Guild Wars 2

Or has the sPvP community become more hostile since the latest update?

Not the complaining that stuff isn’t fixed blah blah, more along the lines of actual gameplay hostility. It seems like before the PvP update people were generally nicer about killing people (if there is such a thing).

Now I feel that people almost go after certain players out of spite, just because they want to murder the living daylights out of them, not because they want to win the match as a team.

I’m even witnessing more insults after a player is killed. Like, they’ll call the player “bad” after they get ganked by a group of three or more. Or they’ll corpse hump the dead player.

I don’t know, it just seems like some of the players are more viscous about things now. Maybe I’m just imagining it. I mean, PvP isn’t going to be roses but it seems like it’s gotten worse lately.

I don’t know, but remember, they are just attacking a pixel image on their computer screen, not you yourself. They don’t know a thing about you. That’s what I remind myself from time to time. Their actions are all about them, in their life.

The hostility comes from players who think they are amazing but really aren’t. The last patch helped address the OP nature of some of the FOTM builds. Naturally, a lot of the players that depended on said builds to win are now losing and getting angry about it.

Losing is frustrating when one is used to easily stomping players. There’s also definitely some class discrimination going on. If you play thief/mesmer, prepare to be focused.