Riot’s new team-based shooter Valorant is still only in beta, but it sure didn’t take long for the toxicity to creep in. Even the game’s developers are reporting having experienced in-game sexist harassment, with one now avoiding the solo queue.
The discussion began when Riot UX designer “Greenily” posted an example of some of the behaviour she’d experienced while playing Valorant, noting that she muted the player for his comments – but this wouldn’t be enough to stop him harassing someone else in another game.
“I want to live in a world where this guy doesn’t go and ruin other peoples’ games. Where people feel safe to speak up. But reality is that in general voice comms land, for a ton of females, their safety mechanism is identifying [people] like this early and remaining silent or muting.”
Source: Eurogamer Riot exploring "long-term solutions" to Valorant toxicity as devs face sexist harassment