• aquarisces@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “Alright mister, you misbehave 7 more times and you’re done for… for a year… on that account that you’re using”

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    I don’t play online games anymore, but this makes me sadly nostalgic for playing Halo 2 on the Xbox at launch back in my late teens and other games on that console. There was shit talking galore and it was amazing.

    Problem is I guess now gaming is open to more people, there’s vastly more chance of those who would take it way too far

    I haven’t played online since the 360 days so who knows what the experience is like now. Only have time for single player titles nowadays.

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      it turned from a bunch of 12-18 year olds screaming “I fucked your mom last night” to a bunch of mid-late 20-30s saying “you stupid n*****” every other sentence…

      I have turned off game chat in every game since modern warfare 2019

      I miss the 360 era myself, but as someone who enjoys playing competitively in every game, it’s hard to play unless you have a bunch of like minded individuals with you… and I even find that challenging some days

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          Wow classic was a PERFECT experience for me. Everyone was nice, mild RP on a non RP (but very PvP) server, orderly queues, met some awesome friends, jokes from the mid-2000s. 10/10

          Then they did updates and put in MTX and it’s not the same, fuck you WoW classic. It was magical for a year.

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    Oh great… I’m sure this will work perfectly with no issues at all. Like for example a word “French” being censored as a bad word in Age of Empires IV where you can play French so if you want to communicate with people you get censored for no reason…

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    so, how many hundred trillion times in a row does some have to say the n-word to get a strike? I’m betting it’s pretty high…

    if MS were serious about making its online spaces safe for anyone but the most toxic, vitriolic bigots, they would have kicked them all off decades ago. but they won’t, not ever, because they value their money far more than they dislike what they have to say or the negative attention it attracts.

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      Actually disagree, many of these big corps think these people will just go right back to them even if they get kicked off. Can’t say too much but used to “tech support” for one of the big 3 in console space and one of the trainers made mention of this with lines like “They always come back”. Sad part is, they weren’t wrong. It was such a hard time seeing how some accounts can be basically taken away because someone did something at a moment of panic (chargeback) when there was massive credit card fraud happening and everything on that account disappears even thing you properly paid for unless you paid them back. It is a major reason why the shift to digital online release is horrifying on the console space. The PC market has a similar problem but at least to my knowledge Steam only deactivates your ability buy new things and remove the content that is being contested, its not the best solution but its seems “fair”