toxic community
SMITE studio promises to hunt and ban accounts tied to a harassment campaign that targeted women
Titan Forge Games, aka the Hi-Rez Studios team behind SMITE, are making it very plain that targeted harassment will not be tolerated. The studio...
The Soapbox: Abusing MMO community reps over design decisions is not only toxic but futile
Recently, an online video game community rep was run off Twitter by "fans." The CM's fellow game dev shared how upset she was that...
Not So Massively: Gaming genre elitism isn’t a good look on anyone
As I noted when I first took over the Not So Massively column this past spring, we live in a time of great change...
The Daily Grind: Has an MMO ever been ruined for you by the community?
It's funny, but I see many more people listing a game's community as a bright side rather than a drawback. You would think it'd...
Online games are avenues for hate group recruitment, according to former white supremacist leader
Playing a game of linking awful online activities to white supremacist movements is like the worst possible variant of the old Six Degrees of...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the most toxic community?
I ran across a weird thread on Reddit  a week or two ago from a poster asking about toxic MMO communities, not because he...
