Little things that make you smile - the anti-peeve thread.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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[Firewind]

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SoE are banning users from games (Everquest, DCUO, Payday: The Heist etc, etc) for harassment of users on Twitter/Facebook... I'm actually surprisingly okay with this.

Sony Online Entertainment: Trolls and Tribulations | GamesIndustry International

[cidbahamut]

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I'm not. What someone does outside their game is not their business. I think while it's well intentioned it sets a bad precedent. Also: how are they confirming that the person who holds an account in their game is the same person who holds the social media account?

[Firewind]

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A lot of SoE accounts can be linked to social media. It's also not exactly hard to see if the details on both accounts match up before taking action even if they aren't linked. It's not as if the banhammer will get swung without investigation, this isn't Bioware.

But how is this any different from getting threats over PSN, Steam or XBox Live? They still take place "outside the game". Harassment is harassment no matter where it happens.

[cidbahamut]

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You're far too trusting. Corporation don't do moderation well at all.

The difference is that those venues are directly tied into the environment you're in. It's the difference between getting banned from FFXI for talking too much smack about the devs on the official forums vs getting banned for talking too much smack about the devs here on DiV.

[Firewind]

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And you're just throwing out strawman arguments to play devil's advocate because we haven't had a good shouting match for a while .

But give the article a good look over, this isn't about talking smack about devs, this is about banning people that threaten murder or rape on other players on online games. But I suppose threatening to do that to someone else is fine as long as it's off game right?

It's an attempt at actually improving the cesspools that a lot of online communities turn into. It's about targeting the very worst out there and telling them "I don't give a fuck how you send these threats to people, we are saying fuck all that noise, and don't want you in the community." Honestly I can't think of a more hilarious and fitting punishment then blocking someone's access to games entirely for being the kind of person to send out death/rape threats from the safety of their keyboard.

[cidbahamut]

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But give the article a good look over, this isn't about talking smack about devs, this is about banning people that threaten murder or rape on other players on online games. But I suppose threatening to do that to someone else is fine as long as it's off game right?

Don't put words in my mouth. It's not fine, but it isn't the game company's responsibility to police what's said on some completely unrelated social media site. If this was a case of social media sites cracking down on death threats that passed through them, it'd be a different matter.

It's an attempt at actually improving the cesspools that a lot of online communities turn into.

This is an impossible task because people are inherently terrible. The only solution is to keep communities small enough to the point where poor behavior has immediate repercussions enacted by the community itself rather than an authority figure. You see it in every single gaming community. Things are cool when it's a relatively small bunch of regulars hanging out, but once you reach critical mass everyone is an asshole. That will never change because it is grounded in basic human nature. All this does is pave the way for outrageous censorship further on down the road.

[Aksannyi]

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Got my tickets to the next local Penguins game. Fuck yeah.

[Aksannyi]

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Saved nearly $100 on mega sales at my favorite store in the mall. fuckyeah.jpg

[Feba]

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classmates organize an unofficial trip for our division. We get there and immediately decide we can't call ourselves by our actual school name, and instead decide to use the number two school's name.

Also the reaction you get when the white guy is leading around a group of natives, because he's the guy that knows the way best.

[Firewind]

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[Firewind]

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[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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That moment you realize the dogs are actually laughing at you...

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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Some new official artwork from A Link Between Worlds:



People are still kind of giggling over the Hyrule/Lorule and Zelda/Hilda thing.

So where's our Shadow Link? It has been a while and he's not gotten work since Ocarina of Time.

[Armando]

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So where's our Shadow Link? It has been a while and he's not gotten work since Ocarina of Time.

Besides the minor cameo in Twilight Princess, there were enough Shadow Links in Four Swords Adventures to last me another decade.