My solution is to avoid online games like the plague. It works
Depends on the game.
Rocket League / short games: their team: play, no shits given. My team: let them do all the work and half-assedly defend, and watch them crumble.
RTS / long-investment games: warn them beforehand, wait until their shittiness bothers me, then quit.
It’s a shame a few popular online games ruin that image for a majority of awesome communities though. I have a few favorite online games and the communities in them are amazing, even made friends and good memories in them.
And you will 100% always find these assholes in the casual unranked lobbies. When they win they’ll be all in the chat calling the other team noobs and when they lose they’ll be in the chat bashing their team for this or that.
If they stay until the end. Usually they rage quit because they don’t have matchmaking holding their hands.
And then when they get called out for their bullshit they’re all like “it’s just casual it’s not like it matters” and I’m like bro, the majority of players don’t care or even play ranked game modes.
I can’t remember what it was called, but I basically stopped playing some casual “marbles playing capture the flag” web-based game because the competitive players were toxic. I’m like, okay Braylen, I just popped in because something reminded me I like CTF games. I do not have the maps memorized or the twitch of a bored teenager. Fuckin’ chill, please.
Not online games but I’ve experienced this in other ways.
used to play in a ‘beer-in-hand’ kickball league. The game is played where you have to have always be holding a cup of beer (or water) while you are playing the game. It’s silly and fun and most people don’t take it seriously. Yet every season there was one team full of over achieving type A personalities that took it WAYYYYYY to seriously. Yelling at the refs if they feel they didn’t get a call right, yelling at the other team if they didn’t get the score right, being overall very aggressive. I swear they thought this was the Olympic tryouts or something.
No one liked playing that team, actually they were one of the main reasons that our group of friends stopped all together.
Why I had to stop playing with my brother
I’ve been on both sides of this picture at different times in my life.
Mute and block FTW. Cant play RB6 siege without it.
One thing that was annoying in nice pve mmos was all the folks wailing about the need for pvp and how pvp would invigorate the game.
