Try to ignore them or put them on /ignore. I'm very much an introvert and love playing solo or with friends more than idjits. In WoW I wouldn't do LFG or LFR because it was full of idjits. Diablo I only play solo or with my husband. I never play open to public games. It's made my play life a lot more fun and less stressful.

Good luck! *hugs*

I don't play many games where I'm interacting with random people. I play a little COD but I always have everybody on mute. I also used to play Smite a lot. I'may not great with many characters so occasionally I'd get yelled at by one guy taking things waaaay to seriously. When that happens I usually just exponentially increase whatever I'm doing just to screw with the person. If they can't be constructive and help people worse than them by explaining what was done wrong then screw them.

The game doesn't mean as much to me as it does to them apparently so that's how I get back at them. Childish I guess, but also hilarious when they get even more mad, and sometimes it gets them to quit and everyone else has a better time.

Another tip is find/research servers where the admin is like minded and is not afraid to boot the troll.

Getting into a flame war is just pointless especially if the other side is stubborn and ignorant. These days I just ignore them but take delight if there rage is because they got but hurt. Some games are worse than others, I stay away from crap like DOTA2 where players will report you for whatever fake reason they can make up if they think the team lost because of you.

In times gone by I used to tell them to stop or a DM/Admin would remove them, of course they would call BS and got worse so I removed them since I was the DM/Admin ^^ . But not anymore. Sometimes I wish I could still do that but its a thankless task with endless abuse from players and I do not have the free time to give to it anymore.

I generally /ignore them, and/or report them. Occasionally I might call them out on it, but usually not. SWTOR is my main game and it's primarily grown-ups, so there's not so much teenage posturing as in some other games I've played before and although you do get the odd a-hole, mostly the community feeling is really nice. Same with LOTRO. The Guild system in SWTOR seems to keep a check on rudeness and bad behaviour at top levels as Guilds don't like the bad rep of having an *kitten* in their guild and it's really hard to do endgame content if you're not in a Guild.

I don't play multiplayer games for that exact reason. People scare me too much.

I love multiplayer games. I am not willing to give up on the highly rewarding experience of working together with a team of gamers to achieve a common goal. I rarely get to the point of actually /ignoring them. I do my best to change the community. My successes have been few and far between but I have had some successes.

Some people just want some outlet to vent off the frustrations that have piled up in their real lives. Some people just act out when they know that they can speak without being seen. Some people are just *kitten*.

In every game I've ever played, there's a mute/ignore button.

I block them but if you're stuck in a game just ignore them.

I'm the same Way, and I just got a clan of my friends together and we all played in party chat every night. So much fun!