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Sledgehammer aren’t fans of toxic gamers

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One thing the Call of Duty series is infamous for is its rude community. The stereotype is that it’s filled with 12-year-olds who have apparently slept with everyone’s mothers, including yours! This is not the case, at least according to Michael Condrey, co-founder of Sledgehammer Games – the team responsible for the rather good Advanced Warfare.

Condrey reckons the community is actually quite nice (Joystiq via BBC Newsbeat)

“I certainly wouldn’t characterise the community of fans I know and had the pleasure to engage with as toxic or misogynistic. The community as a whole is very healthy, engaged and thoughtful and probably like anything anywhere well outside of gaming.”

The problem is, as nice as the community may well be, there is that minority who drag it down to the level of rudeness that people associate it with. The same could be said for Dota 2 for example. I have met many awesome randoms online, yet I can barely defend the community because I have had my fair share of trash players. Condrey knows that minority exists. Sledgehammer will not tolerate it though.

“In the fringes of a lot of areas of society there are examples of people behaving poorly. Come to the game to have fun, come to be social, come to enjoy and build a community and have a positive energy. Toxic behaviours, abusive language, inappropriate emblems, I don’t want that around. So for our community, Sledgehammer Games and Advanced Warfare we have pretty low tolerance for toxic behaviour.”

I’m not too sure what sort of banning policies or systems Advanced Warfare has in place to deal with that minority. No matter, I don’t think that negative stereotype will ever go away unfortunately.

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Last Updated: November 5, 2014

24 Comments

  1. Site’s going wonky again… Prepare for down time. 😛

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  2. Matthew Holliday

    November 5, 2014 at 11:17

    my hate for the sheep is strong, i caved to the pressure.
    bought the game…

    its the small things that bug me with this game.
    6 disks in the game case, its like we’re back to 2004 with Medal of Honor Pacific Assault on the 700mb CDs. bluray drives going to be mandatory soon, which im ok with.
    MP and SP install as two separate games, as is the case with all CoD games, but the MP doesnt install simultaneously with the SP, so you have to do them separately.
    then you cant play the SP unless the MP is up to date….
    seeing as the SP had a 200mb patch and the MP had a 2gb patch, i couldnt play the SP while waiting for the MP to finish updating…

    we’re not off to a good start call of doody. you better impress me ingame.

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    • Dutch Matrix

      November 5, 2014 at 11:21

      But Steam is awesome right? (Just being toxic)
      Seriously, that is my biggest gripe with out of the box games. Let me install and play. If ever I click on Multiplayer, then yes, download the 2GB patch required for THAT PORTION OF THE GAME WITHOUT STOPPING ME FROM PLAYING SINGLE PLAYER!!!

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      • Matthew Holliday

        November 5, 2014 at 11:23

        yeah its the first time its done it like that for me.
        even Ghosts installed both together and i could play the SP without the MP being up to date.
        ofcourse my line had to be running potato speeds, so i had no chance to play last night…

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        • Dutch Matrix

          November 5, 2014 at 11:25

          Had the same issue with MW3 I bought a few weeks ago. I wanted SP, but had to wait for the MP to download. Apparently “background downloads” is not something Steam has ever heard of.
          (Just picking on Steam from experience here.)

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          • Jedi Consular Kromas

            November 5, 2014 at 11:26

            Actually … background downloads work fine. It is a purely CoD thing.

      • Mark Treloar

        November 5, 2014 at 11:44

        Don’t Support DRM. Say no to Steam

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    • Hammersteyn

      November 5, 2014 at 11:23

      Be careful not to scratch one of the discs

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  3. Alien Emperor Trevor

    November 5, 2014 at 11:21

    I honestly don’t understand why people do that. I can understand it if you’re getting frustrated while playing & stuff slips out & you’re wearing a mic. But to actively stop what you’re doing to abuse other people makes no sense to me, especially if you’re typing it out.

    The other night when playing Warframe & joined a team with 2 guys who obviously knew each other & were playing together & they started bitching about lag & how random people ruin their game by causing lag. The one threw his toys out the cot when he died. All I could think was a) that’s not necessary, b) I was experiencing the same lag & it wasn’t particularly bad, c) if you run off in by yourself in the middle of a survival game & get surrounded & die it’s not lag or anyone else’s fault – it’s you not being as good as you think you are.

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    • Jedi Consular Kromas

      November 5, 2014 at 11:24

      Maybe you just suck? 😛

      Runs away.

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      • Alien Emperor Trevor

        November 5, 2014 at 11:28

        RRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

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    • Matthew Holliday

      November 5, 2014 at 11:25

      keyboard warriors exerting their self imposed authority and superiority.
      rule #1 of online gaming: you know best, everyone who thinks otherwise is bad.

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      • HvR

        November 5, 2014 at 12:10

        *everyone who thinks otherwise is a son of a whore

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    • Hammersteyn

      November 5, 2014 at 11:25

      The only lag I experienced in Warframe was waiting days and days for my items to finish crafting.

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      • Alien Emperor Trevor

        November 5, 2014 at 11:27

        I plan ahead, ;P

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    • hairyknees

      November 5, 2014 at 11:49

      Yeah I don’t get it either. I’ll never forget my HoN days where enemies and allies team up to shit on you O_o

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      • Alien Emperor Trevor

        November 5, 2014 at 11:55

        They were fertilising you, cabbage!

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    • RinceThis

      November 5, 2014 at 12:27

      Your face!

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  4. Ragnar The Vengeful

    November 5, 2014 at 11:28

    If you look like a twelve year old and you sound like a twelve year old, BAN!!!! Age restricted mofo!!!

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  5. Rock789

    November 5, 2014 at 11:34

    I must say, I’ve experienced this (some guy ranting at another player over a live mic in a MP game). And you know what? I shot him in the face! Was pretty satisfying, I won’t lie.

    But yeah, those silly suzies are definitely an irritation in the MP sessions. That’s why I love Destiny PvP so much – no mic, unless you’re in a fireteam. So you don’t have to, and can’t, listen to some idiot going off about how he’s going to abuse everyone’s cat when he’s done with his session…

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    • Sageville

      November 5, 2014 at 12:55

      That is when you start getting quality messages in your inbox….

      Invariably “Eat a bag of dicks” or “Camping whore”….
      To which I reply: “U mad bro?” followed by me following the guy around in-game and making his life a misery.

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  6. Admiral Chief 0

    November 5, 2014 at 11:34

    As I was Goliath stomping some hunter last night, he up and rage quit, after that the rest of the team was easy pickings! (Uber fun as the monster)

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  7. Tom Krager

    November 5, 2014 at 14:13

    This type of shit is the reason America is pussified now . .. If you cannot stand someone on the internet trolling you, you need to grow the fuck up. If you cant handle rough language, you are a pussy . . . I’m sick of this shit. I just want to be able to play a fucking game and if some ppl talk shit, w/e .. .

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