Starcraft II's Toxic Community

dont forget, technically the endorsement system was created by Riot Games under Tencent, Tencent also owns blizzard/activision now and put out a big press release a week or so before endorsements went live on overwatch saying "DOTA, Blizzard and Riot Games have teamed up to fight toxicity with ways for team mates to reward each other for good behavior" which is a nice way of saying "Tencent told us to implement Riots post game endorsement system"

As a lifetime starcraft fan, I looked at this thumbnail expecting to come in here being all mad, but then I watched it and was like "Yea, they right". Co-op chat is a nightmare and i just straight don't join public channels. We do have a good reddit community though and our streamer culture is mostly positive.

I mean you're not wrong but on this very site there's regular influxes of spammers trying to get people to click on malware.

I think, having active moderation in free games is just, never going to happen. Starcraft makes money on the co-op mainly, but it is very little compared to their other games (except for diablo where there is no money to be made) I think a lot of people that play tune it out, or are sadly used to it, but just try to report it, at least it forces those dumbasses to make a new account with a new email to get it. I haven't noticed get bad on EU, but everytime on NA it's pretty insane.

Oooof also r6 siege

All my years playing Co-op I've never encountered people like that. I think I've seen some in the dashboard chat, but that's small box in the bottom and I don't spend time in there to even notice. I don't even though why that chat is even there. Why are they acting like self-reporting is doing nothing? Blizzard probably thinks doing something drastic will not go over well with the player base and will kill the game. Are they complaining that blizzard won't shut down SC2? Or do they want them to still support a game with no players and makes no money? And there comment about making a game for racists. They're still there. They exist, just not in the chat.

They are missing huge parts of this story, they do emphasize a few times about the age of the game, but don't mention how much time/effort/money it would take to patch that into the game. Not to mention the amount of players that are there it makes it hard to hire enough people to moderate all the channels in the games, so they rely upon people to report abusers, and when no one reports, no action is taken, no review of the account is made. It takes more than a singular report from a single person to trigger the system into forwarding it to either automated action or for further human review. Is it a good way for them to moderate the chat? Not really. Is it effective? I feel it can be, I know of a few people in World Of Warcraft that have received multi-day bans for abusive language, and they now try to keep it clean.. But in the end, it still relies upon you the player to not ignore it, and report the issues. If they don't know, they can't act, and have a sense of plausible deniability. However, when coming into this video, I honestly expected some sort of expose on the SC2 community as a whole, not a "I saw bad things in one game, and here are a couple of complaints in another game, and why don't they do what they do in a brand new game in games that are 10+ years old." I am not saying that this is not a story, but the way it was presented almost makes it come across as a non-story. If you wanted toxicity in SC2, start looking at r/Starcraft, start talking to the casters, specifically Artosis, Nathanias, Rifkin, ZombieGrub, Feardragon, those guys have all faced one form of community toxicity or another over their careers.

God can't the internet just have fun places? Many of us consider that internet banter entertaining.. And all these pseudo journalists thrive on exposing it, ruining it and essentially killing a game by driving away actual fans.. No mention oh how other countries are just as racist and xenophobic online towards us as we are them. You'll never stop comedy at someone elses expense.. This is literally no different than being on most discord servers which are general overlays for a game

While it was not on Starcraft, WoW has also been having issues with the occasional chat whisper of evil crap, and it does seem like there response to anything on any of there games older than 10 years is “ignore until it goes away”.

Oh no I don't like this community. Instead of choosing not to be part of it, I'm going to call up the devs as a media company and essentially strong arm them into doing something about it. I'm not the bad guy because they're the bad guys just having a good time in their little community. I'm not interested in engaging people I disagree with. I'd rather have them removed! There's nothing wrong with that, right? If I had the choice they'd just all die right now so I don't see them in any future communities. That would be for the best because that's how I feel and how I feel is more important than anything you have to say! Big. Kappa. Bros.

Honestly I don't see the need to care. Just ignore it