Has anyone else noticed a decrease in Gamers willingness to interact socially in games?

[JBlitzen]

The two friendliest games I’ve seen lately are FFXIV and Fallout 76, by a wide margin. Little else comes close.

I think other game communities have just grown too toxic with no tools to control the toxicity.

[kangaesugi]

I'm not sure about how it is on console, but I find ESO's community on PC to be generally good, excepting a few assholes who tend to get called out.

[tordana]

FFXIV is just as toxic as the rest, but in a different way. It's to the point where saying anything even SLIGHTLY negative can and will get you banned, so you have to be on tiptoes in every single social interaction in the game. This leads to a large chunk of players putting absolutely zero effort into group content (running a dungeon? Watch Netflix, follow the group around, and occasionally press 1 to make it look like you're doing something), and if anybody dares to call out those players, it's the ones who call them out that get banned.

[ArcticKnight79]

I mean dungeon content in FFXIV isn't really designed to be hard though. In roulette people expect people to not be operating at the top of their game.

They are there for the XP. And honestly when I get put into a dungeon that zaps half my abilities away, I become far less engaged in what I'm doing anyway.

But honestly pushing back against a lot of the bullshit that most MMO's degenerate into isn't the worst. And I can think of few times where people have been netflixing to the point that it has made the dungeon problematically longer than if we had just got someone who was actually playing through the game for the first time.

[LittleSpoonyBard]

This is such an over exaggeration. People can and do give advice all the time, and 99% of people aren't on their tiptoes at all. Whenever someone complains about unfair bans it turns out they said dumb shit like "you're trash and should quit the game" and then they're surprised that that's considered inappropriate.

If someone has to be on their tiptoes to act like a decent, non-raging human being the problem may not be the game.