Apparently role players are getting hit hard.
Elder Scrolls Online players are angry. More than usual. Today’s story comes out of the ESO forums and subreddit where players are discussing a recent phenomenon happening in the Tamriel community. You see, people are getting banned for things they say in chat.
I know, not a massive surprise in itself. People get banned because of inappropriate chats all the time in online games. But people are also getting banned for comments made in private messages or even alone in private instances where there’s nobody around to report them.
The culprit, as it seems, is a chat-monitoring program that uses AI to monitor all chat, public and private, in an endless search for bad words that ZeniMax doesn’t want used in the game.
So far the posts have received the attention of community manager Kevin who on Friday posted that the complaints are being investigated and players might have a response next week.
“Hi all, just wanted to chime in here. We’re looking into some of the questions in the thread and checking in with the team for feedback. Since it’s pretty late in the day on a Friday, we probably won’t have any feedback until earlier next week. But wanted to acknowledge that we’ve seen this and are investigating.”
MMO Fallout will follow up if/when ZeniMax makes an official statement.
this is the main reason i uninstalled eso as someone who has been playing since 2016