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The Silence of the Spams - New Chat Feature IncomingWoW World of Warcraft News - MMORPG.com

SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
edited July 2016 in News & Features Discussion

imageThe Silence of the Spams - New Chat Feature IncomingWoW World of Warcraft News - MMORPG.com

With the launch of Legion, World of Warcraft players who are reported multiple times by others will be given an account-wide silence. The first offense after investigation by Blizzard will result in a 24-hour ban that doubles for each subsequent infraction. According to the site, this enables players to report those who are engaging in "inappropriate interactions on various channels".

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  • SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
    This is pretty similar to the one in Heroes of the Storm, by all reports doing pretty well. I'm glad to see that something is being done, though I still wish we could put players on ignore permanently and have an "invisible" feature both in BattleNet and in the game.


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  • rush1984rush1984 Member UncommonPosts: 371
    I think they should only be able to grp with other silenced players no one wants to play in a dungeon or raid with people that cannot type
  • filmoretfilmoret Member EpicPosts: 4,906
    Game is 12 years old and now figuring this out?  This shoulda been figured out the first month.
    Are you onto something or just on something?
  • Scott_JeslisScott_Jeslis Member RarePosts: 637

    filmoret said:

    Game is 12 years old and now figuring this out?  This shoulda been figured out the first month.



    Perhaps. Maybe it's possible now because of some sub-system that had to be rewritten, new technology, or just back-end infrastructure and processes now in place. Being an Enterprise Software Developer things aren't always as straight-forward as they should/could be. :-(
  • joeri123joeri123 Member UncommonPosts: 247
    filmoret said:
    Game is 12 years old and now figuring this out?  This shoulda been figured out the first month.
    Why so negative? If they don't add this, people cry. If they actually add it, they still cry. Haters gonna hate and all that....
  • AnirethAnireth Member UncommonPosts: 940
    I get most things, but why block creating premade groups or calender? Just to make it more annoying, so it actually hurts being silenced, or can you spam people with that?

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  • mike32927mike32927 Member UncommonPosts: 34
    Nice feature being added, although I wish Blizzard would spend more of their time equalizing class dps.
  • daltaniousdaltanious Member UncommonPosts: 2,381
    Great would be if you silence one player that his ALL ALTS are silenced as well, account wide silence. And agree about multiple reports must have consequence.
  • bartoni33bartoni33 Member RarePosts: 2,044
    rush1984 said:
    I think they should only be able to grp with other silenced players no one wants to play in a dungeon or raid with people that cannot type
    I think they should only be able to GROUP with other silenced players. No one wants to play in a dungeon or raid with people that cannot type.

    Fixed that for you. I hate people that cannot type also. ;)

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  • AkumawraithAkumawraith Member UncommonPosts: 370
    oh boy the PC crowd is going to love this... so much for the first Amendment. You say something that another doesnt like they will silence you. If you cannot figure out how this system is going to be abused you need a reality check.

    No system like this has ever worked properly and is always abused by those its supposed to affect. Its like the team killer auto ban system in WoT.. its there to punish the players who are jerks. However it fails to work half the time and the players have figured out all they have to do is annoy you and anger you enough that you shoot them and YOU get banned.

    Yeha not the same thing but its an example. Censorship has never worked in our society and will be challenged, subverted, and abused at every chance.

    Blizzard needs to stop trying to be idiots controlling the player base and put effort into more important things.. like maybe creating quality content to save that wreck of a game called World of Warcraft.

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  • GitmixGitmix Member UncommonPosts: 605
    filmoret said:
    Game is 12 years old and now figuring this out?  This shoulda been figured out the first month.
    There wasn't any spam the first month ;)
    Spam became a real issue with WotLK, that's when they should've done something like this.
    Better late than never though.
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