Toxicity in gaming has been a problem for many years now. Players are abusing their rights and gamers are getting hurt as a result. So, developers like Ubisoft began to take measures to ensure that the toxicity in their games would stop, and for Rainbow Six Siege, that meant giving a very distinct ban regiment to those who did not follow the rules. And while some may complain about the bans, Ubisoft is not one of them.
In fact, they praised themselves for the bans in a recent interview with PC Gamer:
“The ban system is going strong, actually, and we feel very strongly about the system,” Remy told the site during a recent interview. “That system is going to be evolving too. Today, the system means that any player that uses homophobic or racial slurs in our chat will automatically receive a temporary ban. After three temporary bans you get permanently banned.
“That is a very, very strong stance from Ubisoft and from the game about how we want to deal with toxicity in the game. That feature will evolve as we develop in the future, we plan to add filtering systems to stop those words even showing up at all in the chat, so it’s going to be a little more flexible.”
And they believe they are just in their bans:
“There’s a saying that goes something along the lines of ‘your freedom ends where mine begins’. To us, it’s not a question of freedom or equality, it’s a question of respect. Behaving in a respectful way, I believe, is not a requirement that’s beyond humanity. Respect is all we are asking for. I believe that with those measures that we’re putting in place, we are exactly on the right path of making a community, as much as possible, that’s respectful of one another.”
Rainbow Six Siege continues to go strong, and it’ll be even stronger now of the lessened toxicity among its players.
