After agreeing with a comment on a post talking about game difficulty, I received this delightful message from a fellow player.
The legendary player; (name removed as per forum rules) insert "tough guy name" here, with 3 maxed characters, multiple titles, raid & dungeon clears sent me this:
"Not sure why y'all think they should cater to the worst players ...instead of you trying to be better like everyone else did
Game not hard but most of you don't even try and cry for hand out or ways to get everything solo no mic
There's other game for you"
I believe they maybe younger than an adult.
I replied;
"Thanks for that encouraging message.
I'm sure your massive ego is tied up in how you play this game & you find no fulfilment in any other aspect of your life.
But people like me - who have been playing this game since release - play to have fun, relax, enjoy a moderate challenge.
We don't enjoy a stressful, hardcore playing environment designed for no-life, try-hards like yourself.
Go play Dark Souls if you want a legendarily hard game."
Say what you will about the state of difficulty in the game, personally I would remove all modifiers save for the elemental surges.
But to send me a private message telling me to bugger off & go play an easier game is a bit cheeky.
The toxicity in this community - from what I can see - is coming from a section of the top 5% of players. The elitist players, who is the only section players Bungie is listening to.
That is all.
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Wait, did you just say that you’ve chosen (for like 8 yrs) to just play for a “ fun, relaxing, moderate challenge” … and then went on to complain that certain activities are too difficult FOR YOU & should be made easier because YOU CHOOSE to not engage in the “stressful hardcore” style of play ??? Do you seriously not see why someone would tell you to bugger off? Not a single one of these “Elite toxic players” has started up a post saying “I think Bungie should make all the easy stuff more difficult because these casual players have it too easy”… No one is trying to stop you from playing on easy mode. Its the lazy, fragile, uninvested players who are CONSTANTLY begging to make the hard stuff more easy for them, and we’re tired of you trying to encroach and sabotage the difficult content that we CHOOSE to endure, for all its stress, angst & toxicity. Some of us LOVE IT!!! Plz leave us alone. I’m complete trash at PvP, I have never once complained that it should be made easier for me. I have accepted the fact that there’s certain gear I will never have. The game has so many different activities & difficulty levels, for all kinds of people. Stop trying to force the world to fit YOUR needs, cuz thats the true “Elitism”.