Guild Wars 2

Hey guys, I’m not here to complain about losing to anyone or any class in particular; just to get that out of the way.

I was in a courtyard match the other night with a couple of buddies of mine and some randoms. We got shut the hell out of the game. Our support was NOT as good as their support and they rocked our socks. Now, I realize courtyard is the kind of map that the right comp or the right support can help shut a game out and that’s just the nature of the beast. I’ve been on both sides of the spectrum so no complaints there. We lost. No biggy.

Now after said match, I was treated to what had to of been the most in-game harassment I have ever endured. This guy from the other team whispered me repeatedly calling me names, egging me on and just generally being a real kitten. I kept my cool and eventually he became so worked up it border-lined on comical. He even mailed me packets of salt later on to which I literally cried laughing out loud.

However, this doesn’t mitigate the fact that his actions after the match were completely uncalled for despite being comedic in the end. I just wanted to create some more awareness on this issue and maybe help the community drown these trolls when possible. Ignore is our friend.

Thanks for the read!!

TLDR: Don’t let mean people and trolls get you down. Have fun!

Two sides to every story. You must have said something to him during the match or shortly after.

If you meet a toxic person ingame, just report him using the ingame report function (and hope that ANet will deal with him accordingly).

You block and/or report and move on. I don’t know why people respond to trolls/ragers.

Nah I didn’t say anything to him. He literally messaged me completely unprovoked. I was in a match so I didn’t report him immediately and then later it kept giving me an error saying his name didn’t exist. Regardless, thanks for the replies.

Lol, I had something similar happen recently only it wasn’t harassment, just someone randomly pming me during a match about what he was doing and why he did what he did, and he seemed to carry on a conversation with himself without me replying at all.

Later I thought he might be pming the wrong person because he was talking to me as if I had replied to him, but I’m really not sure. He could have just been crazy, too. xD

In regards to harassment, it’s best to just not reply though. Trolls and ragers feed off the attention you give them. :P

Ppl whisper me bad things after match qq

Lol these kind of people are hilarious, I love getting hate mail, especially when they rage quit and log or are cowards and just block you after. Gives me a bit of twisted satisfaction knowing that I somehow managed to get some random guy kittened off at me, sometimes without even realizing it. Had a guy about two week ago who messages me after about 5 games had gone by since he left. Told him didn’t know who he was which got em more upset, didn’t remember till like a half hour later after he’d blocked me. X3

Usually you have to say something first. In 3 years of play I have had only 3 occasions where i got tells from players I said nothing to. In any case you can just block the player who is bothering you. If you aren’t willing to take that simple step than you have no real reason to complain as the solution is provided to you already.

Block or do like me…. keep em in ur friends list & nick name em. So you can kill em laters in spvp. XD

Don’t worry about anyone who is toxic in game. Good players rarely say anything. Bad players typically think they know it all.

let them talk to themselves, idk what nerds these days have to rage about when its just a videogame

pepper.6179:

let them talk to themselves, idk what nerds these days have to rage about when its just a videogame

just videogames….

right?

pepper.6179:

let them talk to themselves, idk what nerds these days have to rage about when its just a videogame

you dont have a competitive spirit do you ? like , its enough if you take part , no need to win ? there is nothing more that i hate then losing , doesnt matter if real life or a game , i rage if i loose a match because i have someone in my team dieing at svanir just like i rage when i loose a football match because someone made stupid plays

everyone(friends, family) says that i should just enjoy and have fun …. well i have fun when im winning

ps: most harcore raging is going on when i play mario kart, like… im in first place and then get kittened by the blue turtle….

Vieux P.1238:

Block or do like me…. keep em in ur friends list & nick name em. So you can kill em laters in spvp. XD

This one. I choose you. Haha. I wrote his name on paper cause it errored when I tried to enter his name any where.

Sekai.2987:

pepper.6179:

let them talk to themselves, idk what nerds these days have to rage about when its just a videogame

you dont have a competitive spirit do you ? like , its enough if you take part , no need to win ? there is nothing more that i hate then losing , doesnt matter if real life or a game , i rage if i loose a match because i have someone in my team dieing at svanir just like i rage when i loose a football match because someone made stupid plays

everyone(friends, family) says that i should just enjoy and have fun …. well i have fun when im winning

ps: most harcore raging is going on when i play mario kart, like… im in first place and then get kittened by the blue turtle….

