There are certainly toxic people in the game (in all facets, pve, pvp, housing, merchants, everything). Just as there are toxic people you will meet in real life. You will work with toxic people, have friends that turn toxic, date people who are toxic. Learning to deal with the OCCASIONAL toxicity from people in your life is an important skill to learn, because you WILL deal with it.
totally agree, but from my experience ingame you will always find more toxic people because they are hiding themselves behind the mask of anonymity aka hiding behind their nickname.
DMuehlhausen wrote: »As I expected, most of the comments here are like: "yeah, that's why I do RP/housing, because raiding guilds are so toxic!!!!111oneone"
The truth is, not really.
People like above are just too sensitive to play MMO. They don't accept any critique or advice from other players regarding their gameplay. Someone will tell them nicely: "try to improve your dps" and they will get immediately sad or angry, and then they run to the forums to complain how badly they were treated by these end game players.
I play this game for over 2 years, and I'm doing end game PvE content all the time. I played with many groups and guilds during that time and I never been a victim of toxic behavior about the way I play.
My advice? Relax and listen to others. Don't be so sensitive. Not every person who says something about your performance in PvE is toxic and tries to make you feel bad. And some people just try to show you the right direction, even if they do it in not really good way.
Yeah I'm sorry I've never seen anybody just be like "try to improve your dps" It's almost always. Who the F let the Fing NOOB in. Pick it up worthless piece of SH** scrub
This is why I tend to stay away from the high level end game content. It's the same in all games. Most of the time they take it WAY too seriously and freak out at the slightest thing making the whole experience miserable. No thanks. Then of course they constantly cry because they can't keep enough members to have a stable roster. LOL gee I wonder why!
I walked away from a Mythic Raid progression guild in WoW because of that attitude. They were rude, insulting, overly demanding, and unreasonable, as most progression guilds are. The final straw for me was when I told them I couldn't make raid night when we were pushing progression because WE WERE HAVING MY MOTHERS FUNERAL THAT DAY and I would not feel up to raiding that night. They went ballistic lecturing me on "loyalty" and "responsibility" and calling me all sorts of names telling me I needed to "get my priorities straight". I /gquit on the spot and haven't touched high level end game content since nor am I likely to ever again.
Trial guilds are filled with self-righteous, condescending, passive-aggressive, selfish people. I gave trials a try last year, and every time I see a call in zone for a trial group, I just SMH. I wish they would implement a trials queue like the one we have for dungeons. FFXIV and BDO do it, and trials are a much better experience on those MMOs. There are no elitists blacklisting players who don't run god-mode builds, and the community is very helpful in helping players get better while in the trials. In ESO I got into guilds that said they were progressive guilds, but really they were just a bunch of elitist end-gamers who expect too much.
A really good story I have is a player offered an invite to some elite trial guild. The condition was I needed to pass a test set by the GM (yes there was a test in a video game). So he invited us to group, one healer, me as DPS, and GM as tank. The trial was Spindleclutch 2, and the test was burning down Bloodspawn by myself. Now I could burst 30K dps, sustained was about 15-20K, and got the boss down to 20% health, but we wiped due to the rock slides. That was it. No trial guild invite for me.
This is what this game has been brought down to the low level of players justifying who can and cannot run content that should be available to all. The only things that should control this are the mechanics of the game, and the developers who create it. If you're an elitist player like this, you are ruining gaming.
The PS4 community is the absolute definition of toxic. Never again will I be anywhere close to those people.
My end game trial and PvP raiding groups on PC are just amazing. I love those guys.
If you can't sustain more than 20k then well...I hate to break it to you but you wouldnt even be able to complete a raid.
As for the other games, the fact that you think those games are Utopia when they are just as bad if not worse really says something about the rose-colored glasses you're wearing.
The solution is simple. Improve upon yourself. Aim for 30k DPS if you want to do raids. 20k is fine for dungeons, though, so if you want to stay casual (and that is not derogatory, there is absolutely nothing wrong with being a casual) then by all means stay casual.
