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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I Totally agree with this - My opinion is that if you put 6 Egos who "Know it all" in a Raid together - They would have all fallen out by the Boss! Its all just a D*** Sizing competition (and most pass of things they have read/learnt online as their own ideas ayway )My LFG experience was terrible as Im quite strong minded and won't have some randomer from the other side of the world making me feel bad because I'm not running the load-out THEY WANT me to. My response was always "Its a game - Ill wear what I want" Of course most don't like that. During COVID 19 i decided to start a clan as sold business and had nothing to do so neded a project - We are now 12 clans strong (as bungie weirdly limits to 100 members) As a leader I am very wary of eliteist players and protective of those I play with regularly as I know first hand what its like to play with toxic people and enduring it, thinking they are the only people who could help. So i decided to build something different. Im a weird D2 Vet as im the opposite to most - If your good great! But if your gunna lord it over others - Im gunna tell you to do one! I don't value cracked players - in fact i find most toxic sweats loose out 9/10 - they don't influence people and seems their only goal is to impress someone they don't even know, on how much they know about Destiny - to those people I say "Get a life" - Those who know - its the laughs that count - even if a raid does take 2 hours :)