I am 21 years old so keep in mind ive only been on Xbox Live for about 8-9 years now but when I talk to to my older brother and people who have been around since the days of Xbox Live on the Original Xbox they say people were much nicer before and 2012-2013ish is when it started to get really down hill with more and more people coming onto the platform, espically younger kids who dont know how to handle their emotions when someone is better at the game than them and kills them, and its not just Halo either its CoD,Battlefield,Rainbow Six,etc. (and dont get me started on the battle royale games i dont play them myself but my 14 year old cousin got death threats for just killing a person in-game on Fortnite), So it seems to be that due to the fact that Online gaming is more accessible younger people can access the platform and a lot of parents do not know how to monitor their childs online activity and behaviors online leading to angry tryhard kids getting mad over dying. I think eSport personalities and streamers can be unknowlingly a major contributor to this mentality and they can accidentally influence younger kids to think eSports should be a career for them so when they do poorly they get mad because they can’t be like such and such player so they take it out on people who they think and preventing that. I think its part of the reason why Xbox has been talking about XBL enforcement more and improving it at stuff as a person who has gotten hatemail from such people i wonder if anyone gets the same thing.
I think there’s a lot of rose tinted glasses and nostalgia at play here. I played XB live back in the day, and it wasn’t all drum circles and love. There were some fun memories, but there was also quite a lot of -yoink- talking too. And tbh, I enjoyed most of it, even the bad stuff. If you take online trash talking for what it is, then it’s not a big deal imo. The squeakers and sweaty try hards have been around since the dawn of the internet. Sure more people have access now, but that only means more people, not just more bad people.
If you think parents aren’t good at monitoring their kids’ activity online now, think about how back in the day when all of this was brand new… no one knew how to properly monitor their kids’ online behavior like they do today.
If anything I feel toxicity has diminished at least when playing any random match. With the advent of party chat and communication bans, people get to decide who they want to talk too and if you try to talk smack through private messaging you run the risk of being slapped with a ban. Some would even argue perhaps matches are a bit too quiet nowadays.
I think it’s less toxic now since most people don’t use game chat anymore at least in Halo when before you had to deal with everyone with a mic which could be super toxic.
I honestly miss trash talking in halo, it is so dead now when in game chat.
How are you guys getting Toxic people? No one even talks anymore. It feels like I’m playing with bots half the time dudes.
I occasionally still get people who talk mainly in MCC, but they’re usually in a party talking amongst themselves.
I only started playing MP games this gen so I can’t say anything from experience but the fact that gaming is becoming more and more mainstream every year I would assume contributes to it. More people playing = more toxic people playing.
It is toxic lol
It was toxic 12 years ago when I first got on xbox live and it rubbed off on me and I added to the toxicity for a while. I was new to online gaming and didn’t know what was what so I got on the receiving end but after a while I fell into the line of thinking that’s how one behaved and became toxic myself. Thankfully party chat came along and I was able to chill out for a while and see the errors of my ways.
I think that Xbox has definitely gotten more toxic. There used to be more “legit” trash talking, people would be fun about trash talking, now it’s about competitive ratings and building ranks. I miss the classic bad shot roasts.
I don’t get toxicity in term of voice chat that is inappropriate but team killing and other anti-social behavior is definitely and issue. WZFF, for example, is horrible and as a grown up you can only stay away from playlists like that. I actually don’t mind grown-up people trash talking as much as idiotic kids who destroy the gameplay and the entire experience.
But also for other reasons, I think that Halo and other FPS games should have a different minimum age for players (I would go with 18+) and, more importantly, it should be enforced. The reality is that no one cares who plays the game, as long as it is purchased by a person who is older than 16 (that’s what it says on my box, anyway).
Back when Party Chats weren’t a thing Trash talking was like chaotic & fun, now this year you have to watch what you say
nothing can get more toxic then the MW2 era
Its the internet. It is the way. Always has been, always will
I’m not sure if it is getting any more toxic than it has been for the past 5 years. It seems to me the better you get at a game the more toxic players you play against. In Halo 5 for example when I first started I had no problem. If I play a match today I average two messages for every match played.
No, I think it’s our decision play with toxic people or be on toxic forums
Seriously, how are you guys getting people in video games that talk? No one talks anymore especially in Halo!
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> I think it’s less toxic now since most people don’t use game chat anymore at least in Halo when before you had to deal with everyone with a mic which could be super toxic.
I agree with Luke here, not too many talk anymore and those that do it can really go either way.
I think that the toxicity in Xbox Live has reduced, many people have stopped using Xbox Live Chat anyway, and its popularity has greatly reduced