It is not the result of any recent layoff though as you had tried to say.
Didn’t say it was recent, just noticing the decline and the firing of support staff while raking in record profits as this clearly apparent in the product.
Ah yes, I guess there is just the same number of people working CS just doing a whole let less actually serving customers than they did years ago. Clearly the proportion of CS to the size of the company was larger, or ATVI has a serious, serious productivity problem in service.
I don’t know how you can argue that the CS department wasn’t more robust when they were actually servicing customers 1 on 1 on creation of tickets. Though maybe I’m ignorant as to what exactly the supposedly larger team is working on?
To be clear, are you trying to imply that the term “Hate Speech” is covered in any of the “hate crime” laws you linked?
My understanding is there is no legal definition for “hate-speech” and that hate crimes all require actual bodily injury or threaten to use force to cause bodily injury.
Besides your mocking reference to LGBTQIA persons you should do your research before making claims about natzis in germany and their history of persecution.
It’s as easy as a google search.
I’m just a scared of how this will work in RP. Already had 2 friends of mine banned for rping with each other on the streets of SW and they got mass reported and banned for 3 weeks each.
I’ll drop the thread I made if anyone is interested
In one of the emails blizz sent he got banned for calling someone a “Freak” and “Frankenstein.” That’s just how rp servers are, people everything that’s in character and blow it out of the water. I’m not sure how anyone is supposed to rp any type of verbal conflict without being banned? Guess we just gotta start calling people 1st grade insults or something, even then I’m sure you can catch a ban.
I don’t care about the contract, I just think they didn’t consider how these sort of things would work in any RP scenarios.
It rather proves the point that the rules have been in game forever and Blizz does enforce them. Not constantly enough, but they do eventually get to it if it is reported.
I realize your concern is that esp on RP servers, the language may be in the context of a character interaction. Blizz does not really care about context though. If something is not suitable for public chat then the characters need to use a different channel for their interaction.
A three week suspension that you mentioned is not done by the squelch feature (a silence until a GM looks at it), it is the intentional penalty applied by a GM after looking over the chat logs attached to the reports AND looking at the account history. 3 weeks means they already had quite a few infractions or what they said was over the top bad.
Clearly the proportion of CS to the size of the company was larger, or ATVI has a serious, serious productivity problem in service.