While EA is working on removing toxicity from the gameplay of its upcoming FIFA 21, Valve, the Half-Life developers, is trying to prevent user-exposure to slurs and abuse in in-game chats. The company recently announced that they are bringing a new chat-filtration system dubbed “Text Filtering” to its gaming client, Steam to block abusive words and slurs by players while in-game.
Now, as you can tell, the feature will not really block the offensive words or slurs in the chat. Instead, it will block the user from seeing the words in the chat that they do not want to see in their chat boxes. So for players with the filtration system turned off, the abusive words and slurs will pop up in their chats.
“We do not want to censor users in chat, but rather, empower them to choose what they see from others, writes Valve.
