Voice chats need to be recorded

qwandadon said:

I'm not condoning the racism, slurs, and  various epithets. But, have you seen a cod lobby in the past 15 years lol.  Between 2k, FIFA, and Madden; sports games have the most toxic communities.

Has someone who was avid cod player back in the days of Mw2/black ops, those party's/gamechats were worse, but my counter to your point is that COD is rated M for Mature, where as Madden is not. Now I totally understand that people who are younger then 18 play cod (I was one of them), but if your game is not rated M for mature, then IMO you better at least attempt to regulate what goes on in-game, which EA has zero desire to do.

antitwisted said:

Damn, sorry to hear that. That's terrible but I get it. I started in Madden 18 and mostly it wasn't bad or anything but I played on a different platform back then and now I do think it seems WAY worse. I think Madden is honestly catered towards high school kids or even younger at this point. Just look at the meta and how the last MCS went. Then think how a 12 year old kid wants to play Madden - heave it deep, send heat, never think beyond "let's do that play I like for running/passing". Even the commentators at one point said "yeah, when you think too much you get into trouble." It all matches up. It's basically modern Tecmo Super Bowl, and even has the same players with Bo Jackson (eventually) and Christian Okoye.

The game is more arcadey than ever before. I almost lost brain cells last night watching the MCS. Guys catching the ball between 2-3 defenders, DBs not even attempting to make a play on the ball, instant pressure. Complete joke

The coolest people Ive met on madden are usually the NMS grinders or players who are new to the game  and have no idea what to do. Voice chats with those players are pretty chill.

The try hards are usually the most toxic. I have no clue why they get on the mic and talk crazy after calling mid blitz 4 times in a row and getting bombed deep.

joemainey said:

The coolest people Ive met on madden are usually the NMS grinders or players who are new to the game  and have no idea what to do. Voice chats with those players are pretty chill.

The try hards are usually the most toxic. I have no clue why they get on the mic and talk crazy after calling mid blitz 4 times in a row and getting bombed deep.

One of the main differences is a new player tries to think in real football strategy, IE "I think they're running, so I go cover 3". Slowly as time goes on they realize it isn't anything to do with real football but instead how Madden has programmed it. The two are damn near mutually exclusive at this point.

Never infringe on free speech - slippery slope - hatred is a reflection of the person spewing it - if you don’t like it hit the mute button

BagmanEdibles said:

you sound so soft how about just be a man

Being soft is one thing but screaming racist trash the whole game is terrible,  how is this even a thing... everyone says stop the hate but does nothing about it at least this man is speaking up

The fact that someone is pointing out a real problem: RACIST and abhorren  language and soms of you are saying "sack up"... Or press mute tells me a lot.

I guess Rosa Parks should simply have "stood up" on that bus or MLK should have ignored the racism in his day... Or Mandela should have stayed away from apartheid?

Buy a mirror and look long and hard into it. YOU are the one with a problem

you sound like A liberal bitch

BagmanEdibles said:

But when you are playing madden complaining about people trash talking is as dumb as it gets. Mute your opponent or shut up. Get over it if words hurt you than hit the mute button. So I Stand by my statement, original poster needs to sack up and stop complaining over words.

Curious,

In the real world do you let others speak to you any kind of way?

SosaChamberlain said:

Curious,

In the real world do you let others speak to you any kind of way?

What would you do in person? I would hope you're not talking about being violent and fighting people because they said some words to you. That's a good way to get thrown on jail and ruin your life. Need to learn to ignore it because it's not worth it. No point in being a tough guy imo

IKeys said:

The fact that someone is pointing out a real problem: RACIST and abhorren  language and soms of you are saying "sack up"... Or press mute tells me a lot.

I guess Rosa Parks should simply have "stood up" on that bus or MLK should have ignored the racism in his day... Or Mandela should have stayed away from apartheid?

Buy a mirror and look long and hard into it. YOU are the one with a problem

What should people do when people do stuff online? You're not comparing historical events to an EA video game right....?

MaddenIsTerrible said:

What should people do when people do stuff online? You're not comparing historical events to an EA video game right....?

I'm not saying there's an obvious solution. My point is that we should at least agree this is unacceptable behaviour. Not just dismiss it and attack the person who raised the point.

And to your other point; it's an insult to those who fought for progress before us to say: "well it's a lot better now than it was then so let's just shut up and accept the wrong that happens now".

So; NO... racist language on an online game is not comparable to systemic racism and lynching that happened historically. BUT each generation (with ppl of all races) fought to make things better than they found it. We should NOT normalise racist language in our Generation because we have it better than they did.

If there's a way to record voice chat and prove racist language/abuse, then it should be done and punished to the FULL extent of the law and EA's very word code of conduct. But of course that Code is only enforced when EA stands to lose money (eg coins buying, etc). 🙄

MaddenIsTerrible said:

What would you do in person? I would hope you're not talking about being violent and fighting people because they said some words to you. That's a good way to get thrown on jail and ruin your life. Need to learn to ignore it because it's not worth it. No point in being a tough guy imo

You can address something without being violent. If a coworker takes a slight at me at work I approach them directly and ask them clarify the comments.

SosaChamberlain said:

You can address something without being violent. If a coworker takes a slight at me at work I approach them directly and ask them clarify the comments.

Well yea, that's different but you can't really do that online lol