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u/Zevorion Feb 08 '25
I can't think of a single civilized online pvp game.
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u/Things_Poster Feb 08 '25
Geoguessr is super wholesome
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u/BattleNoSkill Feb 08 '25
Is there a way to express toxicity in this game?
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u/Things_Poster Feb 08 '25
Yes, you have reaction emojis.
A toxic person will spam the laughing or confused emoji all game. That's about 1 out of 100 games.
Some people will ignore you and just play the game - this is about 5 out of 100 games.
But the other 94/100 people will wave at the start, wave again if you both guess together in the wrong place (hilarious), then gg at the end, win or lose. I've never seen anything like it in any online gaming community, ever.
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u/Steelride15 Feb 08 '25
Ever play No Man's sky? You should give it a look up. I've been playing since 2016 and it's the best community I've ever been in. People are, for the most part, super friendly, helpful, and caring. Literally a complete enigma in a sea of toxicity.
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u/Ok_Grapefruit7508 Feb 08 '25
The only thing competitive about NMS is being the drippiest mf in the cosmos lol, but you’re right.
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u/WhySpongebobWhy Feb 08 '25
The sheer number of people commenting Co-op PvE games when you specified PvP is case in point for a solid chunk of the problem with gamers today.
They don't even have the attention for reading comprehension of a single sentence.
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u/FLYK3N Feb 09 '25
Fallout 76 100% No matter what you think of the game, it has the friendliest community that often help out others starting new.
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u/Dont_have_a_panda Feb 08 '25
Every single Game with online multiplayer ever?
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u/SkullDox Feb 08 '25
Mostly PvP games. Sure toxic players exist in PvE but none of them have any penalties for leaving a lobby.
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u/Nisktoun Feb 08 '25
You didn't raid in WoW, do you?:D
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u/ProfessorSur Feb 09 '25
-try WoW for the first time, do classic because it sounds cool
-level to 60, ready to try out raid content, do my best to get as many pre-raid BiS pieces as I can
-find a pug group for molten core
-apply to join
-“We’re looking for people with at least T1 gear. We don’t wanna have to carry people through the whole raid.”
Isn’t molten core where you get T1 gear? I wasn’t even looking to reserve any gear, I just wanted to say I’ve done a raid 😭
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u/father-fluffybottom Feb 09 '25
Listen, noob, you can come and do the raid once you've already done the raid, now kindly piss off, k? I'm sick to death of noobs trying to slow me down.
Why doesn't WoW hold onto new subscribers? Must be because they overtuned relic-stack DPS-AOE on the endgame. When will devs learn!?
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u/SuperiorSilencer Feb 08 '25
Not just multiplayer, I've seen people get super over competitive and toxic over single player games to.
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u/HedonismMan Feb 09 '25
Before everyone and their dog had built in microphones in their headphones you could play Unreal Tournament, Counter Strike, and DotA without necessarily having to hear how much my mother was a whore. Simpler times.
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u/Ivotedforthehookers Feb 08 '25
Dead by Daylight.
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u/Some_Other__Time___ Feb 08 '25
when you want to chill out with fav character and system sends you against sweatiest 10k hours win addict(s)
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u/Monstahunter9 Feb 08 '25
Really wish there was a working ranking system or ranked and casual modes
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u/hotc00ter Feb 08 '25
Anyone who has any other answer has never played this game. It’s the most wildly toxic game on the market.
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u/HimmlersClone Feb 08 '25
True, playing it but brother, you cant beat the toxicity of moba, both LoL and DoTA. Played both, sometimes I still play LoL. Yeah DBD doesn't have shit on LoL or DoTA (toxicity wise).
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u/BoredDao Feb 08 '25
This game is a special case since any sweaty player can ruin the fun of any player in the match really
-Sweaty killer will just stomp you in the best cases or tunnel you at 5 gens and/or slugging the whole team in the worst cases
-Sweaty survivors will totally bully the killer either by making chases take ages with broken perks, body blocks etc and making impossible to pick anyone from the ground because of several combinations of pallet saves, flash saves, decisive strike, all the while one guy in the background will have the most absurd gen rush build and will finish all gens no problem
-Sweaty survivors also ruin the fun for fellow survivors who aren’t in premade teams since they can force normal killer players to go all out and do things like tunneling and slugging which the survivors in a pre made team will have counter play but the random SoloQ guy will just suffer a lot and more often than not will be the sacrificial lamb
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u/AndroidSheeps Feb 08 '25
I've never played DBD but you just made it sound like complete garbage lol
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u/BoredDao Feb 08 '25
When people sweat a lot it is, but most of the matches you will find pretty normal people and a good amount of times you will find funny survivors and killers and all of them are incredible, it’s just that when people want to ruin the game for other people they can and that’s kinda the problem
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u/OriginalTap227 Feb 08 '25
Yep, if you don't follow the rules made up by the community you'll get people telling you to kys, they'll even go to your steam profile writing insults, even days after the match happened.
