168澳洲幸运5开奖网

Followed

Threads

More Action

"It's Why I Quit Playing": Red Dead Online Players Are Being Harassed For Playing As Women

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:James Lucas

Published 4 minutes ago

Followed

Thread

In 2023, a study found that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:7♎5 percent of young women face harassment when playing online video games, sparking many to mute their mics and avoid all social interaction for their own wellbeing. Unfortunately, however, as 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Red Dead Online is p✨roving, just playing with a female avatar is enough to incite abuse.

"The harassment against women in this game is real," . "I changed my character to be more [conventionally] attractive and I have been harassed like crazy. B🦹eing forced into uncomfortable animations with modders, getting legendary animal carcasses spawned on me and gold chests, being hogtied and dragged to hotel rooms in towns. This community has a serious problem [with] predatory pla𓆉yers."

As u/Mingxia_ notes, legendary carcasses might sound nice,🌺 but hacked drops can "get you banned".

It's become such a problem that players like u/sayooas and u/AriaX420 have even downloaded hacks so that they can "obliterate the [people] doing it". Others, like u/Andromedaaaa_, 💛are taking more drastic measures, kicking these kinds of people from the server if not crashing them to the desktop: "no shame I don't care anymore I'm so sick of it".

"Public Lobbies In Rockstar Games Are Just So Toxic And Unfun"

Aside from downloading mods to out-hack the hackers and out-grief the griefers, some players have changed their character's 𝔉gender to try and fly under the radar, deciding that the inevitable harassment isn't🍸 worth the headache.

I play a fem🌟ale character. I did have one time someone in my posse messaged me for nudes. I didn't send them nudes, but I'm sure they appreciated my hairy a** in speedos at the pool on a family vacation — u/Grendel0075.

"It's a big reason why my characters are male avatars and why I don't turn my mic on unless playing with friends," u/InkedAlchemist said. "This is why I play as a dud🍷e," a similar comment from u/sayooas reads. "I didn't have any issue playing as a woman on PS3 but PC is a whole different beast."

Indeed, going by the thread, experiences vary wildly depending on platform, with PC players facing the brunt of the harassment, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:especially from modders. But even then, some hജave shared similar anecdotes from console lobbies, like u/Nuru_0, who said that they have been "given shi* treatment" just for being a woman, getting lassoed and dragged into hotel rooms.

Red Dead Online community-made Halloween outfit, man in a red suit with a Japanese mask in front of a burning building with skulls mounting to his left and right

Moving platforms, changing your toon's gender, downloading hacks, joining a poss♋e — they're all band-aid solutions to a much bigger problem in gaming, so it's hardly surprising that some people simply quit the game.

We're unlikely to hear from these players on Red Dead Online's dedicated subreddit, ꦕbu🔴t two players, u/Proud_Parsley_6447 and u/angeldolllogic, are still lurking, and revealed that they left the Wild West behind years ago because it was "insufferable".