In the Call of Duty community, there are a few dark corners. Aggressive players without respect or restraint rampage through the chats, insulting both friends and foes. However, CoD is cracking down more and more, banning massive numbers of accounts, demanding name changes, and introducing 3 new behavioral rules.
Call of Duty has always been a phenomenon in gaming. In recent years, however, the most successful shooter franchise has stepped up its game even further, gaining many millions of players. With this comes a great responsibility.
The CoD community has a bad reputation. Most players can behave, are fair, helpful, and unobtrusive. But as is often the case, there is a small minority that causes trouble.
Racism, bullying, intolerance – if you play with active in-game chat, you will unfortunately come into contact with such things sooner or later.
Call of Duty clearly stands against such behavior, showing its progress in the fight against the toxic minority in a recent blog post and introducing new rules that all players must confirm right before the start of the CoD MW2 beta.
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What progress are the developers reporting? Call of Duty has already banned hundreds of thousands of accounts that have misbehaved. Additionally, players with offensive names are forced to change them. The numbers:
- 500,000 accounts banned for toxic behavior
- 300,000 accounts had to change their name
Since the last report on the topic of toxic players, a total of 150,000 accounts have been banned in about 1.5 years.
Back then, it was also announced that voice chat would be analyzed more closely to detect toxic behavior. This system also includes name creation in-game and the text chat. The filtering system now covers 14 languages.
Languages of the CoD filter system
- English
- French
- Italian
- Portuguese
- German
- Spanish
- Russian
- Polish
- Japanese
- Korean
- Chinese – Traditional
- Chinese – Simplified
- Turkish
- Arabic
What new rules are there? To provide players with clear and simple guidelines on how to behave correctly in the game, there is a new “Code of Conduct” – a behavioral code consisting of 3 parts:
- Treat everyone with respect
- Compete with integrity
- Stay vigilant
Basically, it’s about behaving reasonably towards other players, not cheating, and reporting violations of the first two rules to CoD. You can find the complete English blog post on callofduty.com.
Call of Duty has steadily grown and continues to have a lot of potential. They want to ensure that players feel more comfortable and look out for each other despite the competitive environment.
Do you think CoD is doing enough to combat toxic behavior in its games? Is there something specific that you wish for? Leave a comment with your thoughts.
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