Phantasy Star Online 2 Bans 1600 Players Over Toxicity, Symbol Art Changes Coming

Over the previous week, Phantasy Star Online 2 has banned over 1600 gamers for poisonous conduct. The NGS Stay Operations Staff has taken a stand towards what they deem as “hateful conduct and toxicity” which has concluded within the suspension and punishment of a whole bunch of accounts.

In a transfer which may be a little bit stunning to some, SEGA, and the Phantasy Star On-line 2: New Genesis staff has launched an announcement following the suspension of over 1600 accounts discovered to have exhibited poisonous conduct within the type of racist, discriminatory, or hateful speech or acts. The whole lot of the assertion might be learn within the tweet under:

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— Phantasy Star On-line 2 New Genesis – World (@play_pso2) September 7, 2021

The prevalence of sure poisonous gamers is nothing significantly new to the sport, and whereas SEGA has strived to do higher on the subject of making PSO2:NGS a secure area the place all gamers can really feel welcome, it has typically been accused of letting some dangerous actors run rampant. Again in June when PSO2:NGS launched, we published an article that depicted circumstances of toxicity and inappropriate user-created content material throughout the sport. On the time, SEGA was not capable of remark once we reached out to them, however in a recent announcement on the official PSO2:NGS web site, countermeasures are coming to guard towards the malicious conduct seen inside their communication options.

Within the interim, SEGA has quickly disabled Image Artwork as per the discover under, which additionally consists of the meant repair for the scenario that they plan to roll out in mid-October:

“Add an choice to toggle show for Chat and Image Artwork despatched by different gamers for every class, reminiscent of 1. Ship to Space and a pair of. Ship to Occasion.*The usage of Image Artwork in 1. Ship to Space is at the moment quickly disabled, and we plan to re-enable it with the addition of this operate.”

–PSO2 NGS Announcement

Whereas it would by no means be doable to fully rid a sport of dangerous actors, particularly when among the content material is neighborhood generated, SEGAs transfer to deal with the poisonous outliers of an in any other case useful neighborhood will solely make the sport higher, kinder and extra accessible.