ADL fucking with gaming again
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I think you're kinda missing the big issue though where for a lot of companies they want to drive in newer players so they're doing risky shit to make their product seem good. While they aren't crashing in revenue, that stems more from whales willing to shell out more than actual player growth (if I remember right blizzard's playerbase was actually down 20%, prior to the whole china fiasco).
I can understand why they'd want to do something like this, with the elusive "female" gaming market being the next china/indian gaming one. That being said riot did a similar thing where they said they'd crack down on toxicity and encouraged people to report that kind of behavior, only for their system to crater after close to 110M reports were filed in the following month. With toxicity not really being defined and more just "I see stuff I don't like", I could see them getting a lot of things where it's someone not responding to DM's or not giving all of the kills to said player.
As soon as whales get involved, there's nothing you can do as that's getting into the realm of dictating what people can do with their money.
Best you can do is simply leave the games or companies that try to implement this, we ALL have backlogs of games we can play so we aren't at their mercy and the whales will eventually realise how alone they are and either keep funding it for nostalgia or move on.