If you can't sustain more than 20k then well...I hate to break it to you but you wouldnt even be able to complete a raid.
As for the other games, the fact that you think those games are Utopia when they are just as bad if not worse really says something about the rose-colored glasses you're wearing.
The solution is simple. Improve upon yourself. Aim for 30k DPS if you want to do raids. 20k is fine for dungeons, though, so if you want to stay casual (and that is not derogatory, there is absolutely nothing wrong with being a casual) then by all means stay casual.
I'd hate to break it to you, but before I could do 30k DPS, I was running vet trials with only 10K sustained DPS. No one even knew.
It's not about being a certain build or how powerful I am, but more about other players excluding players from content that does not require the overwhelming amount of skills it takes to do vet trials. I knew DPSs that could run >40K DPS, yet they died all of the time, because they failed at strategy, and mechanics. You know how much DPS a 40K sustained DPS can do when dead? ZERO!!! Not only this the other DPSs have to stop what they're supposed to be doing (damage) to rez your dead ass.
There's more than one way to improve yourself.
Trial guilds are filled with self-righteous, condescending, passive-aggressive, selfish people. I gave trials a try last year, and every time I see a call in zone for a trial group, I just SMH. I wish they would implement a trials queue like the one we have for dungeons. FFXIV and BDO do it, and trials are a much better experience on those MMOs. There are no elitists blacklisting players who don't run god-mode builds, and the community is very helpful in helping players get better while in the trials. In ESO I got into guilds that said they were progressive guilds, but really they were just a bunch of elitist end-gamers who expect too much.
A really good story I have is a player offered an invite to some elite trial guild. The condition was I needed to pass a test set by the GM (yes there was a test in a video game). So he invited us to group, one healer, me as DPS, and GM as tank. The trial was Spindleclutch 2, and the test was burning down Bloodspawn by myself. Now I could burst 30K dps, sustained was about 15-20K, and got the boss down to 20% health, but we wiped due to the rock slides. That was it. No trial guild invite for me.
This is what this game has been brought down to the low level of players justifying who can and cannot run content that should be available to all. The only things that should control this are the mechanics of the game, and the developers who create it. If you're an elitist player like this, you are ruining gaming.
I walked away from a Mythic Raid progression guild in WoW because of that attitude. They were rude, insulting, overly demanding, and unreasonable, as most progression guilds are. The final straw for me was when I told them I couldn't make raid night when we were pushing progression because WE WERE HAVING MY MOTHERS FUNERAL THAT DAY and I would not feel up to raiding that night. They went ballistic lecturing me on "loyalty" and "responsibility" and calling me all sorts of names telling me I needed to "get my priorities straight". I /gquit on the spot and haven't touched high level end game content since nor am I likely to ever again.
Proof that all of them came from consoles?Yeah, many competitive PvE guilds have a really crappy toxic jargon, people hysterically screaming and insulting left and right, when someone messes up.
absolutely wrong.
Competetive PvE guilds dont mess up and if they do whatever, just reset the trial and go again.
There is no personal attacking in top-tier PvE guilds, only constructive Criticism and if that offends you, dont even bother getting into such environment.
"You F'ing useless waste of space are you F'ing blind" really sounds like constructive criticism
Not all raid groups are like this but I've seen/heard my fair few when joining to help out if someone needed another member.
from what ive seen in this topic so far all the toxicity complaints are comming from console, i just wonder why.
if anyone ever attacked anyone of my raidteam more than once, instant guildkick.
Reistr_the_Unbroken wrote: »Proof that all of them came from consoles?Yeah, many competitive PvE guilds have a really crappy toxic jargon, people hysterically screaming and insulting left and right, when someone messes up.
absolutely wrong.
Competetive PvE guilds dont mess up and if they do whatever, just reset the trial and go again.