Never had this happening in any other game
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u/jackal5lay3r Feb 08 '25
ive played that for over a 1000 hours and had to quit it its so toxic whether you encounter toxic players on either side or the players and streamers who complain about how your complaining even if you play nice or do your best not to be an asshole
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u/YoBeaverBoy Feb 08 '25
Fuck yes. I am surprised this isn't top comment.
DBD is a good game but fucking hell, the community can make it feel so miserable to play sometimes.
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u/jeton_zag Feb 08 '25
This is why I avoid playing with others. Single player games are way more fun and less stressful.
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u/CatholicGuy77 Feb 08 '25
Yes or local multiplayer. Blasting through zombies in COD with my friends or racing in Mario Kart with my wife is loads of fun. I could never touch online multiplayer especially in more “hardcore” games or MMORGs
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u/A_Line_A_Day Feb 08 '25
I love single player games but I ruined Baldurs Gate for myself by going onto the subreddit and looking up how to do something. Holy fuck min maxers amd the people in that sub can make a fun game a stressful anxiety inducing activity. Rather than plaukng how I want it made me worry about optimising and not missing any special loot or whatever.
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u/DawnGrager Feb 08 '25
Rainbow Six Siege
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u/Feisty-Succotash1720 Feb 08 '25
Yup! I had to quit that game all together because of the community. Sad thing was a was actually good at it.
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u/The_Paganarchist Feb 08 '25
Siege used to be fun. The bitter irony for me is after all of Goobisofts anti-toxicity bullshit the game got 1000% worse.
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u/TobiWithAnEye Feb 08 '25
I left because they took away Recruits guns and shield.
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u/Sardanox Feb 08 '25
Loved playing that game, I had a few friends I played with semi regularly but I'd play it by myself casually too. I had to stop because I would constantly get belittled for having not played a single ranked match. I'm not here to see who has the bigger e-penis, I'm here to have fun, now fuck off and let me sledge some mf.
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u/Noxington Feb 08 '25
Which is crazy because back when I was playing it was widely regarded as one of the best communities in gaming. Vets would regularly take new players under their wing and show them the ropes and where the best spots on the map were. Sucks to see how far it has fallen.
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u/Asborn-kam1sh Feb 08 '25
I tried league a couple of years back....I regret my decision
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u/boomshiki Feb 08 '25
Any MOBA really. They are inherently toxic.
Don't be fooled by Deadlock. Its a MOBA dressed up like a hero shooter. Its just as toxic as LoL
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u/sorcey_ Feb 08 '25 edited Feb 08 '25
everytime i heard Deadlock, the clip of Dr Disrespect being the only dude in the lobby after the other players saw that he was in-game plays in my head.
eta: reddit loves making you think your post didnt go through
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u/zbohg Feb 08 '25
I played a bit of Heroes of the Storm a few years ago. It was a pleasant surprise after my very short experience with lol and dota. It was pretty casual friendly then.
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u/nebulancearts Feb 09 '25
I really like League as a game, but the other people ruined it for me. Now I just listen to the music and avoid the game lol
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u/Honeybadger2198 Feb 08 '25
League is infinitely more fun if you toggle mute all and hide names permanently. You will also climb ranks significantly easier, because you are focusing entirely on your own game, mistakes, and ways that you can improve. If that's your goal.
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u/Sea_Ad_463 Feb 08 '25
League is good on ARAM from midnight onwards. Most players are chill and sometimes dance with you or synchronise recall with you on the map.
Those randos will even do stupid shit to make you laugh or be surprised.
But other than ARAM, I despise league.
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u/Orthodoxy1989 Feb 08 '25
Peak WoW
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u/Corstaad Feb 08 '25
Honestly, I think WoW current is much worse. It's one of the least difficult games around that you must play perfectly or waste someone's 18 hour streak of gameplay.
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u/Kyral210 Feb 09 '25 edited Feb 09 '25
The toxicity from players in raids and mythic content made me quit. Sure, I would love to spend 5 hours a day getting to their level of perfection, but I can’t, so you get told you’re useless. It made me quit.
