For the first time ever I joined a voice call while playing a game (among us) and as soon as I said something everyone immediately started going "Is that a female??" "You're a female??" "There are females here??" I get that it was supposed to be a joke but fuck it felt so alienating to be bombarded with that in my first attempt at gaming socially
internet anonymity + toxic masculinity... for what its worth I have noticed some games are better than others and I do think its slightly better than when I was younger... If you tried getting on the mic in counterstrike 1.6 as a girl you'd hear absolutely horrendous stuff. At least now there are semi-functional banning mechanisms. Doesn't surprise me that Among Us is bad - its very popular on twitch so lots of younger people are playing it. Overwatch however I thought was better about that than your average game but I think that's because all the youngins stopped playing and only old TF2 heads were left.
Damn I really thought among us would be chill because of the younger audience and because it's such a vanilla game :(
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That's true. But I wasn't even playing with a random online group; a dude I've been talking to invited me to play with his irl friend group and he has seemed very normal and chill so I thought his friends would be too. guess not
In that case it’s probably just pack mentality. You “invaded” their safe space, so to speak, so in turn they activate the defense mechanisms. Don’t be discouraged though, not all groups are like that, and it really depends on the culture that group has formed, and also how insular it is.
I mean, I'd give it a couple more tries. There are creeps everywhere, but Among Us seems to at least have a level of mass casual appeal that it shouldn't be nearly as bad as something like Eve Online where the only kind of people playing literally never see daylight. From my experience, a lot of Among Us games are organized on Discord, and it might just be that you need to find a cooler group on there. My wife has a group of people she plays Animal Crossing with and they scheduled an Among Us cross-over event for tomorrow.
It does suck though. Really fucking weird that a woman can't play a goddamn casual game without being ogled by nerds over voice in the year of our Lord 2020.