Top Gaming Companies Form Alliance to Combat Toxicity

Let's face it, the most vexing part of playing online is toxic players. Whether it's harassment or simply trolling, many players try to avoid these type of gamers and now gaming companies are taking steps to combat this problem. Blizzard's Overwatch team has gone as far to monitor social media sites to find these type of players and ban them and Ubisoft is taking similar steps with Rainbow Six Siege. Reported by Kotaku, more companies are joining the fight that includes 30 different companies that include:

• Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.
• CCPGames
• Corillian
• Discord Inc.
• Epic Games, Inc.
• Flaregames
• Huuuge Games
• Intel Corporation
• Kabam
• Kefir
• Ker-Chunk Games
• Mixer
• Owlchemy Labs
• Playrix
• Radial Games
• Riot Games
• Roblox Corporation
• Rovio Entertainment Corp.
• Space Ape Games
• Spirit AI, Ltd.
• Supercell
• Two Hat
• Twitch
• Unity Technologies
• Xbox

The Fair Play Alliance will use research and data from online gaming communities to create a set of online behavior standards to combat toxic behavior. This aim is to understand what issues construct poor online behavior.

Behaviors do vary between cultures and groups but with the globalization of video games, this is a huge challenge. There are a huge set of variables such as private matches to take into consideration and different areas around the world that have varied standards of what is considered acceptable.

This is certainly the step in the right direction as ending bad online behavior. For more information check out the official website.

Adam Siddiqui, NoobFeed
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