If it's a team game, of course I'd want to communicate and plan with my teammates. I'm aware its everywhere, but there's still a big difference between games.
If I asked people what the most toxic game community is I'm pretty sure 90% would answer league of legends......for good reason.
I can play games where flaming is the exception, but not the rule.

Thank you so much for the fast replies and honesty, it is quite unfortunate that it is quite common. I quite enjoy playing in teams, so 1v1s aren't very interesting to me. I did host plenty of PvE games before i took a break, but I would have wanted to test myself against real players, learn metas, build orders, etc. I think there is a lot of fun to be had in that. Sadly, if flaming is so common, that is just not an option for me
I did see very competent AI's being made by the community who would be quite a challenge, but I REALLY prefer playing in teams.....I'm just weird like that.
All things considered......maybe I'll have a go at it again, but surely not pvp by the looks of it.

Again, thank you so much for your time.
Have a good day!

Hello and good day to any readers,

tl;dr: I'm a coward, is flaming in pvp games common?

I'm sorry if this is off-topic, but I could not find any more fitting category.
Unfortunately I suffer from pretty severe self-worth issues and pretty much all I know from pvp are commented games on youtube of semi- or high-rank. Very often in these games I see a LOT of flaming of teammates and, not gonna lie, I don't have a particularly high mental fortitude for this kind of thing. However, I've never played any pvp games, because im afraid of exactly this. And because of this I have thus far only played coop or survival.

So my question in the end is: Is this common occurance or are these games outliers? Just in higher skill games or everywhere?

Thank you for reading.
Have a good day.