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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There's so many youtube videos and strategy and skill training videos. There's no reason aside from laziness to be good enough at the game for people to not feel the need to msg you. Like I did with sports and music... I practice and plan how I can succeed at this game. If you are just doing things with rando lfg and go in blind and with no planning.. that's on you. Don't waste people's time.. raids are long enough as is. Same with trials or whatever. Watch Rick Kakis a bu ch of times.... learn the encounters and go in not asking g to be completely carried and mess up. There is Zero obligations in lfg to be nice or welcoming to people... that's the sad hard truth.. so instead of making this type of post complaining... watch videos. Learn the game... Don't give people a reason to be mean. It's inevitable with gaming online.