All of you here are gamers. I'm a gamer. We all know online gaming is sometimes necessary and and crucial to enjoy a video game. Some games are only single player and can be enjoyed just as much, but I know every gamer wants to be able to join a group of friends they met through their favorite game and enjoy themselves. Games such as COD, Destiny, The Division, or Halo wouldn't be the same without their multiplayer experiences. Destiny without multiplayer would just be a crappy campaign and raids you'd have to do with AI's or maybe no raids at all. Each online game has it's own community of players. Every gamer is a part of one. Destiny, The Division, Battlefront, and COD are my communities I play around. But what I've noticed after games have gotten more expansive, involved more multiplayer experiences, and became all around larger franchises, the communities these games have, have grown toxic. Now, what I mean by toxic is that you can't play any online multiplayer game without getting those people who will ruin the game for other players. Destiny is no exception. Go take a look at the recruitment forums and this is what you'll see: [b]MUST BE AT LEAST 317+ HAVE TOM AND BLACK SPINDLE HAVE MIC AND MUST BE OLDER THAN 14! MUST HAVE COMPLETED ALL CHALLENGE MODES AND DEFEATED ORYX 6 TIMES ON HARD AND NORMAL[/b] That is what you will see. Complete bull crap prerequisites. "You must have this, you must have done that." It's not fair for those players who DON'T meet those requirements. There are younger players just as mature as you and I that have gotten through the hard mode. There are no-mics out there that have gone flawless in Trials. I know there is. These high standards ruin what a gaming community should be about. Another perfect example is The Division. I guarantee when you find a safe house, you will run into those players who block doors on purpose. They'll even go into proximity chat and ask you for a password. The Dark Zone is great. I love it. I love meeting other players and teaming up. But those players who sit outside the DZ doors and wait for the players they've killed to respawn JUST to spawn kill them is where I draw the line. It's gamers like this that ruin perfectly good communities of players. In COD: Zombies, if you don't know how to do the map then you'll get left out. In multiplayer, there's so much crap talk. I've gotten told to kill myself by a grown man. That's sad. It's utterly sad. Yeah, freedom and speech and all but really? You're an adult and you still haven't matured? I don't understand. All in all, this won't make me stop playing the games I love. There are a bunch if friendly welcoming players out here to game with. There's always people who will disagree or give you hate. For you're GT, how good or bad you are, connection, how old you are, whether you like boys or girls, if you are a boy or girl, if you have a mic or not, how long you've been playing video games, I could go on. My point is, the online community is toxic and another way to get under people's skin. There's not really anything we can do about what people say, but we can watch what we say. Try and be nicer, more helpful. Or just stay the poisonous players some of you are. That is all :)