I’m just saying, if you can’t handle the toxic back lash in a productive manner, you shouldn’t be in the position as community manager.
We can sit here all day and virtual signal about how bad it is to get death threats. We get it, it’s bad. Can we move on now and do something else with our lives?
Again, I’m not down playing any type of harassment, but when someone has a title of “community manager” or anything in communication and they can’t figure out to…
1: Block/mute people, a function that exists on every platform.
2: Turn off their phone/computer and find something else to do when the community gets toxic.
3: Oh, I don’t know, grow a thicker skin??
Listen, and again, I’m not down playing the harassment. It needs to stop, and I don’t expect my managers to always be able to keep a stone heart with reading said material.
But playing the victim card, insulting the fanbase, is not productive. and has only fanned the flames of war even further.
Or maybe we should not accept it as “just the way things are”.
Yes, people with media outlets access have an easier time bringing attention to this than in many other jobs.
Still a good thing that anyone who are able to, brings attention to it.
A toxic fanbase/customers are not worth catering to. Maybe not even financially as they drive other customers away.
Note: I don’t know what the specific case is people are talking about here, so not speaking specifically about it.
Again, we can sit here all day and argue about it. Is it going to change? No, it’s never going to change the way you personally want it to change. And if even if we tried to change it for the better. Things even worse will happen.
I shouldn’t need to explain the dangers of trying to police people’s speech. I don’t care. I’ve read too much history, read too much suffering and pain resulting in people’s speech being taken away.
You can argue “But muh toxicity, but muh mean words, but muh hurt feelings.” all you want, but the western world needs to realize, you live in an entire safety bubble for the past 100 years and life has gotten too relaxed, too good, and too easy.
“Hard times create strong men,
Strong men create good times,
Good times create weak men,
Weak men create hard times.”
If you have the privilege to only be complaining about mean words online while also completely ignoring the dangers of policing speech. Even if your intentions are pure and innocence and you really believe that passing rules/laws on speech is going to improve the state of the world. You need to realize there’s also people who want to do the opposite and use your good nature and honest intentions for their own evil intentions.
So what’s worse? Some mean words once and awhile, or complete and utter control from the Government or unelect businesses.
I don’t even know what to say besides go read a book, go read some history, and when you do… get back to me and see rather or not you agree that policing speech is a bad thing.
I’m not against speaking up against harassment. But online harassment? Give me a joke. I’m not saying it’s not a serious problem, it is… but let’s be real. I get “harassed” every time I enter a Call of Duty match.
People are playing up on people’s emotions to pass laws/rules because they’re appealing to your emotions. (Another logical fallacy) to pass rules/laws to restrict your speech.
Random online death threats, as much as they suck, the common person deals with them to which why you see such a disconnect.
Most of us get on with our lives and find better things to do. Show me one average gamer who cares about this crap to begin with, but I can show you the endless news articles about how “Free Speech is tearing our country apart.”
In my point of view, the only ones who care about this subject are only victims of the news exploiting their “suffering” to push policies to silence their critics. Hence these “victims” feel validated in thinking that random online death threats should be a real concern.
NOW, I am not down playing actual online harassment. I’m down playing that people are letting trolls and idiots influence their emotions.
The idiotic 3rd party item dealers made the best favor to the competitive players - open trading is gone for good. Lovely irony!
I reference the old forums a lot here. What’s the big deal with just leave them read-only? They don’t spend any server resources at all. If the problem is GDPR/old-format simply redirect the old URLs to a read-only section in these D3 forums. Why completely remove so much information that is still relevant? That’s simply wrong.
Harassing mostly anonymous people in a game (as sad as that is) is not the same going after a publicly known person (so much easier for the online harassment to move offline).
I fail to see the weakness in people reacting to harassment and threats. If you harass people you in public you risk getting beaten up. Turning the other cheek doesn’t seem particularly “strong”.
This basically sums up the narcissistic, entitled mindset of the OP. He cannot be bothered to join in on one of the other threads about this issue, he needs to MAKE HIS OWN!!! rawr!
Blizzard hasn’t made a PC game with an offline mode in almost 10 years (Starcraft 2 I believe and many reports are saying the offline mode has been patched out or requires work arounds now).
They are not going to suddenly decide to change their stance (especially not based on OP whining).
I vote for no offline mode.
Ok time to break out the crayons. Let’s look at it.
Online makes it so no one on a military base can use it. There is millions lost.
There are many that will come just to trade. And will not buy the game without it. Blocking trading doesn’t realy do anything bad.
Modders will also not buy the game without it. Again if done right. Doesn’t hurt anyone. So adding it in hurts Noone.
As for your Cheater’s, bitters, dups and all. It’s all in d3 as well. If you want to know more then you will have to find out yourself.
As a business owner and gamer. I have to look, at all aspects of upcoming products. You will not make everyone happy. So you need to reach as many as possible.
Trying to reach as many as possible is an attempt to make everyone happy. Probably better to find your specific market and go all in on capturing it.
All those additional features that might potentially reach more people comes with a development cost. Not exactly free to try and reach everyone, even if we ignore how it tends to make games bland, when they want to be something for everyone.
I certainly think D4 should have an offline mode, to keep the game available long term, and allow modders to not only keep it alive, but fresh and interesting.
It wouldn’t necessarily be a good investment for Blizzard, if looking at pure sales numbers though.
It is more about creating goodwill, and keep the brand strong imo. When someone go play a D1 or D2 mod, you are increasing the chance they might jump into D4 too.
Trading on the other hand. No. You hurt he game by having free trading. I very much doubt the added sales you might get from it, will compensate for the losses in creating a worse gameplay experience. Especially if Blizzard want to make money on selling DLC.
I don’t know what military bases you are talking about. In the US, and even most overseas bases, they have internet access. Not even the military demands things be available offline anymore, with a few combat related exceptions. Those that don’t just play console. Also, if someone is in a location without internet on a military base, they have more important things to do than game. Pretty sure active combat troops are not the target audience of most game companies.