I've had some culture shock with the beta, as there were so many strangers in my random matchups being encouraging and positive. I can count on one hand the number of lobbies I've had like that in TF2....
Turns out, you can get banned from the game for being toxic/shitting on people/racism/etc. Additionally, anti-toxicity appears to be the main reason for the absence of killfeed.
I find it pretty refreshing, though the lack of killfeed is irksome. Your thoughts?
Can they really hope to prevent some people having a bad attitude in a competitive game? The people who act like this are prevalent, or at least present, in every competitive game or sport. I think it's a noble idea but if it directly impacts those just trying to play the game (like the killfeed idea, what the fuck???) then it's just bordering on stupid imo.
Recently Blizz added a sort of Silence penalty in SC2 for people who get reported for abusive chat, HOTS has the same system also I believe. It would be safe to assume or guess that the same will be added to Overwatch in the long run as Blizz tends to do less work by implementing the same shit into their games.
To be fair, the argument that TF2/Quake players are going to doing better in the early days has some merit, as those games are much more similar to Overwatch than games like Dota or CS. Obviously that won't matter for long, as the transition from "TF2/Quake/Dota Player" to "Overwatch Player" solidifies.
It definitely is refreshing. I've only ever run into a couple people that are unpleasant to play with so far.
I'm sure it wont stay like this forever. Everyone's on their best behavior because almost every game you play in has a blizzard dev in it and they could very easily do something about toxic behavior.
Holy mother of all necros! Like literally Herbert West kind of stuff. :)
Jokes asides, being hidden behind a monitor and keyboard "helps" people to behave like a-holes, there's nothing a company can do to be sure to avoid what people nowadays calls "toxiciy".
Competitive/PvP focused games are of course affected even more, but wasn't very different in the age of MUDs and so on, just way less people playing online on a single game so less chances to notice it.
you just have to think about why people play video games. do they play to have a good time? probably. do they play to have a good time while other things in their life are frustrating or they are having a bad time? probably. people, especially younger people, are really good as misdirecting their frustration and anger.
most of the time when I'm positive to people they're not so bad. I guess things are different culturally for me since everyone is toxic as hell in match chat but no one really cares or takes it personally - a lot of people are toxic in voice chat to their group/friends too, but it's just banter. giving people the chance to just say some mean stuff and playing along with it instead of poking back at them is a good way to resolve stuff too. if you just meme out and have fun in voice chat you'll probably have a good time, even if you lose.
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