All I can say is sorry. It must be epically exhausting to not only experience this racist shit in real life, but in game as well. AGS needs to respond harshly to any bigotry in game or on the forums. And yes, to anyone who is black being called a monkey is a long time well known racist slur. Those who don’t know it are the ones who don’t get it and probably use it without realizing its origin.
I hope you can get some sort of response from the devs on this. I’ve had to turn off global chat because of toxicity, racism, and sexism. I figured it was just part of MMOs but that shit really needs to stop. It reflects badly on the community, on AGS, and it drives good players of color, women, and non-binary genders away.
Anyone who thinks they should respond to my reply with “grow a spine” or “grow thicker skin” needs to “grow a brain” - This isn’t SJW nagging. We’re all human beings just trying to enjoy our time in a game. Just accept everyone’s differences and go about playing w/o spewing bigotry based statements and labels.
They have forced people to change name for having ‘fart’ in it because it might be viewed as ‘morally unacceptable’ to some individuals. If anything they are oversensitive.
Racism definitely exists everywhere my friend, it’s just that each culture has its own identity which not only makes the target of racism different (maybe) but also the style in which racism is carried out as well as other factors, I should say I have no official expertise on geopolitics, yet we can assume that different cultures might not even recognise the racism another culture deems abhorrent.
The forums are not a place to debate what is and isn’t racism. Racism takes many different forms and is expressed in many different ways. It can also vary dramatically from culture to culture. Games are not a place for racism, bigotry, or any type of toxicity based on the person who is playing or the character they have created.
Our Game Moderators take racism reports incredibly seriously. They review every report they receive. Any evidence that there is racism happening, they take action. In game reporting of the chat messages involved are the fastest way to get the Game Moderators attention. If you are experiencing issues here in the forums, flagging the post gets our Forum Moderators attention the fastest.
This thread is locked due to having no constructive purpose for New World. Again, we are not here to debate what does and does not constitute racism within our community.
We appreciate your help keeping this community and New World a safe place for all players by reporting any instances of Code of Conduct violations for our Moderation Teams to review.
