How do solve this conundrum?
>>737943152Replace the spray with napalm.
ass
Report them for homophilia until they get banned
>>737943152misleading thumbnail
>>737943152Dedicated servers.Support for large playercounts, not this eternal 5v5 6v6 nonsense that caters to consoles and shit corporate servers.Actual drop-in drop-out gameplay, not 20-45 minute autism fests so that you can cram gear progression into a single multiplayer match.No matchmaking or similar system and no sunk cost ranking system that doesn't do anything anyway.This was already solved, it was simply unsolved due to engagement-oriented, cash-shop focused matchmaking slop.
>>737943152Private servers
>>737943152>implying I'm not both at the same time
By killing casuals.
"people that play for fun" are nearly always people that just hate other people winning
>>737943152your pic makes it look like the guy on the right is having fun and the one on the left is suffering. so if the people that play for fun really want to have fun, they should be like the toxic overcompetitive players, according to your own pic
>>737943152>"people" that play for funThey just want free wins without tryingFags
>>737943152Stay in your unranked safe space you little nigger.For fun players that queue ranked deserve to be bullied.
>>737943152I have no idea. I thought ranked vs casual modes would solve it but they even exist in casual mode. Like why do you even care if you lose in casual if it wasn't your fault? It's not like it affects anything.
>>737943686>>737944437That's not true. It's because we know it's just a game so a little bit of fucking around is fine. You can be the best player that ever played but once the servers shut down, you're just a nobody. Why take any game so autistically serious?
>>737943152be more toxic
why don't you have a team if you're a supra-competitive niggerwhy don't you play RTS/FGs if teammates only pull you downWoops, sorry, I killed you guys larp sesh. Carry on
>>737945632You can apply this crappy logic to life, tooWhen you die, you're just bones, so who cares? Why take it so seriously?
>>737945850Not really since you can affect things even once you're gone. Having children is your pathway to immortality. Once the servers shut off you're just some loser who wasted the best years of his life getting really good at something pointless.
>>737943152Everytime I see something like this my first assumption is someone picks up a competitive game and wants to ruin a match for everyone else because they don't want to get ego checked.
>>737945967That's weird because my first assumption is it's about fags who play casual but still expect their teammates to play perfectly and will constantly deride them for every mistake despite making plenty of their own.
>>737945850>reductio ad nihilum to justify pouring your heart into a moneyless hobby that nobody will ever take seriouslymaybe the casuals are on to something, maybe rankedfags are ill
>>737945941This assumes a whole lot>the skills won't carry over to another game>you have to be good at something that "has a point">people who are really good at something are "wasting their lives" on it
>>737943396How would dedicated server work when toxic comp fags goes onto raiding spree
>>737943152Dedicated servers and server browser. You can't really fix the problem with automated matchmaking, there's too many variables. Give players the tools to craft their own spaces and find other likeminded players and it'll work out eventually.
>>737946260>You don't understand. Maybe it will make you better at something equally as pointless!
>>737946187>it's an argument when he does it>it's a fallacy when I apply it to something elseI think you're just mad that people are better than you at something
its simple, we kill the toxic comp players
>>737943152play unrankedand if someone gets buttmad in unranked remind them its unranked
>>737946284vote2kick or just deal with it. They will go away. Or find another server to screw around on for a bit. Or get good.
>>737946353Because it doesn't apply to life, you fucking nolife retard. You can actually affect the world in real life. You aren't affecting anything when you waste 20,000 hours playing a pointless game. Every game shuts down at some point. What will happen to you then? Suicide is the obvious choice.
>>737946187Reducto ad nihilum doesn’t mean what you think it means
>>737943152Grief the entire community by cheating.
>>737946353Not that anon but being good at videogames is like being good at jacking off. It's ok and it feels good but its kinda useless.
>>737946523maor like rectum ad nilanalum lamo
>>737946651At least jacking off won't come to an abrupt halt making you question your life and choices.
>>737946047If someones sperging out in a casual mode or unranked they're retarded.I don't play those but I see plenty of people going>lol dude it's just a gameas they ruin the experience for everyone involved in actual ranked matches.
