If it makes you feel better I just saw a new guardian in the tower (LL 10 with a grimour of less then 500). He was waving like his life depended on it to everyone who he could see. So to make his day I introduced him to the purple ball. I kicked it over to him and he lost his damned mind. It was actually entertaining to see him jumping around with it for over five minutes. Just try remember when you were that excited about everything.

Because the game was set up to pit us against eachother. PVE and PVP balance aren't separated, so there is a constant tug-of-war between PVE and PVP player interests when it comes to balancing. In the PVP community, hyper-competitiveness has taken over, and people value the ability to curb-stomp people over winning a fair match. This has lead to people looking for any kind of edge they can exploit to defeat their opponents in combat, including lag switching, DDoS attacks, etc. Bungie COULD stop much of this behavior, except they don't care enough to police their own gaming community. Instead, they have let the cheaters get away with cheating for so long that its almost comical to think Bungie would start policing more harshly now. In the PVE community, the game is a tug-of-war between the haves and the have-nots. If you have friends to play with, you will have access to all of the games content, including endgame content (raids), you will be able to get loot much faster than other players, etc. If you don't, then you're often left on the outside looking in with zero options other than LFG to try to find people to play with, since there is no matchmaking for most activities. And often, their ability to join a group was determined by whether they had G-horn, or ToM or Black Spindle, or one of the games endgame weapons. Beyond that, Bungie's poor management of the game has divided the community largely along the lines of when we began to play the game. Y1 players and Y2 players often butt heads on major issues affecting the game because our game experiences are so different. And its just hard for them to agree when they have different desires and expectations for what this game is and what it should be. Since Bungie's approach is an adversarial one (one group or the other will always win, and they will not try to find a solution to satisfy both parties), this often means one group is entirely shut out from the process. For instance, when Bungie releases a weapons balancing patch, it almost always caters to the PVP community, and that leaves the PVE community shut out as we are forced to watch many of our favorite weapons become useless. PVP balance has already removed much of the fun and excitement this game offered in the used-to-be-fantastic guns and abilities we had prior to balancing patch after balancing patch released for the sake of PVP. PVP players get what they want, and PVE players get screwed. As a whole, the community is toxic because they are largely at odds with each other, and the reason this is so is because of the way Bungie has (mis)managed this game. Rather than taking the time to communicate with people on BOTH sides of the equation and come up with a compromise solution, Bungie just takes one group's input over the other, decides a winner, and releases a patch and says "deal with it." Until that changes, I'm not sure that the toxicity of Destiny's community will change.

Society in general is toxic. People drive like A-holes and run you off of the road just to turn into a convenience store. No one holds the door or elevator anymore. It's the climate in the USA anyway. It seems like it's getting worse year after year. I still choose to be a gentleman.

For serious now... Destiny employs addictive gameplay reward systems. They are the same systems in use by the gambling and illicit drug industries. Google how the brain processes rewards on a physical level. Then you will understand. When people are used to the reward and its not given the body physically, in the real world, experiences withdrawl. This lowers the players ability to engage in rational thought and communication. And thus, a toxic community is born.

Use it to your advantage. I love poking the angry people and driving them into a berserk rage. It is very satisfying getting someone to the verge of apoplexy in something that is a make-believe game. Very funny. Same goes on the forums, here. I love tormenting the hostiles. And yes, I do it in real life as well.

I have a theory that a lot of people wind up having a love hate relationship with this game. You start playing and there's a lot of fun and easy stuff to do, the loot rolls in; it's all great. But then, you start feeling like you need to get all the loot and do all the things. You need to play trials or ib even if you really just want to raid. You need to run strikes or do patrols and do bounties even if you really just wanna jump in and do some pvp. Of course you don't have to do the things you don't enjoy. Everyone knows that. But the game sort of makes you feel like you're going to miss out if you don't. So anyhow, my theory is that feeling "forced" to play the parts of the game you don't want to play introduces all sorts of bitching. It's why everyone is bitching about trials all the time. People who love pvp and love trials don't mind grinding it, but for more pve oriented players it's another grind and they just want the loot so they can get back to what they enjoy. The complaining leads to arguments, and from there the Internet rage machine makes it seem like everybody is just psychotic.

Cause this guy [spoiler]GAME DESTINY JA DOES YEARS I DO NOT HAVE ANY HEAVY WEAPON OF THE YEAR 1 JA MAKES THE END OF CROTA AND CRYSTAL CAMERA VARIOUS AND SEVERAL TIMES AND NEVER CAME A HEAVY WEAPON, WANTED A LOT TO GJALLARHORN, MORE TO PRA DESISTI BECAUSE SHE NEVER COMES, PRISON OF THE ANCIENTS YEAR 1 I JUST DID SEVERAL TIMES ALSO AND NOW NOTHING THAT GAME TA SACANAGEM WITH MY FRIENDS JA HAVE THE HEAVY WEAPONS OF THE YEAR 1 AND I HAVE NO STILL THAT SACK BUNGIE IMPROVES TO MY REWARDS[spoiler]

Minecraft Community is Worse than this... I Joined a Party, and A Bunch of Kids/Teens Continuously Shouted the Racist N' Word... "Yo Derpy, Say N' for Invite!" - 2, I Joined a World... Walked into a Room, Someone Ran at Me in Full Iron Armour with a Sword, and Chased Me Across the Entire Map! Then I Was Kicked for No Reason! - 3, I Asked can I Join? (I'm Not a Squeaker Im Just a "Low" Teen, and Honestly I've Never Felt so... Separated? In my Entire Life, =.= the 20+ Year Old Kicked me from the Game and then the Party, Sad thing is that I Could Hear a Girl in the Background Saying "Don't Do That! That's Mean!"

Game is okay. Community is cringy.