Competition and Toxicity

[Lemnear]

Are there competitive but fun games?

Or does every online game have to be full of hate?
Then paradoxically there is not a minimum of sportsmanship... whoever loses insults, whoever wins insults...

it seems that Competitive = Extremely Toxic
and Non-Competitive = Isolation

If you play it just for yourself, sometimes it seems like you're wasting time especially if you can't share anything about it... so you look for a game that brings contact between people... and that contact ends up just being friction for every little thing... .with death threats and incitement to suicide etc. etc.
Obviously there is no control over communities

there's always something ready to drive away new users, "Pro" coocky moron everywhere... and if you say you just wanted to have fun they always tell you "it's the wrong game" (And if it's not fun, why the fuck do they play it?)... so there aren't any competitive games without toxicity?

[guigui]

I guess chess, maybe up to a certain level, is a game that gathers people from many countries and social classes. The ones I found online are, for the most part of them, polite and respectful.

[XoPachi]

I find this to only be a problem in popular games that push an eSports angle.
I dont deal with this in TitanFall 2 or SplitGate. The players in those are either silent or high.

[Air Master Burst]

Just play Gunstar Heroes and everything is smooth until you start competing over who gets last hit on the dice palace dice.

[Volteccer_Jack]

It's in all games, everything. Anything you put time and effort into will have emotional investment. Sometimes people get carried away with it. Playing online makes this worse, since your opponent is just a username instead of a person, grinding random one-and-dones can easily make you miserable. Playing repeatedly with the same person or group usually leads to friendlier interactions, because can't avoid getting to know each other.

[it290]

I don't know, I find the FGC to be generally pretty sporting.