>>73794626095% of pro players are childless ungroomed unfit out of shape dudes despite money.Rankedboars are the same except no money which is even sadder>>people who are really good at something are "wasting their lives" on itMost rankedggers aren't even good by pro standards and live completely unfulfilled lives and their hobby of choice doesn't even fulfill them.You can deride fulfillment and acknowledgement from other hobbies like music, visual arts etc despite never making it close to the top 0,1%You will never ever ever ever have the same feeling wasting away on dota 2 or LoL or CS, and thats why you see people trying to recreate that feeling by pointing out their ranks to exactly 0 (you)s, ain't that sad?You can call me a niggerfagcasual whatever but you can't call me wrong
>>737946745I wouldn't know, I don't play ranked. I just know in casual there are so many people that take it too seriously. They also play like ass but pretend like they're better than everyone else. I suspect many are indian.
>>737945358This is true until you play a game like team fortress 2 which only has casual mode or when overcompetitive players play casual for the sole purpose of pubstomping
>>737946284Uhm, like, just kick them? Are you retarded?
>>737946901>overcompetitive players play casual for the sole purpose of pubstompingI've noticed a law of nature. It says that whenever a premade team queues up with one another, there will be one faggot who shit talks constantly because they know they have their buddies to back them up. This doesn't even just apply to games but real life as well. Every group has a mad shit talker cause he knows he has backup.
>>737946838Yeah, it's like I thoughtJust seething about someone being better than you at a game, so you make up a bunch of shit about who you think they arelel
>>737943152>>737945731>>737946376Anyone who uses the buzzword toxic (which came from Jeffery “Beat a bitch up” Lin aka Riot Lyte) need to be ostracized and ridiculed for saying it.
>>737943152dedicated servers>I wanna play in the 2fort 24/7 with like minded people who are stoned as fuck? I can>I wanna do MLG PRO CIRCUIT sweatfest? I can>I wanna join [4ch] WHEN NIGGERS LMAO BOTTOM TEXT? I caninstead the "matchmaking" lumps everyone into the same pot with the same fucking forced 50% winrate shitI hate modern gaming so much its unreal
>>737943152>Join up for the "picking grapes" competition because I like picking grapes>End up with 4 baskets full of grapes>All the other competitors can only manage 1 or 2 baskets>/v/: "This is totally unfair how dare that guy pick so many grapes?! Why won't the competition organizers do something so that I get to pick more grapes! They should take some grapes from his basket and give it to me, so I can win sometimes!"
>>737943152dedicated servers.>server is just for fun>someone ruins it>gets kicked>problem solvedworked perfectly fine in the past until companies decided that every game needs to be some esports slop and they NEED to force you into queues against tryhards
>>737946838Yes goyim make more slaves for dr. Shekelstein. Make the cattle infinite so we can extract resources from them endlessly from now to the end of time
>>737947219I have 3K hours of dota 2, ~~5K on usf4 + sfV. top 1% in both games. Means jack shit. I know the scenes, I went to the offlines, I followed the pros like some fangirl. I was on "elitists" discord. Sad people. Don't kid yourself. Should've picked up a bass guitar like one of my friends who now plays in bars. Small stuff but 10x more fulfilling.I'm warning you but you'll have that realization anyway when you near 30
>>737947407What a nolife loser, I bet he spends all his time picking grapes!
>>737947510I'm 39Shut up and stop trying to condescend to meThere's nothing wrong with competition and competitive people
>>737943152being competitive is just having decent reaction time and a good sensitivity. most tryhards can play on autopilot
>>737947686Damn that sucks
>>737947686>There's nothing wrong with competition and competitive peopleHow are you faring in the "getting laid" competition?
>>737947407You forgot>Goes around to every kid that picked less grapes than him and mercilessly derides them while pretending the kids that picked more grapes than him don't exist
>>737947686Damn, so you wasted your whole life and not just the beginning of it. That's kind of sad when you think about it.
>>737947852Never happened
>>737943331>homophilia
>>737947835No complaintsAgain, you people are all just seething that someone is better than you in something. So you guys make up things about them>>737947924>Damn, so you wasted your whole lifelike this
>>737947938>People never shit talk those who play worse than them despite playing like trash themselvesYeah bro, sure.
