You're not wrong, I honestly wish the most toxic part of the fanbase wasn't the loudest but I also think they're a vocal minority and are greatly outnumbered by casual fans and sunbros who are happy to help anyone with the game via co-op

:praise-it: That's the whole point of joining a gank squad in jolly cooperation, so you don't have to git gud or handle your own shit, us sunbros believe in helping everyone with overwhelming force

I don't consider myself good, let alone gud, I'm just a big dummy who likes hitting things with a big sword and it's fine if people don't like the games but what's not fine is the worst people who play the games ruining it for new players

The devs clearly aren't on their side given that solo invasions haven't been a thing since Dark Souls 2 but they do remain the loudest part of the fanbase

I've had far more positive interactions with other players in game than negative but far more negative interactions than positive with other players on the internet but most of the playerbase doesn't talk about the games, I'm more terminally online than most and I've never been on the :reddit-logo: for any Souls game so if I had to guess most players don't even read youtube comments let alone reply

The point I'm trying to make is that you can see the best of the playerbase in random co-op, helping people feels good and that's infinitely better than "gitting gud" in my book, whether I'm representative of the fanbase or not