09-10-202405:44 AM - last edited on 09-10-202405:49 AM by Eire_Max
I have a black avatar, and I've been noticing an uptick in aggressive, racist, and malicious trash talk, and physical abuse through malicious gestures, and following discussions on two community boards for the game am a bit shocked nothing really happens unless you directly message a moderator with the alias' of those breaking the rules. I primarily play this to have fun, and getting hateful abuse out of nowhere is far from it.
For example, I've had a player stand there whilst I was winning, and do the 'up yours' arm gesture over and over again just before the timer ran out, and most recently, because of my black avatar, had this Norwegian player start from the get go with about 2 minutes of a constant barrage of hateful racial abuse. This isn't the only time I've experienced racial abuse.
It's just disappointing as I'm a big fan of the game, and evidently not enough is being done with the reports, and having reached out to meta, there's is not much they can do in response other than the boilerplate 'our team reviews the community forums'.