>>737947973Being 39 and talking about the importance of competitive gaming is pathetic. I don't care who you ask.
>JUST LET ME HAVE FUNScreams the retard, dragging the whole industry to the ground with his deranged ideas about what video games should be like.
>>737943152I play League (aram only) and CS (casual only) a few hours a week, and don't really have issues with toxicity at all. its 90% good interactions. Having a focused ranked mode is usually enough to contain the turbo sweats.
>>737947967What, you mean you don't fuck humans?
>>737943152maybe casuals should stop playing competitive games
>>737948030>op posits question>i answer it>UMMM PATHETIC MUCH?What is this female style of argumentation
>>737947973>No complaintsSpoken like a true casual. Numbers, please.
I don't believe "toxic overcompetitive players" are a real problem for anything but certain people's egos
>>737946901>equip black box+conch>compshitter has no idea how to handle this developmentStill don't understand why playing the same classes with the same weapons over and over again is supposed to make you good at tf2.
>>737948048Pretty sure it's the tryhard retards that bring GAMING down and not the people who think GAMES should be fun.
>>737948112I don't remember OP asking you how old you are.
>>737948131some people see everything as a competition and it is pretty annoying to deal with them
>>737948130Unless I say something pathetically low or zero, you won't believe me anyway25-ish, I stopped counting
>>737948131They are a problem, you faggot. 1v1 me on rust.
>>7379482721. don't play competitive games2. queue with a group of friends or like-minded people and play casual modo3. rise to the challenge and stop whining
>>737948131they are as they are almost always the people who whine for the entire duration of the match and disconnect if the game isn't going their way 10 seconds in
Real ID
>>737948296True, I don't believe you.And even if I did, for someone being competitive that's a rather low number, even if you stopped counting.
>>737948369real compfags don't quityou described a casual who isn't getting his free win
>>737948156You don't think games should be fun, you just want easy wins
>>737948448It's higher than average, but a lot of years I was fucking the same people over and over
All you need is a good ranked system including a way to prevent smurfing (which isn't as big a deal as people think it is). If you're a retard you'll get matched with other retards, if you're a tryhard sweat, you'll shoot up the ranks to face other tryhard sweats. It's just that simple.
>>737943152Easy, the people who play for fun go away and the toxic overcompetitive ones watch their game dieIt is tradition
People who get mad about competitive players when they play together invariably create a purity spiral>using the best strategy is tryhard>using the 2nd best strategy is now tryhard because the 1st best is banned and 2nd best is new 1st bestContinue until nobody is allowed to play anything but Ganondorf on pokefloats
>>737948464delusionalmany competitive players have been banned from tournaments because they can't keep their power level down
>>737945760my post is still undefeated btw
>>737948572>Ganondorf on pokefloatsKINOOOOO
>replying to your own dumb post and declaring victory
>>737948572In most cases, the fate of one-dimensional shit like this has largely to do with what kind of game is in question. I think most games would need robust system mechanics and a very good layer of universal options to give way to diversifying options even at the highest level of play. I can think of only a handful of games who tend to land at that spot (mostly stuff like Starcraft, various iterations of Guilty Gear and KoF and so forth.) I think a lot of the problems with the modern approach to competitive gaming is a result of something like LoL and CS being the two grand measuring stick. Both games that are hellishly one-dimensional at their highest level of play.
>>737948473I don't derive pleasure from winning, at least not as much as fucking around. I used to lose all the time with one kill left because I was going for funny and stupid killcams. It's okay if you need to win in order to enjoy yourself but there's more to life than that.
Good post! Still not an argument tho
>>737948938Ah, you're a sandbagger with an ego.
apply this to real sports, anon and you will see how fucking dumb you are.>a group of people gather to play volleyball after work>the level of play is not high, but everyone has a good time>someone who plays for literally the entire day all days arrives, dunks on everyone and constantly berates his team>"why don't you just get good?">"if you trained more you wouldn't get wrecked kek!">"you just want your easy win handed to you."
>>737943152I don't owe you anything just because you're bad at the game. Get fucked or get good.
