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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, 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"