ex-military tactical experts while the Mexican and Bolivian cartel are uniformly violence-crazed drug addicts, and they all speak Spanish in an awful Mexican accent regardless of their nationality.

When I first started playing GR:W I was totally taken aback by the offensive characterizations of the cartel leaders and the ghost squad. I looked around the internet looking if anyone else was seeing and hearing the same things but there was only reviewers who complained about the game’s American savior complex and…

idk dude, i’d like to be able to coordinate things with my teams without being called a faggot

You always put things so well, but I do have one thing to add to this:

I’ve been gaming since, what, 1986 or so? It’s true that trash talk has been part of competition (of any kind) likely since its inception—but in the arcades, we had to be ready for physical consequences for our verbal bullshit.

Online trolls don’t have the fear of catching a fist with their face, and so they escalate…

I’m curious to see where this all goes—and hopeful that it will lead to something productive.

There’s no 100% cure for people being assholes; no matter how great the community, or how well it is monitored, there will always be dipshits within the group that feel the need to be toxic, aggressive, or otherwise…

Guild Wars 2, no other game has kept me coming back daily for as long as GW2 has. When i say daily i mean literaly daily, even hit the cap for daily login achievement points ^^

I dunno, seems to me people in all walks of life should not be calling each other “fucking faggots” or “cunts,” or using the word “gay” as an insult.

Ah, fat-shaming. The completely acceptable, family-friendly alternative to homophobia.

It is. For proof, join *any* multiplayer game where people can type or chat.

If you are on the internet in a situation where people you don’t know can see or hear you, you are in public, full stop.

It’ll get better but online gaming was its own toxic world for a long time, and really only recently is getting real levels of exposure. Still a lot of bad habits exist from the free-for-all days.

I was born in the late 70's, so I heard those same slurs used PLENTY growing up in school, though people my age back then knew it was damn wrong and disgusting to use, but there wouldn’t be public shaming like there is today so they felt safe to use slurs in a casual manner. One thing for damn sure though, by folks my…

like a 1:10 ratio of positive esports stories to negative ones. It has to be a fundamental problem with the culture of competitive gaming.

Definitely recommend this game to any 3DS owners. The best I can say about the game is it feels like a classic and beloved SNES JRPG that we never got.

Time to put the Google Opinion Rewards credit to use. Hopefully it’s good.

“i DoNt liKE wHAT otHER peOplE LIkE.”

That game is terrible.

Yeah this is an embarrassing little research failure.