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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: 2, Insightful) by Stardaemon on Thursday April 12 2018, @01:05PM (1 child)
You'd actually have to give a bit more than you get for there to be any effect, like say, go for dismemberment or murder. Which is fine, if you can pull it off.
Muting them solves the problem sufficiently though, and the fact that is wasn't there from the start is a bit of a wtf.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Webweasel on Thursday April 12 2018, @03:05PM
Was on teamspeak back when I was playing DayZ.
I noticed 30 odd users join the channel, obvious it was trolls so I muted them.
We carried on playing for about 30 mins, as normal. From the teamspeak icons you could see they were making a lot of noise/whatever (The icons flash when they talk, even if muted).
I suddenly said "I'm really glad I muted those guys as soon as they joined the channel, I have not heard a peep out of them"
Suddenly teamspeak says "User left the channel" 30 times. Ah ha ha ha ha. Trolled the trolls. So easy, so satisfying.
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