Submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
Blizzard bans 250,000 Overwatch 2 cheaters, says its AI that analyses voice chat is warning naughty players and can often ‘correct negative behaviour immediately’::Overwatch 2 has not been having a good time of it in 2023. May brought the unwelcome news that Blizzard’s original plans for the game’s post-launch support were being changed, mainly the pro
Damn that’s like 120% of the active playerbase
Any game that monitors voice chats is a hell no
Why though? What expectation of privacy do you have for a moderated public platform? Why is this substantially different than ingame chat logs?
How long until information from our conversations is recorded and sold to data firms that will in turn use it to sell to us, or hacked and personal conversations exposed.
Its not black and white.
Here’s a thought experiment: since streets are public places, would you be willing to wear a lapel mic every time you leave your house that records everything you say in public and gives access to every megacorporation and government?
Does that make you feel kind of weird? Well this is the same situation. Just because its a public place, doesn’t mean things can’t still feel invasive.
It isn’t, I don’t use in game chats.
It seems safe to assume that you are not overly respectful to your teammates in voice chat.
Has nothing to do with that. It’s invasive and I object you that on principle. I don’t have any alexa/siri/Google shit in my house either.
Agreed to a point. I think the ideal system would be to locally store voice chats. If you report someone on your team for being toxic, then they’re sent over for review but made anonymous (like “Blue Player 1” and “Red Player 3” instead of “xXxGunKiller69xXx” and “Purple Dream Flute”). If whatever system used to review the chats (preferably humans, but it’ll probably be AI) determines that there was an actionable offense, the match identifier is pulled up and then and only then individual player names get seen so actions can be taken, otherwise it’s fully deleted.
That’s about the best system I can think of to balance privacy with the banning of toxic players. You could use this same system for text interactions as well. While I would love for 100% of my data in mp games to be private, it isn’t possible to do that and not be surrounded by toxic assholes 24/7 afaik. And I’m personally fine giving up a bit of privacy if it means not being surrounded by assholes every match.
Isn’t that why everyone uses Discord.
Because they want their voice chats to be monitored?
Meanwhile they won’t ban obvious StarCraft 2 cheaters. There’s a guy on the ladder that admits to it, anyone can look at his history and see that he doesn’t ever get a loss, just ties. And he maphacks on top of this.
StarCraft 2 is not making any money so no incentive to fix it.
Sad but true. They have a community balance team and the maps come from the community as well. How about community mods if they won’t moderate their own shit?
Big-Blizzard is watching you!
Maybe this would be a great addition to their HR or management department.
Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
There were 250,000 “people” still playing overwatch 2?
nunchuk@lemmy.bigsecretwebsite.net 1 year ago
According to steam charts, it averages about 26,000 players per day on steam, not that many but I imagine across all platforms it probably has 250,000 players that play semi regularly. Granted by those assumptions they just banned the whole player base
tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 1 year ago
But they definitely got all the cheaters :p