A new study has found that 70 percent of gamers avoid certain games because of ‘toxic communities’.

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    Absolutely. I enjoyed playing a bit of Smite at one point in time (mostly that big open area map) and some Heroes of the Storm, but I’m not a big MOBA guy. Decided one day to give League of Legends a try, why the hell not ya know?

    I have never been called a ‘fucking fag’ and been told to kill myself more times in a 5 minutes period of time in the entirety of my 40 years on this flying shitball of a planet. Not in public school, not on Xbox Live while playing Halo, not from my abusive family, never.

    Uninstalled that shit 10 mins later and went back to TF2 where I get called that only once an hour.

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      That’s why I liked hots, the capability to block chat from the start and for everyone.
      It’s not really a problem in non-competitive modes, as people usually just use on-map alerts.

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        Disabling voice/text chat is usually my first go-to with almost any online game cause of shit like this lmao.

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      I enjoy League mechanically, played a lot, but it just got to be such a net negative that I can’t do it anymore. I enjoy trying my best to win and I adore that feeling of a team coming together, but the toxicity was just too much.

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        They got more aggressive about banning people for chat stuff a long while ago. But the same people just find ways to be just as toxic with game mechanics and other more subtle communication.

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      Yeah, I don’t know what it is about the League community, but they are some of the worst people I’ve interacted with in games. I’ve heard that apparently Riot has cleaned up their community a bit since the early days, but first impressions are tough to overcome.

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        I’ve heard that apparently Riot has cleaned up their community a bit since the early days

        Shit this was just a few years back so this was the cleaned up community lmao.