I’m surprised to see FFXIV in the OP because I’ve had the opposite experience. But to stay on point, Pokémon has one of the most toxic communities I know of. It’s nearly impossible to say anything semi positive about a game without getting a barrage of hate

It’s been years since I ever played CoD but my experience was that it is basically a racial abuse simulator with an FPS in it.

Nowhere near as bad, but I was shocked how intensely elitist and gatekeeperish Hollow Knight’s community can be. I’d already finished the game when I found the sub on Reddit but damn they are mean to beginners!

League of Legends is toxic in the way of people getting too emotionally invested in a game, but Counterstrike (in the old days, pre Source and GO) was toxic in a casually bigoted way almost completely detached from the state of the current match, which I think is worse.

Left 4 Dead 2 versus. I dare you to join a random match online and last longer than 10 minutes without getting kicked. Or just search for “left 4 dead 2 versus kicked” and you will find countless examples of people complaining about it.

It’s become a meme at this point and I’m pretty sure that people kick for fun although some claim that people kick you for not being good enough or too good. Just play with friends instead or play campaign, people are nice there.

League of Legends. I used to enjoy playing it but could only do so many games before I got sick of the angsty teenagers