I just played a player named KarmaBlue. He acted like an asshole, and, after I won the game, I send him a friend invite. Honestly, I thought it was extremely ironic that someone with 'karma' in his name would act like such a jerk... but, being an adult, I persist is trying to talk to people like this, thinking that maybe, if I respond in a civil way when someone is abusive, they might see that there's an alternative to being mean.
Of course, he responded with a quick 'lol kill yourself faggot'. As a cancer survivor, this type of bullshit bothers me to no end. Sure, there will inevitably be people that say, 'why worry about it, it's just a card game'... but that's the point... a fantasy card game is so much less-important than being concerned with how people treat each other, and if they treat each other with kindness and respect.
I have no doubt that I'm older than the average Hearthstone player, and I've encountered a lot of different types and groups of people. I've genuinely never ever even come close to being in any situation where I encounter this degree of utterly repugnant behavior. It often seems like I'm playing the same asshole again and again, and that the best I can hope for is bad behavior, where the worse is genuine sociopathy.
It seems like the majority of people I play are incapable of feeling some degree of satisfaction unless their opponent is being made to feel bad. Just the amount of time people play a card that gives them lethal, and they keep on playing cards for no other purpose than to try to humiliate their opponent is staggering. It's bad enough to be a bad loser, which is almost everybody I play, it seems, but tons of people I play are bad winners as well. Imagine how this would play out in any real-life situation, how people like this would be responded to.
I spend the majority of my time playing the game in utter shock in regard to how people behave. I actually love the game, but, more and more, I just don't think it's worth the type of people I come in contact with, not if you're an adult who thinks how people treat each other is more important than a game, that feeling pleasure from causing other people displeasure is wrong, that you should make a community of people who share the same interest a friendly place for people to enjoy themselves, not a toxic environment where sociopathic behavior is so widespread that people just accept it as the norm.
I'm not really a nerd, but I do tend to like some nerdy things, and I've always found it distasteful when people have criticized people that game and are into other nerdy pastimes. I've always been really bothered when people point to young people who commit violence and blame it on Dungeons & Dragons or video games. Unfortunately, anyone looking at this community would only have their prejudices confirmed.
I've been playing Hearthstone for quite a while, have never been anything but kind and polite, and I can't even count anymore how many times I've been called a faggot or told to kill myself. This isn't just adolescent behavior, which is available in huge quantities as well, but this is something really fucking worse.
I think I keep on playing, not only because I love the game itself, but because I want to convince myself that there's more humanity out there than there seems to be, but every day it's the same.
I just hope that KarmaBlue doesn't really believe in karma, because karma from telling cancer survivors to kill themselves is probably a bitch.
Frankly, I just don't think that playing the game is worth it anymore, if all I'm doing is trying to convince myself that the last hundred times my opponent treated me like shit was just a fluke. Also, I realize that, if such a high percentage of people behave that way, then a high percentage of people probably aren't even going to get what I'm saying.
I realize that empathy always isn't the easiest thing. Fuck, I'm autistic, and I have to work at it, but at least I realize that, if I go out of my way to make someone feel bad, they way they feel is just the same as when I feel bad.
At this point, I'm not angry, I'm not anything but utterly and totally confused. I can go a whole year in real life and not meet someone who acts like half the people or more that I play in a single day in this game. I really, really, really don't understand it, and have a really bad feeling for what's in store for the world if the Internet turns out to be where people like this go and get everyone believing that this is how we should treat each other.
I don't comprehend why I have to quit such a fun game because I feel like shit every single day because of the way people treat me, and I don't comprehend how even selfish people wouldn't see the benefits of just being nice, since it males life better for everyone.
I guess I don't want to feel, either, that I've wasted so much of my time, but, if I were in a relationship that was a fraction as toxic as what I experience playing this game, I would have given up on it ages ago.
I just played a player named KarmaBlue. He acted like an asshole, and, after I won the game, I send him a friend invite. Honestly, I thought it was extremely ironic that someone with 'karma' in his name would act like such a jerk... but, being an adult, I persist is trying to talk to people like this, thinking that maybe, if I respond in a civil way when someone is abusive, they might see that there's an alternative to being mean.
