Pvp Behavior Is Embarrasing

[Chevronone]

No. The frustration lies in the fact that people think these people are making them lose combined with the fact that they care about win/loss.

This is only partly true. Losing sucks, But what is infuriating is losing without the slighest chance of winning. When a new healer facerolls or your dps waste their burst on a PLD in the first 30s or a tank grabs 10 stacks, etc.

It's being obliterated that causes the salt. I've lost plenty of matches where it was a great fight of equal skill on both sides and lost fair and square where everyone put in all their effort and I've never had an issue with that or felt robbed.

[Februs]

This is only partly true. Losing sucks, But what is infuriating is losing without the slighest chance of winning ... It's being obliterated that causes the salt.

Couldn't agree more.

Even if I lose a match because someone made a mistake, as long as it was a good match, then it's fine. I might do a face-palm for a moment, but I'm not gonna throw a fit over it. I only get salty if I start to feel like I'm being discriminated against by the matchmaking and dumb luck.

Lost one, more or less, even match? No big deal. Lost FIVE consecutive matches against the same platinum ranked healer when your team gets shafted with an unranked healer? No. Just no. At that point, it's hard to keep your calm, because you're basically being told by the game "don't bother playing." Getting a little salty at that point is kind of justified ... which shouldn't really surprise anyone, because it's not exclusive to PvP.

Go into any randomly formed PF group for savage or extreme raid/trial and you can see the same behavior. It only takes a couple of losses for that friendly pack of people to turn into a toxic cesspool of bile and venom, and the player with the least experience in the fight is typically the one who gets b!ched at the most, even if they weren't the one making mistakes.

[Synestra]

I've lost plenty of matches where it was a great fight of equal skill on both sides and lost fair and square where everyone put in all their effort

So much this! Those even matches are the best even if you lose, winning or losing because of facerolling is most boring thing that can ever happen in PvP.