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I don't think you are a minority. the average gamer on a given popular game is usually going on about how fat your mom is in between rounds or on chat or whatever (it's worse than this, of course, i'm being nice).

Somehow, i don't think they are going to be up for tying that to their real identity.

There are two possibilities. This either massively improves the discourse on games like COD and the equivalent of every xbox live game ever. Or, people don't use it, because they don't want that. I"m going to go with the second.

Put another way: can you imagine the average gamer in COD wanting to tie their character "XXXAyeCarambeHarambeXXX420 to their real identity?

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If the quality of comments on facebook are any indication I am not sure it will make a huge difference on discourse quality.

Or YouTube after Google plus is a better example. We've been there, done that, real names do not improve niceness.

These rude 'average gamers' you speak of are the vocal minority in my experience... Most of us are normal people.

In what game, precisely? Seriously, these platforms are all known for it. I've pretty most major triple-a multiplayer titles in the past 15 years, and they are all like this.

Do normal people exist? Sure. Are they the majority? Uh, no. :) It's not even a close contest.

This is even pretty easy to see. Pick 100 random top youtube videos of these games. Count the amount of racism, what have you going on in voice chat, team chat, whatever.

I say 100 just so one doesn't say "well, it's just these guys". It's everyone.

Do you actually play games or are you making things up from ill conceived stereotypes?

Yes. I play games enough that i have youtube videos of me and friends playing games that have millions of views, in fact.

Is this good enough for whatever bar you are trying to set?

(i'll note you didn't provide a retort to what i suggested, you instead just went to ad-hominem. So i'm going to assume you in fact, have no data that i'm wrong)

I've been almost exclusively playing Overwatch and Rocket League now for a good several months. The amount of offensive content isn't really any more than any other online community. It's rare. You get people who brag maybe, but no one has claimed to have sex with my mother in my entire time I have played that game. I've seen maybe a handful of racist terms dropped here and there, but those people are either chastised or ignored.

Idk, I just don't see what you see. What do you play?

Average gamers in CoD are not average gamers. So there's that.

Pick any triple A title with multiplayer.

Haven't noticed this at all on Titanfall 2 (pc)

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