VICE Waypoint article: How Two Developers Dealt With the Shitty, Racist Parts of Their Community

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>Jeff Kaplan: "We want to make new maps, we want to make new heroes, we want to make animated shorts," said Kaplan. "But we've been put in this weird position where we're spending a tremendous amount of time and resources punishing people and trying to make people behave better."#

>Kaplan's tone was somber, conveying understandable exhaustion at the problem. And yet, it would have made more sense to adopt an attitude that postured Blizzard was proud of how much work it was putting into investing in Overwatch's community, their actions actually prove it. You can't build a community-focused video game in 2017 without dealing with shitlords, and while no one doubts Blizzard is working their ass off, it comes across as a little strange Blizzard seems surprised a post-Gamergate world is full of emboldened bad actors.

Thoughts?

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>klepkek
No thanks

Yeah fuck all those racist shitlords who use keyboard and mouse on a console.

>direct link
>repeating the article headline in the subject field
>thoughts
kill yourself faggot

>direct link

why don't you kill your self you downs syndrome niggerboy

>Patrick Topkek

Nah, im good.

Also, pastebin you retard

Kill yourself patrick.

>banned half of New Zealand
Don't they have a problem with boats in Australia and New Zealand?

This is what happens when you create some type of ranked "competitive" system in a game where teamwork matters. You attract all sorts of super autists that don't understand how to communicate with people and only know how to lash out

>playing overwatch

>post-Gamergate world
>dealing with shitlords
>Blizzard is working their ass off
>trying to make people behave better
Don't fucking ruing my sunday with this trash

>Klepek
>Vice

Yeah, nah.

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shut up you fucking faggot

This, pastebin it or go through archive.is.

Dont give Vice-niggers clicks.

If they just made an auto-mute system the problem would be fixed. Banning people for free speech is ethically and legally wrong.

>klepkek still has to scapegoat gg

fucking lmao
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>post gamergate world
Just fucking die already Klepek

>banned half of the new zealand

Why is Blizzard trying so hard to push NO TOXIC ATTITUDES on Overwatch but ignore World of Warcraft trade chat? You see nigger being posted every other sentence there and it's literally r/thedonald-tier.

It's not a fucking direct link, you retard
You should install tracker and adblocker already anyway

>Be too greedy to develop content for your games
>Blame the gobblygoober boogyman

Where have I heard this one before

Will we ever get past blaming GG for everything wrong?

Outside of journalists saying everything is GG I literally never hear of them anymore

>people who still namedrop Gamergate in the hopes that Zoe Quinn will retweet them and tell them what a great ally they are

Pretty sad, desu

>here we're spending a tremendous amount of time and resources punishing people and trying to make people behave better
>make this bullshit excuse for lack of content
>people eat it up and praise you for it
lol, the last time I saw someone get silenced were niggers screeching nigger

Blizzard is worthless.

>Patrick Klepek

My name is not important , what is important is the hurt i'm gonna cause your butt
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Why is vice so fucking shitty now?

>Klepcbro
>Vice
kys

>Someone calls me a nigger on a vidya
>I move on with my life
>If they don't shut up I just mute them

wowee was that really so hard to do? Why do all these faggots have to go crying to mummy blizzard when big meanies call them names.

because they are trying to turn overwatch into a billion dollar esport and have already tricked multiple sports team owners into giving them 20 million dollars while promising that when overwatch is the greatest esport in the world in 5 years the team owners will finally make back the money they spent

I don't get this shit

like fuck man do people not realize the "mute" button exists?

as if black people would be caught dead playing OW in the first place

theres a new CoD AND NBA game out, nigga what the fuck are you thinking

>"But we've been put in this weird position where we're spending a tremendous amount of time and resources punishing people and trying to make people behave better."

More like wasting resources you fucking cunts.
>pander to a community thats so sensitive they utter TOXIC TOXIC at the slightist bit of derision.
>have to waste tons of time taking care of retards because of it.
Also it's been 3 years since gg patrick you cat fisting crayon eater. End your existence.

Good. I don't even have to read the thread to know there's at least ten people saying, stop being a pussy or get thicker skin or some shit. You people are fucking human garbage and no one likes you.

>we've been put in this weird position where we're spending a tremendous amount of time and resources punishing people

I didn't know community managers were also all the coders, artists, and modellers.

They're not blaming GG, they're counting it as a victory for their team. The tone of the article is "we stomped the shitlords so hard in GG, why are they still talking?"

Big if real.

>We can't make content because the players are mean
What an amazing excuse

>Kaplan's tone was somber, conveying understandable exhaustion at the problem.
Doesn't he always sound like this though?

you're right. we should all be mature liberals such as yourself and report toxicity on sight, comrade.

You actually gave them click by making an archive bot visit the site to make a cached copy of the article. Again. Good job.

>Blizzard trying to fix it's toxic community
>AFTER releasing Overwatch
They had actual years to improve everything, and they did nothing.

why though
how does this better the game in any way

I wonder how many people who complain about "toxic" shit either lose/suck at the game. Just win and it shuts them up. Otherwise use ignore you faggot

why Americans are so obsessed with niggers like this

games like this should have a policy of soft banning people who report others before blocking or muting them, reporting needs to be used for cheaters, spammers and doxxers saying nasty things is something that should be self moderated by individuals except in extreme extenuating circumstances

Since you're being a nitpicking faggot I'll be one too: It only does it once.
Now shut the fuck up, you stupid cunt.

In America, they are. One of the main community managers was the head of the entire art division.

