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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 Friday June 02 2017, @03:29PM (1 child)
You're supposed to ass-rape them back while they're typing. Or if you haven't re-spawned yet, you fill their screen with bull crap. This has been going on forever. Tapping your fingers on the table while playing chess is the exact same thing. Some people play that way, some don't. Switch servers or start your own if it bothers you. Can't do that? Stop buying games from overly controlling companies.
Can't handle any of that? You're too immature to be using the internet. Please limit yourself to static web pages without comments if you need to touch the web at all.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 02 2017, @05:50PM
Chess: sport with class
Online gaming: sport for hateful idiots apparently
Please, go to some large city and hang out by the public chess boards. Play a few games and distract people with your online gaming methods. Please.
Hate filled bigotry equated with finger tapping? Yeah, the culture needs to be reigned in. Thankfully I believe this will be a natural process as more gamers become parents and know to watch their kids and correct such aberrant behavior. Too bad you're probably too old for a time out, guess we'll have to wait for some 4channer to doxx you, then we can hear your praise for such mature people who can "handle" their internet.