Aloha! Riot, Blizzard and Twitch create the Fair Play Alliance initiative against community misconduct and curbing abusive and toxic behaviors in gaming communities.
Riot, Twitch and Blizzard create the Fair Play Alliance against community misconduct
30 video game companies including Riot, Blizzard, Twitch, have come together to form the Fair Play Alliance, in an attempt to counter toxic behavior in online games.
Fair Play Alliance is a cross-sector initiative spanning more than 30 gaming companies whose mission is to promote fair play in online games, raise awareness of issues related to player behavior, share research and best practices that drive change. long lasting.
Fair Play Alliance is a coalition of video game professionals and companies committed to developing quality games. We offer an open forum for the video game industry to collaborate on research, on best practices that promote fair play and healthy communities in online games. Visualizing a world where video games are free from harassment, discrimination and abuse, where players can express themselves through play.
The growth of online games has led to the appearance of users with abusive and toxic behaviors in virtual communities. Disrespect and attacks on players has become a real problem.
The main idea of this group is to share among them a common database where they can read all their reports, reports and analysis of measures, attitudes and resolutions that companies have taken when punishing their most toxic players, this in an effort that more novice studies do not make the same mistakes as those already recognized and with experience that have previously failed in this section, and at the same time generate together solutions to the issue.
There are already 27 companies related to the world of video games that have joined the 3 creators of the movement:
- Blizzard Entertainment Inc.
- CCP Games
- Corillian
- Discord Inc.
- Epic Games Inc.
- Flaregames
- Huuuge games
- Intel Corporation
- Kabam
- Kefir
- Ker Chunk Games
- Mixer
- Owlchemy Labs
- Playrix
- Radial Games
- Riot Games
- Roblox Corporation
- Rovio Entertainment Corp.
- Space ape games
- Spirit AI, Ltd.
- Supercell
- TwoHat
- Twitch
- Unity Technologies
- Xbox
Fair Play Alliance also has several events to raise awareness. Their first event was a conference at the GDC in San Francisco on Wednesday March 21st.
+ info on the page Fair Play Alliance.