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u/Haemwich Feb 09 '25
It's somehow worse in Vanilla. These are solved raids that can and have been cleared with 100% Shamans. Stop sweating me about your parse and do the mechanic.
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u/Portuzil Feb 08 '25
Rocket leauge
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u/Gu1tarslinger Feb 08 '25
What a save! What a save!
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u/PunkRockDoggo Feb 08 '25
I'll be honest
The only time I "What A Save!" spam is if my teammates are being greedy and end up costing us a game because of it.
Because people in Rocket League are the most greedy players I've ever seen. I've had times where I have a clear path to the goal and my teammates come up beside me and push me around to try and get the ball, which knocks the ball off the path of the goal and we don't get the goal. It's ridiculous how much people will try to steal your goal or ball hog.
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u/evnacdc Feb 08 '25
Are you sure they’re not just lacking spatial awareness and accidentally hitting you while being ball chasers?
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u/PunkRockDoggo Feb 08 '25 edited Feb 08 '25
Nah. I've watched as my teammate boosts full speed down three quarters the length of the field towards a ball that is very clearly going dead-on for goal to try to steal my goal
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I will only play this casual. I don't want an in depth knowledge of how to juggle the ball. I just want to crash around.
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u/Fizziest_milk Feb 08 '25
overwatch. if you’re not trying your absolute hardest at all times you’re reported for throwing
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u/mikeslominsky Feb 08 '25
I will say that one exception to the rule has been Fallout76. Really great community over there. Too bad the game has so many micro transactional currencies.
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u/Miriage Feb 09 '25
FO76 is just as bad. Trying to participate in events when everyone is spamming explosives that blind you and kill everything before you can even tag them 1 time.
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u/Beginning_Orange Feb 08 '25
Yeah started playing again and I'm still really surprised at the community. Shockingly nice
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u/BigButtBeads Feb 08 '25
Reddit and their volunteer moderators
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u/the_sheeper_sheep Feb 08 '25
This comment will be deleted by a mod with an ego problem at some point, I can feel it in my bones
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Feb 08 '25
Nah it wouldn't, because any mod who would delete it would be proving him right, and the last thing a sad, egotistical reddit mod would ever want to be is wrong
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u/KnightOfNothing Feb 09 '25
thats assuming they've got the awareness to realize this and dont just knee jerk react then never think about it again.
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u/AdminsLoveRacists Feb 08 '25
Admins are shit as well. Racist, Nazi sympathizing assholes.
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u/I_Like_Toasterz Feb 08 '25
Apex
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u/SageByrgenwerth Feb 08 '25
I only ever play with friends. And all other voices are on mute. It’s a pleasure to play that way.
…just the occasional teabagging to endure.
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u/austinb172 Feb 08 '25
Sea of Thieves
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u/MayhemPenguin5656 Feb 08 '25
"But it's a pirate game blah blah blah" "Now let me greif you until you log out"
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u/Phantomdude_YT Feb 08 '25
What's bad is when they start trashtalking the people on their own team. if someone on the enemy team is trashtalking, I get excited to beat their ass, if someone is trashtalking me on my own team, Its just sad
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u/HawkeyeP1 Feb 08 '25
I would rather buy rope than ever try to play League of Legends again.
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u/Porkchop5397 Feb 08 '25
This was only made worse by streaming and people actually getting payed to play. I'll stick to single player.
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u/DaimoMusic Feb 08 '25
Every fighting game out there. Especially the Smash players.
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u/Individual_Line_4295 Feb 08 '25
World of Warcraft! Some people just have absolutely no life…
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u/Phoenix_Champion Feb 08 '25
Splatoon 3.
Never had this problem in Splatoon 2, but in Splatoon 3 our Casual Mode Turf War is casual no more because the matchmaking is so bad.
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u/GoldenYoshistar1 Feb 08 '25
Smash Bros Ultimate... Or any Smash Bros game. Competitive VS Casual ...
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u/Ok-Influence-1424 Feb 08 '25
COD is the king. They even use SBMM cranked up to a 11 to ruin your fun.
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u/VirtuesVice666 Feb 08 '25
Warcraft. I love to just explore on a mount, but everyone is so level hungry
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u/Zandonus Feb 08 '25
There's gotta be a guild out there where failure isn't an automatic gkick.
