Sure why your at it make the world so locked down that we are no longer humans. the ignore feature already exists and is an answer for harassing behaviour
Sure why your at it make the world so locked down that we are no longer humans. the ignore feature already exists and is an answer for harassing behaviour
The acid of political correctness and the victim mentality continue to erode this game. It's been going on a long time but now it's amplified by the kind of culture we now live in.
So much for preserving a previous iteration of the game, one that many people cherish.
In a shocking twist of events. Sometimes people can feel strongly about some issues over issues, regardless of harm.
Jesus Christ, if people don't want to give Blizzard money anymore, it's not virtue signalling. Even if they continue to do business with other conpantthat also do bad stuff.
"Man is his own star. His acts are his angels, good or ill, While his fatal shadows walk silently beside him."-Rhyme of the Primeval Paradine AFC 54
You know a community is bad when moderators lock a thread because "...this isnt the place to talk about it either seeing as it will get trolled..."
It's most likely because of the speculation that it's because Asmon made it a thing to spit on on people with shop stuff. So the issue is most concentrated there. It would make sense to remove it from retail as well though, as this has never once been used in any decent way. It pretty much exists just to insult people by macro-ing it into your every move.
You are welcome, Metzen. I hope you won't fuck up my underground expansion idea.
It's called World of WARcraft, it has warnings on the box that it's intended for mature adults. Spitting isn't anywhere near the most controversial thing the game has to offer. You literally kill other players in PvP, but spitting is too much
If spitting is the bar height that the company wants to set, then they need to shutter everything in their game catalog except candy crush.
Pathetic. That's just pathetic.
I will never understand political bastards trying to implement politics and video games and make them one.
I will say it again....POLITICS DOES NOT MIX WELL WITH VIDEO GAMES.
Stop with the whole bullshit of right wingers and lefty shit. No one gives a damn about stupid ass Trump or Biden.
Neither one is in Azeroth or Eorzea.
This isn't Twitter where posturing like that matters. And in this case it isn't society that's deciding /spit should be removed. But a company which allows actual harassment to go unpunished (racial slurs, etnic slurs and so on, all of which are present and could be easily solved by Blizzard - they haven't and won't).
/spit is not harassment. It's annoyance. By the way, why only TBC? And not retail?
Riiight, they want to protect their milking goats.
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Insulting someone is not the same as harassing someone and people do not spam it and it isn't as prevalent as you imagine it to be.
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I love how all of the SS supporters are coming out to police people's behavior so diligently. You are never going to get this "perfect utopia" of everybody being NICE to everybody. Personally. I don't want to be in a world where you have to be nice to people that want to police every aspect of your behavior to fit their feelings. And neither do most sane people. Because we know what overreach that is going to give to corporations and government. Oh, wait....
Posting anything referring to Asmongold is worse than being /spit on in game. Every video he makes is a giant loogie in every person's face that has is "content" show up as recommended.
Read the last few pages and I'm amazed how some people managed to contrive an annoyance in to harassment akin to slurs or violation of personal space/bodily autonomy.
Clowns and sycophants.
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Imagine for a second there are people who aren't you. Now imagine someone who got a mount they enjoyed out of the shop, riding around on it because they think it looks cool and makes them happy. And now imagine that every time they're in a city or other populated area, people SPAM /spit on them, some even automatically with the aid of a WA. For days on end. All. The. Time.
This has nothing to do with "omg someone used /spit on me NOW I AM SO TRIGGURRRD AAAAH!" or whatever other scenario people like to conjure up. It's being removed because it's proven itself to have become a problem, being codified as an in-game standard for direct and insistent disrespect. That's how communication works. Words and gestures take on new meanings, and depending on what the underlying social dynamics are, those may or may not become problematic to the point of intervention. Very rarely does this relate to the literal or original meaning - to suggest so is incredibly reductionist and myopic, and ignorant of the way actual social communication works.