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I wanted to make a topic so people can express their experiences with playing with other players that have made them feel bad, unwelcome, or just being belittled because someone felt like their skill was terrible when they did their best because they just started playing video games. I am currently studying games development and I want to work in the games industry after graduating university. I have finished my first year, but do not know when I will start my second year.
I believe that the gaming community should not be allowing any kind of negative speech towards anyone as we should be welcoming people and showing them how to improve their skills instead of belittling them and telling them to leave the game because they have bad skill and their new. There was someone I played with on Halo Wars 2 a while ago and he asked me why I was “so bad” when I was away from the game for a while.
His gamer tag was <mark>REDACTED</mark> (was once <mark>REDACTED</mark>) and it started when I played one match with him and my base was being decimated by a warlord and I only had 4 non upgraded marines with one coming in after one died as it was at least 3 - 6 mins in the game and I was focusing on my structures instead of my units. I stretched my resources too thin so I could not build enough units and when I was attacked, I was pretty much defenceless. <mark>REDACTED</mark> had Mantises ready to help but did not send them when I marked (Clicking Left Stick) for help, and when he did, another enemy player attacked me with a larger force.
That is when he started belittling me and during that time, he called me a failure and a loser. I still have the screenshots of our conversation but the order it was in got mixed up.
If you want to see them, let me know and I’ll put them on Google Drive and you can download them there and see them yourself. Remember: They’re a bit mixed up, unless you want me to try to organise them.