Phil Spencer is one of the most visible faces in the video game industry, and although he almost always shows a friendly face, the truth is that the Xbox boss also knows how to show a less friendly side when things get serious, for example with cases of online harassment.
In his recent interview with the New York Times, we have known that Phil Spencer wants to tackle toxicity online with two measures that would be of great importance for the future of the game in the network. Spencer proposes that player bans are effective on different platforms, as well as the possibility of transferring the block lists of certain players.
Phil Spencer wants to tackle toxicity online with two measures
In addition, Spencer also proposed that improvements should be made to voice and text chat monitoring, to try to identify toxic players as soon as possible, taking the necessary measures to keep the game online as much as possible. clean as possible.
You know that something that I would love that we could do, this is difficult as an industry, it is when someone is banned in one of our networks, is there any way to ban them in other networks? Or at least as a gamer, so that I can bring my list of banned users because I can always block people from my [juegos]. I would love to be able to bring them to other networks where I play, this is the group of people I choose not to play with because I don’t want to have to recreate that on all the platforms I play video games on.
Either way, These measures with which Phil Spencer wants to deal with online toxicity are complex to execute, especially given the name changes of users, among other issues.