toxicity
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Ubisoft Cracks Down On Hate Speech In Rainbow Six Siege
12Starting this week, Ubisoft plans to issue permanent bans for Rainbow Six Siege‘s most toxic players, according to a recent announcement on the game’s subreddit.
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Blizzard Built A ‘Strike Team’ To Put An End To Overwatch Jerks
These days, it’s hard to talk about Overwatch without mentioning its ongoing struggles with sexism, racism, griefing, match throwing and worse. At BlizzCon, game director Jeff Kaplan told Kotaku that fighting toxicity is now more of a priority than ever, to the point that Blizzard has formed a “strike team” to do so.
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Game Designer Says Developers Would Be More Candid If Gamer Culture Wasn’t So Toxic
Video game enthusiasts often muse about the secrecy surrounding game development, which is at times treated as if it were operated by the NSA. Over the weekend, one developer offered an interesting take: Game developers are secretive because being open can lead to too much toxicity.
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League Of Legends Toxicity Starts In Champion Select
Briefly: Here’s an interesting League of Legends statistic: Riot’s lead social systems designer Jeffrey “Lyte” Lin told Polygon in a story posted today that games that had a “role conflict or a position conflict in champion select” were 15 per cent more toxic “no matter what happened in the game itself”. Glad they’re addressing that!
