no they wont
other people gettign less exp for somone quitting was a bug, people who dc and are counted as afk should be kicked... cause oh idk, DCing they are gone... and AFk is well AFK....
your so blind you cant even read the original post.... as you think its automatic, and people who are silenced cant group up/whisper somone/or do anything with anyone ever...
make somone else in your raid leader so they can invite them/whisper them
yes you spammed chat for 3 hours, now your silenced for 24 hours, yep sounds 100% unfair
I think it is a good feature which MIGHT stop some of those people that are spamming "wts challengemode gold" kind of stuff, and are trying to charge rl currency for it.
It has gone to far, and I am happy blizzard is going to do something about it
The ignore feature can't stop all of them...
For those who aren't on either side of the argument I don't see why it would be a big issue then. Chances are they don't tell racist jokes, insult women and children very often, and don't spam trade very often with stupid political jokes that aren't usually that entertaining.
I don't understand why you feel jokes will no longer be jokes or imply that you can't have fun with your friends still. I doubt guild chat is one of those chat channels that Blizzard will choose to monitor since individual guilds have their own internal rules & they probably wouldn't want to step on the toes of guilds that way. If you want to tell a joke, be racist or sexist, or even troll your own guild then go ahead you'll have that as one option. You can also form your own groups in blizzard lfg with like minded players and not have to worry about the content of what you say either. You can also form small random groups just of your friends, or have conversations through whispers or over any voice chat. Is it a need to have other random people read what you may type in general or trade when it isn't game related. Are audiences of nobodies that important to have in the game? If not, then I listed multiple options that people will have to talk openly still.
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It might stop some of those scammers, but this feature really isn't used to be a weapon against people that double post their legit trades/sales. Trade chat is called that for a reason (and I honestly believe too many players have genuinely forgotten that & want to have it be the soapbox for their coversations), they have every right to post what they're trying to sell so long as they aren't doing it literally every minute.
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I don't see how asking an actual question would get you silenced, unless you're obviously trying to be a d-bag by asking something like "Why are women *&^$#^@?" or "Why are all Muslims terrorists?" Unless you were trying to push some agenda like that that is baked into a question you shouldn't be punished. Personally I feel that most people are socially savy enough to understand which opinions are offensive and which are not. It's not like you'll fall into a hole or some trap where all of a sudden you didn't know that a particular widespread negative stereotype or veiw of a group of people was indeed going to be taken offensively.
Good idea! They could also have an achievement for being reported and silenced. Titles could start off with ... the Mute, then, maybe ... the Unpleasant and once you reach, say, a week of being silenced you could have something like a green cloud follow your character around so others can identify your toxicity.
I don't understand, do people regularly insult someone and spout out insults all the time? I really fucking hope people don't honestly think they will get muted for calling someone idiotic due to their plays or just not performing well, and explaining why. I mean, not even LoL (the most stringent system) does that.
Basically just think of anything that's not PC. Speaking negatively of feminism, immigration, the "Q" part of LGBTQ, Pride, religion, etc. Not sure what world you live in but when people get silenced it's rarely because of racial slurs.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=politically+incorrect+censorship
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=facebook+censorship
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=twitter+shadowban
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=british+man+arr...muslim+twitter
Saying there are no "oppressive GMs out to get you" or that their ToS hasn't changed is ridiculous. Have you read their ToS? It couldn't be more vague. "...in the sole and absolute discretion of Blizzard, is deemed to be offensive, including without limitation...". The system is changing from them not getting money from those they ban, and therefore choose to only ban those who are truly toxic, to handing out silences as a form of warning and language control. Again, we've seen this multiple times before. If you've ever played League of Legends you'd know that you can get silenced by even asking for reports on a toxic player. Anything they deem "negative behaviour" is punishable.
I'm not on either side of the immature behaviour that's going on where someone acts immature and therefore you have to respond in an equally immature fashion. As I've said multiple times already: /ignore and they can't hurt you. Why is insulting women particularly bad in your opinion? And this isn't about spamming tradechat. They said "within the various channels" - meaning anywhere. Not sure why you think discussions are exclusive to tradechat or general. /say is a channel of its own for example. And forcing people to make groups to hide completely legitimite discussions is exactly the problem. It's not about having an audience. It's about having a discussion, that people can follow and jump in on if they'd like. It's about having the freedom to talk about what you want to talk about.
Read my text to the guy above you and you'll see some examples of what I'm talking about. But I'll give one now since you brought it up yourself. Asking "why do muslims worship a prophet who had sex with a 9 year old" would be deemed unacceptable and probably get me punished, even though it's a valid question to ask if you're discussing religion or islam. But since it puts them in a negative light, the one highlighting the issue is going to be punished.
This has happened to me quite some times; it is not funny at all, doing any kind of multiplayer activity in the game, looking for an specific performance, giving a detailed explanation of what is needed, someone saying he/she knows how to do it, and yeah ending in a total failure, and discovering you have been lied by that person.
Yeah what you are describing is real, nearly everyone has experienced something like that in the game, and as i said not funny at all.
But i also take for granted that you have been playing this game long enough for knowing that the only solution is to play exclusively with friends, or with people you know they can perform accordingly to what is required, because otherwise you will always be at risk of that situation happening.
Calling those people idiots or telling them they are cancer, it is not gonna help with the issue even in the slightest, it is better to let it go and look for people who can do the job.
Another thing, for another topic, is what can be done to make it easier finding people suitable for that content you want to do, so you do not have to rely so much on friends and people you know, but again, another topic.
Are you really suggesting what you type is to be "acceptable" and the people at the receiving end is the one that has to do ignore the person.
Wow. I can imagine being in a resturant with this one person telling every other patrons just have to ignore this person telling them they are autistic and should kill themselves.
I don't agree with censoring players
I've literally never used the ignore function, or reported anyone for anything (except gold spammers of course)
People should be able to say what they want regardless of whether or not it offends someone
I know it's a game with terms and conditions and all that but free speech is more precious than people realize nowadays
That's not the main issue tho, you're also unable to use mail. I don't give a shit about being muted, but being unable to send shit between characters is a major fucking pain. I really don't see why they had to include that. As if people are actually going to use the in-game mail to offend other players.
What have I written that is not acceptable in your opinion?
Is it hard to ignore someone? Are you really so fragile that you break at a random person's insult? Are you not mature enough to realise what you can actively do to stop the situation?
Ignoring someone IRL isn't the same as typing /ignore in game. Tired of repeating myself.
There is no way the system is not going to be automated in some way. There are millions of players still playing WoW, which will generate tens to hundreds of thousands of reports per day. Do you really think there will be enough people monitoring the system to stay on top of all those reports?
(Oh, speaking of Halo: Reach mute bans: I got mute-banned in Halo: Reach within two days of playing multiplayer... despite not having a microphone to speak into.)
If they just happen to do so in a LF"R" carebear situation they just might.
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actually there are those who do. it is called a mail bomb. all they do is send tons of empty messages to someone they do not like and fill their inbox essentially keeping them from using it for its intended purpose.
There is no Bad RNG just Bad LTP