In their ongoing mission to make folks on the Internet behave, god rattling it, simply behave for 5 god rattling minutes, Ubisoft this week are overhauling the system which bans gamers from Rainbow Six Siege for saying horrible issues. Ubi already ban gamers for awfulness, however say this week’s enchancment “is going to make us significantly more efficient” in cracking down on racial and homophobic slurs and different hate speech.
Depending on how terrible they’re, gamers might be banned for 2 days, one week, fifteen days, or full-on perpetually. Ubi name this their “first step towards managing toxicity in Rainbow Six Siege”, promising extra modifications to come back. So please, simply behave.
R6 Siege group developer Craig “Its_Epi” Robinson defined in Friday’s Reddit post that they’re cracking down on what the game’s Code of Conduct already forbids: “any language or content deemed illegal, dangerous, threatening, abusive, obscene, vulgar, defamatory, hateful, racist, sexist, ethically offensive or constituting harassment”.
If you’re involved about how this would possibly have an effect on you, contemplate that you simply’re probably being a dick and making video video games worse.
Robinson explains that the system will identify and disgrace gamers too:
Players that obtain a ban for toxicity will obtain a pop-up that states their ban was the results of poisonous conduct. A worldwide message can even be displayed, just like the present world broadcasts for dishonest. It will learn:
“Username has been banned for toxicity.”
As for Ubi’s different plans to scrub up Siege, Robinson says that sure, they do have plans for preventing teamkilling too.
“It is not a low priority,” he stated in response to a shouty remark. “It is much harder to correct than monitoring chat.” He guarantees extra particulars on that, and different offensives within the battle on toxicity, later.
Siege launches its subsequent replace, Operation Chimera, at 6pm on Tuesday. It’s a biggun. It’ll carry new operators and a brand new cooperative zombie-shooting occasion mode, together with removing unlock costs from more operators and loads of different modifications.
