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: 5, Insightful) by LVDOVICVS on Thursday April 12 2018, @01:25PM (21 children)
So you're playing a game about killing people, but your sensibilities are offended when little boys use bad words?
You might want to take up crochet. I like crocheting. You can make a variety of useful items and gifts. Additionally, I have yet to hear the yarn call me a whiny bitch because I miss a stitch.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by ledow on Thursday April 12 2018, @02:48PM
No different to the rest of the world.
Can't show a bare nipple in context.
But holy cow if you stab a guy through the head with a rusty knife that might warrant a 12 rating, you know.
(Score: 4, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Thursday April 12 2018, @02:55PM
The U.S. in particular has this warped set of values on entertainment: death by accident or even violence (watch the news?) is acceptable for all audiences. Bad words gets a PG-13 and sex can ramp it up all kinds of restrictions.
I've got news: sex happens, even more than death.
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(Score: 4, Funny) by looorg on Thursday April 12 2018, @04:06PM (1 child)
I heard the grannies in the knitting-circle talk a lot of smack about the other grannies that are not there, and even once that are there. Things can get vicious.
(Score: 2) by lentilla on Friday April 13 2018, @01:04AM
That's because auto-mute functionality is built-in. Lot of smack being talked, nobody listening, because their hearing isn't so good...
However, I'm fairly certain Aunty Flo has blackmail material on the local cops. Her great-nephew mentioned something about incriminating bath-time photos when he marked down "natural causes" on the death certificate of some members of Aunty Flo's crochet circle the morning following a rather egregious smack-session over tea and scones.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 12 2018, @04:32PM (4 children)
98% chance LVDOVICVS is a douche that gets muted a lot.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 12 2018, @07:35PM (3 children)
Evidently, you have no idea what his username means. Illiterate Barbarian! a puero in via!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 12 2018, @07:56PM
According to Wiktionary, something like "one who fights with words".
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 12 2018, @08:29PM (1 child)
Not even signing in ari?
Latin is boring and archaic, no I did not waste my time learning it. Turns out just by learning some of its derivative languages I could work out the most useful patterns for myself. I can't believe I'm saying this, but maybe you should stick to Klingon, higher chance you'll get laid.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 12 2018, @11:42PM
ari is greek, not Roman! "Romanes domum erunt!"
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Freeman on Thursday April 12 2018, @04:49PM (2 children)
Please note, that I pretty much took a hiatus from the genre. The "little boys" using "bad words" is a problem when they're essentially non-stop cussing, using racial slurs, sexual slurs, threatening to do unspeakable things, etc. It's not that the kids were saying the occasional or even constant stream of "cuss words". It's that they had a never ending stream of profanity and vileness emanating from their lips. An occasional kid that was like that sure, must have been one messed up kid. The problem, is that it was prevalent and necessarily effected the experience. The developers did nothing to deter that sort of behavior, so I quit. Pretty much been avoiding said publisher and especially the entire series since.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 12 2018, @07:11PM (1 child)
So would it be fine if they didn't use "cuss words" but still insulted you in other ways? I don't believe in 'bad words' at all. If anything is an issue here, it's their bad intent.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday April 13 2018, @02:25PM
It would have at least been more mature and required thinking. Banter is one thing. Spewing forth vitriol that wouldn't be acceptable anywhere else is the problem. There are various ways of expressing anger, frustration, etc., but what I seemed to be encountering wasn't even anger. It was just one giant long stream of abuse, because "that's what everyone does" or "I can get away with it here" or something. Most of the people I played with weren't a problem, but there seemed to always be 1 person who was like that.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 3, Funny) by tangomargarine on Thursday April 12 2018, @05:19PM (2 children)
You forgot to mention that it's also quite difficult to murder someone with a crochet hook. Knitting on the other hand, watch out!
"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 jasassin on Monday April 16 2018, @04:08AM (1 child)
I once saw John Wick kill three men with a pencil! A fucking pencil!
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(Score: 3, Touché) by tangomargarine on Monday April 16 2018, @02:52PM
Well yeah--pencils have a sharp point. Crochet hooks don't.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 12 2018, @07:51PM
You drive a hard bargain, sir. I can prove how big my dick is by playing Rainbow Cocks of Duty with you and listening to your immature macho bullshit for a few hours, and then maybe we can jerk each other's massive cocks off.
Or I can do something that's actually fun and relaxing.
But if you find crochet a rewarding hobby, more power to you. Just don't let your Rainbow Cock buddies know. I'll keep your secret.
(Score: 1) by oldman_robot on Friday April 13 2018, @04:55AM (4 children)
> So you're playing a game about killing people, but your sensibilities are offended when little boys use bad words?
Hmm... isn't the game more about the gameplay than about killing people? My guess is that most folks are not playing because they want to kill people.
(Score: 2) by LVDOVICVS on Friday April 13 2018, @05:25AM (1 child)
From Wikipedia: "Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege is a tactical shooter video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft."
From steampowered.com: "Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege is the latest installment of the acclaimed first-person shooter franchise developed by the renowned Ubisoft Montreal studio."
If you call something a "shooter", that's a pretty conclusive indicator that shooting is the primary point of the gameplay. If you look for videos on YouTube you'll see it's not a reference to shooting photographs, rapids, the moon, or craps.
(Score: 2) by Wootery on Friday April 13 2018, @02:00PM
Or heroin. Don't forget heroin.
(Score: 2) by Wootery on Friday April 13 2018, @10:46AM (1 child)
Do you apply the same thinking if you see someone hurling racist insults at their chess opponent?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday April 13 2018, @10:49AM
I'd call that being rather good at the meta game.
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