WoW Social Contract. Spreading the Liberal Facist Cancel Culture to silence others.
Really good and long overdue tbh, but the proof will be in the enforcement, ffxiv shows the way forward with this.
This is $%^&ing stupid.
Yet they do nothing when I report a player for harassing me because my healing is not up to par
I think that this is a good idea in principle, but it's kind of like that button in pokemon go that says "I'm a passenger." How does blizzard know if we're telling the truth?Also, it better not give me that screen every time I open the game.
Americans unable to deal with their society problems > let's push the problems on every society on the planet.Please stop exporting your problems.
It should just say "welcome to the internt, some people are &*!@#$%s, deal with it" instead of all this bull^&*!
World of Snowflakes
So players ask them to fix their buggy as Maw game, Stop defecating on the lore and characters people actually like and care about, and to stop R&*ing people and drinking their Br&*st milk.Blizzard responds with"All of your behaviors that had no affect on the game before, are actually what is harming the game and the company."1) All the plebs joking on people worried about free speech don't seem to realize this is just the start like always. This "safe space" bull will lead to an echo chamber of only non competitives in a game based on competition.2) This is already handed out in the ToS and GM interactions. Used to be calling anyone the "F word/R word/N word" would get you automatically banned for 3 days - permaban with one infraction and has been this way since the game's inception.3) This is obviously non-enforceable unless they plan to automate it since they fired 95% of the GMs. This means it will be rife with abuse just like the automated report function is used to kick people out of EBGs and BGs today and was abused in multiple expansions in Rated PvP to kick people out of the RBG or Arena instance. Don't like someone, report them and get them banned until it is appealed. Funny thing is, it will be the safe space loving people that are the worst kind of people and the ones that will abuse this.4) How dare THEY even think about lecturing me on how to interact with people.
Meanwhile, Russians are still basically banned from the game because of their nationality. Well, Russian isn't a race, gender, or ability, so this kind of discrimination is fine, I guess.
I have a number of questions, including whether or not this will be every single time we login (even after getting disconnected) with no option to stop seeing it after agreeing the first time; hard to believe as it may be, there are indeed a number of us who aren't toxic rear-holes in-game and thus don't need an unavoidable prompt reminding us to do what we already know and practice in treating others how we want to be treated"Other disruptive behaviors" is also far too vague, I can see that clause being easily abused
Normally just lurk, felt like posting for once.On paper this is almost nothing new, most of what this describes is already bannable(in theory) but I'm concerned with this in practice. The portion everyone focuses on is obviously talking about harassment, which I'm fine with and tbh if anything all the better to leave it undefined. Harassment over gameplay, politics, race, opinions on star wars, or whatever else you can imagine is still harassment and deserves to be treated as such.I think if it could be guaranteed that bans and such are only given to actual abusers and harassers few would bat an eye, though the "freeze peach" may have a point depending in how this is acted upon. Can you mock a celeb or politician and get in trouble, despite them not being a player? Can you have a civil discussion on gender and get banned if someone reports you having the wrong opinion? Chances are with Blizzard automating things more and more I'm doubtful much will come of this regardless, but I'm hoping the above can be clarified and they er on the side of allowing the above and focusing on harassment of any and all stripes.