>One game banned half of New Zealand

Okay what

>game developers are now spending more time thought policing their community than making video games

Well that explains a few things.

because people don't have to deal with shitty people

I'm not the one asspained about clicks when I give them none, but you guys seem to be.

>unironically using the term "shitlord"
won't these people just fuck off already?

>gave them 50 clicks just now
Hehehe

Toxicity was a great album though, why report it?

what are you still allowed to say in overwatch?
if someone fucks something up is it allowed to tell him that he did something bad or is that reason to be banned/muted?

>grew up

lol, something tells me this nigger still spouts out Star Wars and Harry Potter comparisons every hour or so.

>You can't build a community-focused video game in 2017 without dealing with shitlords
kek

>Vice
If you keep reading that, you will off yourself soon, probably on some sort of leftist suicide cult pact thing on a farm.
Fanatical cults either end like that or on a killing spree, and well i don't think this is looking too much like a killey spree cult.

what a waste of time

oh so they really don't care about communities.

>Banning people for free speech is ethically and legally wrong.

>banned half of New Zealand

>direct link
kys

Blizzards attitude is kinda funny. Instead of just not giving a fuck and concentrating on making the technical aspects of the game better, instead they choose to fight a battle that has been raging since the dawn of humanity. You can't beat down human nature like that. The lunacy kaplan spews is nauseating.

>using archive sites
>instead of viewing the source page in incognito and clicking the ads
It's like you don't want to support journalism or something.

The more authoritarian you are, the more subtle and memetic it becomes. You may be able to mass ban for use of the word "nigger", but what are you going to do when people start using WE WUZ instead? Ban them all too?

>One game banned half of New Zealand
Top kek.

Probably RAnGEban.
Some insistent new zealand troll kept kicking his modem to reset and get a new IP, and they kept banning all the ranges.

>post-gamergate world

I'm sorry I had to BTFO you like this, user...

>"journalist"
>writing like a 16 year old

Can you just stop taking the clowns serious

>We're working sooooo haaaaarrrrd guys its your fault the game still has problems

>have youtube channel
>spout out Star Wars and Harry Potter comparisons every hour or so
>make more than the average American
lol, time to move on to the retirement home grandpa.

>gamergate is still mentioned

kek

but you better bake that faggot wedding cake, goy, or else.

Lol, every match I play in overwatch I literally don't stop talking about how muslims are destroying Europe and that people need to wake up and do something before it is too late.

And about 40% of the other players agree with me.

If things keep going the way they are now, we're going to have a world war not over Best Korea, free fucking speech.

>Patrick Cuckpek

Doesn't make sense when the service provider operates a de facto monopoly on things (eg Google or Paypal).

What's next, are you going to claim shutting off someone's water and electricity supply is also ok if they perpetuate wrongthink because "heh, it's the private sector doing it bucko, not our problem"?

Irrelevant. Trackers see that it comes from the same IP and CPA ads don't count multiple times for the same cookies either.

The core clique of 'gaming' journalist still talk to one another. Nothings really changed dude.

pro tip, the rifht of free speech isn't being infringed upon you retard

>grew up
>looks like a balding kid

they expected one of us in the wreckage brother

>we've been put in this weird position where we're spending a tremendous amount of time and resources punishing people and trying to make people behave better."

I miss the old days Sup Forums.

Overwatch could easily improve the experience for 99% of it's playerbase by adding a votekick and "don't let me play with this guy again" option, like TF2 and Steam have had since forever. They'd rather throw hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of resources towards a hand-selected ban review system, because they're more focused on making Overwatch a respected eSport game than making sure their players have a good time.

Fuck Blizzard, fuck Kaplan.

One thing i'll never understand i why SJWs can't just ignore chat or mute people
Someone says nigger and you gotta pretend to have a full-on nervous breakdown because of it?

>g-goobergators

Fucking this.

I love Overwatch and I've been playing it since day 1, but holy fuck, the community is just a bunch of reddit crybabies. I actually go to the Overwatch subleddit to catch the news/balance discussion and the whole thing is filled with retards wanting a hug for climbing from bronze to gold or because they sure told someone in their POTG that they can play Widow.

I'm glad I'm a monkey so these retards are a minority in south america servers. Fucking hate these people crying every time someone says something they dislike.

God I hate Randall. The epitome of an autistic liberal STEMfaggot SV cunt.

>only whites can be racist
>whites can only be racist against blacks
user, please. i've been called a dirty, wetback spic so many times, I stopped caring. and whenever I play shit like gta5, it's nothing but anti-chinese and russian comments in every single lobby.
>hey chink faggot, go back to your rice patty you yellow nigger
also, there's anti white these days as well. if you play shit like fifa and 2k, the white boys get it there.

Yes it is. Especially now that the internet is considered a basic right along with social media. Don't be too upset that soon you'll be sucking those cocks for no reason at all.

Shit talk in games was never an issue until they made it an issue.

Fuck off you retarded fucking faggot. You must be 18+ to post here.

>the absolute state of millionials

>"We want to make new maps, we want to make new heroes, we want to make animated shorts," said Kaplan. "But we've been put in this weird position where we're spending a tremendous amount of time and resources punishing people and trying to make people behave better."#

Would suck working at Blizzard where modelers, animators, texture artists, level designers and programmers are tasked to moderate in-game chat. Nowhere else do these positions get this task. I definitely wouldn't recommend applying to work at Blizzard.

>"don't let me play with this guy again" option
They had that. Apparently it was fucking with the matchmaking so much that some really good people couldn't find games anymore (because nobody wanted to play against a really good sniper), aside from matches with only new people.

This. Also mvci is coming out