>the implication: competitive players are much better than play for fun players and are playing against them>the reality: matchmaking is based on outcomes, so the sweatlords rise above the play-for-fun fagsif you consistently played casually you'd not have sweatlords up your ass, or the sweatlords or be so much worse than you they would not be a problem
>>737943152Gamer gulags and genocides.
I have the perfect solution. If you're a tryhard and you want to STOMP on TURTS (new players) you buy "rank down DLC" that costs $29.99 plus tip each time and brings you down 10 ranked levels so you can beat the shit out of children. Any attempts to lower your rank artificially will ban you from the game permanently, forcing you to buy an "unban pass" that costs $99.99 plus tip
>>737943152Its been solved since the 90s, modern devs just pretend they dont know it for some reason.
>RTS games (that are worth playing, not Starkek and Age of Empires) kept the server browser>a clear divide between casuals and tryhards, everyone is happy>every other game does "skill based" matchmaking which results in the problems described here
>>737948512lol casual
>>737949261it's mostly "muh proprietary corpo IP"as in, moneyif the game's developer can't also charge you for the servers (at a nice jewish premium) it's not a good incentive to let players host their own serversand games that do have "custom" servers nowadays are nothing but sanitized, corpo-approved garbage
>>737949002It's not sandbagging to go for funny final killcams everyone watches. I just don't tie my ego to my winrate.
>>737949464Because you can't win against people in your own skill bracket, that's why you sandbag and demonise people better than you. There are plenty of games you could play for fun that aren't competitive and yet you choose to pull this shit in PvP multiplayer games.
>>737949631Old call of duty didn't have skill brackets, retard.
>>737950163Every game with MMR has skill brackets, even in unranked multiplayer.
>>737949008The dude prob ragequit rather than berating since most irl sports are scheduled for reservation.
>>737950413What mmr? Have you ever played cod before?
>>737949008As a player of pickup basketball, people absolutely will either berate you or exclude you from playing with them if you're clearly fucking around and say "it's just a game lol"
So what do people bad at the game want me to do? Somehow UNlearn how to play? To let them win? To just press random buttons until the match ends?
>>737950710Put up enough of a fight that I feel engaged but still lose. You exist to entertain me only
>>737949008I remember this dude in kickball got booted off by everyone because he was pitching in a way that makes it impossible to be fun to play
>>737950653it works both ways, yes
>>737943152Winning is fun.
>>737950618https://gdconf.com/article/interview-josh-menke-on-the-evolution-of-matchmaking-in-competitive-multiplayer-games/Literally every cod game since COD4 has used some form of SBMM, yeah nigga it's a game with MMR
>just playing for fun>getting mad when losing
>>737943152when did wanting to win competitive games become toxic? why does meritocracy utterly mind break recent generations?
>>737943152>How do solve this conundrum?Creatively portray their flaws and why they should reconsider this mindset, without breaking your own ethics.Also dedicated server >>737943396Matchmaking algorithms are now created specifically to create a feeling of insecurity in your skill, a need to climb the ladder...Not even going into cashshop & disguised P2W xp-booster practices.
>>737943152If you can't take the heat get out the kitchen. Casuls should go play their casual babby games.
>>737945760>you can play one genre of vidya>rts dont have team modeswoof
>>737948112Zoomers are extremely high E
>>737952018I play wow for the pvpMe and my friends all leveled rogues and we exclusively play to world pvp. We grief pve players by killing them while they try to summon or do quests. The only thing I log on for. We joined a guild thats exclusively rogues.Id imagine its really frustrating to be stun locked by 5 rogues.
>>737943152by playing games that you let call the overcompetitive players whatever slur you desire
>>737947967Are you serious with me?
Imagine the scene when The Duskbloods comes out
>>737947358>game has casual, competitive and arcade modes>people still repeat this shit from the garbage meme imageSheesh
>>737949008I think the worst is the smurfing pro streamers>professional nba player goes to a middle school to have fun dunking on "shitters" and makes videos about it
>>737949008Would it be okay for you if the guy who is a professional dunks on everyone but doesn't berate them? Or would that still make you mad?
>>737954703>No one ever chimps out in casual modeI wish I lived in your world.>>737956195It's bad but not as bad.
