The most toxic communities I know of are the Genshin community, Payday 2, FFXIV and source games communities in general.

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100%. I stopped playing a decade ago, but when I played I was always amazed at the behaviour it brought out in people. I would watch people who I considered friends IRL turn into abusive jerks when I played with them. It’s this weird prisoner’s dillemma of a game where the psychology of the game appears to encourage ganging up on the weakest player.

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That’s what happens if you design a game in a way that makes it worse to have a bad player in your team than no player at all.

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I think you’re on to something here. I play all kinds of games with friends, and DOTA was the only one where I’d actively get shit on for my lack of skill. And that’s from real life friends too.

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