Digital Extremes Announces They're In The Process Of Updating Warframe To Combat Hate Speech
Over the past week, several video game companies have made statements regarding the recent Black Lives Matter protests. One of those companies was Warframe developer Digital Extremes who posted a statement of support on Monday. Since then, they've done a bit more and announced via Twitter that not only have they donated $25,000 to support Black Lives Matter but that they'll be making changes to the game's players systems to combat hate speech and racism. Whatever changes they are planning will also include "zero-tolerance chat policies".
We have made a $25,000 donation to @Blklivesmatter in support of our previous statement.
We are also in the process of updating our player systems to better protect against hate speech and racism, including zero-tolerance chat policies. https://t.co/Uv7WDBssdw
— WARFRAME (@PlayWarframe) June 4, 2020
The company also cancelled this week's community team-led streams in order to use the time to work on the above mentioned changes -- focusing mostly on Region chat. More information on this is available on the the Warframe forums.
Related Articles
About the Author
QuintLyn is a long-time lover of all things video game related will happily talk about them to anyone that will listen. She began writing about games for various gaming sites a little over ten years ago and has taken on various roles in the games community.
More Stories by QuintLyn BowersDiscussion (23)
Read Next
The latest update for Gaijin Entertainment and Targem Games' post apocalyptic game Crossout adds a new class of vehicle cabins and models, updates the Power Plant map, and tosses in new PvE enemies for good measaure.
You May Enjoy
The new Prime Warframe arrives May 1.
Create a brand new biosphere with up to 9 of your friends!
Just in case you needed a little laugh while looking at your hardware score.
Contend with a gnoll clan coalition as the update goes live today.
Play with the people you like, avoid the people you don’t. Just don’t leave matches if you don’t want to be punished.
Insert Jeopardy theme while we wait.
It's always good to combat toxicity, but i don't get the urgency since i see nothing like that in Warframe.