I received this letter from a reader last week. It made me stupid-happy but also incredibly sad. You’ll see why immediately, I think:
My 9 year old has medical conditions that keep him from having many friends or going outside to play. He has to be homeschooled. For entertainment and to give him a feeling of exploration and adventure, we play warcraft. Other people can be very cruel in real life, so warcraft is a nice escape from that.
But wow has gotten nearly as bad. you can’t hardly be in Tol Barad or Orgrimmar without hearing «ni$&@!,» ‘$#%,» and other hateful language. using the LFD tool is just as bad if not worse. My son plays a prot paladin/holy paladin so that any group he gets in will have a healer or a tank as needed. But the number of «fag elf» accusations we’ve seen in LFD is discouraging.
I’m not even counting «noob» and «you suck» in all this.
We’re really thinking about moving on if things don’t get better. What can we do about this?
hope you can help,
a mom
You can see the happy and the sad in that — happy that our beloved game can help a family; sad that we as players can have such a negative impact. My initial reaction was to hope this was being blown out of proportion. After all, I tend to get riled about slurs and hate speech myself and do so very quickly. Maybe A Mom was being oversensitive?
While it’s fair to say maybe [hide]kids shouldn’t be[/hide] in the game, families absolutely have a reasonable expectation that they can play together.[hide]Continue reading WoW Rookie: How to deal with disruptive players and hate speech[/hide]Filed under: [hide]WoW Rookie[/hide][hide]WoW Rookie: How to deal with disruptive players and hate speech[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:00:00 EST. Please see our [hide]terms for use of feeds[/hide].[hide]Permalink[/hide] | [hide]Email this[/hide] | [hide]Comments[/hide]
I received this letter from a reader last week. It made me stupid-happy but also incredibly sad. You’ll see why immediately, I think:
My 9 year old has medical conditions that keep him from having many friends or going outside to play. He has to be homeschooled. For entertainment and to give him a feeling of exploration and adventure, we play warcraft. Other people can be very cruel in real life, so warcraft is a nice escape from that.
But wow has gotten nearly as bad. you can’t hardly be in Tol Barad or Orgrimmar without hearing «ni$&@!,» ‘$#%,» and other hateful language. using the LFD tool is just as bad if not worse. My son plays a prot paladin/holy paladin so that any group he gets in will have a healer or a tank as needed. But the number of «fag elf» accusations we’ve seen in LFD is discouraging.
I’m not even counting «noob» and «you suck» in all this.
We’re really thinking about moving on if things don’t get better. What can we do about this?
hope you can help,
a mom
You can see the happy and the sad in that — happy that our beloved game can help a family; sad that we as players can have such a negative impact. My initial reaction was to hope this was being blown out of proportion. After all, I tend to get riled about slurs and hate speech myself and do so very quickly. Maybe A Mom was being oversensitive?
While it’s fair to say maybe [hide]kids shouldn’t be[/hide] in the game, families absolutely have a reasonable expectation that they can play together.[hide]Continue reading WoW Rookie: How to deal with disruptive players and hate speech[/hide]Filed under: [hide]WoW Rookie[/hide][hide]WoW Rookie: How to deal with disruptive players and hate speech[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:00:00 EST. Please see our [hide]terms for use of feeds[/hide].[hide]Permalink[/hide] | [hide]Email this[/hide] | [hide]Comments[/hide]
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