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Ubisoft is cracking down on "Toxic Players" in the game "Rainbow Six: Siege". I was somewhat surprised to see that they hadn't implemented a mute option to begin with as well.
Players will also soon have the ability to mute either or both of the text and voice chat for other players in their matches, giving more "direct control over communication channels."
I left the world of FPS Multiplayer games nearly 10 years ago, because of the toxic environment. Then again, that may have mostly just been staying away from certain games (Call of Duty) that appealed to the demographic (10 year old kids who can more or less say whatever they feel like) I didn't want to associate with. It's one thing to have the occasional being "cursed at" by a teenager / adult, because something went belly up for them. It's another to have a string of profanity that you've never heard the like being uttered by a 10 year old kid as a standard part of the game.
Apparently their parents don't know where they are / what they're doing, don't believe in parenting, don't think that verbal abuse is a thing, or some various mixture thereof. I'm not generally in favor of censorship, but at some point someone needs to step-in. At one point that was the parents, but that doesn't seem to be happening nearly as much as it used to.
The core of the changes centers around players using "racial or homophobic slurs, or hate speech," defined by the game's Code of Conduct as language that's "illegal, dangerous, threatening, abusive, obscene, vulgar, defamatory, hateful, racist, sexist, ethically offensive, or constituting harassment."
TL;DR
Game company banning toxic players. It's about time.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by c0lo on Thursday April 12 2018, @12:26PM (21 children)
Theoretically, that not true.
If everybody plays the victim card, the state of equality still exists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday April 12 2018, @12:45PM (9 children)
Yes, but only in theory. In practice there will always be at least one person who'd rather play the asshole card or the joker.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 5, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 12 2018, @02:18PM (1 child)
"In practice there will always be at least one person who'd rather play the asshole card"
And that person is called... The Mighty Buzzard! :)
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday April 12 2018, @10:22PM
Ahh, my people! They do know me so well.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 12 2018, @04:46PM (3 children)
Gaming used to be the domain of young nerdy men with insecurity complexes, and the games allowed them to be the bullies. This quickly led to ridiculous insults in a bad way, and while that has died down a bit except for some tweens there are still jerkoffs like you who think that unfettered profanity is part of the purpose of gaming. Anyone who doesn't like being verbally abused is called even worse.
It all points to massive insecurities that such adult-children never dealt with, and they project their own weakness on to others so they can continue avoiding their own inner demons. Therapy TMB, therapy. Or just come out of the closet, save yourself some money ;)
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday April 12 2018, @10:27PM (2 children)
A) I don't play online games. They bore me because the vast majority of people bore me.
B) What makes you think I'd be in the closet if I were gay? Oh, I know, it must be how I always say only what people want to hear so they'll like me.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 12 2018, @11:00PM (1 child)
a) dummy
b) cause you're obsessed with homo-erotic imagery and it was funny
c) your entire posting history
d) your lack of self-awareness
e) your egotistical approach to discussions
f) running out of easy stuff here, losing interest
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday April 12 2018, @11:09PM
Am I? I thought I was obsessed with boobs. Live and learn, I guess.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday April 12 2018, @05:28PM (2 children)
Tell us more about your card game?
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday April 12 2018, @10:28PM (1 child)
You joke but now I want to grab some blank cards and make one.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday April 13 2018, @02:51PM
Ha ha only serious. I enjoy a rousing game of Cards Against Humanity from time to time.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 4, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Thursday April 12 2018, @05:40PM (10 children)
People who are the victim of something get to play the victim card. Those who aren't, don't. That's equality.
Should the police treat the stabbing victim and the guy who hasn't been stabbed the exact same?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday April 12 2018, @10:35PM (9 children)
Sorry, not sorry. You do not get to claim victimhood when you were on equal footing. Not ever. Victimhood requires that the victim be in a position of lesser power in the conflict. Crying when you could have fought back but didn't is just called being a pussy.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 12 2018, @11:12PM (8 children)
Your grasp on reality is apparently at the 5th grade level. Maybe you just never underwent puberty? Would explain much.
Lets try a simple car analogy. Someone driving in the lane next to you swerves and pushes your car into oncoming traffic. Are you the victim or a pussy?
Don't bother responding unless you see the error of your ways. If you want to argue that it is a bad analogy lets switch back to humans in game chat.
You are a grown man and you cuss out a 10 year old kid who calls you a noob for being old and slow. You use your many years of experience to cut the kid down. Is the kid a victim of your more experience knowledge of insults and ways to hurt someone? Or is the kid a pussy who just couldn't fight back?
Ugh, I live on the same planet as you.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday April 13 2018, @03:20AM (7 children)
On the other hand, I live on the same planet as you. This gives me untold amounts of hope for my future since you're my competition.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday April 13 2018, @05:39AM (4 children)
'Til the next non-pussy pushes your car, only once, into the incoming traffic?
(grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday April 13 2018, @10:27AM (3 children)
Please. Anyone who's ever been a NASCAR fan isn't going down that easily.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday April 13 2018, @10:41AM (2 children)
Unless the non-pussy driver is a NASCAR pro, you mean.
See that tractor at full speed pulling a liquid nitrogen tanker and not a steel mill in sight?
(grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday April 13 2018, @10:56AM (1 child)
Damnit, quit trying to dictate my movie watching schedule by reminding me of good movies.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday April 13 2018, @11:24AM
Oh, come on. Stop being cranky and connected at high voltage, it's the night before weekend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 13 2018, @06:42PM (1 child)
Sick burn yo!
Humans are social animals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_animal [wikipedia.org] and since you can't even comprehend that bit I'm not too worried about your "competition". You do you dudebro. Outside of correcting your fallacies your actions do not affect me in any way beyond the minute pollution of our societal hive mind, and even then overall you're ideas aren't that troublesome.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday April 14 2018, @11:19AM
Social doesn't exclusively mean "working together for the greater good of $blah". Competition is very much an aspect of it as well. An extremely important aspect if you see progress as a good thing.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.