h-F

 

[Frindis]

@Pifanjr Spot on video! Reminds me of one of the first times I played Rust. I was like an innocent bambi and while I was building a large base a player asked if I needed any help with the building. I was thankful for the extra help and he actually started gathering wood and stone for me. Then after I was almost finished with my base, he shot me in the back and stole the base from me. Oh man, I was soooo angry! Lesson learned. I also learned that your base and items basically means nothing, so at least it taught me never to get to invested in them. You can lose a base super fast or you might be lucky (or have a very good defense and/or alliances) and never experience a raid.

 

[Johnway]

not played most of them but i hear that LOL and DOTA2 are some of the most toxic, there was raft of toxic behavior from pro players and gamers alike. But as others have mentioned anything with a PvP streak will always have your toxic players.

 

[Colif]

Obviously multi player survival games bring out the worst kind of players, those that want to make it impossible for others.
They are hard enough without other people "helping"
Shame the new Dune game is a survival game.

 

[mjs warlord]

i was not going to post what i found on the dota2 discussions pages on steam but as the information is already out their i dont see anything wrong in sharing it

Originally posted by ***** ******
they did ban 65.000 accounts beeing smurfs/boosters, 10% of the playerbase.
few years ago they banned 20% of all accounts for beeing smurfs or using booster service.

but they refused to ban the main account also.
the ones in charge at valve are getting bribed by the booster mafia.

NOTE TO MODERATORS ....... delete this if you thing i should not have posted this.

 

[Master_Shifu]

The most toxic games truly only fall under the PVP genre. Mine would be Counter Strike/Counter Strike 2.

Probably the last game i played really competitively and those lobbies are full of toxicity. I find it in Call of Duty, Battlefield, any MP really but CS takes the cake.

CS and CS2 lobbies can be brutal. It's not just the trash talk either, it's how quickly things go from team chat to full-on meltdown. One bad round and suddenly you're the reason the team’s losing.

I've seen it in CoD and Battlefield too, but CS takes it to another level. Still love the game, but yeah, it's not for the faint of heart.

 

[Master_Shifu]

After playing Counter Strike, I purposely avoided toxic games like Dota2. You would get people having a go at people who weren't good, women, literally everyone.

I got voted off one game for losing as the last man on my team at the last second. Admittedly I probably could have avoided it, but I haven't been back.

CS has this way of turning even casual matches into high-stress warzones. And yeah, the vote kick system can be so unfair one small mistake and suddenly you're out, no questions asked.

I don’t blame you for avoiding Dota2 after that. If CS tilted you, Dota would’ve probably driven you straight to uninstall after game one.

 

[neogunhero]

Rust: You build a small 1x1 wooden shack and feel proud about your accomplishments. It got all you need: a cute fireplace, a door, four corners, roof, wooden box and a tool cabinet. You also got yourself a bow and some arrows, pants to protect your snake and some pumpkin as food/water. Life is good!

Then you hear a strange sound at your door and suddenly your door is blown up by a group of fully metal decked raiders. You grab your bow and place one shot in a raiders armor before you are gunned down. You hear faint laughter before your eyes finally close.

Exactly what I was going to say. I get that's just how the game is meant to be played, but I really don't enjoy it. I've definitely ran into some toxic players, but just in general the players that will kill you and blow your entire base up with C4 for no reason is not a fun way to play. They try to dominate and overpower their opponents, and every player that isn't a part of their squad is deemed an opponent. I just want to survive and live peacefully... can't we talk it out first?!?

This is why I play PVE servers in games like Rust and DayZ. I enjoy the community aspect of playing with other players without fear of dying the second you see someone 1000 meters away from you. Fallout 76 is great at this as well, as PVP is turned off by default, and two players must consent to a PVP duel. No Kill On Sight (KOS).

For games like CS and Battlefield, I typically just turn voice chat off. I don't use a mic, and almost never play with others, so I don't feel the need to communicate with my team. I don't play CS competitively anymore, so trying to use your mic for teamwork is pretty much pointless. BF has always had very little people using their mic in game, no idea why. I've played that series for nearly two decades and have rarely ever heard a random person using their mic, but you can join any CoD lobby and it seems half the server has their mics on.

If people are being toxic, I use all in-game tools to block it out. Turn off voice chat, text chat, block a player, whatever I need to do. I'm playing this particular game because I enjoy it and have fun with it, I don't need some troglodyte spewing their toxic BS in my ears and ruining my enjoyment.

