Johanna Faries talked about the company's plans to clean up some of the worst behavior in the franchise's community as new lawsuits and allegations about its own culture continue to emerge.
A code of conduct for the Call of Duty community was released last month by the company. The company can point to the policy when it enforces the rules.
Since I have been in the chair, we have raised the bar in terms of paying attention to what an anti-tox strategy needs to look like. Safe play environments look like what they are. Faries spoke. We just released a first-ever franchise-wide code of conduct, which may sound like table stakes, but it's here now.
Faries noted that the anti-toxicity teams at the company were focused on it all the time. The goal is to make it easier for players to report bad behavior but also to reward good behavior that should serve as a model.
The weeding out of players who cheat and toxic behavior that disproportionately impacts marginalized players goes hand in hand, according to Faries.
There's more to come on this, but I was proud to see in addition to Ricochet and a lot of our anti-cheat anti-hacking initiatives that we've rolled out as well." To continue to raise the bar of what it means to play fair to play with respect for everyone, we are putting the best systems in place.
According to reports, top competitor Doug "Censor" Martin was banned from competing in the Fortune's Keep tournament due to his interactions with Call of Duty streamer NadiaAmine. The female player has faced a lot of sexism and baseless accusations that she is somehow cheating at the game.
Martin claimed that he was blocked from competing in the tournament because he harassed Amine. The new emphasis on cleaning up behavior in the notoriously toxic Call of Duty scene would be tracked if the company did indeed dole out an event ban over directing unwanted attention at a teammate.
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