"nerdfashion;c-17786138" wrote:
"Triplis;c-17778804" wrote:
the sims 4 is probably one of the least toxic communities there is in video games
I'm going to have to disagree with you there. As someone in a few other video game communities for games quite similar to The Sims 4 (Animal Crossing, Minecraft, there's a few others but I haven't been on them in quite a while and I don't remember their names), this one is easily the most toxic. There's no questioning that they all have their toxic players, but in this community, it's a lot more normalized for people to be shamed for enjoying the most recent edition of the game.
I'll admit I haven't played those, maybe they are nicer than here, but basically any game with competitive online play, most infamously FPS games, trash talk is embedded in the culture. Usually the worst I see here is people fighting over whether the game is good or not, and whether at any given moment the people most enjoying the game or the people least enjoying the game need to talk less about their enjoyment or dislike of the game, such as the discussion going on here where people are going on about how people who don't enjoy the game enough are too mean. There is shaming on both ends of it, in that sense, just to make the point.
But anyway, people being shamed for enjoying the game, I don't condone that. I don't condone shaming people for not enjoying it either.
Maybe my statement is underplaying how toxic the community can be due to my own experiences with it, but what I can say is that overall, I have personally seen much worse in every game community I've spent significant time in and have always been surprised at how mild things seem here, by comparison. Maybe the single-player nature of it helps insulate me from some of the worst of it or maybe it is less toxic, I don't know, but that has been my experience and I find it difficult to view this community as especially toxic by contrast.