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Extremely toxic player delaying and throwing intentionally a game, also chat harassment

Posted: 19 August 2026, 21:49
by melware94
https://boardgamearena.com/player?id=96140870

https://boardgamearena.com/tableview?table=901954859

This guy taught me the "can't move back and forth to avoid events" rule, can't remember if it was explained in the tutorial since I played it a long time ago but it's not written in the BGA's how to play of the game. Later I told him how guards move and he got extremely on the defensive as in "apprentices can't teach anything to Good players". I told him our talk was over to just focus on the game but that only made him get more salty. Later I tried a trade to win faster but he refused everything without chance of cooperation in chat. Finally gave up on the trade and still focused on winning and playing my best with the hand I was dealt (a salty toxic player). Once we break all safes I escape but the guy starts walking all around the floors and spamming alarms to the guard to make the game unending.

I know there is a report system and red thumbs too but this player took the cake, I don't think that's gonna be enough, a clear punishment is needed. This is the most petty thing I have ever seen in BGA

Edit: Not just delaying, we actually lost for no reason besides a tantrum from such player

Re: Extremely toxic player delaying and throwing intentionally a game, also chat harassment

Posted: 20 August 2026, 00:40
by emma0002
I was in a Burgle Bros game with this exact same player (Popelop) and had a similar experience. Because I used the 'makeup' item to handle a situation instead of doing exactly what he wanted (even though I explained my reasoning in the chat) he threw a tantrum and intentionally committed suicide by walking straight into the guard to ruin the game. This is clearly a pattern of toxic behavior and intentional throwing. I hope the moderation team takes action.

At the start of his turn, Popelop was safe on C1, the guard was on C2, and the guard's destination card was set to A1
https://postimg.cc/jWdVjssq

This shows the exact moment Popelop moved down from C1 to C2, directly entering the tile where the guard was stationed.
https://postimg.cc/v1dB2xLL

Re: Extremely toxic player delaying and throwing intentionally a game, also chat harassment

Posted: 20 August 2026, 03:17
by MaelleFinesseNGrace
I played Hanabi with this same player Popelop. Hanabi is a cooperative game based on logic and deduction. I set my table to Masters ELO only. This player joined my table but made some mistakes you would not expect a Masters player to make. I mentioned they should know some of his tiles based on some of the clues already given to them. A Masters ELO hanabi player is expected to use logic to figure such things out. Apparently I hurt their feelings because they started to discard useful tiles that were already clued to them, thereby intentionally sabotaging us and throwing the game. I gave them a red thumb.