Female Gamer "Sexually Assaulted" While Playing PS3

[Eggsnham]

Wow, get over it, PS home is a steamy pile of shit anyways.

 

[El Poncho]

Wow, annoying people in a game? What a surprise.

 

[Swaki]

grow a pair, i am sorry if i seem a bit cold, but i have been called various things meant as an attack on my playing abilities, my sexuality, my race, my sex and several other aspects of me they have assumed on, and honestly it have never annoyed me beyond making that person my first or last target (depending on whether I'm the enemy or the healer).

 

[squid5580]

That is nothing. Last night I was walking through Ferelden minding my own business when I was jumped by a bunch of bandits who murdered me. Lord only knows what they did to my body afterwards. I demand to be compensated.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

I don't doubt the guy was annoying, and she shouldn't have to quit or log out due to harassment, and obviously Sony needs to do something in terms of moderation of avoidance of these things (I recommend an 'ignore' Feature that makes the offending player and the 'victim' invisible to each other), but to call this 'sexual harassment' is a step too far.

Ignore features are the best way to handle this thing, really.

 

[Layzor]

Oh my gosh, was someone just offended by someone on the internet?

 

[DP155ToneZone]

[HEADING=1]NOT THE CROUCH EMOTE![/HEADING]

Seriously, this isn't sexual assault. This is some douchebag being an idiot and thinking that he's funny.

This chile' speaks the TRUTH.

 

[GreyWolf257]

Well, the only way to solve this "problem" is by giving the virtual people virtual guns so that they can open up a virtual can of virtual whoop-ass. Or they can make an action where you can rip another player's genitals off if the perform that action too close to you.

 

[AnarchistAbe]

What The Fuck. Seriously people, if this is sexual assualt then everyone who's played Halo 3 online has been sexually assualted repeatedly.

lol. I have been TeaBagged more than I care to admit.

Seriously though, shut off the damn system or get used to greifer, it's that simple. It drives me insane that people can pull the race card, or the sex card, whenever they please, simply based off of the fact that they were born with something that they can ***** about (i.e. different colored skin or a vagina).

 

[RatRace123]

This isn't so much of a news story as it is just an update on the latest person this happened to. I mean really, is anyone surprised this happened?

 

[jimduckie]

this has been going on since day one ,yeah it's stupid and annoying but it's not sexual assault

2 solutions for this ... change avatar to a dude or log out ... problem solved

 

[TheTygerfire]

Step 1) Stop playing Home
Step 2) Get over yourself

 

[ThrobbingEgo]

This would be more appropriate if there were an multiplayer mode for Rez.

 

[w1ndscar]

These two kids are retarded. Thats like saying getting owned in Counter Strike is being murdered.

 

[Player 2]

OMG he crouched!

That's totally the same as sexual assault.

 

[JourneyThroughHell]

Poor defenseless woman.
It's not like she can log out, can she?
Also, the guy who posted this is bloody hilarious. "Predominantly against women?" Well, no fucking shit. But blaming Sony for that. What a total tool.

 

[snow]

Sounds like this woman just wanted some attention... Which is why we're hearing about this stupid scenario.

I disagree with this. Your avatar is a digital extension of yourself to be sure but we cant start confering human emotions and capabilities on them, your avatar is no more capable of sexual assault in say Home than he is of murder in an FPS. Griefing has been around for aslong as multiplayer and so long as people can have anonymity and interaction your going to get assholes. So somebody followed her around and made a crouch gesture, to call it sexual assault to me cheapens the term and is an insult to women who have been sexually assaulted. Imagine this woman showed up at a support meeting and claimed there she had been sexually assaulted the people would be disgusted.

Yeah, I vote she spends a day with people who have been sexually assaulted in real life... She'll quickly reconsider her issue after they smack her in the head a few hundred times.

 

[Logan Westbrook]

It's in

I disagree with this. Your avatar is a digital extension of yourself to be sure but we cant start confering human emotions and capabilities on them, your avatar is no more capable of sexual assault in say Home than he is of murder in an FPS. Griefing has been around for aslong as multiplayer and so long as people can have anonymity and interaction your going to get assholes. So somebody followed her around and made a crouch gesture, to call it sexual assault to me cheapens the term and is an insult to women who have been sexually assaulted. Imagine this woman showed up at a support meeting and claimed there she had been sexually assaulted the people would be disgusted.

As I understand it, it's the room mate who called it assault. I wonder how you all would have reacted had he said 'harassment' rather than 'assault'?

 

[Dott]

Oooh, look at me, I can pretend to be licking someone's ass in a virtual world.

Really, this is just sad. That tosser needs to go get a hobby.
Perhaps a life.