toxicity

Remember how Blizzard said that a bad behavior reporting function was on its way to Overwatch's console edition? While the studio promised this week...

So we've gotten another post from a developer saying that they're going to really 100% be better about rooting out toxic players from their...

Even Mercy can't save you from Blizzard's wrath for being a cranky player. The studio sat its playerbase down for a talk this week, saying...

Ragequitting. Most of us have probably done it once or twice from groups or single-player games or even MMO sessions in our time. My...

You can easily count me among those who've been historically unimpressed at the way toxicity is managed in Blizzard games; the studio has a...

I sincerely do not envy the task of MMO studios and community managers when it comes to wrangling their crowd of diverse, fickle, and...

The hard part about being a GM has to be when you're dealing with a certain brand of player. You know the sort; they're...

Last night's update saw the end of the Battle.net branding on the Blizzard launcher. You probably shed your tears back in September, when the...

Blogger Tobold recently wrote a provocative piece on social play in MMOs, as pointed out to us by our dear tipster Sally. In a...

The usual trajectory in professional sports seems to be that no matter how noxious you are as a person, it's all ignored if you...

Toxicity. It's plagued online spaces since long before there were MMORPGs and other online video games, as any old school BBS user can attest....

If you've started to notice that the community in Overwatch has started to turn vicious in the past few weeks, you're not alone. In an...

Hello, trade chat, my old friend; I'm turning you back on again. Because the team on World of Warcraft has addressed your issues at...

The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...

Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review! It's...

ArcheAge Senior Community Manager Seraphina "Celestrata" Brennan has this week unveiled serious plans to clean up her game's community image. In the first of what...

In case you had forgotten since yesterday's news that RuneScape had to ban players for running around in-game wearing KKK costumes and shrieking racial...

Old School RuneScape has had a brush with the banhammer. Jagex told players on Reddit today that an unspecified number of players have been banned...

One of the most notable developers for League of Legends has left Riot Games for a "new challenge." Lead Designer of Social Systems Jeffrey...

I ran across a weird thread on Reddit  a week or two ago from a poster asking about toxic MMO communities, not because he...