In the album above, you’ll see just one of the many conversations that I’ve seen where one person (in red) trash talks other people (in blue and green) in a TPVP match within the same team. It started even before the match commenced with the person in red saying we already lost because of a “bunch of pve hero mesmers”. I have seen this in numerous matches today in TPVP where there has been some blame put on people who might be PVErs doing TPVP for the first time (which was not true in that instance).
This is awful for the TPVP community because it prevents new people from really getting into TPVP if there are a bunch of elitists going around trash talking them from the get go. Seeing as how often you see the same people in solo queue, having new faces would be great.
Note: We actually won that match against full Champions including 2 Legendary Champions even though we were just “pve hero mesmers”.
SoloQ = I play with random people. Sometimes they are bad at what they do. Sometimes I’m bad at what I do.
It happens in pretty much any game and as was mentioned, its not like it does not happen in say random dungeon or even the fail-able world events and pretty much any other facet where random people are grouped together and someone has an inflated ego.
The fact that its competing with other players probably isn’t helping either.
PvP communities have always been toxic. GW2 is among the most tolerant and welcoming I’ve experienced in over ten years, but there are still people who just rage all over everyone. All that negativity just tends to rub off on others.
The good news is, positivity can work the same way. All you can do sometimes to just remain positive yourself.
Hit level eighty
Priorities, what to do?
Spend hours with dye
There’s a good chance that he’s just angry at the massive slap in the face that this “feature patch” gave to serious PvP players in GW2. Should he have taken his anger out on you? Kitten no, but there’s your explanation.
