What else do you expect, giving up your freedom of speech to faceless corporation and their bureaucratic corporations ?
Really at this point it's a choice. No one is forcing you to interact with these totalitocrats.
Play on your own terms, or just don't play at all. Reject convenience, K Y S

It’s the same as parents going full tilt against the ref of a kids league soccer match.

Okay you show up to a Sunday league amateur soccer match. You scream KYS to the ref, they red card you. Why you surprised?

I used to love getting foreigners who've only learned English for weapons/vehicles that don't translate for some reason and swear words.

You'd get "eusbdheu sjot8fb skxbfh LE SNIPER RIFLE eudbdisn fjfbdbdju kshdbdbr LE ROCKET LAUNCHER fidndjdb skejfb behdhcui SHIT BASTARD FUCK BASTARD FUCK FUCK BASTARD SHIT"

As long as we can also agree that over bearing forced positivity due to fear of triggering a black box automated ban system is also total ass and fucking ruins games.

I don't want to see racism and sexism every single match, but I also don't want the game to censor every single possible thing to the point the community basically becomes lobotomized and unhuman out of God damn fear.

League is a great example. It was a toxic cess pit of unholy levels. Now everyone is so fucking fake and scared to anger the AI black box over lord that no one acts like a normal person.

Or you end up with half your team muted cause of bullshit fake reasons the AI thinks could offend a made up Karen on a power trip so you can't communicate at all.

It's not fun on either extremes.

Idk, the rules of the Internet say women don't exist so from here on, you shall be treated as a man instead. Suffer the terrible existence of menfolk, featuring highlights such as: people believing you, male defaultism and so on.

completely unfair ban, they said it three times the rule only had it twice, how could they have know?

A weapon skin for my goonerbait crpg female skin to use

I’ve had voice chat disabled since forever. I will not listen to the tools I play against. Racist and political trolls along with just general assholery. Not worth it. The only time VoIP is worth it these days is of you’re playing with a known group that polices its chat.

No. It's not mature. If you play it like a sport, then being a gentleman is very important for your fun and growth both.

On a side note I shouldn't be getting comm banned for swearing on a game that's not only rated M but also has swearing in the game.

that league example is the exception and not the rule. most games have horrible measures against sexism and racism and whatnot. the issue with league's system is that it's ai-based and ai makes mistakes all the time, not the fact that it's trying to stop toxicity.

Only if you buy them dinner first

Gamers aren't well adjusted people

All I said was gg 5 times

Unpopular opinion but games with community-driven multiplier (i.e. people hosting their own servers) is infinitely better than matchmaking multiplayer running on the dev/publisher's servers if only for the sole reason that players have a choice of what kinds of communities they want to build and what things other players should be allowed to do instead of being forced into a sterilized commercial monoculture. I should be able to say "KYS KYS" in game if the people I'm playing with are okay with it.

That and it's easier to make genuine connections with regulars. Nowadays for that you have to go out of your way to join a community discord or similar because nearly all multiplayer games are built to play with your existing friends.

It's not trash talk at all though. And even ignoring the language itself, trash talk is towards your opponents (where still most people don't get how to do it in a non-obnoxious way, i.e. someone spamming ez after they win a game isn't trash talk it's being annoying). Most of the really bad flame happens towards teammates because everyone needs to blame someone else.

Irl sports get by just fine without people constantly being pieces of shit, I dunno why it's so hard to apply that to online games.

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Oh. No. I don't curse. But I understand the anger a frustration