There is no personal attacking in top-tier PvE guilds, only constructive Criticism and if that offends you, dont even bother getting into such environment.
"You F'ing useless waste of space are you F'ing blind" really sounds like constructive criticism
Not all raid groups are like this but I've seen/heard my fair few when joining to help out if someone needed another member.
from what ive seen in this topic so far all the toxicity complaints are comming from console, i just wonder why.
if anyone ever attacked anyone of my raidteam more than once, instant guildkick.
Oooh okay. I misread your post and got a bit confused because I hadn’t seen anyone being toxic, but then again I’m not in trials, dungeons and barely use the chats.Reistr_the_Unbroken wrote: »Proof that all of them came from consoles?Yeah, many competitive PvE guilds have a really crappy toxic jargon, people hysterically screaming and insulting left and right, when someone messes up.
absolutely wrong.
Competetive PvE guilds dont mess up and if they do whatever, just reset the trial and go again.
There is no personal attacking in top-tier PvE guilds, only constructive Criticism and if that offends you, dont even bother getting into such environment.
"You F'ing useless waste of space are you F'ing blind" really sounds like constructive criticism
Not all raid groups are like this but I've seen/heard my fair few when joining to help out if someone needed another member.
from what ive seen in this topic so far all the toxicity complaints are comming from console, i just wonder why.
if anyone ever attacked anyone of my raidteam more than once, instant guildkick.
It's an anecdote. Anecdotal evidence is not reliable, but is at least valid to the person stating the anecdote and usually cannot be proven.
I have never experienced toxicity within the PC player base...this obviously does not mean that the PC player base does not have toxic players. I just can't prove that it does.
Reistr_the_Unbroken wrote: »Oooh okay. I misread your post and got a bit confused because I hadn’t seen anyone being toxic, but then again I’m not in trials, dungeons and barely use the chats.Reistr_the_Unbroken wrote: »Proof that all of them came from consoles?Yeah, many competitive PvE guilds have a really crappy toxic jargon, people hysterically screaming and insulting left and right, when someone messes up.
absolutely wrong.
Competetive PvE guilds dont mess up and if they do whatever, just reset the trial and go again.
There is no personal attacking in top-tier PvE guilds, only constructive Criticism and if that offends you, dont even bother getting into such environment.
"You F'ing useless waste of space are you F'ing blind" really sounds like constructive criticism
Not all raid groups are like this but I've seen/heard my fair few when joining to help out if someone needed another member.
from what ive seen in this topic so far all the toxicity complaints are comming from console, i just wonder why.
if anyone ever attacked anyone of my raidteam more than once, instant guildkick.
It's an anecdote. Anecdotal evidence is not reliable, but is at least valid to the person stating the anecdote and usually cannot be proven.
I have never experienced toxicity within the PC player base...this obviously does not mean that the PC player base does not have toxic players. I just can't prove that it does.
Trial guilds are filled with self-righteous, condescending, passive-aggressive, selfish people. I gave trials a try last year, and every time I see a call in zone for a trial group, I just SMH. I wish they would implement a trials queue like the one we have for dungeons. FFXIV and BDO do it, and trials are a much better experience on those MMOs. There are no elitists blacklisting players who don't run god-mode builds, and the community is very helpful in helping players get better while in the trials. In ESO I got into guilds that said they were progressive guilds, but really they were just a bunch of elitist end-gamers who expect too much.
A really good story I have is a player offered an invite to some elite trial guild. The condition was I needed to pass a test set by the GM (yes there was a test in a video game). So he invited us to group, one healer, me as DPS, and GM as tank. The trial was Spindleclutch 2, and the test was burning down Bloodspawn by myself. Now I could burst 30K dps, sustained was about 15-20K, and got the boss down to 20% health, but we wiped due to the rock slides. That was it. No trial guild invite for me.
This is what this game has been brought down to the low level of players justifying who can and cannot run content that should be available to all. The only things that should control this are the mechanics of the game, and the developers who create it. If you're an elitist player like this, you are ruining gaming.
