A study carried out by an anti-bullying charity found that 57% of the young people it surveyed had experienced bullying online when playing games.
In addition, 22% said they had stopped playing a game as a result.
Ditch the Label surveyed around 2,500 young members of the virtual hotel platform Habbo, aged between 12 and 25.
One 16-year-old gamer, Bailey Mitchell, told the BBC he had experienced bullying while playing online games since the age of 10.
"If you're going to school every day and you're being bullied in school you want to go home to your computer to escape," he said.
"So if you're getting more abuse thrown at you it's going to put you off doing anything social - it has for a lot of people I know, me included.
"It's regular, every other game you're in, there's always someone who has a mic or types in chat. They'll call you some random abusive thing they can think of."
Indeed, young gamers should stop bullying old people in online games.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 03 2017, @12:45PM
Indeed after 1985 sprites began to swell and game studios thought that it was all about better graphics. Everything went downhill since except for simulation games where realism is indeed important and the mouse driven FPS which did not exist at the time.
Back to topic, being bullied is FUN! I used to duel with aliases, putting little effort until I get the asshole who makes either snide remarks or abuse, then i fake getting angry and steamrolled him, then leaving with "this game is easy". In the rare case the other guy was stronger I would troll him implying he was cheating and I had seen glitches in the game which proved just that.