For the gaming industry, it has earned an awful reputation from users who like hate to groom and illegal products. With metaverse and the influx of user-generated content, there’s a whole new way for harmful content and people will be threatening others.
And along with this new phase of gaming and technology comes the opportunity to do something different and especially if it comes to safety and trust. A panel sponsored by ActiveFence on GamesBeat summit was divided between developers and developers.
Safety must be the three-legged stool, says Tami Bhaumik, VP of civility and collaboration at Roblox. Unlike Roblox, this is the main road to action. Because democratization and UGC are future, they need to work together to create world-class experiences and achieve it, with their collective intention of the future. That stool is a third-party branch of government regulation.
But I also believe that regulation should be evidence-based, he said. These regulation-making people can write a wide range of laws, that is very frankly an unconstitutional act and that is a detriment to the whole nation.
Those headlines and the legislature tend to come from those where something goes through the cracks often enough that the guardians are frustrated and ignorant. It’s a balancing act, said Chris Norris, a senior director of Positive Play at Electronic Arts.
We will certainly clarify the policy. He said we want to make the rules clear. Together, we want to give the community the opportunity to self-regulate. There should be strong style a lot, too. To be able to speak to someone at the same time, I want to try and ensure it wasn’t overly prescriptive about what happened in the space, especially in the world where people need to have an express mind.
The difference between enormous communities must be realized when considering the size of the audience and the fact that there are undoubtedly poor actors amidst these enormous communities, said Tomer Poran, director of solution strategy at ActiveFence.
Platforms can’t stop all the bad guys, all the bad actors, all the bad activities, he said. It’s this time when the best efforts are what we should do. The duty of care. Platforms are in building the right programs, the right teams, the right processes inside their organization, the right tools, canisters or agents to create. If they have those in place, we cannot expect the Creator layer, the developer and the creator layer from this platform.
A common issue is that too many parents and teachers don’t even know account restrictions and parental controls exist; and the number of kids who take parental controls is very low across platforms.
It’s a problem, because the technology company had tremendous intentions, he said. There are some of the smartest engineers working in safety on innovation and technology. But if they’re not used and do not have a basic education level, then there’s always a problem.
Whatever the community is, its the platforms have the responsibility to manage it in accordance with the audiences preferences. If that doesn’t mean that the aim of a M-rated game, a G-rated game teaches you a lot of great value.
What are the main parts of the market? You should consider the standards as a function of policy and code of conduct, but what do you think it is worth?
In conclusion, safety shouldn’t have a competitive advantage across the industries or platforms, norris added Those things should be table stakes.
In the game industry, we have a nativity of 80%. We’re going to do five pages, he said. I have not said anything, what are we going to do? What kind of community would we like to have? How are we thinking about all the ways that this medium can be social and connective and for a lot of people?