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u/Vyxwop Feb 08 '25
I know it goes against the mood of this comment chain and thread, but that's literally most guilds mate. I was in a guild in Classic WotLK that was filled with people constantly fucking up while we were trying to progress Heroic ICC. Sure, we had some grumpy people, but the people making mistakes were never kicked. We even had a guy sign up for raids and no show three times before he got kicked. Oh, and then he was re-invited a week later just to pull the same stunt and get kicked for real.
This has been my experience since I started PvEing in 2018. You don't get kicked for making a mistake. You get kicked for making a mistake, deflecting blame, not learning from the mistake, and repeating that mistake dozens of times. If you own up to the mistake, ask for help, and try your best to fix your mistake then the majority of guilds out there aren't going to care.
PUGs might be a bit different, but even then if you make clear you're learning and are trying your best most people aren't going to bat an eye at all.
The only people I dislike and am keen to kick in WoW are those who fuck up, actively deny they fucked up, and therefore don't learn from their mistakes. The people I love and am keen to keep in the raid are those who accept they messed up and ask for help if they're having difficulties with resolving their mistakes.
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u/NeatWoodpecker3127 Feb 08 '25
It’s always annoyed me when people get hella upset in casual matches. Like bro, if you want to take it serious go play ranked. That’s literally why it’s there
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u/TurboCrab0 Feb 08 '25
Pretty much all online games nowadays. Nobody plays for fun anymore. We took the stress of daily life and shoved it into games. Gotta make it in real life, so gotta make it in the game.
That being said, shooters like CoD and games FIFA are especially radioactive.
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u/NovaPrime2285 Feb 08 '25
Destiny 2, lol the crucible became an annoying sweat fest.
Im just trying to unlock shit, god damn it Lord Shaxx, stop sending me there! 😂😂 I fucking hate it!
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u/4GRJ Feb 08 '25
All of them except for a select few...
Where the opposite happens instead
Pokemon is one of these exceptions
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u/Rei_Master_of_Nanto Feb 09 '25
Dota 2 reigns supreme in this aspect.
Literally in my very first match right after finishing the tutorial I got people shitting on the mic. I've played lots of online games, both competitive and not, and I've never seen such a thing.
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u/beat0n_ Feb 08 '25
I used to play WoW to relax and talk shit with friends but after Legion with the introduction of Mythic+ it became a try hard hell hole. Became a try hard for years before I realized the game had become draining rather than an escape.
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u/forest_hobo Feb 08 '25
Every. Single. Fucking. Mmo. Ever. 😑 Still I keep tormenting myself by playing mmo's 😀 I have issues. Other than that, some shooter games have that 🤔
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u/mightbedylan Feb 09 '25
The worst toxic behavior I've ever personally experienced was on Valorant. I almost never talk on comms due to anxiety stuff and I speak with a bit of a lisp which I sometimes get made fun of for, but not too often. I decided to compliment a teammate on a nice play he made and one of our other teammates went into this absolute tirade of homophobic slurs and personal attacks. Calling me a f*ggot freak, telling me to speak again so him "and his viewers" could make fun of me some more, telling me i should go choke on a dick, etc etc.
Literally the only thing I said was "Nice shot man" and it absolutely triggered that guy. Never played Valorant again after that lol, really that kinda put me off competitive games entirely.
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u/Silent-Youth-7474 Feb 09 '25
I thought this was the league of legends subreddit, that says a lot
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u/RepostersAnonymous Feb 08 '25
Dead by daylight has one of the most toxic communities of any game I’ve ever played
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u/Freakk_I Feb 08 '25
Every online game, especially PVP games. In my experience the worst is League of Legends.
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u/superwaldo3000 Feb 08 '25
Super Smash Brothers. I stopped playing online specifically because of how toxic the environment is.
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u/Sanicsanic68 Feb 08 '25
Pretty much any game with public servers, but the first one that came to mind was Smash.
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“Competitive gaming” has ruined gaming as a whole. I hope it dies a slow, painful horrible death.
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u/Oryx-TTK Feb 09 '25
It used to be League for me.
But Overwatch is by far the worst , I stopped playing a couple of years ago and life has been going up ever since.
I'm honestly glad the franchise is dying.
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u/Neospecial Feb 09 '25
Every Single Game. The internet has changed people from it's early days. No, doesn't mean competitiveness didn't exist back then.
Even in entirely PvE but online games, it's indirectly competitive through economy; grinding "to win" instead of casually playing for fun; mirroring reality. As a whole "We've' become broken, reflected in every aspect of daily life from games to politics - forever chasing profits over life, competitiveness over cooperation.
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u/Timonator1 Feb 08 '25
Almost every online game