How toxic is the player base?

butterkisses2019

As the title states.

It's bad enough that my poor rogue was run over by everyone doing the Summer Event games, but now my sis is bashed in chat because is didn't want to friend an unknown person on discord?

While I enjoy my time in Neverwinter, the toxic players can suck out that enjoyment in seconds. What is going on here? Is the ToS not enforced?

Thank you for your time.

greywynd

Report Player Behavior and ignore them.

kharkov58

Cryptic does not have the manpower, or the will to monitor chat channels. It is up to you to report the behavior, and someone should be able to pull the chat logs for that date, time, zone and channel.

butterkisses2019

Thank you both.

autumnwitch

butterkisses2019#1220 said:

As the title states.

It's bad enough that my poor rogue was run over by everyone doing the Summer Event games, but now my sis is bashed in chat because is didn't want to friend an unknown person on discord?

While I enjoy my time in Neverwinter, the toxic players can suck out that enjoyment in seconds. What is going on here? Is the ToS not enforced?

Thank you for your time.

Really unless thay are in my guild/alliance I completely tune out everyone else. Discord is a cesspool of bad/toxic people.

Find yourself a fun, active, friendly guild and your exp will change dramatically.

sandukutupu

I clear out my ignore list on the first of the month, but there was no one on it for last month. From the looks of it, no one is misbehaving from my point of view. I have noted fewer trolls online, spam in PE is down to one guy asking for LOMM, I really don't think of him as spam as long as he isn't just pounding on it. There was a few people talking dirty very late at night this weekend. But they didn't bother me. Besides the ignore, you can turn Zone chat off using the settings. I made myself an Off tab, so I can focus on more important things.

Just about any free online game will attract toxic crowds. It is your response they feed upon. It is your responsibility not to respond. If you look in the Social Menu (O key) there are privacy settings to make yourself "Invisible to all players" or you can just type /hide into the chat window. To be seen again use /unhide.

I will not bother asking what ToS were violated. However, if your sister is too young to play, you might want to consider restricting her from using the chat or playing this game at all? I am an old woman, when some players find out I am a female, they start into that come hither talk. I don't play along, nor will I lead them on. I end the conversation, if I think they are being a creeper. Don't make Cryptic Studios the cyber police, they have a hard enough time keeping the mail working.

Have fun!

xenocide

Most of the time i really dont find it that bad.
Sure avernus and PE are filled with their fair share of trolls, but most of the time I have good experiences with dungeons and events.

That being said a friend and I were running a tiamat yesterday, my friend went down nobody picked them up so they respawned at the campfire. Ok no biggie.
Immediatly afterwards a message showed up voting to kick my friend for being AFK, which they definatly were not and unfortunatly there were enough yes votes and my friend ended up getting kicked from the trial.

Being kicked because some jerk see's you go down and wants to remove you from the instance sucks but it is pretty rare.
Luckily i left after they were kicked, we re-queued and got a much better group the 2nd time around.

greywynd

jason5#9029 said:

toxic as hell. dont do public groups unless you are prepared for it.

Never had a problem with pugs unless there was an obvious bot running around. Ran a Cloak Tower back in the day with 2 others. Their @handle was very similar. Turned out the guy was using the run to train his bot.

kreatyve

If it's in the Protector's Enclave Discord, PM me on Discord and I'll handle it. Outside of that server, I can not do anything about.

kemnimtarkas

butterkisses2019#1220 said:

As the title states.

It's bad enough that my poor rogue was run over by everyone doing the Summer Event games, but now my sis is bashed in chat because is didn't want to friend an unknown person on discord?

While I enjoy my time in Neverwinter, the toxic players can suck out that enjoyment in seconds. What is going on here? Is the ToS not enforced?

Thank you for your time.

Every MMO has toxic players. And creepy players. Best thing to do is Report and Ignore them in Chat. And make note of the @ handle so you can avoid them for things like dungeon queues, guilds, and gift giving situations (Winter Fest, etc).

tribbulater

Just as a matter of statistics, I wouldn't call one person trying to friend your sis and bashing over it "the player base". Every game is going to have thousands of players, and like every group of people in the world, 10% of those thousands are going to be jerks.

Ignore is there for all standard nuisances, screenshot and report for those who step over the line. I'd also recommend not reacting to every bit of troll-bait out there unless you enjoy arguing in chat over politics, religion or the roundness of planets.

crusthelvete

Started a year+ ago, chat was almost always good and ppl where helpful and patient.

Now,6 months or less i can clearly see that the chat have changed alot.
I think, the toxic comes with the newer players while the older quits one by one... seen this mod before in other mmo's.

kierlakx

crusthelvete said:

Started a year+ ago, chat was almost always good and ppl where helpful and patient.

Now,6 months or less i can clearly see that the chat have changed alot.
I think, the toxic comes with the newer players while the older quits one by one... seen this mod before in other mmo's.

I like this fantasy world you live in where it's not the bitter, entitled, veteran players that are the source of the toxicity.

jefinho380

Just report them and add to the ignore list.

About how toxic is the playerbase as a whole towards other players, not toxic at all. Specially if you're a newcomer. There are, of course, always some people to ruin what's left of fun in this game but that's true for any online game out there.

About how toxic the playerbase is towards the developers? Definitely not toxic enough.