Rainbow Six Siege Is Instantly Banning Players Using Slurs

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Toxicity and abusive language is a problem that almost every large multiplayer game where players communicate with each other faces, and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege is no exception. That said, Ubisoft has taken another step in addressing the age ol' issue.

Yesterday players began reporting that Ubisoft was hitting them with automatic and instant bans upon using a racist or homophobic slur via the in-game's text chat. Since these initial reports, Ubisoft has confirmed to PC Gamer that this is a result of a banning system that recently went live in the game to address this very issue.



Like many games that address vile speech, Siege's bans are dependent on the number of offenses of said account. Upon the first offense, the account is banned for 27 minutes, and prevents players from using any part of the game.

If the account is on its second or third offense, the ban is pumped-up to two hours. And then after a third offense, Ubisoft launches an official investigation into said account, which can lead to a permanent ban. In other words, the French company offers up players numerous chances to clean up their act.

If you follow Rainbow Six Siege – one of the world's biggest games – you will know Ubisoft's stance on toxicity isn't something new. Back in April, the company noted that it would be increasing the frequency and severity of its bans, and would soon be rolling out a variety of features to catch abusers of this particular rule in the code of conduct, and to hopefully curb the behavior.

"These short-term changes will begin to address toxicity, but we do not plan to stop there," said Ubisoft at the time via a blogpost. "We are serious about tackling the issues surrounding the potential for a negative player experience, and we will share any further changes with you prior to their implementation. We are interested in hearing your thoughts, and gathering your feedback! Please jump into the discussion on the subreddit and let us know what you think."


Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.

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TOXICPosted:

Glad to see they doing this now, and i think more games should do the same if im being completely honest.

JOEYKMODSPosted:

Seem's a bit much but ok i guess

XeCookiePosted:

Yeah idk about this, seems a bit outrageous.

BPMPosted:

Specialize Seem's a bit extensive, imagine your favorite youtuber said f**k. Insta banned.


Nah, the standard curse words are unaffected. It is a very poor system tho. It doesn't take into consideration context. E.g. Black in Spanish is Negro and Spanish people can get banned for that. There is a skin called Black Ice so spanish people cant say this now. It needs a lot of tweaking.

MikePosted:

Haha the first kid was so salty!

YatiPosted:

Loool, wenonly to give people sh*t

PetrucciPosted:

Honestly this was done extremely poorly. The amount of words that can get you banned is absurd and it bans you for half an hour on your first offence? I saw some guy ask "Hey does anyone remember Cartman's super hero name in south park?" Some guy said it and was banned.

B19Posted:

Mario350 good glad to see that annoying ghetto black people word aka uneducated people who dont know n***a is just the n word with an a, glad to see people getting banned for being chat toxic, glad to see the game getting shot in the foot, glad to see they arent fixing bugs that causes the game to put you on eu/na/sa servers and or insta kill on spawn/tkers, but im glad theyre banning for toxic behaivor, and f*ck isnt a slur for anything its not racist or anything


I'd love to say cracker in the chat.

lbreadsticklPosted:

After reading this I immediately imagined someone joining the military, quitting and complaining about the drill seargents' use of words and slurs. I chuckle now when I read/hear the word "offensive/offended", it's a freaking joke

DecyPosted:

Lol swearing and trash talking for aslong as i remember was one of the many perks to gaming lol...... what has happened to the world mam