Dear DE, I love the PvPvE mode but it has introduced a level of toxicity I haven’t experienced in Warframe.

So since the PvPvE mode had been out I’ve been playing it a lot both on regular and SP modes. At first no one really knew what they were doing, so there wasn’t really a prevailing meta yet. A few days in and now all of a sudden people will flame you or grief the whole team if you don’t play a meta frame/build. This is also ignoring the people who say nothing and just flat out quit if you lose the first round, or worse the people who quit the second you start to fall behind. It doesn’t matter if you lead in team damage after an assassination round or destroy most of the jammers, if you’re not a meta build, you’re attacked and the game is effectively lost by a small number of toxic griefers who won’t contribute to the team.

DE is going to have a problem on its hands if they don’t do anything about this. Effectively a small toxic minority will ruin the game mode for the majority of people who just want to have fun. There are reasons why competitive games have things like disconnect penalties or reputation standing that try to weed out the problematic players. Hopefully DE pays attention to this and can implement some changes to improve the game mode for everyone. I really do like the mode and want it to succeed, but I more often that not usually wind up quitting after running into one too many toxic players that make me realize I’m not having fun anymore and that continuing to play just isn’t worth it.