EA taking action against toxic players

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/eas-positive-play-charter-aims-to-defeat-toxic-beh/1100-6478703/?ServiceType=facebook_page&TheTime=2020-06-19T00%3A57%3A44&UniqueID=E2956134-B1C7-11EA-9AFA-E18AC28169F1&ftag=GSS-05-10aaa0a&PostType=link&fbclid=IwAR2dbhcbXNsWPrlB16nAN8ihbNmBmEFe1bHyeVwzO4syDLzXS5Gm39ybkHQ

https://www.ea.com/commitments/positive-play/charter

I doubt so. They can’t even deal with cheaters in Battlefield V.

Does that mean that the plague that is “ez” or “easy” sayers will finally be wiped off the game?

I hope not. I honestly think it’s just a fun and harmless banter and if people get offended over “ez”, they need to reflect on themselves.
Cheating on the other hand, that is real toxic and ruins the game experience but too bad, EA seems to be more concerned about people’s feeling getting hurt over words than real problem like cheating. I think this “Positive Play Charter” is just a virtue signalling act from EA. If they’re serious about getting rid of toxicity, they would have done something about hackers but nooo.. bad words are more important than cheaters.

I would instead say that people who are not offended over “ez” have not tried to do enough to help their team during the round to feel offended by it. To make things worse, “ez” is almost always said by some squeaker who is barely in the median on the score of his team.

I consider the problems I encounter more often to be the biggest problems instead of those that might not happen for over a week. People who are being unsportsmanlike on chat are an everyday problem.

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Yes the obvious cheaters are a problem that needs addressing but I do not think “hacking/cheating” should be categorized as “toxicity”. It is plain breaking of the rules that is greatly degrading the experience of many other players.

So long as we can still teabag.

Now you wait. If all things go south, bf6 will not have an option to crouch because of being “extremely offensive”.

You can’t say the word on chat though :smiley:

I don’t even know what teabagging is?

It’s when you dip your teabag into a boiling hot cup of water…

Argh! Hopefully I’ve not tempted fate.

That chat filter really sounds problematic.

It’s when you crouch up and down repeatedly after killing someone. It’s admittedly a bit childish.

Better take actions against cheaters most toxic behavior will disapear

Link to section: I had a rant about this in one of the filter posts.I had a rant about this in one of the filter posts.

It’s not going to happen. You can’t just “stop” people from being jerks. Whatever you stop, they’ll find a new thing to do… They need to stop trying to do the public spotlight BS and just do what they and pretty much every game in the past has done.
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Instead of sweeping, idiotic forced restrictions on EVERYONE. When someone acts up, deal with them WHEN it happens. IF it happens. And to what severity of the “offence”
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Link to section: It’s not being pro-active. It’s just causing more problems. Evenmore-so when the phrase “Eye of the Beholder” applies here. Who says “X is toxic and bad”? Who gets the right to say that anything is diIt’s not being pro-active. It’s just causing more problems. Evenmore-so when the phrase “Eye of the Beholder” applies here. Who says “X is toxic and bad”? Who gets the right to say that anything is directly harmful to someone else on a hypothetical basis? Most people just use the “It’s toxic/rasict” argument to nullify or outright harass other people in the first place.
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An anecdote,if you will;
Way back at launch. I was playing a match on Devastation. Overlooking the D flag was someone with an MMG. I ran up with a FG-42… with a bayonet and charged into the room. Just as I did he stood and turned around and started shooting, jumped backwards. I got him in the animation and we started falling from the building…
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The next match he was swapped to my team and decided to join my squad. “Yo! that bayonet was sick! Rocked my “rear” back in my chair. “Plowing” something you’d see in a movie! Crazy “Behind” “Doo doo”!”
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We went on to laugh about it and talk for the rest of the match. One of my -best- experiences with this game. And it had those* dreadedobscenities*. Was it used as hate? No. Was it offensive? No.

Yet now we look at the opposite side of things. In my story I used “he” before saying he was in voice. That would (and will) be called out for sexism. Assuming gender and whatnot. Just process that. A story trying to put light into something deemed evil is now being flagged -as hate-.
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And that happens more than just in my story. It happens day-in and day-out. There are -no- lines drawn. This over obsession with trying to make everything “Clean and pure” is one of entropy…
It won’t stop.

Is this hyperbole or do you genuinely think people who type EZ should have action taken against their accounts to the extend of banning them from play? Pretty harsh don’t you think? I’ve been called many things by toxic players on this game, but EZ after a loss just doesn’t get under my skin.

I’ll be that guy and swallow the bait, if it’s one. :duck:

It’s a pose where a guy dips his balls up and down in the face of it’s victim to make fun of him. Ingame it’s made by crouching and standing up repeatingly. And it’s called teabagging because

Thanks to both who explained, I really didn’t know although I was “teabagged” quite some times already.
I just didn’t know it is called this way.

I got so tired of the rampant use of the N word in Battlefield. I’d send in screenshots of people using it, and I’m not talking about BFV when -¯_(ツ)_/¯ was all you needed to circumvent the filter, I’m talking just six letters with a space in front, and in back. NOTHING done about it after multiple screenshots on different days were sent in.

Then again, if you go to Origin, and if you do a player search for, “1488,” as of today you get 42312 results. That’s a key phrase that promotes the ideology that is precisely what was being fought against by the allies in WWII…But somehow origin allows that in usernames, profiles, and keywords.

On PC there is also a squad with some 350+ rank players in it called Sieg. I’m guessing that squad name was picked to make people think of that German WW2 salute.

Thing is though… That word is just german for “Victory”. The word in and of it’s self is not bad. It just had an unfortunate conotaton now. That is -not- toxic. It’s a word not being used in a “bad” way.

No, it want. Trolls will be trolls.

Only a few trolls I see use EZ is on a win team where the top guy just got 120-5 as Infantry when every kill was a headshot.

Do you think tea bagging would stop, come on what bright sparks think it smart to bounce up and down after a kill a 100m away that not tea bagging.

What of the guys that grief others in game, they even come on the forum to gloat how they parked a vehicle on a sniper or drop smoke grenade on a prone player.

Sorry, this just smells of PR: Back in the good old days the server admin would just k/b them. So I’m not going to pat DICE\EA on the back for thinking about doing something which we already had an effective solution for, but they took away.