Interesting
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From the Original Article (Korean):
https://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=100&oid=081&aid=0002943023
Probably not a terrible idea, but the concept is making me think of making murder in online FPS games illegal and that makes me laugh
Seems fair to me. If a person somehow manages to behave so awfully they'd break the law, they probably need that reality check. I assume it's not that strict, and minor transgressions are 'fine'.
I think spaces where you can say what you want and what you're really thinking unfiltered are important, but I do not think that philosophy can or should be the standard everywhere.
When in different environments, it's normal to adjust your behaviour to what is appropriate for that environment. I'm not sure why that should be different in online environments.
Not to mention it only just filters text and not speech. A lot of titles still face this issue. And just filtering chat isn't really going to cut it.
Muting people really is the best solution on the net.
Having your chat profanity filter set as an option means you don't really care about it being a massive game affecting problem, since you can have it either on or off yourself. That and it doesn't even track context, or language barriers. Shoutout to Spain who can't even say Black in their native tongue
For VOIP I've always found the solution to be trolling the trolls. Basically just taking the piss of the guys who are making it a toxic environment. It ends up boosting morale for everyone but the guy being a dick and makes them shut up. Just means you can carry on playing with mic on and minimal harm to the team's communication. But, that's hardly a solution. It places the responsibility on the player, and only really works for certain kinds of personalities.
This reminds me of that story about the VR groping.
Sexual harassment in Overwatch?! How do you even do that?
Is tea-bagging a sexual harassment?
I would imagine it would have more to do with what you say on voice chat, or in game text.
Not sure how I feel about this.
The term "overwatch sexual harassment" makes me smirk instinctively- but if someone really was laying into someone, to the extent that it would constitute harassment if they had delivered it on the phone instead of through voice coms, i guess it sorta makes sense that you should get in shit for it?
if you say Sugma
You're going to prison
Sugma balls btw 👌
What's limga?
online sexual harassment doesn't seem as big of a problem until one sees or experiences it directly. i remember being uniquely uncomfortable in a particular encounter after someone found out i was trans
It's not entirely related to this article, but there is an idea prominent among sex-negative feminists that "video game characters can't consent to being dressed up sexily." Well, no shit - they can't consent to being murdered by the thousands either, but nobody complains about that, do they?
I had a few trans friends back in 2008-10 that I played a lot of comp CSS/TF2 with and it was definitely a concern, and it's even easier nowadays to target and harass someone with everything being connected and easily traceable.
A lot of people jump out at stuff like this with the old 'oh we all get called names online sometimes just suck it up' but it's easy to say that when you aren't specifically targeted, harassed, teamkilled, trolled etc in the majority of games you play just because someone in the game notices you are female/trans or you spoke on mic.
This article is stupid though....The headline makes it sound like Overwatch harassment is a specific concern that they are going to be combating when they are just planning to extend sexual harassment laws to online harassment. The idea of it is probably more aimed at stuff like social media harassment rather than the police kicking down someone's doors as soon as they say a bad word on Overwatch.
What's up, dog?
Ligmaballs, what's up with you?
I seriously wonder why its so hard to mute people. And the people that take such deep offence to a toxic player needs a reality check, theyre just some random douchebag online talking shit.
Mute and move on. Making it illegal is just nanny state bullshit, ingame bans and punishments should suffice.
I'm torn.
Part of me wants to say "just don't be a pussy, lmao", but a lot of female players deal with relentless harassment and not everyone has skin as thick as a Rhinoceros. It's not just occasional dickbags, oftentimes it's literally every game; this is a gigantic issue at the silver/gold ranks in OW, even if the issue peters as you get yo higher ranks. You also need to remember that this is South Korea, where harassment of female players is significantly worse than it is on Western ones.
I still think it should not be handled by authorities. If developers and publishers were serious about harrassment they would hand out hardware bans for it. But that would affect their profits if someone cant just buy their game again.
Cyberbullying + https://mic.com/articles/176903/female-overwatch-player-harassed-for-16-minutes-uploads-it-all-to-you-tube#.ZRWc1g0rz
Relevant parts under the video if you don't want to watch a 16 minutes video about idiots being idiots.
can u fuck off with this nazi bullshit
Nunya
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