Slurs thrown around constantly with seemingly no punishment

[frogvie]

Not sure where to post this so it's going here for now.

I love this game but I'm very concerned about the lack of action taken against toxic players and especially the ones saying slurs. Nearly every other game (in the low ranks especially) someone is cussing someone else out or calling them slurs. I know it's an early access game but I'm very concerned about the precedent going forward that this is allowed. The report button seems to do absolutely nothing right now (my wife reported someone who called her a slur and saw them again IMMEDIATELY in her next match).

I want to know, is this a priority for the dev team? Will any actions be taken on this issue before release? As it stands I cannot introduce this game to any of my friends because of how bad it is. Many of them are women and less experienced gamers who this isn't normalized for.

I don't have a match ID, I guess just look at any low rank game and there's probably a 25% chance someone on some team is calling someone else a slur.

 

[ampers&]

Press Esc then click on the microphone icon next to the name of the person using slurs. Congratulations, you will never hear them again!

 

[treyton2014]

Man discovers MOBA
:steamhappy:

 

[nothingplease]

Would be nice if you got an alert, as in other games, that a report has been taken action on. I know this is a playtest alpha still so might be something down the line, hopefully. Kinda hard to know if your reports do anything.

 

[Playeroth]

Press Esc then click on the microphone icon next to the name of the person using slurs. Congratulations, you will never hear them again!

people having the mindset is simply miserable to play with because it creates a bad situation and they generally wont really play the game other than toxic voice chat. an action is better than bandaid

 

[barlakopofai]

It's honestly wacky just how little enforcement there is lately. We went from banning people for pausing for 5 minutes into just letting white boys say the hard R in text chat for free.

 

[jporter917]

It's honestly wacky just how little enforcement there is lately. We went from banning people for pausing for 5 minutes into just letting white boys say the hard R in text chat for free.

They've stopped caring about this game and community. They are just working for paychecks and ready to move onto the next thing now. They are allowing porn post in an invite only forums. lol.

 

[ampers&]

It's honestly wacky just how little enforcement there is lately. We went from banning people for pausing for 5 minutes into just letting white boys say the hard R in text chat for free.

You saying "white boys" in this pejorative way is "racist," especially considering you have no clue the actual race of the people saying things in game.

 

[Abandoned]

I think people throwing around slurs is a very small price to pay in comparison to the alternative: an opinionated heuristic based punishment system. The latter has failed in every game I have seen it in. Dota 2 has arguably the worst punishment system in any game ever: very opinionated and very off-mark.

 

[barlakopofai]

You saying "white boys" in this pejorative way is "racist," especially considering you have no clue the actual race of the people saying things in game.

Hm, yes, gamers truly are the most oppressed minority, because they can't prove they have the N-Word pass when they say slurs in a video game.

 

[nothingplease]

They've stopped caring about this game and community. They are just working for paychecks and ready to move onto the next thing now. They are allowing porn post in an invite only forums. lol.

This is so insanely disingenuous lmao.

 

[Gandalf the Red]

Hey, came to report the same. I abandoned a match because two players were hurling slurs at me. I am not going to play with bigots.

This should not give me a lobby penalty, but I'll take that over continuing a match with verbally abusive players. That's just a bigger deal to me than some game.

 

[Gandalf the Red]

people having the mindset is simply miserable to play with because it creates a bad situation and they generally wont really play the game other than toxic voice chat. an action is better than bandaid

Amen. Simply muting does not change the fact that I am playing with abusive, hateful people. That ruins the game for me. This kind of "out of sight, out of mind" head-in-the-sand kind of strategy is unsustainable.

 

[msun]

mute button exists for a reason

 

[Sonamiya]

Amen. Simply muting does not change the fact that I am playing with abusive, hateful people. That ruins the game for me. This kind of "out of sight, out of mind" head-in-the-sand kind of strategy is unsustainable.

people having the mindset is simply miserable to play with because it creates a bad situation and they generally wont really play the game other than toxic voice chat. an action is better than bandaid

Not really.
Alot of toxic people tend to want the attention so people mutign and not engaging with them makes them either stop entirely or leave the game. So your best choices are to Mute and Report.

At the same time, you are actively Griefing the rest of your team, who arent saying slurs. and the enemy team by leaving because theres someone you dont like. Your method is as much a head in the sand method as just muting except your damaging more people.

This is still a invite only beta game. Community moderation shouldnt be the highest priority imo. People are getting banned and moderated for their behavior but expecting a game in active development and not being fully released to have a full moderation system is a bit there.

A report system also doesnt constitute a "dont match me with them" system. If a report system banned someone for a single transgression it would be a pretty bad report system especially if its chat based reports and not people cheating or something. After all We already had situations in MMOs where devs said theres no automated ban system and streamers asked their Fans on stream to mass report them for false reasons to see if anything happens, and they got banned. as such manual review will probably also take time. expecting a change within a single game is a bit out there without context of how many reports the player had already gotten.