Anyone else find it incredibly disturbing? Its like a /pol/ livefeed. Constant racist/sexist remarks. I like general chat in other games like diablo or wow… its cool to be able to chat about the game and stuff. But HotS seems to have a unique infestation of hateful content in general. I’m not sure what can even be done about it, but the way it supplies an endless tide of hate speech is concerning.
The strange thing to me is it has always been like this, even though other blizzard games dont seem to have problems like that.
If you remember Healonheels from however-when-ago, they were more proliferate in genchat then they were in the forums.
One issue for HotS chat is that it’s “Free” while other games may require a purchase. So if someone gets reported/silenced/banned, they can reroll instead of needing to pay again.
There have been cases of some deviant conduct in other blizzard games (e.g. barrens chat in WoW) and I think some of that may get filtered out from popular recognition because other outlets exists. WoW still has private servers despite blizzard relaunching WoW Classic; other diablo/starcraft games have mod scenes, and so on.
Like HoH, some of that used to track to the forums and people with “Troll” user accounts come here to post inflammatory, ‘rule-breaking’ things every so often. Genchat is likely a better place for responses or like-minds compared to here
I had some people over in General Chat trying to scam me even on my very first day in HOTS by saying they were a Game Master who needed access to my account
I just chose not to respond
It makes me feel a bit nostalgic too because it feels like a live-feed of a two-way radio chat between like a gazillion people at the same time where people can say whatever they want
I used to think it was funny a few years ago, but I turned it off around 2021 and haven’t turned it back on since (ten seconds into this new account notwithstanding). There came a point where it stopped being funny to me.
Honestly, it’s so bad that it should just be off for new accounts by default now.
Don’t know what to say: people are their true selves when they can be anonymous. And many (most?) people are monsters inside, reveling in their meanness of spirit. We move through a sea of monsters in the real world, every single day.
There are no mods to stop them so people can just talk like they want. I can still remember my last year in this game, game was full of people talkng about they had not blowen a nut for X days and the same two people spamming racist slurs and spams AH name in chat and they want all transgenders gone from the planet.
There are nothing worth reading in Gchat anymore or in ingame chat cause its full of 4chan kids that has nothing worthy to do in thier life.
Hate speech isn’t a real thing. But this speech you disagree with is real and a natural aversion to all the social engineering that’s been so prevalent for the past several decades. The social engineering has been significantly more harmful than the speech you don’t approve of. This speech is, although very distasteful at times, heartening and not “disturbing”.
God damit left Democrats, please leave at least the chat of the game forgotten by everyone and by God himself, with 2k people online, alone. This is one of the most fun things there is in the game. This is freedom. Limit it - and you will get a second Hots wherever it is.
I have news for you: you have no freedoms in Blizzard games that Blizzard doesn’t give you. It’s their product, and their terms of service. You can find the End User License Agreement here. It includes a clause for, ’ Harassment, “griefing,” abusive behavior or chat, conduct intended to unreasonably undermine or disrupt the Game experiences of others, deliberate inactivity or disconnecting, and/or any other activity which violates Blizzard’s Codes of Conduct or In-Game Policies.’
Your deluded definition of freedom of speech means less than nothing in this context.
