With the help of a specially created “Central Player Dynamics” team, they plan to research and analysis player behaviour to help establish systems that reward “fair teamplay”.<\/p>\n
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Labelling the issue “priority”, Anna Donlon, the executive producer and leader of the Valorant development team, wants to go past offering “tools to self-isolate” and rather take a multi-faceted approach to tackle what she describes as a “hard space”.<\/p>\n
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“I’ll be super real here: harassment and bullying in games is not a status quo I’m comfortable accepting,” she said in a blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Speaking of “fears of solo-queuing” in her years of online gaming she laid out the problem:<\/p>\n
“We’ve learned to mute others who are harassing us. We’ve learned to mute ourselves in order to keep the peace. And as a result, we have a competitive experience that can feel compromised. We often find ourselves at a disadvantage.”<\/p>\n
“I’m not alone.”<\/p>\n
And she is certainly not, misogyny, homophobia, racism, ableism, let’s be frank, and very woke here, all the -isms are routinely seen and heard in online games and the examples are countless, most recently Imane “Pokimane” Anys called for an “anonymous mode” after encountering harassment during Valorant matches.<\/p>\n
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