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Most racist mmo chat i have ever seen
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Well, regardless if PVP games do indeed attract this type of behavior, it is up to the company to decide how to handle it. From this thread alone, it is apparent that it is turning off some people to the game. In the end, the company needs to decide if the cost and resources allocated to better moderation is worth it for keeping those players that are upset by it.
Yea but during that time there were fewer games, they cost less to keep running and developers cared about their MMO. Today you have big corporations who are chasing the WOW DREAM, who want everyone and their grandma to play MMOS, and dont give a rats ass if someone is a douchebag in the game. Just a 72 hour ban. GO back to playing. Hell I got a 72 hour ban in FFXIV for buying items that were from a gold seller on the market board. Someone who bought gold got a 72 hour ban. Everyone is getting the same treatment.
I would be 100% ok with that in any game. It keeps humans from being jack asses. Look at Hearthstone.
Thats why I dont deal with any general chats in an MMOs
IT does not matter F2P, P2P at all. Only thing that matters is if a company is willing to throw a Ban hammer that will delete the account for good.
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Even F2P games, if you ban a person enough time and block F2P players from open chats you can cut down on the BS. But it will not get rid of it 100% if it does not work in a P2P game it will never completely resolve the issue.
From my own personal experience I would say that EQ was and is no better than any other MMO, even when it first came out. The "Play Nice" rules didn't come about in EQ1 because ppl respected each other, they came about because ppl where fed up with the attitudes of other players and how they could affect their gaming time.
The racist issues has always been there, it's been around since the dawn of human beings for heavens sake, and just because we play Online games does not suddenly mean everyone becomes an online saint and forgets their own flaws while playing, infact in most cases they become exaggerated.
By all means bring to the attention the bad behaviour of players, but don't think for one moment it is confined to any particular game, it isn't, it's human nature, and it will take many many more years before ppl are able to get along respectfully with each other.
I've known you here for a while. I do trust your judgement on this. Thanks for the input.
Try to be a pirate like me, people will flame you and wish you death in real life. This is no fun either, just don't take it serious and that's it. People take everything way to serious. Same stuff with those 1000 man aliances adding single persons on KoS lists xD, it is just ridicoulus.
That's the difference, right there. Fallen Earth's chat is regularly monitored and moderated by at least 1 GM, which is made possible by its much smaller playerbase. If Trion made the attempt to send in a batch of even temporary moderators and ban a handful of heavy offenders (really on my server its about 10 people that seem to make it their job to say awful things in chat) the general pop would get the message and tone it down, at least for a while.
people act like trion can change anything with this game anytime they dam-well please..
fact: its not their game nor coding they need permission to tweek the game if it falls on deaf ears..well you know the rest
it hasn't changed much. BTW most of the people that are claiming racist speach are wrong. Currently the french , brazilians, and russians have angered a lot of players by using their native languages on pulblic chat so a lot of people have been talking smack on them in public chat. Of course we get every person that wasn't using English complaining that people were racist on the forums. Clearly the chosen language of the game is english so why speak in any other language in chat. Common sense goes a long way.
Only back then Asheron call, and if there pvp server was only a bit nicer, but that pvp only server was all about ganking, name calling all type of stuff went there. But this pvp mmo was not nice this was one of the few, I played a few of the back then.
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Easy to say when you're an English speaker. Common sense to me says if they're not speaking my language....they don't care if I understand it or not because they're not talking to me.... so I just ignore it like all the rest of the spam. But that would require being tolerant of other people....something you don't find a lot of online.
Main chat is a privilege, not a right.
In Lineage (at least when I played in 2001) you didn't even get access to the chat until you hit lvl 15 and you could get banned from it so people were careful with what they said.
I think hat is wise, and I also think that banning people from the chat should be easier than banning them from the game altogether, in F2P games people who get banned tend to just start a new account and continue as they did before. If they lost their chatting rights a month for each stupid thing they might think a bit before posting rascist slurs and calling female gamers nasty stuff I honestly would beat up anyone for if they said that to a lady IRL.
And MMOs also need to be better at policing their community for such things. And not just AA but all MMOs.
Then again, some crap do we have to take, some people are overly sensitive and you can't really report anyone for them saying that you are a bad tank and booting you out of their group.
Another advantage of not letting people chat until they played a few hours (or having a noob chat just for low levels) is that most goldspammers at least get a harder time.
English is not my main languages, but I still only chat in English in the main chat.
Guild recruiting is fine though, but the main chat gets useless if we all use our native language.
Of course the games could just make a simple filter where you click in any language you understands and blocks the rest but if that is not in I prefer to get understood or I don't bother to chat at all.
Our guild chat is usually in Swedish though, unless our single British member is online. I
Ignoring the people in chat does nothing to stem the abuse of the chatting system in game. I ignore major offenders but it comes a time when it gets bad and AA chat is bad, that you need to speak out about it. My guild chat in the game at times is getting just as bad as open world chat. It seems AA has attracted a large group of despots and low lifes that thinks it's cool to sound like uneducated thugs.
My search for a group of people that want to be more of a roleplay society in a RPG continues.
Well racism is against the law so Trion had better get their act in order.With very little effort they could censor out certain words and imo if it keeps happening they should do it.
Has anyone sent complaints to Trion about it?If so post their response,racism and bullying should not be swept under the carpet.I know the legal that usually reside in these games are a cop out,they usually say they can't police the internet,use at your own risk.Well they most certainly can police it and it is their platform to which they are making money running a business.
This site should confront Trion as well,they have in game chat logs, ask them if they are doing anything about it.
The last problem like this was during the Lineage days,rumors and fact of gangs going to other players homes and work to confront them over game anger.
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