"Rainbow Six Siege" will no longer be besieged by toxic players, as a new ban system is in order for the first-person shooter (FPS) and will target people who use racial and homophobic slurs.
This means players who have the tendency to profanely shout racist and homophobic remarks during an eventful incident in-game should consider themselves warned. In addition to those, hate speech, whether accidental or intended, will also not be tolerated in "Rainbow Six Siege." This could ensure a more mature and less destructive player community.
The ban will apply to the in-game chat, whether in voice or in text. Developer and publisher Ubisoft also took to Reddit to detail what the new ban system entails and what it will mean for the players. Each offense will have four varying degrees of punishment severity namely two days, seven days, 15 days, and a permanent ban, should the offense be too severe.
"Starting next week, we will be implementing an improvement on the system we have been using to ban players that use racial and homophobic slurs, or hate speech, in game. The bans for this will fall within the following durations, depending on severity. We will be tracking the frequency at which language that violates the Code of Conduct is used by individual players, and will apply the appropriate ban on a case-by-case basis," according to Ubisoft.
This is also now implemented in the game's code of conduct, and as such, prohibited language involves remarks that are deemed illegal, dangerous, threatening, abusive, obscene, vulgar, defamatory, hateful, racist, sexist, ethnically offensive or constituting harassment.
Should players make violations, they will be notified by a pop-up in the game's user-interface and be banned momentarily. There will also be a global message which is displayed next to their usernames explaining the reason for the ban.
This is only Ubisoft's initial steps to combat toxic player behavior in-game and it plans to enact more policies about toxicity in the future for "Rainbow Six Siege."
