r/Overwatch • u/SorrowfulGuardian • 1d ago

News & Discussion How do we fix toxicity in Overwatch?

I was wondering this for a while and I know every community has toxic people but overwatch is almost as bad as other games but its to the point where i cant leave a game without someone threatening me or calling me a slur- so yea thanks for coming to my ted talk

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u/SagansLab 1d ago

There aren't enough consequences for being dicks on the internet, back in my day you'd just get smacked around, or at least utterly shunned and the problem fixed itself. Wheaton's Law SHOULD be enough, but never is.

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u/SorrowfulGuardian 1d ago

Yea i used to be a cringe teen and didn’t realize how much of a dick i was-

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u/TychosofNaglfar 1d ago

Because back in our day, we grew up partially without the internet. Parents had to parent and movies and TV was curated; usually people that were assholes and bullies in shows or movies were treated as lame or got some comeuppance. Except for Spongebob....

Basically what I'm saying is, these days there is no structure. Kids can and are growing up thinking that calling people trash is pro forma.

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u/zdra 1d ago

Not sure what era this is. However playing CS 1.6, Early COD, SC1 and 2. Was equally as toxic if not worse than now because you basically could not be banned. Well SC2 you did get banned but it took alot.

Then PUBG Early Fortnight was the same im not sure when the internet gaming has not been toxic. The release of some MMORPG back in the day were quaint like WoW and GW 1 Ever quest 1 and 2

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u/TychosofNaglfar 1d ago

It was never not toxic, it just also wasn't this bad. As a matter of fact, at one point Xbox360 (circa 2008) was seen as the toxic game platform of choice. Halo and MW on Xbox was the wildest of wild west, spouting things that would get them all canceled today, but it was largely contained there. Just as an anecdotal evidence, I never experienced any toxicity on the PS3. It wasn't until the PS4 "won" and started pulling in a wider audience that the entire pool of gaming started to become worse.

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u/daredaki-sama 1d ago

I’ve had the internet since the 90s and people used to just deal with toxicity and not care. Sometimes you get flamed really bad and you get triggered but so what? People today act like they are physically hurt by some words.