{"id":32685,"date":"2018-07-13T21:41:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/322073"},"modified":"2018-07-13T21:41:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T21:41:00","slug":"social-features-have-cut-down-on-toxic-behavior-in-overwatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/13\/social-features-have-cut-down-on-toxic-behavior-in-overwatch\/","title":{"rendered":"Social features have cut down on toxic behavior in Overwatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard&#8217;s global insights group has just\u00a0finished putting together some statistics surrounding\u00a0the\u00a0new social features added to <em>Overwatch<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/320812\/Blizzard_adds_a_positivitydriven_endorsements_system_to_Overwatch.php\">a few weeks ago<\/a>, including\u00a0LFG (looking for groups) and endorsements.<\/p>\n<p>It seems as though the additions have made an\u00a0impact on the <em>Overwatch<\/em> community, <a href=\"https:\/\/us.forums.blizzard.com\/en\/overwatch\/t\/our-progress-so-far\/159046\">as\u00a0Jeff Kaplan revealed<\/a> LFG and endorsements are significantly removing toxic and abusive behavior\u00a0already.<\/p>\n<p>LFG was introduced to allow players to search for parties who have similar interests or have a certain play-style, while endorsements encourage\u00a0players to publicly commend a player for their attitude, communication and skill.<\/p>\n<p>According to the numbers, competitive\u00a0matches that contain abusive chat is down 26.4 percent\u00a0in the Americas, with\u00a016.4 percent\u00a0in South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the percent of daily players being abused is down 28.8 percent in the Americas, followed by 21.6 percent in South Korea (although it isn&#8217;t clear if this abuse comes from chat).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019ll keep working on iterating on these features to make them better as well as exploring other systems to improve the gameplay environment,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/us.forums.blizzard.com\/en\/overwatch\/t\/our-progress-so-far\/159046\">Kaplan writes.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting that the statistics above don&#8217;t include the\u00a0European server, which players say are still ripe with toxicity. Kaplan followed up by assuring players that he\u00a0didn&#8217;t have numbers from Europe yet, but\u00a0it will be interesting to see if LFG and endorsements have an impact on those severs as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard&#8217;s global insights group has just\u00a0finished putting together some statistics surrounding\u00a0the\u00a0new social features added to Overwatch a few weeks ago, including\u00a0LFG (looking for groups) and endorsements. It seems as though the additions have made an\u00a0impact on the Overwatch community, as\u00a0Jeff Kaplan revealed LFG and endorsements are significantly removing toxic and abusive behavior\u00a0already. LFG was introduced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}