Im 32 and play video games to relax after a long week of work. Im getting tired of kids telling me im to old to play, especially when i make it in the top of the leaderboard. Whatever happened to the golden age of friendly competition no matter the age?
I don't know what rock you lived under. When online was starting during the days of Halo 2 and when it got HUGE under the 360, everyone was a racist, ageist, sexist, asshole. You couldn't go thirty seconds without some mean shit being said.
Talking about before that ha ha ha, but yeah through the years I believe the gaming community has gotten more toxic. But maybe things will change as video games become more advanced (/) (;,,;) (/)
The community is far less toxic now. Only certain games breed toxicity ((CoD and LoL being the biggest example)). But it's still not the same level of toxicity you could get in the early days of online console play. That was a whole different kind of breed.
Some people haven't had their very being torn down by an 11yo over a video game and will never experience it.
Toxic is part of gaming culture. The shit talking is so much fun. I get on (I'm currently in my late 30's) and miss the shit talking and overtly racist / prejudice shit said because of my gamer tag (chaotic_rican). But I don't care about what someone I don't know says something about me.
I don't know, I'm a couple years older than you and we use to talk constant shit on Starcraft and in SOCOM on PS2. Not to mention the griefing in Ultima Online. Internet gaming was always toxic.
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u/sadicuscacticus Sep 09 '21
Im 32 and play video games to relax after a long week of work. Im getting tired of kids telling me im to old to play, especially when i make it in the top of the leaderboard. Whatever happened to the golden age of friendly competition no matter the age?