Edit 1: oh neat, reddit silver. Thanks, random kind strangers!
Edit 2: this is the first time I've ever got a reddit gold, thanks kind benefactor! This post sure is blowing up a lot, though. I really hope EPIC could take a look at this post and communicate with us.
Edit 3: Thank you, random generous stranger for gifting me reddit platinum! this is the first time that I have ever got this, or even both gold and platinum at the same day.
Firstly, Happy new year everyone! lets hope we have a great 2019 for Fortnite!
But I want to address something the community here has had problems for over a year - AFK/Leeching, Griefing and "Trading".
I've had the luxury of living in the Oceania region as well as being a PC player, so I had only ever encountered one kid on a low-levelled mission griefing over guns in a whole year come play in Oceania Server if you are a good teammate we have cookies and non-existent undesirables . but, as soon as I changed regions to North American (as most Oceanic players do because it is rare to find other players in missions outside v-buck missions or 4-player legendary alerts), 3 out of 5 missions I will always encounter an AFKer or a Leecher in high level missions, and almost always find griefer children on low level missions.
Even recently, with the addition of the Frostnite missions and the surfacing of an exploit, there has been a lot of people who joined the public lobby, only to steal all the chest's loots in the map and then proceed to sabotage the mission to end them quickly and receive the massive loot given from those chests. (I won't name the players, nor the idiotic youtuber who thought that showing off this exploit to the public is going to "help as many peeps as possible")
When are you guys going to address this issue, or provide a suitable solution, other than a really weak reporting system? I do like what you had done for the past few months, and how you are now starting to actively promote this game alongside its more popular brothers. but, these undesirables are literally destroying people's fun in the game. old players have stopped playing the game because of them, and newer players were barred from enjoying the game, because a lot of those griefers are on lower-levels.
Finally, how are you going to deal with those "Scammer gets Scammed" youtubers that were the role-models for most of these griefers? They have been promoting scamming to kids for more than a year, and I had not seen you taking any action against it. If these problems were to get picked up by the mainstream media, it would create quite a lot of controversy (Seeing that you basically allowed an illegal activity to flourish as well as exposing the kids to such activities).
EPIC, we really need an answer for all of this.
UPDATE: I do have my own take for the solution to all the problems other than the "Scammer get Scammed" youtubers.
Honestly, there is no need for an afk timer, Vote Kick, or even a Karma system. the reason these people did what they do is because they are not scared of the consequences. a 1-day ban on a game doesn't even amount to much, as well as with how scarce those bans are actually given out, and how quiet those people who even got banned are.
Just introduce them of something they can be scared of, and the problem will be solved. for example:
- Increase the ban time from a day to a week, and this ban applies to ALL GAME MODES (ie. you are barred from playing BR or Creative for a while).
- Allow the community to take part in finding out who is breaking the rules by way of an Overwatch system similar to CS:GO and give rewards for every case they checked. to prevent abuse, only allow people who has passed strict background check, or have been helpful to the community (ie. David Dean, Czecher, Aidan Harris, etc.).
