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Thomas Brok

The gaming community is one of the most toxic communities out there.

Looking at the recent back-end migration EPIC/PsyNet did to improve Rocket League performance and networking (MySQL server migration in Google Cloud Platform), people started to condemn EPIC/PsyNet for improving gameplay experience, at cost of the game not being online for a few hours.

On another perspective, I've seen players getting harassed in gameplay chat, merely because their profile picture displayed a female, even though the player might have been a male.

I don't think there has been a better setting in online games than 'Disable chat'! :)

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DesirΓ© πŸ‘©β€πŸŽ“πŸ‘©β€πŸ«

Oh, totally agreed, Thomas.

I remember the "mute chat" as my best ally in the gaming battlefield. Another big one is when they know there's a female player in the team and they blame her for everything that is going wrong, even if she actually is playing better than them.

I've also seen lots of stupid behaviours of gamers when the gaming company only tried to improve performance and etc., thanks god we're not all the same.

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Kelly Stannard

I am a white guy and even I have to turn off public chat because it is horribly toxic in most games. I can only hope that most gamers realize their mistakes eventually.

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Thomas Brok

I actually once tried to talk common sense into a certain toxic guy who completely humiliated me during an online game for no reason, even when I remained nice and human.

As expected, all I got was more trash-talking, which was all I needed to permanently turn off public chat.