Voice chats need to be recorded

Could it be because of culture. I grew up in a particular heavy African American city. I played basketball almost everyday in grades school and they talk smack about your mama and stuff. I’m use to it now and I learned a few good come backs.

example: your Mama is so hairy Bigfoot took a picture of her. Your mama is so fat when she turns around it’s her birthday, or mama is so fat I told her to bow and weave she thought I was taking about kfc.

the game is sooooo much better with voice chat disabled.

Life is tough, get a helmet. Every game has toxic people, just mute and move along.

I had someone calling me all kinds of variants of the N word and threatening to rape my "mother and sister at the same time" amongst other things. I've recorded everything with my phone and opened a ticket with EA. 
They replied that they wouldnt take action against that player. It was a generic, automated response about how they can't check context of what and how it happened and that not everything is as offensive to some than others - along those lines. 
They also told me on EA Help Chat that there is no way for me to upload the videos of the whole thing or send them in via email thus they have no way of checking if this actually happened.

I’m just going to say that I think OP has a very valid point.  We absolutely can and should strive to do better.  Trash talking is definitely a part of the MUT experience, but it should never descend into vulgar/racist comments or wishing someone’s parents to succumb to cancer or some other deadly disease.

hulksmashr2 said:

Could it be because of culture. I grew up in a particular heavy African American city. I played basketball almost everyday in grades school and they talk smack about your mama and stuff. I’m use to it now and I learned a few good come backs.

example: your Mama is so hairy Bigfoot took a picture of her. Your mama is so fat when she turns around it’s her birthday, or mama is so fat I told her to bow and weave she thought I was taking about kfc.

But it’s seldom as innocent or benign as that.

rimbaud76 said:

But it’s seldom as innocent or benign as that.

Yeah comparing yo mama jokes to people wishing others death, threatening to kill or rape them or family members etc. are on slightly different levels

PBateman said:

Yeah comparing yo mama jokes to people wishing others death, threatening to kill or rape them or family members etc. are on slightly different levels

But who cares what someone says? i don't understand why people waste energy dealing with those people. It's literally a voice online who knows nothing about you. I mute everything and i never talk to any opponent, why would anybody do that? I don't care for the person i'm playing against and i don't care about getting into a name calling match with some weirdo online.

i just turn my mic on and mess with them.    I talk like the water boy about foozeball.  they usually get upset and usually stop.  i understand that is not what you were talking about but just my way of dealing with them

MaddenIsTerrible said:

But who cares what someone says? i don't understand why people waste energy dealing with those people. It's literally a voice online who knows nothing about you. I mute everything and i never talk to any opponent, why would anybody do that? I don't care for the person i'm playing against and i don't care about getting into a name calling match with some weirdo online.

I appreciate both sides of this. Yes, it's not worth allowing other people the power to affect you with their words, no matter how harsh they are. 

However, I also agree with the others that people should do better. I think everyone wins if people can be a little nicer. But in the minds of EA, to moderate voice chat or any exchanges in games, is to spend time and money, therefore it's a net loss. But when you factor in the people, IE potentially big spenders, who might quit, especially when already getting frustrated at such a crazy meta game, well...they might care about keeping it nice and clean if they actually thought more about it.

Bro just needs to mute his mic…tf lol?

antitwisted said:

I appreciate both sides of this. Yes, it's not worth allowing other people the power to affect you with their words, no matter how harsh they are. 

However, I also agree with the others that people should do better. I think everyone wins if people can be a little nicer. But in the minds of EA, to moderate voice chat or any exchanges in games, is to spend time and money, therefore it's a net loss. But when you factor in the people, IE potentially big spenders, who might quit, especially when already getting frustrated at such a crazy meta game, well...they might care about keeping it nice and clean if they actually thought more about it.

I gave up on people needing to be better a long time ago honestly. There will always be toxic people but i don't have the time to sit there and tell them right from wrong, especially online where everyone is a tough guy. Not worth the time and energy. Mute everything and let them talk to themselves. I really don't care one bit if i see a mic moving, i don't even think about it ever again because again, who cares? 

If someone quits because of that then maybe online gaming isn't for them. Of course it shouldn't happen but it does. That's the shit we have to deal with so either ignore it or don't is the answer because it's not stopping anytime soon.

MaddenIsTerrible said:

I gave up on people needing to be better a long time ago honestly. There will always be toxic people but i don't have the time to sit there and tell them right from wrong, especially online where everyone is a tough guy. Not worth the time and energy. Mute everything and let them talk to themselves. I really don't care one bit if i see a mic moving, i don't even think about it ever again because again, who cares? 

If someone quits because of that then maybe online gaming isn't for them. Of course it shouldn't happen but it does. That's the shit we have to deal with so either ignore it or don't is the answer because it's not stopping anytime soon.

I agree with everything you said and don't bother changing people either, but I guess I got on one of my rants at 120 WPM. Don't mind me.

I don't trust EA to pour a bowl of cereal without messing it up much less be the voice chat police.  Xbox tries to do that and people get banned all the time, not because they did anything but the toxic people have an option to report you and be even more toxic.  Just mute them and be done with it.