Of course, he responded with a quick 'lol kill yourself faggot'. As a cancer survivor, this type of bullshit bothers me to no end. Sure, there will inevitably be people that say, 'why worry about it, it's just a card game'... but that's the point... a fantasy card game is so much less-important than being concerned with how people treat each other, and if they treat each other with kindness and respect.
I have no doubt that I'm older than the average Hearthstone player, and I've encountered a lot of different types and groups of people. I've genuinely never ever even come close to being in any situation where I encounter this degree of utterly repugnant behavior. It often seems like I'm playing the same asshole again and again, and that the best I can hope for is bad behavior, where the worse is genuine sociopathy.
It seems like the majority of people I play are incapable of feeling some degree of satisfaction unless their opponent is being made to feel bad. Just the amount of time people play a card that gives them lethal, and they keep on playing cards for no other purpose than to try to humiliate their opponent is staggering. It's bad enough to be a bad loser, which is almost everybody I play, it seems, but tons of people I play are bad winners as well. Imagine how this would play out in any real-life situation, how people like this would be responded to.
I spend the majority of my time playing the game in utter shock in regard to how people behave. I actually love the game, but, more and more, I just don't think it's worth the type of people I come in contact with, not if you're an adult who thinks how people treat each other is more important than a game, that feeling pleasure from causing other people displeasure is wrong, that you should make a community of people who share the same interest a friendly place for people to enjoy themselves, not a toxic environment where sociopathic behavior is so widespread that people just accept it as the norm.
I'm not really a nerd, but I do tend to like some nerdy things, and I've always found it distasteful when people have criticized people that game and are into other nerdy pastimes. I've always been really bothered when people point to young people who commit violence and blame it on Dungeons & Dragons or video games. Unfortunately, anyone looking at this community would only have their prejudices confirmed.
I've been playing Hearthstone for quite a while, have never been anything but kind and polite, and I can't even count anymore how many times I've been called a faggot or told to kill myself. This isn't just adolescent behavior, which is available in huge quantities as well, but this is something really fucking worse.
I think I keep on playing, not only because I love the game itself, but because I want to convince myself that there's more humanity out there than there seems to be, but every day it's the same.
I just hope that KarmaBlue doesn't really believe in karma, because karma from telling cancer survivors to kill themselves is probably a bitch.
Frankly, I just don't think that playing the game is worth it anymore, if all I'm doing is trying to convince myself that the last hundred times my opponent treated me like shit was just a fluke. Also, I realize that, if such a high percentage of people behave that way, then a high percentage of people probably aren't even going to get what I'm saying.
I realize that empathy always isn't the easiest thing. Fuck, I'm ********, and I have to work at it, but at least I realize that, if I go out of my way to make someone feel bad, they way they feel is just the same as when I feel bad.
At this point, I'm not angry, I'm not anything but utterly and totally confused. I can go a whole year in real life and not meet someone who acts like half the people or more that I play in a single day in this game. I really, really, really don't understand it, and have a really bad feeling for what's in store for the world if the Internet turns out to be where people like this go and get everyone believing that this is how we should treat each other.
I don't comprehend why I have to quit such a fun game because I feel like shit every single day because of the way people treat me, and I don't comprehend how even selfish people wouldn't see the benefits of just being nice, since it males life better for everyone.
I guess I don't want to feel, either, that I've wasted so much of my time, but, if I were in a relationship that was a fraction as toxic as what I experience playing this game, I would have given up on it ages ago.
It's really just a fucking shame.
Problem is you have come to the wrong place. There is a lot of people who comment on here who wish that people get cancer
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There is a thing called an uninstall button. Nobody cares that you are quitting Heathstone
sorry that you experienced what happens 99% of the time when you add/accept a friend request on this game (seriously, just don't do it, ever), but I'm finding it hard not to join KarmaBlue in lolling at you for typing all those words and actually considering quitting a game because someone was mean to you.
Naming and shaming isn't a good start to a whine post that someone said something a bit mean to you. I would have thought someone who battled and got through cancer would be able to deal with slightly more than a few mean words without rage-quitting, but to each their own, I guess...
In any case, coming on here in an attempt to belittle someone in this way shows that you are essentially no better than him. Only he managed it in about 4 words, whereas you needed most of a page...
If you're playing on EU I'd be happy to be a civil friend and even have a few games with "well played" and a few oops when I forget to end turn.
