Issues from RL shouldn't be shared – admin must punish, majority thinks

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Skopje, 3 July (Novinky) — From time to time, the citizens can witness a wave of comments regarding national and ethnic issues. Understandable for a reason because the basis of the game consists of nations and a concept of conquesting territories, bonuses, etc.

But,with this comments, we can also see offensive comments about one or another country, especially after some big battle. That is the reason, why ‘Novinky’ conducted a poll named 'Should real life interfere in the game', with pair of questions regarding this topic.

Things and issues from real life shouldn't be mixed and shared across the game chat, like national and ethnic issues, majority of respondents consider. This is shown by the poll 'Novinky' conducted three days ago.

More precisely, 61% or 42 citizens thinks this, and around 25% or 17 citizens think the opposite. Meanwhile, 13% or 9 answered 'maybe'and 1 citizen 'doesn't' know.

The percent of respondents who claim that have seen such an issues till now, based on racial, national, religious hatred in the game chat is high at 76%, with 52 people agreeing. In the meantime, 12% or 8 players haven't seen something like that, and 9% or 6 people answered 'maybe'.

One of the citizens is saying that he doesn’t mind gentle comments, but, he adds that ‘when it drifts into abuse and outright xenophobia it needs to be dealt with’.

Real life issues should stay outside the game, considers one of the citizens who responded at the poll.

“We are here to have a bit of fun, not to spread hate across the web. People can do that somewhere else if they want, here they should be punished if needed”, he adds.

A player who responded in the poll says that ‘moderation should be used’ and that ‘ethnic speech should never be used’.

“I do not believe stricter enforcement should be done, in fact I believe the admins have been too quick to judge in many instances”, he adds.

RELATED: [VOTE in a POLL] Should real life issues interfere in the game?

In the meantime, other citizen explains that there are too many occurrences where real life interferes in the game.

“The outcome is just too much hate and racism towards each other and both sides should be punished. Still, you cannot prevent it because of human nature. The best way to lower that as much as possible is to punish those players who cannot stick with the rules. This is a game and we should rest from the RL and not bring RL problems and frustration here”, he believes.

One of the citizens warns that the problems does not have to do with comments or posts only, saying that 'but also avatars and pictures on articles'.

On the other side, other player underlines that eDom is a national identity game, and that 'it literally cannot exist without the real life nationalism, since it's what fuels this type of games most of the time'.

Another player is on the same line regarding this, explaining that 'we all are patriots in the game, otherwise we cannot play. And we all are little or more nationalist'.

“I'm involved too with this problem (I want to be honest). Not all the foul is on the other side, but when I see provocations I can't stay and watch. I never did

it first, only when see others making provocations and bulling”, is just one of the comments in the poll.

One of the dozens responses criticizes that ‘game mechanics should change’.

“Make people fight for things about the game instead of using RL problems in here. Edom doesn't look like a game right now. Is basically a big hooligans street fight. Bonuses mean nothing in the present days, nobody fight for that anymore, and changing its rarity didn't solve anything”, he considers.

‘Novinky’ also asked the ‘Admin’ for a comment on the intolerance and hate speech on ethnic and national base. Also, we asked that if “Threatens, harasses, or bullies or encourages others to do so” which is part of the rules, and forbidden in the game, can be interpreted as a prohibition of the national and ethnic intolerance messages, and requested a comment if there is enough done by their side for this issue.

However, the ‘Admin’ shortly replied that there is nothing he have to comment, because the rules setted are not open to comment.

It is worth noting that there is another information box next to the chat, which is saying "Having a conversation related to real-life or insulting/discriminating and any kind of abusive speech will end up being punished".

Yet, the majority of citizens, 61% or 42 people answered that it's not enough done to prevent and punish such occurrences, and 10% or 7 players thinks that it’s done enough. 14 players, or 20% answered ‘maybe’.

The majority 72% or 52 people also thinks that the admin should punish more often and be proactive on such issues, while 12% or 8 players don’t think he should punish more often.

Almost half of the respondents or 46%, 31 players have problem with this phenomenon, 33% don’t, and 10 players or 15% answered ‘maybe’.

The poll which 'Novinky' published, has gathered 69 responses (as of the first question), and was shared across all our communication channels, as well as constantly shared into the game chat the previous two days.

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