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Obviously this kind of behaviour is wrong and should be criticized but I believe woman aren't the target for the sake of their gender but rather they are targeted like anyone else and due to their gender they encounter comments specified in that particular way to attack them on their gender.
They should do exactly what they are doing to prevent other rude comments. There should be option to report these kind of players and they should be muted/banned.
I don't feel like I should. I am trying to act polite and to have some manners but I can't be responsible for actions of others. If I'd see drunk guy on a street yelling vulgar things at me I wouldn't take it personally and I would shrug it off as it is him who is embarassing himself - not me. The best we can do is to ignore this kind of people and to remember that they are showing with this kind of behaviour who they are, not who we are.
Yeah, unfortunately, I've been seeing such treatment of girls in computer games. Often it is also visible on streams from computer games where some chat users write terrible comments.
2. What should game developers do to prevent this?
They should be able to report this type of offense. It should also be possible to throw such a player out of the game and mute him. Unfortunately, I think that education in this case will not help such players.
3. What we can do to prevent this kind of situations?
We have to respond to these kinds of harassment and admonish these people. If this doesn't work immediately, we have to report such a player, mute and ignore them. If such a thing is repeated, it is up to the developers to permanently exclude this person from the game. Another possibility is to implement a communication system that only allows you to communicate about game situations and not directly write or talk to your own team.
2. There is not much they can do and it’s already done everything that can be: lately, competitive games don’t allow to communicate with your opponents in chat – for numerous reasons but among the others it prevents teams from offending each other. Aside from that, system of reporting the toxic teammates has been available for some time now. Developers can’t turn off the chat system completely as it helps with the coordination of team actions.
3. I think that responsibility for their time and experience lays to a large extent on the gamers themselves. They just have to know what they step into. You are a girl and you know with what kind of mad people you have to deal with? Don’t use micro to communicate – use chat. Still want to use micro? Learn to answer those offences or learn to ignore them – those players are probably just a bunch of frustrated kids anyway. You don’t have to communicate via chat or audio at all. But frankly – competitive games are not a place you want to go to have a good time.
2. The same things they do against any toxic players.
3. Other players should react and mark that this kind of behaviour is not acceptable.
I have seen comments addressed to girls gamers, but not so violent. In those games I play, girls are usually invited to play together or on a date. I have never encountered discrimination against girls in games I play. Even I find quite a lot of news that after such games some people get married.
2. What should game developers do to prevent this?
It's hard to say something when you're not a developer and haven't encountered such problem. You can try to introduce a system of bans for sexism in games, but I'm afraid that this will lead to more hatred and fewer players that developers would not be very profitable. Honestly, I don't know what to advise.
3. What can we do to prevent this kind of situations?
In my opinion, at the time of publishing the game, it is necessary to properly educate the game community, to prove that girls can play not worse or better than boys in this game, adequate players should defend girls and girls should treat a little easier to game critics. Those who write such things are also not saints.
2. I think the best developers can do is creating a ban systems that would allow users to report such situations. Also such behavior should be punished by a long-time ban.
3. I think that this behavior towards women became some kind of meme. It's common and acceptable amoung gamers community, which is not good and should be condemned by the people.
2. The issue with game developers doing anything about overall toxicity in multiplayer games is the cost of such actions. I think many game developers don't want to spend money on moderating chats in their games, it costs too much. I hope in future A.I. will make it cheaper so we can have a healthier community in multiplayer games.
3. It depends. When it comes to men it is probably behaving properly. Don't treat a girl playing games like she is worse or better than others. If you view her as another gamer then she will get most fun out of the game. As I mentioned above I hope that A.I. development will help tackling the overall toxicity problem in games in nearby future. When it comes to girls themselves, sadly all they can do is ignore (mute in game) people that insult them and eventually report them after the game.
I hope you will try to come back to games and you will find better people to play with. Maybe people from our university play a game that interests you?
I have to admit that girls in MMORPGs are treated better. Mainly due to the fact that there is no such competition as in FPS games. In MMO you play either solo or with the team against AI
The idea with AI sounds really interesting. I hope it comes soon!
Few months ago there was not even possible to report such toxic players. You had to make a screenshot as evidence, find correct email and write everything what happened. Fortunately, now in R6 there is an option to report player for cheating, toxic behavior on chat, even on voice chat.
They shouldn't do anything more than they are doing right now - blocking toxic players chat or microphone is usually good enough.
If anyone feels offended while using voice chat than it should be turned off manually by this person. As I wrote earlier I have my chat normally turned off as it doesn't do any good to use it. And if You are playing for the ranking than doing it solo doesn't make sense either so in my opinion - when You play solo, turn off the chat, if You want to gain ranking, play with friends who won't offend You.
2. I guess it is not direct prevention but would definitely be important point in fighting with sexist in games in general. And I mean changes that include for example appearance of female characters in games and their roles in the storyline. Also some ban system would work quite good.
3. I can't actually react often myself because as I said I don't enjoy most of the games in which situations like this can happen. I can only assume fully emotional reactions are always bad because it gives more of a satisfaction to person acting like this. You show that they actually managed to hurt you, and this is exactly what they mean to do. So don't give them this sadysfaction. However, no reaction is in my opinion even worse. When we were young people were always repeating to us it's better to not react at all and ignore stuff like this. I disagree. I think the more people will react and not make fun of it or ignore it the more likely it will be to reduce such behavior which only spoil others' fun of playing games.
Every online multiplayer game should have good support team available, every gamer (not only girls) is basically a customer and should be treated like one: she or he should be able to easily report a bully and some action should be taken right away - to ban bully from a game for some time or permanently (of course it should be done fairly to not allow anybody abuse this system).
Well, to educate your children to be a kind person for sure. Other players should also react when they see a situation like this.
And, hey, tell Karolina (it’s Karolina, right?) that she’s probably just better than them and guys usually hate it ;) Gamer girls are amazing and she should not give up games because of some stupid and pathetic child.
Yes, many times. I do not get it why people write things like this. They probably feel secure because they are not face to face, but the forget that they are not anonymous in the Internet, esecially in video games where your account is checked with your Name.
2. They can only ban people like this, they are not resposible for people who are playing their games, they should develop some alrgotmical program who will search for bad words and ban this people.
3. We should turn off the chat or mute people who are aggressive. We should play but do not talk and react on it. It is better to not comment in this situation.
I witnessed this situation a long time ago. I think the situation has normalized a bit when it comes to the approach to female players.
2. What should game developers do to prevent this?
I think that it is not game developers who should change something, only players should be stigmatized for such bad behavior towards women.
3. What we can do to prevent this kind of situations?
I think we should exclude such people from the gaming community. Nobody who wants to enjoy the game likes such situations.
2. I don't think it's devs' job to prevent this. There should be possible to report such player to someone like server administrator or moderator.
3. We should raise awareness about this problem and react if we are seeing such situation.
2. I don't know if there is anything they can do about it. The only thing that can help them is machine learning, which would automatically pick up such comments. You can still report bullying, but it’s impossible to remove them all.
3. People should react systematically to aggressive behaviour and report it all the time.
2) Zero tolerance policy towards any kind of harassment of anyone, not just women. Competitive online games tend to strain the nervous system a lot, hence preventing people who obviously cannot cope with the pressure and go crazy from playing is also good for their mental health and not just for the community.
3) A very simple thing, if a game makes you so angry, you wanna say something you will never say in real-life - stop playing. It does more harm than good to you anyway.