I've stopped accepting friend requests from people unless I thought it was a particularly good game on both sides. If someone is being a dickhead I don't think its worth taking offence but I know it isn't an attitude everyone shares or even is capable of!
Your tone and diction hints of anger, not confusion, despite how you deny it in an attempt to show some degree of resistance. It's meaningless, you are angry and your essay proves it. I'm just gonna say that I understand that anger and it's reasonable. Feels like you can't enjoy hearthstone without meeting toxic people. That much is true. Just note that majority of the hs player base behave like nasty teenagers and there's no real way to change that. Also note that the dude didn't meant what he said obviously, and he's venting because reasons: boredom, saltiness, frustration, whatever, idk and idc. He doesn't mean it, he's just nasty because it's easy to be online. No consequences. No responsibilities. No accountability. So you are just gonna have to detach yourself a little and not be so emotionally affected by words from strangers. You can try wild too. I personally find that wild mode has more pleasant people than standard. Or you can quit. Don't think you should let toxic strangers affect you so much though, to the point that you'd quit.
the problem is that a lot of grown men on here need to grow up and stop acting like playground bullies bet in real life they would be the ones hiding in the corner not saying boo to a goose. They are cowards and should be ignored and pitied for the waist of space that they are. I hope you don't give up and sometimes a longer game when an opponent can win at any time can be down to a quest yes its annoying and I take it so long then commit suicide by attacking a minion with my weapon knowing ill die.
if you getting so fed up with people take a short break and calm down a bit remember many kids play this also many people who are just frustrated with life in general if one guy pisses you off so bad just leave him to it dont add him just move on to the next game relax and have fun dont take it so serous happy new year :D
So, If you are a grown up man I must really wonder why you find such toxic behavior unbelievable!
Just look around you dude. Not only in card games ppl act like that ,lots of ppl who feel save behind something ( a car for example) act like Wannabe Rambos . This has nothing to do with age( ok maybe the younger generation is more inexperienced and hotblooded). Some just can’t handle themselves.
I just played a player named KarmaBlue. He acted like an asshole, and, after I won the game, I send him a friend invite. Honestly, I thought it was extremely ironic that someone with 'karma' in his name would act like such a jerk... but, being an adult, I persist is trying to talk to people like this, thinking that maybe, if I respond in a civil way when someone is abusive, they might see that there's an alternative to being mean.
Of course, he responded with a quick 'lol kill yourself faggot'. As a cancer survivor, this type of bullshit bothers me to no end.
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I just hope that KarmaBlue doesn't really believe in karma, because karma from telling cancer survivors to kill themselves is probably a bitch.
Wait..what? Was he suppose to know that you had cancer?
Don’t be a wuss, man! They’ve literally made it where it’s almost impossible to actually be “mean” to someone. You have six emotes and your imagination. If your imagination sees sociopathy in your opponent, I would say that the problem lies within you.
And if your opponent has you dead to rights, just concede. If you hang around, you’re likely to see the fireworks.
Longer-term advice: find some real friends to play the game with regularly. Ladder sucks.
So, you sent a friend invite in a children’s card game, with expectations that you would reason like an adult with the other person, for his behavior (which can be completely avoided by squelching) while playing said children’s card game. Very mature of you, indeed.
So as much as you're trying to make us feel compassionate - saying you're a cancer survivor, autistic and what not - I don't feel any sympathy at all. You add someone, whom you didn't enjoy playing against, who annoyed you, and try to do what? Educate them about expected behavior in a online kids game? Hell, I'd tell you to fuck off myself.
One thing is Blizzard made the emotes sounding in English BM as possible IMO. Community asking for autosquelch for so long. I Would even like a Mute to the occasionally "What to do, What to do".....
I've had about 6 friend requests in my time and never had any issues - just more people to watch to earn gold. There's times when you get annoyed about how a player behaves during a game but it's not worth trying to talk to them. My advice would be to just keep the friend requests for players who you enjoyed having a game with or who had an interesting deck.
So as much as you're trying to make us feel compassionate - saying you're a cancer survivor, ******** and what not - I don't feel any sympathy at all. You add someone, whom you didn't enjoy playing against, who annoyed you, and try to do what? Educate them about expected behavior in a online kids game? Hell, I'd tell you to fuck off myself.