>>737952750Honestly if you're dumb enough to pick a PvP server at this point you deserve to have this happen to you. It's the only reason anyone plays on those hellholes.
>I only play for fun I don't care about winning>Except when I loseLmao
>>737943152Force companies to stop designing every multiplayer game to be an engagement farming Shodan-approved hellscape.
>>737943152Git gud
If you play for fun and not to win, then constantly losing shouldn't be a problem.
Anyone worse than me is a shitter scrub that deserves to be farmed. Anyone better than me is a no life loser playing like there’s million dollars on the line
There is no conundrum, that little dork getting maced is having fun
>>737943152I can't take this image seriously because I've been called a tryhard in Marvel Rivals when I mainly just chill with gacha these days
>>737952018Prefer this one>>737952750>playing wowI was going to say the same as >>737956630, if you are too dumb to realize that pvp games attract schadenfreude addict and encourage it, you deserve to learn the lesson until you quit the game.
>>737947303don't think toxic is a buzzword, anon. Don't think it came from that guy either.
>>737948464most compfags are casuals posturing
>>737943152The cure is simple:1v1 multiplayer games> muh tryhards make me loseyeah that is what ranks are forIf having the appropriate rank for evenly matched opponents makes you mad, guess what: you ARE the toxic overcompetitive players
>>737957935This image was made by some care bear faggots who’s ego was hurt because they got dumpstered in a PvP game Non retards enjoy both genres, not everyone wants to play against a fucking AI all the time. Competitiveness is inherently a masculine trait
>>737957935>>737956630Youre welcome then. Every mmo game that allows pvp i exclusively prey on weaker, less prepared players. I love punching down as hard as possible.
winning is fun
>>737943152
>>737962190What really happened was that all the people who couldn't be assed to play in pugs and scrims would instead just snipe normie servers and jerk off to their high stats.
>>737962339What the fuck is a pug and a scrim?
>>737943152>people who play for fun (by winning)>people who lose and cry
>>737943152I don't try to turn games I don't like into casual baby sandboxes.
>>737962369Pickup and practice games. Basically something that people used before leagues and ranked matchmakings became a thing. People would host sites where you can sign and then when there's enough people a game will be hosted, an ancient matchmaker. I tried playing TF2 this way but it was just not as fun as pubstomping.
>>737943152You have social modes with relaxed rules and wacky features that people can hop on and fuck around in for fun And you have competitive modes with strict rulesets and hardcore settings for the competitive playersHalo solved this shit in 2004
>>737943152It's not a real problem. There's no such thing as being overcompetitive. The point of a game with a win-condition is to win the game. If there's something in the game that a casual has a problem with and thinks is "tryhard" then the problem is the game fucking sucks and is imbalanced, not that someone is trying to win and also happens to be checking your ego in the process.
>>737946376I miss the Joker before... You know
I like how /v/ likes to roleplay as a hardcore gaymer but 90% of you fags don't even play videogames lmaoooo
>>737952396>2V2>preferred rts comp formatcasual
>>737943396yeah but people would be able to tell when you're putting bots in dedicated servers
>>737963290>It's not a real problem.It's killed multiple games.
>>737964476Which games? Sounds like they were shit to begin with like I said.
>>737945632>It's because we know it's just a game so a little bit of fucking around is fineno one's making fun of you because you're >just having fun and fucking around a bitwe're making fun of you because you always spout that as an excuse after you fuck around and die without making any impact on the game
>>737964476>looks at the most played multiplayer games>they're all "toxic comp esports" gameshmm
>>737943152Design your game for one crowd or the other and stop trying to force mass appeal.
>>737965612>Waaahhh, you made me lose one out of the 20 games I'll play just todayCry more, bitchboy.
