@reverend-toast sounds like you encountered the bad eggs. Im the same way as you, cant stand that kinda talk but general trash talk (you know the fun kind) im good with but when they toss out racial or crud like that they do get reported with the video evidence. But i do have to say i rarely came across that type (well before they muted it) i would say 1 out of maybe 30ish lobbies and it was normaly just one guy.
Im normaly the type to try amd get others to sing, chit chat, heck when among us was big we posted a lobby code and the entire arena lobby joined in and played together while waiting for the match to start. Or how we managed to get an entire lobby to do the cha cha slide lol
The bad eggs will always stand out more then a good confrontation but almost positive majority of the reports rare got was just sore losers or new players that dont understand the game yet.
Arena - removing the ability to use voice or text to communicate with other crews
Honestly, at the end of the day, none of it matters. Personal responsibility does. You have the option to mute everyone in the lobby, you have the option to mute just the toxic people. It is up to you what you want to tolerate. This should not be overlooked. You're punishing a percentage of your player base because people don't want to exercise their right to step away from the toxicity they hate. Instead of muting or blocking the "Toxic" people, they choose to report because they need someone else to do for them what they should be doing themselves.
I agree with a lot of people on here that there are bad eggs. 100%. But I can guarantee that if there was more investigation into these reports you would see the content as poor sports wanting to get revenge for the fact they were just outplayed. Yes Trash talk is apart of any competitive game, not just video games. It just speaks for passion. Does some cross the line? Sure. But a majority is completely harmless and should be brushed off. Many crews and mine have trash talked each other during a fine and then at the end its a GG's for a good fight. We all want good pirates to fight out there and you're chasing them away by telling them they're toxic and muting them.
This is a poor decision and Arena just isn't the same.
@damotree doesn't bother me to not have it but I agree that there should probably be a right to exercise a choice. Really though what's the point of hearing the same old insults over and over?
@damotree doesn't bother me to not have it but I agree that there should probably be a right to exercise a choice. Really though what's the point of hearing the same old insults over and over?
@hijack-hayes It's not the same every time. I've had more Rich & Positive encounters, than Toxic ones. Choice is key like you said, it should be my choice to set my own limit of "toxicity".
eg. just mute someone annoying, or report if racist etc.
So this really didn't solve the problem of toxicity. All that has happened now is that I get spammed with Xbox Live messages, Xbox Live Party Chat requests and people renaming their pets to TDM and spamming the pirate chat.
The only difference now is that if someone is toxic to you in an Xbox party or voice chat then you can use the Xbox built in tools to report it directly to Microsoft who will swing the ban hammer down on people.
It feels like a knee jerk reaction to push the responsibility onto Microsoft support rather that Rare support.
Bring back the voice chat and make it opt-in for all. I'm growing tired of the Xbox live spam requests.
I'm not sure what the goal with removing game chat in Arena was. This will not fix toxicity in the slightest. This is not stopping anyone from getting spawn camped. This is not preventing anyone from being danced over as they're dead. This is not stopping anyone from bucketing you. In short, this is not stopping toxicity in Arena at all. If anything, it's just making it 100x more difficult for commendations like "A Toast to the Sea Dogs", for example, which literally rely on player to player communication. Please add game chat back.
@the3sheetsneate i came back to the game and find out you removed chat from arena bad choice there is already a mute setting but you never tell anyone about it if you promoted muting and added a report player setting to crew settings you wouldnt have such a big problem. or let the players vote for this. plus if your gonna remove game chat for arena you also remove adventure and people will hate that like they already hate this choice you cant have one with out the other.
The fact that this thread continues to stay alive almost 3 months later with people asking for just the option to turn VC back on is telling of what is really wanted in Arena. Giving people the option to turn it on themselves isn't that hard. When it was accidentally enabled it worked out great. Not sure why that option was removed.
@savvy-sweets said in Arena - removing the ability to use voice or text to communicate with other crews:
The fact that this thread continues to stay alive almost 3 months later with people asking for just the option to turn VC back on is telling of what is really wanted in Arena. Giving people the option to turn it on themselves isn't that hard. When it was accidentally enabled it worked out great. Not sure why that option was removed.
Yeah, there should at least be an option to opt-in if you want to.
Ahoy!
Whilst we appreciate the passion that many you have for Arena, the data and evidence we have gathered supports our decision regarding the removal of comms from within the Arena.
We understand that comms may be useful for some commendations but have seen people still gain these commendations since we removed communication between teams.
This decision will not be reversed and we have the internal data and evidence to support this decision.
As such, we will now be locking this thread.
Thanks,
j0toro
