30 gaming co. come together to form Fair Play Alliance, to monitor/curb toxicity

[Gorou]

I feel like toxicity is an inherent feature of sports mentality. I'm not really a fan of sports but there is this investment people have in winning at them, even if it's just calling the winner in a spectated match. The more companies focus on making e-sports big, the more of a problem this is going to become because there's a pretty solid thing keeping the rabble out of other sports and that's the fact they have to show up and do the sport for real, in the flesh and are also limited by the rate their body and skill develop at. Games are more inclusive in that regard because everyone owns a computer these days and making a new account is as easy as 5 minutes on Gmail but that also means you never really lose the assholes.

This is a more of an opinion but competitive gamemodes and matchmaking just suck. All this posturing about how you have to reach the highest ELO to get any peace of mind until the next season begins and you start the charade all over again or you get paired with people too stupid to breathe and against people who have done nothing in their lives other than playing that one game. Feels like all these grievances could be avoided if you had community servers where admins keep an eye on people not being shitheads instead of completely relying on a matchmaking robot to not make you suffer, lest you get blocked for ragequitting.

[Phygon]

I remember in 2008-10 using hldj to micspam and getting told to stop over voicechat that I could not hear because I was micspamming

[Archangel125]

Toxicity is one thing, but why can't major publishers come together to take a stand against predatory microtransaction models in video games, huh?

Rhetorical question, I guess.

[ZombieDawgs]

I'm in two minds about this, on the one hand we should be tackling people who outright use derogatory racist, homophobic and sexist slurs in very aggressive ways, but also have to be careful because grieving, trolling and using the games systems are being used as excuses to ban people, especially with Blizzard banning for abusing the in game voice commands.

[bat/hacker]

Personally I'm just sick of how nobody can be original with their trash talk anymore.

You say anything clever they just short circuit to the same tired responses. "You mad" "Salty" "Autism" "Retard" "Cuck". Repeat ad nauseum. Just look at how many people pissed themselves when Overwatch put a silly replacement filter on "gg ez" for fucks sake. How hard is it to find literally anything else to say that people cried that hard?

It's so rare to get someone who actually has more than one brain cell firing and actually fucking roasts me back that I go out of my way to try to make friends with them. They're a dying breed.

On-topic, though, I think this will be a good thing if used to crack down on bigotry. Online games give these fuckers a captive audience for their bullshit and the lack of accountability they need to put up their platform and get away with it. Whether it bugs you or not, it's certainly not enjoyable. I think we can do without it.