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There is a thing called an uninstall button. Nobody cares that you are quitting Heathstone
I just played a player named KarmaBlue. He acted like an asshole, and, after I won the game, I send him a friend invite. Honestly, I thought it was extremely ironic that someone with 'karma' in his name would act like such a jerk... but, being an adult, I persist is trying to talk to people like this, thinking that maybe, if I respond in a civil way when someone is abusive, they might see that there's an alternative to being mean.
Of course, he responded with a quick 'lol kill yourself faggot'. As a cancer survivor, this type of bullshit bothers me to no end. Sure, there will inevitably be people that say, 'why worry about it, it's just a card game'... but that's the point... a fantasy card game is so much less-important than being concerned with how people treat each other, and if they treat each other with kindness and respect.
I have no doubt that I'm older than the average Hearthstone player, and I've encountered a lot of different types and groups of people. I've genuinely never ever even come close to being in any situation where I encounter this degree of utterly repugnant behavior. It often seems like I'm playing the same asshole again and again, and that the best I can hope for is bad behavior, where the worse is genuine sociopathy.
It seems like the majority of people I play are incapable of feeling some degree of satisfaction unless their opponent is being made to feel bad. Just the amount of time people play a card that gives them lethal, and they keep on playing cards for no other purpose than to try to humiliate their opponent is staggering. It's bad enough to be a bad loser, which is almost everybody I play, it seems, but tons of people I play are bad winners as well. Imagine how this would play out in any real-life situation, how people like this would be responded to.
I spend the majority of my time playing the game in utter shock in regard to how people behave. I actually love the game, but, more and more, I just don't think it's worth the type of people I come in contact with, not if you're an adult who thinks how people treat each other is more important than a game, that feeling pleasure from causing other people displeasure is wrong, that you should make a community of people who share the same interest a friendly place for people to enjoy themselves, not a toxic environment where sociopathic behavior is so widespread that people just accept it as the norm.
I'm not really a nerd, but I do tend to like some nerdy things, and I've always found it distasteful when people have criticized people that game and are into other nerdy pastimes. I've always been really bothered when people point to young people who commit violence and blame it on Dungeons & Dragons or video games. Unfortunately, anyone looking at this community would only have their prejudices confirmed.
I've been playing Hearthstone for quite a while, have never been anything but kind and polite, and I can't even count anymore how many times I've been called a faggot or told to kill myself. This isn't just adolescent behavior, which is available in huge quantities as well, but this is something really fucking worse.
I think I keep on playing, not only because I love the game itself, but because I want to convince myself that there's more humanity out there than there seems to be, but every day it's the same.
I just hope that KarmaBlue doesn't really believe in karma, because karma from telling cancer survivors to kill themselves is probably a bitch.
Frankly, I just don't think that playing the game is worth it anymore, if all I'm doing is trying to convince myself that the last hundred times my opponent treated me like shit was just a fluke. Also, I realize that, if such a high percentage of people behave that way, then a high percentage of people probably aren't even going to get what I'm saying.
I realize that empathy always isn't the easiest thing. Fuck, I'm autistic, and I have to work at it, but at least I realize that, if I go out of my way to make someone feel bad, they way they feel is just the same as when I feel bad.
At this point, I'm not angry, I'm not anything but utterly and totally confused. I can go a whole year in real life and not meet someone who acts like half the people or more that I play in a single day in this game. I really, really, really don't understand it, and have a really bad feeling for what's in store for the world if the Internet turns out to be where people like this go and get everyone believing that this is how we should treat each other.
I don't comprehend why I have to quit such a fun game because I feel like shit every single day because of the way people treat me, and I don't comprehend how even selfish people wouldn't see the benefits of just being nice, since it males life better for everyone.
I guess I don't want to feel, either, that I've wasted so much of my time, but, if I were in a relationship that was a fraction as toxic as what I experience playing this game, I would have given up on it ages ago.
It's really just a fucking shame.
There is a thing called an uninstall button. Nobody cares that you are quitting Heathstone
sorry that you experienced what happens 99% of the time when you add/accept a friend request on this game (seriously, just don't do it, ever), but I'm finding it hard not to join KarmaBlue in lolling at you for typing all those words and actually considering quitting a game because someone was mean to you.
Blink..... blink...
Naming and shaming isn't a good start to a whine post that someone said something a bit mean to you.