Oh I hate losing, too. And my team (read: real life friends) aren’t quite the best pvpers ever. And we got destroyed. And the guy wanted to just rub it in I guess? I kept my cool, though. It was tough.

I whisper nice things to people in pvp especially other team if i see some awesome gameplay.

Anyway, if they are typing, they don’ fight so exploit that.

Sekai.2987:

pepper.6179:

let them talk to themselves, idk what nerds these days have to rage about when its just a videogame

you dont have a competitive spirit do you ? like , its enough if you take part , no need to win ? there is nothing more that i hate then losing , doesnt matter if real life or a game , i rage if i loose a match because i have someone in my team dieing at svanir just like i rage when i loose a football match because someone made stupid plays

everyone(friends, family) says that i should just enjoy and have fun …. well i have fun when im winning

ps: most harcore raging is going on when i play mario kart, like… im in first place and then get kittened by the blue turtle….

ya sure its annoying when u have newbs on your team but i dont kittening harrass them. Hell. i played in my high school’s football team and we tell our team mates to get their heads out of their kitten and stay focused when they kitten up in a play. If kitten continues the coaches be yelling at you across the field lol. so yeah i know what competition is.

also its a video game, chill. They’re supposed to be an escape from reality not an actual football game.

The only way to deal with these situations is by winning and acting like the bigger person.
Twice today i had some trash talking aimed my direction.

First on is this thief heading to my home on temple and he gets the decap and i get in there to prevent him from capping. I cap it while were facing off 1 vs 1 and he eventually wins. After he wins he says a few things like L2P and dont lose to a thief, your a bad warrior. They were up about 150 pts at this point and he threw some trash talking to a fellow guild mate of mine after he beat him 1 vs 1. Well it ended up we won trang and stillness fights and came back to win. At the end we said GG thief and there was no response. Felt good to me and my guild mate.

2nd one today we were blowing out this team and 1 warrior on the other team started raggin on his team mates and saying stuff like anet i can only carry so much. I responded with “what makes you think your so great?” He ended up in 2, 2 vs 2 situations against me and another person and lost both times. He began to say i was a garbage warrior and after the match he was whispering me to come 1 vs 1 him. I responded with im better then you theres no need. He went on a bit screaming different things at me. I responded with i beat you when it matters which is in the match, have fun. He didnt whisper me after that.

But i agree with you this happens way to much where people are just ugly and there is no punishment for the childish behavior.

Seifer Thalaen.7869:

Ppl whisper me bad things after match qq

Hey no need for that!

It’s a really serious issue here, salt was mailed!

Just the charm of pvp. He actually really likes you

Is it possible to link a bucket of water

Shocker that he kept talking to you. 90% of the time when someone sends me hatemail they leave me blocked like a coward too afraid to see what kind reaction their stupidity might unleash.

pepper.6179:

ya sure its annoying when u have newbs on your team but i dont kittening harrass them.

^ You can be competitive without trying make people feel like trash.

At the same time, the people that behave like this usually are too inconsequential to be remembered for longer than a few minutes, so-

sephiroth.4217:

Seifer Thalaen.7869:

Ppl whisper me bad things after match qq

Hey no need for that!

It’s a really serious issue here, salt was mailed!

Hahaha when I got the salt I went completely silent on Skype mid sentence and everyone was like… What’s going on? And I was like… “That guy…. Just sent 25 packets of salt..” And then we all died.

As soon as someone starts flaming you for no apparent reason, just block and move on. You can unblock him a few minutes later if you want, it’ll still stop him from flaming you.

Random Weird Guy.3528:

As soon as someone starts flaming you for no apparent reason, just block and move on. You can unblock him a few minutes later if you want, it’ll still stop him from flaming you.

I was mostly initially surprised at the fact that it came from no where and that I was the person he whispered. So I let him drone on. Haha

hey, just had enemie team ragequit because ……EU guys know why =)

http://i.imgur.com/PUktXQc.jpg?1

LOL I think that was me……….

