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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday April 12 2018, @12:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the swearing-like-drunken-sailors dept.

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.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/04/ubisoft-cracking-down-on-hate-speech-team-killing-in-rainbow-six-siege

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday April 12 2018, @10:35PM (9 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday April 12 2018, @10:35PM (#666204) Homepage Journal

    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.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 12 2018, @11:12PM (8 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 12 2018, @11:12PM (#666233)

    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.

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      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday April 13 2018, @05:39AM (4 children)

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday April 13 2018, @05:39AM (#666339) Journal

        This gives me untold amounts of hope for my future since you're my competition.

        'Til the next non-pussy pushes your car, only once, into the incoming traffic?

        (grin)

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        • (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.

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          • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday April 13 2018, @10:41AM (2 children)

            by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday April 13 2018, @10:41AM (#666396) Journal

            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)

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            • (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.

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              • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday April 13 2018, @11:24AM

                by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday April 13 2018, @11:24AM (#666411) Journal

                Oh, come on. Stop being cranky and connected at high voltage, it's the night before weekend.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 13 2018, @06:42PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 13 2018, @06:42PM (#666582)

        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.