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Nice to see a little sanity in these comments. The only multiplayer I’ve played in the last 15+ years is some Nintendo stuff like Splatoon/Mario Kart or Fall G

by MBCook 3y ago

Nice to see a little sanity in these comments. The only multiplayer I’ve played in the last 15+ years is some Nintendo stuff like Splatoon/Mario Kart or Fall Guys, where there is no voice chat or text chat. The one exception was Destiny, where there was no voice chat by default or I had turned it off. Don’t remember which. Random internet people are a disaster. MS has a brand to keep up, they don’t want to be known for the kind of trash that make up the loudest segment of online gaming. Good for them. This seems like the right decision to me. Don’t like the XBLA policies? Don’t play online on the Xbox.

ryandrake 3y ago
> Nice to see a little sanity in these comments. Seriously. I used to be much more of a free speech absolutist, but I have to admit the experiment has failed. The unmoderated Internet is a cesspool, and unmoderated game chat is a sewer within a cesspool. People are just sick of it. Whenever you see someone set up "The Free Speech Version Of Site XYZ" (where XYZ can be Reddit, Twitter, anything really) it almost inevitably fills itself up with trash. Show me an unmoderated site that isn't entirely spam and sewage. I say run an experiment: Set up some moderated servers and unmoderated servers, and let people vote with their controllers. Normal people don't want to join a game or website where the lobby is full of 14 year olds shouting N--ger N--ger N--ger N--ger over and over.
- rcxdude 3y ago
  > I say run an experiment: Set up some moderated servers and unmoderated servers, and let people vote with their controller. That's what we had with community servers. And you could generally find one which meshed with your skill level, gameplay style, and tolerance for abuse. I would quite like that back, TBH, so yes, let's have that experiment! (but like, have the moderation in that community as well, not imposed by a corporation. Apart from you can have different standards in different places it's also generally more effective. A bad actor (cheating or abuse) in most of these lobbies will still ruin the whole game, because they don't get banned for a while. I'd say that's ineffective moderation, regardless of the accuracy of the decisions).
- redox99 3y ago
  Really depends on the game. I'm sure in Rust most people would go to the "unmoderated" server.

by MBCook 3y ago

ryandrake 3y ago

> Nice to see a little sanity in these comments. Seriously. I used to be much more of a free speech absolutist, but I have to admit the experiment has failed. The unmoderated Internet is a cesspool, and unmoderated game chat is a sewer within a cesspool. People are just sick of it. Whenever you see someone set up "The Free Speech Version Of Site XYZ" (where XYZ can be Reddit, Twitter, anything really) it almost inevitably fills itself up with trash. Show me an unmoderated site that isn't entirely spam and sewage. I say run an experiment: Set up some moderated servers and unmoderated servers, and let people vote with their controllers. Normal people don't want to join a game or website where the lobby is full of 14 year olds shouting N--ger N--ger N--ger N--ger over and over.

rcxdude 3y ago
> I say run an experiment: Set up some moderated servers and unmoderated servers, and let people vote with their controller. That's what we had with community servers. And you could generally find one which meshed with your skill level, gameplay style, and tolerance for abuse. I would quite like that back, TBH, so yes, let's have that experiment! (but like, have the moderation in that community as well, not imposed by a corporation. Apart from you can have different standards in different places it's also generally more effective. A bad actor (cheating or abuse) in most of these lobbies will still ruin the whole game, because they don't get banned for a while. I'd say that's ineffective moderation, regardless of the accuracy of the decisions).
redox99 3y ago
Really depends on the game. I'm sure in Rust most people would go to the "unmoderated" server.