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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: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday April 12 2018, @01:34PM (6 children)
Didn't say it was censorship. Just said the whiners are pussies.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 4, Funny) by c0lo on Thursday April 12 2018, @02:16PM
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(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 12 2018, @05:21PM (1 child)
Somebody's triggered!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday April 12 2018, @10:40PM
No, today was a fishing day not a shooting stuff day.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 12 2018, @05:49PM (2 children)
Whining about whining, 2meta4me
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday April 12 2018, @10:42PM (1 child)
A vocabulary, get one. I know you little cry-twats like to project your weakness onto everybody else but that was mockery not whining.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 12 2018, @11:06PM
Awww finally something got under your skin. Jackass :)