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Apparently, several game industry companies (including Twitch, Blizzard and Riot Games) decided to undertake the collaborative effort of addressing antisocial and disruptive behavior in games. As they say, to create "a world where games are free of harassment, discrimination, and abuse, and where players can express themselves through play".
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Post edited March 29, 2018 by LootHunter
OK?
There goes the neighborhood.
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LootHunter: Apparently, several game industry companies (including Twitch, Blizzard and Riot Games) decided to undertake the collaborative effort of addressing antisocial and disruptive behavior in games. As they say, to create "a world where games are free of harassment, discrimination, and abuse, and where players can express themselves through play".
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LootHunter:
Hahaha, blizzard are addressing antisocial behaviour. Funniest thing I have heard today. Perhaps they should start by addressing their own issues, such as online auctions houses, game items for real money. What they going to do, ban people from their network, that'd be a benefit...for the user!

Just seen the picture, very apt. Perhaps they can take it in front of the twitter court.
Post edited March 29, 2018 by nightcraw1er.488
Care factor the same as the impact this'll have... nil
Post edited March 29, 2018 by Bigs
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LootHunter: "a world where games are free of harassment, discrimination, and abuse, and where players can express themselves through play"
Ah ok. So I presume that is extended also to NPCs and stories in the games? Can I complain to Blizzard if some orcish or hellspawn hordes of monsters harass me in some Diablo or Warcraft game, when I really just want to smell the flowers and explore in peace? It is as if those orcs hate me for not being an orc! You wouldn't believe what kind of nasty things those orcs have said to me, while trying to crack my skull open... A hate crime!
Post edited March 29, 2018 by timppu
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LootHunter: "a world where games are free of harassment, discrimination, and abuse, and where players can express themselves through play"
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timppu: Ah ok. So I presume that is extended also to NPCs and stories in the games? Can I complain to Blizzard if some orcish or hellspawn hordes of monsters harass me in some Diablo or Warcraft game, when I really just want to smell the flowers and explore in peace? It is as if those orcs hate me for not being an orc!
That's a bit discriminatory just focusing on the orcs and hellspawn. Let's be a bit more inclusive and include all the various species and sub species, not to mention flora, and possibly other players.
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nightcraw1er.488: and possibly other players.
Pfft, phuck them, I couldn't care less about them.
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nightcraw1er.488: and possibly other players.
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timppu: Pfft, phuck them, I couldn't care less about them.
Hah, be careful you don't fall foul of the social sterilisation pact from blizzard then.
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timppu: phuck
^ BANNED from all online games
Post edited March 29, 2018 by phaolo
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LootHunter: players can express themselves through play".
The fuck does that even mean?
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phaolo: ^ BANNED from all online games
Quite often I get (temporarily) banned from Team Fortress 2 via user-voting.

Quite often the reason seems to be that some feel I make the game "unfun" apparently by playing too good, like finding a good place for a sentry that enemy can't even exit their own base, and rest of my team has that much less to kill.

Then especially in the Hightower map, some emo shits keep complaining if one tries to push the cart and capture, ie. win the game for the team. As if that is something you are not supposed to do in Hightower, even though the map is exactly about that (a payload race map, both teams trying to push their cart to the goal and prevent the enemy from doing that).

Apparently those whiners have a different idea of fun to me. To them that map is apparently just some stupid team deathmatch game where you run around like a headless chicken shooting at everything that moves, or stay in your base trying to get easy sniper kills to opponents here and there.

If I wanted to play deathmatch, I would play deathmatch maps, not a Team Fortress CTF or payload race map. Those whiners always seem to have all kinds of other silly and totally made-up rules, like one is not supposed to play an engineer either in Hightower or any king-of-the-hill map (or any map for that matter), also playing a pyro is a definite no-no, and last but not least... the damn complaints about "spawn camping", which means that the enemy team is so overrunning your weak team that they stay at your own base killing you as soon as you try to exit your ammo room (where you respawn after dying).

Usually these dickhead "spawncamper!"-whiners seem to be asshats that play only some specific weak class, like a spy, sniper or scout, and then can't get over it if they can't get past several enemy heavy weapons guys, soldiers and pyros. Gee, I wonder why? Maybe you should like change your class to something more suitable for that particular situation?

Like if I see some enemies trying to spawncamp, I change to either a pyro or soldier and just kill them away. When I shoot a few Scorch Shots at a group of soldiers, demomen and hwguys, quite soon they run away with the tail between their legs, burning in flames. ("Scorch Shot" has the nice feature that if you shoot it at a group of enemies, usually many of them burst into flames; very powerful especially against slow heavy weapons guys and such, and even nearby medics healing them.)

Or if the enemy has lots of scouts and pyros running around amok, I switch to a engineer. There, try to run past my level 3 sentry!

Or, if the enemy has lots of engineers camping outside our base, a group of soldiers can easily take care of them, possibly with a help of one spy.

There is always a counter to any threat, but some people are just too lazy or "royal" to change from their silly spy, sniper or scout class, and just WHINE WHINE WHINE like some entitled emo kids.
Post edited March 29, 2018 by timppu
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LootHunter: Apparently, several game industry companies (including Twitch, Blizzard and Riot Games) decided to undertake the collaborative effort of addressing antisocial and disruptive behavior in games. As they say, to create "a world where games are free of harassment, discrimination, and abuse, and where players can express themselves through play".
What if expressing myself through play is bullying others who aren't as good as I am by kill stealing and camping them? If that's who I am, is my time and enjoyment less valuable than theirs?
Do note that EA is not in that list.

Hmmm, I wonder why.....
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drmike: Do note that EA is not in that list.

Hmmm, I wonder why.....
There's only so much iron in the world?