Re:Overwatch 2 will require a phone number to play
by akerl_ on Friday September 30, 2022 @05:36PM
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Because it’s disruptive to the rest of us trying to play the game?
Re:Overwatch 2 will require a phone number to play
by q-big on Friday September 30, 2022 @05:37PM
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Come on: also in real life stupid people say stupid things all the time.
Re:Overwatch 2 will require a phone number to play
by akerl_ on Friday September 30, 2022 @05:41PM
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Yes. Is that relevant here?
In-game chat isn’t bound by any requirement to support everything that stupid people can do in real life.
Re:Overwatch 2 will require a phone number to play
by q-big on Friday September 30, 2022 @05:58PM
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> In-game chat isn’t bound by any requirement to support everything that stupid people can do in real life.
Do you seriously claim that "not preventing" already means "supporting"?!
Re:Overwatch 2 will require a phone number to play
by akerl_ on Friday September 30, 2022 @06:15PM
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To be hopefully crystal clear: Overwatch voice chat is a privately hosted service that’s built to be used by players during overwatch games. Blizzard moderates the content of that chat to remove disruptive content, where disruptive means “chat that makes people not enjoy playing overwatch”. In general, that’s people shouting slurs at their teammates or rambling about nonsense. Changes like the phone number requirement are part of their approach to expand the preemptive blocking of this activity. And I am fully in favor of them doing this, because it improves the quality of the game.
Why not let stupid people shout stupid things ...