Instead of the usual toxicity, it felt so nice to see some positivity in tchat
Posted Jul 16, 2021, 6:45 PM UTC
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I’ve been playing Ana a lot more recently and it feels so good to get praise. Even hate from the other team is great.
It seems like a lot of players don’t appreciate what she does. Sleeping charging Reins, nading low health enemies, clutch nanos etc..
Mercy typically always gets more love.
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I usually get yelled at and told to switch to a more useful healer ( mercy main )
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The struggle is so real
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Mercy don't get more love lol. There are Mercy haters almost every game. Some even demand Mercy to switch or they would throw the game. Barely happens with Ana.
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I'm a Mercy/Sigma main. I'll never forget the game this Junkrat would run off by himself getting absolutely destroyed by the enemy team and he wants to bitch because I ain't healing /reviving him. Like nah lmao I won't put myself in danger like that.
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Congrats on potg, I consider Ana my main but haven’t been able to pull one off yet. Always feeding them to teammates :)
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As an Ana main, I like to consider myself a POTG sponsor
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I like this dude. Gonna use it a lot. Nano’d potg? “Brought to you by your local Ana”
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Idk all my potgs so far are real boring (one was a Mercy one where I rezzed a Hanzo and got stuck on a wall and killed) so I feel really happy when I nano someone and it gets them potg
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Its basically impossible to get a Ana POTG when she normally helps others get it. Its really a shame since her highlight intro for the summer games is amazing
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I try to always be positive in chat and will usually commend an enemy when they kill me good. Like when a rein pins me off a cliff, or a junkrat snipes me.
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I try too, especially when i'm playing my overly agressive Zarya, and my healers manage to keep me alive despite me beeing in the middle of the ennemy team haha. Or when a really good widow is hitting some nasty shots
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I had a game as Rein the other day, and I was just playing like a total fucking idiot. I played aggro as hell, but my supports were ML8 and ML9, because holy hell my 500hp health pool felt like 3000
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Saw a clip of Flats spectating a bronze Rein and yeah he was like dude, if you have both supports on you, you better be going buck wild lmao
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This isn’t normal chat?
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Maybe it’s just my experience but recently people have been toxic beyond all believe. I’ve had many games where my team was clearly winning and teammates are still hurling insulting at each other and being abusive in chat.
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This. As a console player, text chat is seriously the worst addition to this game. It infuriates me because at the end of the day we’re all in gold queue and everyone sucks regardless of who has gold medals or whatever. Team game.
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i find it funny to mess with people but i never take it to a toxic level unless someone is boosted or being boosted
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Recently? It's been that way since mw2 and guaranteed to have been long before that I just don't remember that far
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Oh it’s always been there but for me it feels it went from 10% of matches to 100%
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Really, since crossplay everyone has been super nice.
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Hmm. Tally up the games where this happens. Could just be confirmation bias.
Most games are a net neutral where no one really says anything at all. Few games are hardcore toxic or hardcore wholesome.
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Yeah, I am suspicious that some people just get put into the toxic queues
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Normal chat for me is more of a YOU #### HEAL ME DUMB #### PIECE OF ####
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my normal chat is something like GENJI DO SOMETHING, GENJI SO BAD, DPS DIFF, MCREE SO BAD, KILL SOMETHING HOW ARE YOU DIAMOND.
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guy I used to play with was always AGGRESSIVELY positive. at first, I thought he was trolling, bumped into him a few more times after the first and realized he was legit. Decided to try it out and just thank people for a good game and their time, congratulate them on wins, just try and be nice for a change. This was long before there was a system in place rewarding good sportsmanship, back in the first year of the game. It actually makes Overwatch a lot more fun and tolerable. If someone's being a dick, you can just say "that's too bad that they've got a bad attitude", move onto the next game, and have more fun. Try your best to win, but let go of the losses, stop giving two shits about your rank (or just accept that it's accurate and okay)m and just have a good time. It's a game, guys. Do try your best to win for your team, but remember it's a game and the goal is truly to have fun and everything else it can do is so far down on the list of shit that matters that it's ignorable.
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Wow. The other day I was told to kill myself. I'm already suicidal so it really hurt
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Don't let random people on the internet tell you such bullshit. You are are way better than them. And whatever you are going through, better times will come, trust me. As hard as it may be for you at the moment, you have to stay strong, but remember that after going down, you can only go up. Take care of you <3
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Thanks I'll try. I feel like I can only do so for so long
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GG mec
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Merci :D
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Instead of being toxic to each other in video games we all should just have a good time and have fun like you know how the games should be
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It's always really cool to see a potg from those characters who often never get one, especially Ana.
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Love this! My games are complete opposite but I stand on the sidelines 95% of the time and watch people say; “gg ez” “like yo mom” and way way worse. Or the level 25 smurf calling everyone trash all match.
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Every time that somebody is actually nice in a game, my group invites them to our discord and our team and we've made a lot of new friends that way.
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Honestly this kind of saccharin positivity is almost as bad. It feels forced, like they're just endorsement farming.
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Downvote this shit chat is for pissing on console players and nothing else especially not being wholesome
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actually it's this fake positivity that I'm fed up with. It'd be nice to see genuine toxicity more often for a change
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“Treat yourself to some ice cream” hahaha
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If only
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This was so awesome I love stuff like this. I try to be as positive and nice as possible to offset the toxicity.
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so wholesome i love it
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So did you have some ice cream?!?!
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Nah but i had some nice belgian beers :D
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Lambic?
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Chimay Bleue <3
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I know it's nothing but these guys could have given zero f*cks about it, yet they took the time to write this, and that genuinely warmed my heart since my life is a shit show atm
Sometimes all someone needs is just a nice enemy team. Congrats on the ana potg!!
Yeah but the odds seems so low haha. Thanks <3
It’s always nice to see a little positivity - started playing comp again after coming back to the game since like 2017/2018 and boy I forgot how toxic comp gets lol
toxicity is always expected in competitive games but people really underestimate the difference they can make by being positive or wholesome themselves.
I start every game with "hi everyone glhf" on match chat. simple sportsmanship like "nice shot / sleep dart" or whatever when someone nails you, ending games with "close game wp" when you win by a small margin, "sorry about the leaver" and "will report" kind of consolation messages, starting and ending games with holiday greetings (even though I don't celebrate a lot of them)... these don't even cover my team chat, so they are only half the stuff I try to say to keep things positive but they go a long way.
I've had several opponents adding me after a game just because they thought I would be a better teammate than their toxic one.
I recently started playing overwatch and this is my first season of actually playing comp, last season I just did placements.
2 days ago I was doing some support games and the other support on my team kept getting toxic for absolutely no reason. Called me dogshit, told me to uninstall and eventually told me to kms... even though I had gold heals. So that was fun
Yeah it’s like people lose their minds as soon as there are some video game points on the line. We lost one fight in my last placement after doing extremely well and still having a chance and then the mei flips his shit and throws ult in spawn and starts crying with 0 provocation.......that’s humans for you though I guess
Ain’t got no time for toxicity in OW. People just need to be nice to people.
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