{"id":72006,"date":"2018-12-28T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/333608"},"modified":"2018-12-28T20:10:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:10:00","slug":"blizzard-hopes-linked-battle-net-accounts-will-solve-toxic-twitch-chats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/28\/blizzard-hopes-linked-battle-net-accounts-will-solve-toxic-twitch-chats\/","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard hopes linked Battle.net accounts will solve toxic Twitch chats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard is looking to curb misbehaving Twitch users in the chats of its official <em>Overwatch<\/em> streams by requiring that chat participants link their Twitch and Battle.net accounts together before sending messages during a stream.<\/p>\n<p>Blizzard describes the move as a new moderation program, and aims to give it a test run during the upcoming <em>Overwatch<\/em> Contenders quarterfinals from now through January 12, 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In order to send a message in Twitch chat during the live-streamed events, viewers will have to log into their Twitch accounts and link their Battle.net accounts up through Twitch\u2019s webpage, though it isn\u2019t explicitly said what action, if any, Blizzard will take against misbehaving chatters following the Battle.net linkup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/overwatchcontenders.com\/en-us\/news\/22819839\">blog post<\/a> on the test, Blizzard says that the change hopes \u201cto improve the viewer experience for the <em>Overwatch<\/em> Path to Pro ecosystem\u201d and that the team will evaluate how, if at all, the requirement led to a \u201cmore positive viewing experience.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard is looking to curb misbehaving Twitch users in the chats of its official Overwatch streams by requiring that chat participants link their Twitch and Battle.net accounts together before sending messages during a stream. Blizzard describes the move as a new moderation program, and aims to give it a test run during the upcoming Overwatch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72006","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\/72006","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=72006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}