Guild Wars 2

Many ppl that played GW1 and GW2 from the start probably know first hand that these games had one if not the most friendly community among MMORPGs.

However in the last year from my experience the community has started turning for the worst at a rather accelerated rhythm.
Now of course the PvP community will always be more toxic than the PvE, that is understandable but even there GW2 managed to do better that many other similar games.

These days in PvP you get random rather disturbing whispers from either team mates or the enemy team.
I got hateful /w from teamm8s even when our team won by a respectable margin.
I got hateful /w from enemy players after they had defeated me!
I got hateful /w for being proffesion x or y (thief or warrior mostly)

The rather ok community in pvp was a big part why I didn’t give up on GW2 completely because if we get in to the balance part of the game it’s rather non existing.

So? Where is all this h8 coming from?
All that Anet has done in an effort to sell more copies is open the flood gates with the free base game to an angry army on 12 year old boys going through puberty and lashing out at everything in sight and ruining what was left of an otherwise poor experience for the rest of us.

What is there left now?
NOTHING!
The community is toxic and the game in PvP is less than a joke.
I can somewhat tolerate the toxicity in some other games because they have solid mechanics and balance for PvP but here…… Nothing Remains!

I logged in just to say you are wrong.

PvE has always been more open but like all MMO they are some bad elements. PvP in Guild wars 1 h as always been toxic and will continue to be toxic because competition brings out the worse in People.

If you did not see any negativity, it is probably because you have on tinted glasses that made you clearly blind to the reality. Guild wars 1 extremely rude and extremely elitist. One of the reasons why PvP died was because the elitist wouldnt let lower R people play with them, so it imploded in its own eliteness.

Woo boy…. and I completely understand why this was added as a pvp obtainable reward.

the pvp community is so toxic, because this community is a small cesspool of individuals who cannot/willnot learn…….

Failure and practice are the path to skill.
If someone whispers you hatefully, they are not skilled.
Not at life, not at learning, not at failure, and definitely not at PvP.
There are good people in the community. The rest are just small minded people who cannot accept their own failures to gain knowledge. They are people who must lash out and blame others for their failures, and therefore they will never learn. Forgive them immediately for their hate, as their lives must be miserable. If their “fun time” is building hatred within themselves and leaking it out to others, it is a sad life indeed.

because anet has focused very hard on bringing in the F2P PvP crowd with their esports nonsense. PvP is fine as one of the modes of the game but to focus it and promote it as the only mode of the game has likely caused many more PvP players or players who like that type of gameplay in other games (look at Mobas) to come to this one… which, unfortunately for every other relatively nice player, are the most toxic types of players.

Refer to my signature.

Toxicity is contagious. It just takes one monster to start the fall. Im trying to cut down myself but I get at least one tell per game about how I am cancer/autistic.

Funny thing is, I actually have autism so… calling me autistic is just like…