Why is everyone so angry? (in games)

Have you noticed how a lot of people are negative and sometimes even hostile towards you for no real reason at all? You could say that this is the risk of playing online competitive multiplayer but that doesn't give you the right to be a douchebag to others. Unfortunately some people are just in a bad mood or get mad easily, somehow there is always someone to blame and that someone is always someone else.

Online competitive multiplayer is full of angry gamers?

Sometimes it feels that way, especially when you play ranked mode and people get even more serious. I can understand frustration and sometimes you do get the feeling like someone in your team is deliberately throwing the game. Wether that's because this person keeps dying and getting no kills or because this person is just completely ignoring the objective and attacks the enemy team on his or her own. It's easy to get mad and even easier to point the finger to others, but you should never overlook yourself. Did you do everything you could? How did you treat your team mates? I mean if you talk shit towards your team mates then they might be less likely to listen to advice or strategy and perhaps they even want to lose at that point just to annoy you more. It's important that your patient and above all that you can take a loss, if you go with the expectation that you win every match online then you're deluded! You will lose sooner or later and there isn't much you can do about that. Just take the loss and move on, even if it's completely bullshit. Things won't be better for you in the next match if you still complain and whine about the previous match.

It's easy to get mad, it's hard to accept defeat?

I think it is, because I get mad easily and that's mostly because I get so quickly frustrated when things just go wrong. For example when the controls don't respond or not fast enough, when you keep getting killed with one hit and there is nothing you can do about it, when people keep targetting you instead of the rest of your team and when people make it their mission to annoy you. How can you not be frustrated? This is just the online multiplayer bullshit that annoys me, if I add single player to this then there would be even more things that annoy me and unfortunately there isn't much I can do about it. But the one thing I can do about it is trying to stay calm, just accept that things went the way they went and hope that things will be better in the next match. I know that this sounds like some dumb crap you don't want to hear but remember that staying mad doesn't improve anything and you're just going to have a bad time online. Isn't gaming meant to be fun? So try to have fun and the moment you don't have fun anymore you might want to take a break or just think about it for a moment, getting mad at other people doesn't help anyone and maybe it does make you feel better for a short moment it will most likely not help you win the match nor will it make others want to play games with you. So keep calm and try to have fun! You could say that this is my New Year's resolution and hopefuly it works for me and other people.