I’ve been trash talked more than enough times. And it was always when I beat the other player or my team won. Otherwise, I have no issues. Normally I don’t respond to trash talkers because they have me on block already anyways just so I can’t whisper back.
Now, what kind of person is that? A loser that’s what lol.

Vieux P.1238:

Block or do like me…. keep em in ur friends list & nick name em. So you can kill em laters in spvp. XD

Confession bear: I do that all the time.. I have list of people that were verbally abusive. I join them when I’m bored to troll them.

ragnarokda.1805:

Hey guys, I’m not here to complain about losing to anyone or any class in particular; just to get that out of the way.

I was in a courtyard match the other night with a couple of buddies of mine and some randoms. We got shut the hell out of the game. Our support was NOT as good as their support and they rocked our socks. Now, I realize courtyard is the kind of map that the right comp or the right support can help shut a game out and that’s just the nature of the beast. I’ve been on both sides of the spectrum so no complaints there. We lost. No biggy.

Now after said match, I was treated to what had to of been the most in-game harassment I have ever endured. This guy from the other team whispered me repeatedly calling me names, egging me on and just generally being a real kitten. I kept my cool and eventually he became so worked up it border-lined on comical. He even mailed me packets of salt later on to which I literally cried laughing out loud.

However, this doesn’t mitigate the fact that his actions after the match were completely uncalled for despite being comedic in the end. I just wanted to create some more awareness on this issue and maybe help the community drown these trolls when possible. Ignore is our friend.

Thanks for the read!!

tl;dr

Today, I finally learned how to use the ignore function in Guild Wars 2 (albeit after someone thoroughly had their verbal way with me).

Necromonger.4970:

You block and/or report and move on. I don’t know why people respond to trolls/ragers.

Ive had ragers challenge me to 1v1’s, so I fight them a few rounds, talk about builds and tips, then when they calm down we go our separate ways. I’ve learned some things like that, so I guess I really don’t mind responding to ragers.

Unfortunately ive never been lucky enough to get salt in the mail.

meow one twenty.4376:

Necromonger.4970:

You block and/or report and move on. I don’t know why people respond to trolls/ragers.

Ive had ragers challenge me to 1v1’s, so I fight them a few rounds, talk about builds and tips, then when they calm down we go our separate ways. I’ve learned some things like that, so I guess I really don’t mind responding to ragers.

Unfortunately ive never been lucky enough to get salt in the mail.

That’s weird, whenever I’ve had ragers challenge me to 1v1s, it usually resulted in me beating them and them saying something along the lines of ’you’re still bad’.

Random Weird Guy.3528:

meow one twenty.4376:

Necromonger.4970:

You block and/or report and move on. I don’t know why people respond to trolls/ragers.

Ive had ragers challenge me to 1v1’s, so I fight them a few rounds, talk about builds and tips, then when they calm down we go our separate ways. I’ve learned some things like that, so I guess I really don’t mind responding to ragers.

Unfortunately ive never been lucky enough to get salt in the mail.

That’s weird, whenever I’ve had ragers challenge me to 1v1s, it usually resulted in me beating them and them saying something along the lines of ’you’re still bad’.

On the bright side, at least he didn’t say ‘your still bad’

meow one twenty.4376:

Necromonger.4970:

You block and/or report and move on. I don’t know why people respond to trolls/ragers.

Ive had ragers challenge me to 1v1’s, so I fight them a few rounds, talk about builds and tips, then when they calm down we go our separate ways. I’ve learned some things like that, so I guess I really don’t mind responding to ragers.

Unfortunately ive never been lucky enough to get salt in the mail.

+1. Quite admirable – wish I had the energy/time to exert such constructive behaviour at all times.

Velimere.7685:

tl;dr

Today, I finally learned how to use the ignore function in Guild Wars 2 (albeit after someone thoroughly had their verbal way with me).

Hahah it WAS a learning experience! I’ve never had that happen in my entire 16 year gaming life of MMOs! But, man, the salt was LITERALLY real!

step 1 : Respond with " =D "
step 2: block