I would have thought someone who battled and got through cancer would be able to deal with slightly more than a few mean words without rage-quitting, but to each their own, I guess...
In any case, coming on here in an attempt to belittle someone in this way shows that you are essentially no better than him. Only he managed it in about 4 words, whereas you needed most of a page...
If you're playing on EU I'd be happy to be a civil friend and even have a few games with "well played" and a few oops when I forget to end turn.
I've stopped accepting friend requests from people unless I thought it was a particularly good game on both sides. If someone is being a dickhead I don't think its worth taking offence but I know it isn't an attitude everyone shares or even is capable of!
Your tone and diction hints of anger, not confusion, despite how you deny it in an attempt to show some degree of resistance. It's meaningless, you are angry and your essay proves it. I'm just gonna say that I understand that anger and it's reasonable. Feels like you can't enjoy hearthstone without meeting toxic people. That much is true. Just note that majority of the hs player base behave like nasty teenagers and there's no real way to change that. Also note that the dude didn't meant what he said obviously, and he's venting because reasons: boredom, saltiness, frustration, whatever, idk and idc. He doesn't mean it, he's just nasty because it's easy to be online. No consequences. No responsibilities. No accountability. So you are just gonna have to detach yourself a little and not be so emotionally affected by words from strangers. You can try wild too. I personally find that wild mode has more pleasant people than standard. Or you can quit. Don't think you should let toxic strangers affect you so much though, to the point that you'd quit.
the problem is that a lot of grown men on here need to grow up and stop acting like playground bullies bet in real life they would be the ones hiding in the corner not saying boo to a goose. They are cowards and should be ignored and pitied for the waist of space that they are. I hope you don't give up and sometimes a longer game when an opponent can win at any time can be down to a quest yes its annoying and I take it so long then commit suicide by attacking a minion with my weapon knowing ill die.
if you getting so fed up with people take a short break and calm down a bit remember many kids play this also many people who are just frustrated with life in general if one guy pisses you off so bad just leave him to it dont add him just move on to the next game relax and have fun dont take it so serous happy new year :D
Expectation is a killer.
If you find humanity, be it in a videogame and in real life, it's all good.
But it is just a bonus. You should not expect it. You have no rights to expect it.
So, If you are a grown up man I must really wonder why you find such toxic behavior unbelievable!
Just look around you dude. Not only in card games ppl act like that ,lots of ppl who feel save behind something ( a car for example) act like Wannabe Rambos . This has nothing to do with age( ok maybe the younger generation is more inexperienced and hotblooded). Some just can’t handle themselves.
The day we can turn off Emotes, Animations and Friend Requests in Options this game will feel and work better.
Don’t be a wuss, man! They’ve literally made it where it’s almost impossible to actually be “mean” to someone. You have six emotes and your imagination. If your imagination sees sociopathy in your opponent, I would say that the problem lies within you.
And if your opponent has you dead to rights, just concede. If you hang around, you’re likely to see the fireworks.
Longer-term advice: find some real friends to play the game with regularly. Ladder sucks.
So, you sent a friend invite in a children’s card game, with expectations that you would reason like an adult with the other person, for his behavior (which can be completely avoided by squelching) while playing said children’s card game. Very mature of you, indeed.
Release the Kraken!
So as much as you're trying to make us feel compassionate - saying you're a cancer survivor, autistic and what not - I don't feel any sympathy at all. You add someone, whom you didn't enjoy playing against, who annoyed you, and try to do what? Educate them about expected behavior in a online kids game? Hell, I'd tell you to fuck off myself.
One thing is Blizzard made the emotes sounding in English BM as possible IMO. Community asking for autosquelch for so long. I Would even like a Mute to the occasionally "What to do, What to do".....
Atleast at Higher ranks BM happens less.
This thread is "unbelievable". Have you been living under a rock? God help you if you ever try an online FPS or MMORPG
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I've had about 6 friend requests in my time and never had any issues - just more people to watch to earn gold. There's times when you get annoyed about how a player behaves during a game but it's not worth trying to talk to them. My advice would be to just keep the friend requests for players who you enjoyed having a game with or who had an interesting deck.
There is a thing called an uninstall button. Nobody cares that you are quitting Heathstone
For some reason it feels like Blizzard like players to be trigged, i don't know why.