Do you remember the old days when there was little to no censorship when it came to this? Where we would be immature assholes as we play a games and call each other every name under the sun. I'm not sure if it's the same case anymore.
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By all accounts, it's still a thing. That said, try being more clever than just shouting profanity.
I think regular swear words are fine.
But there's a line that shouldn't be crossed. For example, Kyle Larson (NASCAR driver) got sacked after he dropped the N-word in an online race that was being livestreamed
I've been spared that for the most part, the closest thing was when I was playing against a friend in Halo...I was perched in what I thought was the perfect position to use my rocket launcher to take out his tank....turns out I was still too close to the edge of my cover, so when I pulled the trigger it clipped the edge and the next thing I know I was airborne on a one way trip to the choir eternal. (my friend laughing his butt off for a good 15 minutes afterwards)
I certainly did. It encouraged people to harden up and improve, and it was its own subculture. Now some online games are so focused on catering to the weakest common denominator that I wonder if they aren't secretly baby-sitting services. "He said gg and I lost, I'm reporting! It made me feel bad! Report report report, someone else has to come solve my problems for me because I should never have to make my own decisions!"; it infantilizes people, teaches them that they don't need to improve themselves to overcome something, they just need to cry for a nanny.
I don't mind banter, but when it turns openly hostile and mean, I just mute the guy.
"OMG THAT WAS SO EZ, REFUND YOUR SKIN AND UNINSTALL. LOL" kinds of people just grate my nerves and make me want to throttle them
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For the few games left that still adhere to "git gud", the whiny ones don't usually last long there.
Like Planetside 2, where 'starting out' today means likely facing veterans that have been playing since Beta 2012 (eight years, and thousands of hours).
(And yes, I've been playing since Beta 2012, but chose to be a 'generalist', so I still lose out to the hardcore specialists in their particular categories; that said, being able to perform most roles at 'acceptable levels of competence' is a useful skill too)
Edit: And yes, trash talk is very much alive in Planetside 2. The regulars just laugh at people that come in and scream foul in the usual CoD kiddie way.
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Even that list of games is shrinking though, and in the current atmosphere things that were okay to say even a year or two ago might be enough to ruin someone's life now. I'm not a console gamer, but did you see that insane rule that Sony added for the PS5 for online play? "ALL voice and party chat will be recorded, in case someone decides to report you."
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I have not seen that rule. Probably because our household doesn't have a PS5 (the last 'current gen' Sony console we ever owned, was a PS3; we still have it, and it often gets used for Netflix, aha).
The only 'current gen' console our household has atm, is a Nintendo Switch. Everything else is PC.
Older home consoles we have here: Nintendo 64, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo Wii, Playstation 2, Playstation 3, original Xbox.
Older portable consoles we have here: GameBoy Advance, Nintendo DS Lite, Nintendo 2DS (one of my brothers has an original 2DS, while I have the 'New' 2DS; bigger screen, faster hardware, actually folds closed).
I suppose I'm old-fashioned. Ah well.