An article from Offenburg University in Germany shows new statistics on sexual harassment Valorant And OverwatchTwo online shooters played online from Riot Games and Blizzard Entertainment. The results show that sexual harassment and abuse comments are still an unfortunate part of the online game experience, with the authors that a larger study should be done on a series of games. Paper, sexual harassment Valorant And Overwatch Talk in voice, “Including two studies – one of both games focused on both games and one of the Valorant. Polygon reviewed the study, showing that the subjects encountered a regular line of toxic, obscene and sexual harassment.
Both games have professional esports scenes and both encourage players to climb a competitive step, constantly improving their own skills. The first study followed two female players, watching their games played at home and transcribed voice conversations in every match. The Overwatch Players, called P1 topic, played in the platinum tournament, put her at about 37% of the player’s top. The researchers have seen a number of general harassment cases in 19 observations Overwatch The matches, there are no cases of sexual harassment in these matches. Subject P2, who has chosen ValorantIs silver 3, put her in the top 33% of players. The researchers have observed 9 Valorant The matches in which both common harassment and sex occurred.
The second, long -term research follows four subjects throughout 30 Valorant Suitable for each, with a total of 120. Research shows that cases of sexual harassment are constantly encountered while playing games online. There are 82 cases of sexual harassment that recorded more than 120 matches. Sexual comments and insults were found in 14.17% of matches. The subjects also encounter a non -specific toxic line; 80.8% of 120 vulgar matches and overuse of words occurred at 25.8% of matches. Although sexual harassment is less common than common toxicity, it is consistent – about one of seven Valorant The matches include a teammate sexual harassment in a voice chat.
Valorant And Overwatch Creating an interesting case study, because the developers of both games have aimed at creating accessible FPS games, with a diverse character system to choose from. The game is accompanied by cinema and story documents outside the game that shows the lives of these characters, including romantic relationships among the characters Queer Fuse and Killjoy. Overwatch Famous for nurturing a community that cares about the legend of the game, organizes a healthy fandom that creates cosplay, fanfiction and art fans. However, Blizzard and Riot have not yet found a meaningful solution for the harassment created by the player through voice conversations and the remaining players to deal with the results.
Adjustment: This story has previously missed the details of the results of each result of each game from the first research. It has been repaired to reflect the results for both Overwatch And Valorant.
