TLDR: Please be nice to each other, we are all human beings who share a love for the game.

When I started playing this game on instigation of my wife I had no idea about where it would take me. I loved the game, and started doing well in challenges and PVP. When Team Wars was introduced I was lucky enough to be accepted in All Men are Brothers, which moved to Resurrection of AMAB two wars later.

What i liked about team wars, and AMAB in particular, is that it didn’t matter if you were a Vietnamese student, an Australian lawyer, a Danish Egyptian, a homosexual American or a Dutch Iraqi. We were bonded by our love for the game. We shared the same experiences in close wars, strategising, victories and defeats. Over time, as my position of co-lead also required, I became acquainted with many players and leads from other teams as well. Some I became friends with, others I at least respected. A few I did not like, but that is normal. Even though I always considered the official Forum as the primary place for a sane discussion, I was a member of many Facebook groups on Monster Legends as well. Of course there was enough drama there over the years, but nothing that really shook my belief in my fellow gamers as in general reasonable and kind people.

Over the past week however, I have seen so much nastiness on Facebook that I decided to leave all those groups and only stay here (for now). The most vile and depressing dark sides of human nature come to the surface at an increasingly alarming rate on Facebook and, from what I heard, also on Discord:

• Personal Attacks of any nature
• Downright Bullying
• Exploitation of Glitches and trying to make that sound OK
• Sexual predatory behaviour
• Utmost disrespect from elite teams towards each other
• Mental abuse
• Power abuse
• Abuse of trust
• Playing own judge
• Greed, Jealousy and Selfishness

All of this does not come from teenagers, but from adults with children and sometimes even grandchildren.

Of course there still are many great people in this game. I still consider most ex AMAB players my friends and good acquaintances. I speak daily to my friends in Untamable. I still have many friends in other teams. I also however, have been disappointed by too many people lately that I respected.

So I am out. I would not recommend anyone to join any Monster Legends resource other than this Forum.

And if you do frequent other groups: please play nice.

@Ekto-Gamat
Myself and many others are leaving a team for this reason.

I'm glad that in my team all we are respecting each other.
We aren't like some toxic people...
That's why I love my team and I don't want to leave it.

@Edwin-Torres Our team is great that way too. I try to stay in my own little bubble with our team as I hate the nastiness and other stuff that goes on and it raises my blood pressure.

@Ekto-Gamat I hate that things get out of hand with adults .. The kids can be bad but the adults you are right are the worst of them. As I said above I like to stay in my own soft shell of a team as we don't have that sort of stuff go on.

@Ekto-Gamat
Im so glad with your post I totally agree, I too fell in love with this game because of the diversity in my team: a Greek and a Turk teasing each other as friends they are still together on my team. The fun I have talking on team chat or messenger till way to late because we are all in different time zones, Im together with some for over 2 years and since our merge with V for longer then 1 year.

Im happy to say we kept the poison out of our Discord server because it has no place in our gaming community we cant play judge and jury we dont have the facts. Our team of mods and my colleague admin will make sure it stays out of our server.

Aw my rose colored glasses are getting all misty reading this lol

I'll tell you what, I picked a hell of a week to join the main Facebook group!!! I thought I was gonna be getting a few gameplay tips and heads up on upcoming events.....

@Stvrox said in Poison in the Gaming Community:

I'll tell you what, I picked a hell of a week to join the main Facebook group!!! I thought I was gonna be getting a few gameplay tips and heads up on upcoming events.....

Lol, I am sorry to hear. Other than the malice, most posts you get are:

"Is this Legendary any good?'
'Is this <insert breeding spot> a legendary?"
"Runes and skills please?" (always invoking a reply of 'gold runes')
"I want to join a team first in race"
"Who can trade Voltaik cells?"

@Ekto-Gamat I completely agree with you Ekto. I have actually withdrawn from FB for a good year now except for the odd peek and comment here and there. The online world really shows the sad state of the human race. In the disguise of anonymity people let out their true nature which is often expressed in greed, lack of empathy and need express some form of power over others in some form of nastiness. The world is full of cheats, liars, nasty and dishonest people and in places like FB they just let it out....

....although I have to say that I haven't noticed this much on Discord. I pop my head into the various servers on occasion and the only reason I don't participate as much is lack of time. We are running our own Discord team server which has become very active during the last few months and I very much enjoy our relaxed, supportive and friendly team environment. So I really don't have they need to participate elsewhere much except for the odd recruitment efforts!

Oh and of course here on the forum! Generally a nice bunch of people on here, too