>>737943396>Support for large playercounts, not this eternal 5v5 6v6 nonsense that caters to consoles and shit corporate servers.This has always been a flawed mindset. There's a very very VERY specific sweetspot in player count and design where it actually works the way you think it will, and even then it usually depends on the way the community has generally agreed to play the game.Like in the lower stages of adding more players, you're just increasing the margin in which a team with mostly competitive players will beat over a team of mostly casual players, and making it harder for any competitive players on the latter to carry their team to a win, which just makes them rage more. A team that's 4:2 casual:comp vs a team that's 0:6 has a slim chance of winning, but a chance. A team that's 9:3 vs a team that's 2:10 has no chance at all. Then when you go further in, and you have like, 24v24, 32v32, 64v64, etc., and then people (either naturally or through game systems) just start splitting into 5-6 player clusters/squads, which just wraps back around to reintroducing the issue and players raging at each other for not taking it seriously within a small scale.There's just no escaping it. It's only in cases like TF2--where the vast majority of pubs have decided to just play casually, not care about trying to win, and just do silly shit instead of actually playing the game for its unique team-based play--that the higher player count per match actually helps reinforce the play for fun. That, or FFA games that can get really wacky with a shitton of players, and people have already made peace with losing because they already only had a 1/8 chance of being the winner even with smaller amounts of players.
>>737947979anon, those aren't the competitive players, those are the people "just trying to have fun" their idea of fun happens to be being an asshole to people online, you wouldn't want to shame them for just trying to have fun would you?
>>737949008>a group of people gather to play volleyball after work>the level of play is not high, but everyone has a good time>guy shows up and blows an air horn every time people try to serve>people tell him to stop>HURR I'M JUST TRYING TO HAVE FUN YOU TRYHARDS!
>>737958256I'm good at PvP and I support >>737957935, the very premise of PvP is comparing yourself to others and winning mean ruining someone's run. Playing with peer or with any proper matchmaker mean you'll never do better than 50-50Playing PvP mean complaining about balance all the fucking time because your favorite class will never be treated fairly>Non retards enjoy both genresExactly what the pic say, yet PvPtard try to convince themselves they are manly for not playing against AI.
There are two forbidden arcane magics that buckbreak composhitters like no tomorrow: Dedicated Servers and Custom Levels.Every single time I saw a competitive scene form, they quickly isolated themselves to a handful of """hardcore""" servers that only run stock maps. The sight of any modded maps makes them uncomfortably avert their eyes. The custom servers running any gameplay modification make them gasp and clutch their pearls. They cannot subsist in this environment.Use this knowledge wisely.
>>737968303>comp players hate custom servers>every time I saw a competitive scene form, they quickly created their own custom servers>use this knowledge wiselyYou sir, are retarded.
>>737969387Reading comprehension, do you have it, nigger?I said that they hate servers with custom gameplay modifications (which are usually impossible w/o dedicated servers, though there are exceptions), and they also hate custom maps (except very rare cases of absorbing a competitive-oriented map into their circlejerk routine).Do you understand it now, or do I have to break it down further for your underdeveloped brain to grasp?
Stop tracking persistent player stats across games.Literally that easy. Nobody needs to know their lifetime K:D ratio. Tracking win rates causes people to stress out about dropping below 50% wins, which triggers tryhard behavior. Matchmaking ratings in general are cancer, this isn't fucking chess, you do not need an Elo rating to play shootan games.
>>737943152Play a different game
>>737969895In TF2 almost every new cp map was originally just a custom map being played by tryhards until Valve began making them part of the main game.
>>737943152Don't play rankedIt's that easy
>>737943152>be toxic comp player>bully and grief other players>get mad when their favorite game dies>move on to new game>repeat
>>737969918That will just make people play the game less.
>>737970060Meanwhile in the real world...
>>737970130>ignoring the pile of dead games behind the ones still alive
>>737943152The problem was already solved but then they phased out private servers.
>>737970197Both CS and Dota are 10+ years old, all the "toxicity" and "matchmaking cancer" doesn't seem to bring the numbers down.
>>737945632If you're not taking it seriously why do you care if you win or lose?
>>737963767>preferredWhere do you see this word in my post?
>>737943152make vote kicking or even vote banning players easier. also more resources to customer service so that harmful players can be reported and penalized
>>737943152"If you were REALLY good you'd be playing ranked right now. Casual gamemodes are for fun and practicing new characters or builds, friend."
>>737945760Why do you think that there are only two groups, "People who don't know anything about the game and just play whatever" and "Professional-aspirants"? "People who understand the basics of the game" shit all over you.