Reasons for toxicity

Join Date: 20 September 2015

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Posted on 27 November 2016 - 03:28 PM

1. People want to win in video Games. People want to win and they will start playing the game with that want. Then as they spend more time within the game they develop the mindset they have to win or else. They want to insult other people who are doing worse than them because they are concentrated on winning and arent thinking of other people's skills. They never consider that people might be having a bad game or a bad day and so they take their anger out on them. They also never take responsibility for their mistakes and find someone else to blame it upon. People tend to forget that they are only playing a game and the point of the game is to have fun.

2. A large amount of people do not want to try new things. As mentioned in one of Hivlik's videos, People develop game sense. They become familiar with a certain play style and refuse to try other ones. For example, if you like to melee and use the rod in a UHC they it might anger you if someone is using a bow primarily. People are often stubborn or afraid to try new things to they try to insult or shout them away when presented.

3. People dont always use full concentration on the game itself. You may lose focus on certain aspects within the game if other things are distracting you such as phones or other people. People wont focus on the game and when they get distracted they get angry because they forget that they could have done better if they had paid attention.

4. People trying to be savage. Players often try to talk trash within the chat to spite the enemy team. Often all this does is lower your own team's morale and raise the enemy teams. In addition the enemy team may say something that angers you and can make you lose focus. As said above this is another thing to distract you within the game. You may also be in a call or teamspeak with your friends and they may be egging you on to make you say more insults against the team or offensive things in general.

These are all things I have found to cause toxicity when I did my research. Please leave feedback below :)

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