EA Sports games: more ban for those who incite racism and adopt toxic behaviors

While protests in the United States continue to ignite following the murder of George Floyd, the leaders of Electronic Arts confirm their support for the Black Lives Matter movement and announce that they want to implement even stricter controls in EA Sports games to declare war on the racism.

From the official Twitter page of EA Sports, the renowned division of the US gaming giant that manages sports series and games like FIFA 20 explains that "we are constantly committed to maintaining a culture of inclusion. Toxic behavior changes and evolves rapidly, and we recognize that we need to do more to actively monitor and remove those individuals who perpetuate racist, xenophobic, homophobic or sexist behaviors in our games. "

With this in mind, component managers multiplayer video games EA Sports promise to intervene extremely quickly to review the list of terms and express vulgar ions to include a wider range of languages, dialects and territorial slang. As happened with Activision and the war on racists in COD Modern Warfare and Warzone, EA Sports games will also implement more tools to facilitate the reporting of toxic behavior, a commitment that will be accompanied by an increase in the resources available to the internal teams that deal with to investigate this kind of phenomena of intolerance and hatred that cross the multiplayer servers of the most popular video games.

More information on the interventions that will be taken in this sense by Electronic Arts, presumably, will be shared during the event EA Play Live which, due to the latest postponement, will be held on June 19th at one in the morning (Italian time).