 

[Zimbaly]

I have played tons of games over the years and have had a lot of experiences all across the board.
For encountering toxic players there's a few games/mods I've played that had some truly toxic people and bad experiences.

Fortnite - Holy moses some of my teammates have been absolutely horrible human beings. It was so bad that when I'd play duo,triples or squad I'd just play solo or with people I know. If I heard my family talk like that I'd take a sledgehammer to their consoles and computers.

Team Fortress 2 - CS has some toxic people, but out of those 2 games for me was TF2. Anyone who's played either of those games knows what I'm talking about.

L4D1/2 vs mode - years and years of playing matches I have encountered tons of horrible people on there.
People turn the bigot dial to 11 in that game. If they're winning or losing, they act horrible. It's why when I found a custom 10 vs 10 server and all my buds moved to other games, I just stayed on that server. People weren't jerks, ran a good server and didn't take crap from trolls or let them act out to long before banning them.

On the flip side the best experience for games were Day of Defeat, Tour Of Duty, Revolt mod, Phantasy Star Online and Movie Battle 2. There's a few others, but those games stand out for me.

 

[JCgames]

You'd think game companies would ban toxic players as they drive away so many and they are a fraction of the over all player base. I played mwo and a couple mmos and you'd have one or two on a group of 24 on occasion most of the time people where cordial the ones that werent typically were the same people all the time. we all have a bad day, but thats not what they are.

Its not like being finding some thats toxic is hard to spot either. Over all i played galaies, city of heroes and mwo and i had very little experiances in the way of toxic players. The game forums were far more toxic than the games.

I cant understand how allowing it is a good buisness model.

I do wonder how many would keep shelling out money to rebuy games. Ftp are a different problem.


These days its the steam forums that i find rather toxic, they are filled with stuff i cant beleive people actually say. Basically degrading people that dont fit their ideal. I think you know what im talking about. Thankfully most games i play are not all that popular with them so you can have nice gaming chats. Idle champions is a rather helpful and fun group to chat with and its active with some good folks. Unfortunately its the exception.

The most toxic game i ever played was starcraft, and way back then toxic was saying GG after a rush stomp to rub it in or ltp. On a rare occasion someone might say something about yourmother calling you for dinner. These days, thats a toxic free match lol. My how times have changed and really its just getting worse. I dont get it.


I think the kids would call me old and i should return the favor by saying git off ma lawn......

 

[mjs warlord]

You'd think game companies would ban toxic players as they drive away so many and they are a fraction of the over all player base. I played mwo and a couple mmos and you'd have one or two on a group of 24 on occasion most of the time people where cordial the ones that werent typically were the same people all the time. we all have a bad day, but thats not what they are.

Its not like being finding some thats toxic is hard to spot either. Over all i played galaies, city of heroes and mwo and i had very little experiances in the way of toxic players. The game forums were far more toxic than the games.

I cant understand how allowing it is a good buisness model.

I do wonder how many would keep shelling out money to rebuy games. Ftp are a different problem.


These days its the steam forums that i find rather toxic, they are filled with stuff i cant beleive people actually say. Basically degrading people that dont fit their ideal. I think you know what im talking about. Thankfully most games i play are not all that popular with them so you can have nice gaming chats. Idle champions is a rather helpful and fun group to chat with and its active with some good folks. Unfortunately its the exception.

The most toxic game i ever played was starcraft, and way back then toxic was saying GG after a rush stomp to rub it in or ltp. On a rare occasion someone might say something about yourmother calling you for dinner. These days, thats a toxic free match lol. My how times have changed and really its just getting worse. I dont get it.


I think the kids would call me old and i should return the favor by saying git off ma lawn......

I would like to meet some keyboard heros in real life and say come here A hole i got a bone to pick with you.
Thing is the would probably be at school and not old enough to go to a watering hole then get drunk and start the abuse.

 

[Charagma]

Several Actually

Think top of my list would be "7 days to Die" Most servers the name is incorrect since you croak within 2 days. Unfortunately, due to my system I cannot go higher than v.1 b3. Last year I joined a new server and eventually decided to build my hoard base in the middle of nowhere. Needless to say, not far from me was a 3-man group (Team) that decided it would be fun to sniper me every time I set foot out my door. Talking to them just caused greater problems. Toxicity is server dependent. I have played on some great servers with some great people, so it is not all bad and I refuse to kill a great game for a few rotten servers.

My daughters are out of the house already and this is the only game we all play together. We eventually created our own private server, and we all play there. We are a total of 12 players there (My kids, their husbands and a grandchild (the oldest). Cannot remove the game anyway since it is a "my direct" family get together place.