As serendipity would have it, I saw a post on r/TalesfromDF after running Aurum Vale with a particularly toxic Summoner that got me thinking. The post in question was a screenshot of a chat log with a healer asking the tank to use defensive cooldowns and the tank saying no and a DPS saying he can play however he wants to play.
This got me to contemplating as I just had an experience with a summoner who got mad when the tank asked them to not pull the center of the room, which had caused us to wipe. I was thinking about how many games have a toxic competitive side to them..LoL, WoW, almost every korean MMO, but we seem to have a toxic CASUAL faction. The only time I have seen such toxicity from the casual side of a game to this degree is from Magic:The Gathering Commander players (that is a can of worms you don't wanna touch with a 50 ft pole).
So I was wondering, why do we seem to have such hostile casuals? Obviously I am not saying all casuals are hostile, but what about the game either attracts these people.or fosters this mentality? I am quite curious as I never really had a hostile casual phase and I had so many people willing to guide me and teach me from FCs to even random people who were just wandering around. As someone who played WoW, then jumped to ES:O before hoping to FF14, I am just curious if there is anything that can be done to cut back some of the toxicity?
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This got me to contemplating as I just had an experience with a summoner who got mad when the tank asked them to not pull the center of the room, which had caused us to wipe. I was thinking about how many games have a toxic competitive side to them..LoL, WoW, almost every korean MMO, but we seem to have a toxic CASUAL faction. The only time I have seen such toxicity from the casual side of a game to this degree is from Magic:The Gathering Commander players (that is a can of worms you don't wanna touch with a 50 ft pole).
So I was wondering, why do we seem to have such hostile casuals? Obviously I am not saying all casuals are hostile, but what about the game either attracts these people.or fosters this mentality? I am quite curious as I never really had a hostile casual phase and I had so many people willing to guide me and teach me from FCs to even random people who were just wandering around. As someone who played WoW, then jumped to ES:O before hoping to FF14, I am just curious if there is anything that can be done to cut back some of the toxicity?
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