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Smite would be more fun if people took it seriously.

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If I did that well on my team and the rest fed like crazy, I might be a bit annoyed, but I've been the one to feed before, and it has nothing to do with my effort, so I also have sympathy for them (unless they're being jerks). So I opt for a 3rd option, "Eh, it's a game, and I'll pat myself on the back for doing so well especially since the other team was fed."

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100% agree with you here. If the feed was on purpose, then of course I'll be mad.

Depending on how bad the other team mates do, I may or may not be salty. Like for example, if a team mate clearly could help out, but isn't helping out, I'd point this out. If this is a recurring issue, then I'd get a little mad. But otherwise it's just a game at the end of the day.

Sometimes when I play with Bran, I BM slightly at other people, but I keep it in our voice chat where others can't hear it.

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Smite would be more fun if people took it seriously.

I'd say it's quite the contrary. Yes, there's time where you have to be a bit serious to achieve a victory, but generally speaking, I think a lot of players take this and other games way too seriously.

So serious in fact, that a single misstep will have your team rage at you, regardless whether you can help it or not.

An example would be of myself just yesterday. I multi-queued Conquest, Clash and Assault. Thought "Screw it, let fate decide, you know, for funzies." I ended up being thrown in a Conquest match against players who knew exactly what they were doing. Me, on the other hand, hadn't played Conquest in about half a year. Hoping the game was a bit forgiving in matchmaking, it was not, I had an incredibly rough time in said game. Worst of all, I ended up in what might be the hardest role in S4: Jungle (I picked Susano after that). Right from the get-go, I had no idea what I was doing. I wanted to start in solo lane when suddenly my mid-laner, Zhong Kui, started spamming me with VGS "Attack Middle lane". Low on behold, I got my backside over to the middle lane, only to end up facing 3 enemies with our Zhong Kui. (2v3) I barely made it out alive, and ontop of that, the ZK made me tank the minion damage, even though I was nearly dead. It only got worse after that. My enemy jungler, Kali, quickly overthrew me, invading and stealing my buffs, taking nearly every camp before I could even get there. Needless to say, I got underleveled (A LOT, I was only level 14 at the 30 minute mark...), and ended up feeding... badly.

Was this my fault? On one hand, maybe, but on the other, not at all. After such a long time not playing Conquest, the circumstances I got put in didn't exactly line up in my favor, so I couldn't really help it. That didn't stop my ZK from getting mad at me and spamming me with the infamous sarcastic "You Rock!" every now and then.

So, no, people should become less serious about the game, at least in casuals. If you're in Ranked or even Pro-League whatever, then by all means, be as serious as you need to be, but overall, people are just way too serious in this game, which is really unfortunate. A lot of the time I'm afraid to pick a god I like to play or have a high mastery on, simply because if I then mess up with said god, my entire team will go berserk on me because "ooh Mastery Rank X Artemis over here got focused and got behind, how is it possible that a M10 Artemis can't Ace the entire game?!" Absolutely horrendous.

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I used to get super salty at people who played bad when I went well, but then I realized that getting mad will do nothing except make me look like a jerk and possibly cause someone to quit a game thats meant to be enjoyed. Sure winning is awesome, but people have forgotten that in the end its still a game and winning and losing doesnt mean anything because we're not professional players.

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Why is it called salt, anyway? Because it raises your blood pressure and leaves a bad taste in your mouth?

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You're exactly right Toad.

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Why is it called salt, anyway? Because it raises your blood pressure and leaves a bad taste in your mouth?

Never thought about that... #TheMoreYouKnow

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So serious in fact, that a single misstep will have your team rage at you, regardless whether you can help it or not.

The thing with that is that ine misstep can ruin the game for the other 4 players. Its probably smites biggest flaw in that the burden of knowledge in conquest is too high and too heavily weighted in the early game.

You can singlehandedly lose the game for you team before 5 minutes as any role but especially as the jungler. And with most games dragging out for around 40+ minutes thats terrible.

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I will just say that going full raging into chat is making yourself banned/chat-restricted or whatever else HR can do a lot easier.

And to top it all of you probably caused the loss yourself. Why because you're tilting your own teammates making them play even worse.
You can see it happen in most MOBAs. especially in LoL or DotA people give away they are getting tilted by the well known: report X or other infighting in their team chat.
You know what then happens. not only X get focused more. The person making the statement will probably be caught out even more. Because we know he can easily become tilted and start throwing the game with stupid decisions. Or he even gets to the point of rage quiting.

Also your 22/11/14 score example means you still ****ed up enough times too. And as I have seen enough examples of high elo players trying to carry a low elo game and not be able to do it too. What scores do they have something along the line of 22/3/14 with the early deaths being mostly during laning fase and the last death being the death that wins the game. That player is the reason why his team isn't losing the game yet, however he can't finish it because the enemy team doesn't make a throw or his team doesn't follow up on some of the game changing calls. with a score of 22/11/14 it proves you spent a lot of time death and you could even have fed yourself.

And yeah sometimes people can be more serious, especially if you're gonna play ranked. However after that it still stays a game.

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You gave me the perfect example of what I mean with a mid lane ARAM or the jungler not being a jungler anymore. And that I can still see that conquest has only became worse after the last time I played it (somewhere early last half of S1 somewhere) in toxticity.

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