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New Anti-Toxic Measures Put in Place & Rexxar Added | Heroes of the Storm | MMORPG.com

SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
edited September 2015 in News & Features Discussion

imageNew Anti-Toxic Measures Put in Place & Rexxar Added | Heroes of the Storm | MMORPG.com

Blizzard has added a new feature to Heroes of the Storm called the "Silence Penalty" in an effort to prevent a "toxic community" from forming in the highly competitive game. In addition, the Eternal Conflict event is now concluded and Warcraft hero, Rexxar, has been added to the game.

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  • umcorianumcorian Member UncommonPosts: 519
    This might actually encourage me to try Heroes of the Storm.
  • XclenXclen Member UncommonPosts: 8
    Or trolls will just report everyone constantly for no reason but to be trolls.
  • LudwikLudwik Member UncommonPosts: 407
    Then investigate their accounts and close them. Make them buy all the champs over again.

    MMOs desperately need something like this. I firmly believe the lack of discipline for negative and destructive players is what's holding online gaming especially MMOs back.

    Imagine playing softball in the real world and every other pitch some jerk runs on to the field, screams a bunch of profanities, then lays on home plate refusing to move. The collective group of players would either knock some sense into the person or they'd all quit playing. Well online you can't knock the sense into someone....

    I'd venture to say a lack of discipline for destructive players has cost the MMO industry 10s of millions of players if not more. Putting them on block/ignore is putting a bandaid on flesh wound, you can't hear them but it doesn't stop them from railroading the next player.
  • WizardryWizardry Member LegendaryPosts: 19,332
    edited September 2015
    This was needed in WOW,so why did they choose this game as the starting point after all these years?

    Even so with any excuse why is it not in all their games why choose ONLY this game?

    Reason seems simple to me>>agenda?Hots is not doing as well as they had hoped since everything Blizzard sells makes tons of money.They don't care about Wow because it already makes and has made multi millions.

    It is about money,it is always about money,i feel Blizzard doesn't really care,only about themselves.

    I can't stand when there is an agenda above the intent,it makes people and developers look bad.If i thought Blizzard's intent was honorable then i would commend them,but that would have meant the same procedure for Wow as well,which they did not do.People have been talking about Wow's community for years but not HOTS,so i would say my assumptions are correct.

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  • XingbairongXingbairong Member RarePosts: 927
    Wizardry said:
    This was needed in WOW,so why did they choose this game as the starting point after all these years?

    Even so with any excuse why is it not in all their games why choose ONLY this game?

    Reason seems simple to me>>agenda?Hots is not doing as well as they had hoped since everything Blizzard sells makes tons of money.They don't care about Wow because it already makes and has made multi millions.

    It is about money,it is always about money,i feel Blizzard doesn't really care,only about themselves.

    I can't stand when there is an agenda above the intent,it makes people and developers look bad.If i thought Blizzard's intent was honorable then i would commend them,but that would have meant the same procedure for Wow as well,which they did not do.People have been talking about Wow's community for years but not HOTS,so i would say my assumptions are correct.

    What you are saying makes zero sense... Why would they put this system in WoW or any other game apart from HotS? Have you really encountered such behavior in Diablo? Or Starcraft? What about WoW? I'm really curious what was the situation? Your guildmates started flaming you and you couldn't gquit? Or oh wait, you were doing some random dungeon with some random people and they were a bit offensive and you couldn't leave cause there is a penalty or something? Seriously I can't think of a single situation where your teammates will start insulting you and you would stand there and take it... This is obviously meant for MOBAs/FPS games where you constantly play with random people and people tend to be aggressive due to MOBAs/FPS games being more dynamic, thus "heating up" moments where people would normally not get angry. It's nor surprising that people tend to be more angry in MOBAs. Generally most people consider themselves better than others, so obviously when someone who is more experienced(better) tells them something and they refuse to accept it, it eventually results in a flame wars or in better cases just throwing the game cause they can't stand to play together :P
  • BaitnessBaitness Member UncommonPosts: 675
    An interesting idea to stop another MOBA from becoming a cesspool, but like the other posters I am really concerned that this will just become another tool for griefers and trolls to use in harassing people.
  • ArskaaaArskaaa Member RarePosts: 1,265
    tis system wont work and fails. every damm troll report every player in game for fun.
  • BruceYeeBruceYee Member EpicPosts: 2,556
    Toxic behavior has to be dealt with on a case by case basis in mobas. They are trying to save on manpower by creating an automated system that will fail because people will abuse it. Other mobas thought of doing this but realized early on that every troll would just report everyone.
  • cheyanecheyane Member LegendaryPosts: 9,386
    Won't a false reporter be banned on investigation ?
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  • HorusraHorusra Member EpicPosts: 4,411
    It is pretty much what WoW did not get rid of people selling gold in chat.  If multiple people report them or anyone for spam then they get silenced and reviewed.
  • RenoakuRenoaku Member EpicPosts: 3,157
    edited September 2015
    Great way to screw up the entire game, Its amazing how dumb developers are being, lets look at DOTA 2 & League OF Legends abuse, I Agree there are trolls and toxic players but the amount of restrictions I get is annoying because of being spam reported by toxic trolls, what makes HOTS any different, and will I be able to appeal these and get "White Listed" or put my account on manual review by Blizzard"?---------- If Blizzard is going to add silence as they have then they should add an automated function to check for toxic behavior to prevent trolling if a player is toxic slinging fouls or hate at another its deserved, if its not then the false reports are punished.---------- In addition players who are silenced can appeal this decision if it happens frequently that they are not toxic they are lifted and white listed from all silence game modes until manually reviewed if X player is trolling or toxic in chat then the white list is removed.
  • Daffid011Daffid011 Member UncommonPosts: 7,945
    edited September 2015
    The key is probably the way someone needs to be reporting on a consistent and repetitive basis. Also I’m guessing there will be ways to measure and deal with those who simply report everyone and devalue their reports as trivial or even meaningless. Sounds like a pretty good idea, especially the rolling double penalty.


    Better yet, after the 2nd 3rd or 4th chat suspension, banish those people to a prison server for the duration.  Similar to what EQ2 is doing.

  • HorusraHorusra Member EpicPosts: 4,411
    From what is in the game now you can only report someone you are in a game with.  So telling your friends to report someone is useless cause they have to be in the game with them.  You can also only hear your team and report your team, so you can not troll someone on the other side.  The real troll seems to be found on this forum board.
  • SeorynSeoryn Member UncommonPosts: 42
    DMKano said:
    How are they going to control abusive false-reporting of innocent players by troll groups?
    It was posted elsewhere that the reports are reviewed. If you're reporting someone and that person did nothing, nothing will happen to them. I thiiink they said also that if you keep doing that, something will happen to you. They also have a hero-specific system in place when reporting activity that's toxic, such as feeding kills, or standing around afk. Chances are they're working with a filtered language system when it comes to chat reports. They already have a key list of inappropriate words that they use pretty universally across all their games for the filtering system. It's a bit extreme though, and on the b.net app censors out silly things like homo-sapiens.
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