If you can't sustain more than 20k then well...I hate to break it to you but you wouldnt even be able to complete a raid.
As for the other games, the fact that you think those games are Utopia when they are just as bad if not worse really says something about the rose-colored glasses you're wearing.
The solution is simple. Improve upon yourself. Aim for 30k DPS if you want to do raids. 20k is fine for dungeons, though, so if you want to stay casual (and that is not derogatory, there is absolutely nothing wrong with being a casual) then by all means stay casual.
I'd hate to break it to you, but before I could do 30k DPS, I was running vet trials with only 10K sustained DPS. No one even knew.
It's not about being a certain build or how powerful I am, but more about other players excluding players from content that does not require the overwhelming amount of skills it takes to do vet trials. I knew DPSs that could run >40K DPS, yet they died all of the time, because they failed at strategy, and mechanics. You know how much DPS a 40K sustained DPS can do when dead? ZERO!!! Not only this the other DPSs have to stop what they're supposed to be doing (damage) to rez your dead ass.
There's more than one way to improve yourself.
I quit school.
Is it? I've often wondered.[But it's all in good fun. Isn't that why we are here?
Reistr_the_Unbroken wrote: »Proof that all of them came from consoles?Yeah, many competitive PvE guilds have a really crappy toxic jargon, people hysterically screaming and insulting left and right, when someone messes up.
absolutely wrong.
Competetive PvE guilds dont mess up and if they do whatever, just reset the trial and go again.
There is no personal attacking in top-tier PvE guilds, only constructive Criticism and if that offends you, dont even bother getting into such environment.
"You F'ing useless waste of space are you F'ing blind" really sounds like constructive criticism
Not all raid groups are like this but I've seen/heard my fair few when joining to help out if someone needed another member.
from what ive seen in this topic so far all the toxicity complaints are comming from console, i just wonder why.
if anyone ever attacked anyone of my raidteam more than once, instant guildkick.
Reistr_the_Unbroken wrote: »Proof that all of them came from consoles?Yeah, many competitive PvE guilds have a really crappy toxic jargon, people hysterically screaming and insulting left and right, when someone messes up.
absolutely wrong.
Competetive PvE guilds dont mess up and if they do whatever, just reset the trial and go again.
There is no personal attacking in top-tier PvE guilds, only constructive Criticism and if that offends you, dont even bother getting into such environment.
"You F'ing useless waste of space are you F'ing blind" really sounds like constructive criticism
Not all raid groups are like this but I've seen/heard my fair few when joining to help out if someone needed another member.
from what ive seen in this topic so far all the toxicity complaints are comming from console, i just wonder why.
if anyone ever attacked anyone of my raidteam more than once, instant guildkick.
Just look through the thread, everyone that is mentioning some kind of genuine toxicity either put their platform in the post or its in their signature. And most that ive seen that it affected is Console and im not saying PC > CONSOLE SUCK IT, im actually curious why people on console would tend to be more toxic than PC Endgame Community.
craftycarper73 wrote: »As I expected, most of the comments here are like: "yeah, that's why I do RP/housing, because raiding guilds are so toxic!!!!111oneone"
For me that is one of the things that sticks out, lack of respect amongst these so called top players, end of mic giving it the big i am, when in reality they would end up with a twisted jaw.
A very good point you've made there. This "constructive criticism" is certainly something people out in the real world wouldn't tolerate. You're absolutely right. People IRL would be outraged and rightfully so.
These players you refer to are cowards and kids. They don't have the common sense or maturity to understand how to effectively lead others so they resort to playground behavior.
The PS4 community is the absolute definition of toxic. Never again will I be anywhere close to those people.
My end game trial and PvP raiding groups on PC are just amazing. I love those guys.
Yep if I ever come back to the game I'll be leaving PS4 and joining PC/Mac NA, hopefully the experience will be better...