MonteCristo slams devs for failing to tackle sexist abuse towards women in games Riot Games\/Twitch: InsightOnEsportsVeteran esports commentator Christopher \u2018MonteCristo\u2019 Mykles has called on game developers to do more to tackle sexist abuse in their games, especially if they want to integrate more women into the professional scene. MonteCristo has been a prominent name at the top of esports for some time. He was a caster in both League of Legends and the Overwatch League, until he left OWL in 2020 and went on to become a commissioner for CS:GO league Flashpoint. As such, he has seen the best and worst of the gaming world, and believes that issues regarding sexism and misogyny need to be addressed from the top down, starting with the developers. Monte explained as much during a chat with Duncan \u2018Thorin\u2019 Shields and Richard Lewis on The Four Horsemen. Speaking of women\u2019s esports tournaments, he said: \u201cIt feels like a lot of these initiatives are a smokescreen to disguise the fact that these developers either can\u2019t or refuse to fix the problems with harassment on voice chat that prevent women from wanting to play\u2026\u201d \u201cThey prop up these programs because they won\u2019t actually fix the fundamental underlying problem, which is that on the casual level, it\u2019s extremely unwelcoming for women,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt\u2019s like if you blamed the NBA because a woman got harassed on a court in New York City in a pick-up game. That\u2019s a ridiculous premise but it\u2019s basically what we\u2019re trying to solve here. Adding that \u201cthe developers need to take f**king responsibility for the issue,\u201d Monte was clearly impassioned and received a lot of support online. Summarizing his point in a tweet later, Monte said: \u201cThe problem of getting more women as professional players starts with the devs who either can\u2019t or won\u2019t deal with the abuse that happens on their ladders.\u201d The problem of getting more women as professional players starts with the devs who either can\u2019t or won\u2019t deal with the abuse that happens on their ladders. https:\/\/t.co\/mJVH0QSWXM \u2014 MonteCristo (@MonteCristo) January 25, 2022 Monte comments received a wave of support on social media, but whether any meaningful change comes from it is another question. While top game developers will always be conscious of finding ways to better tackle toxicity, being able to control voice chat is much more difficult, and so far, devs and publishers have been unable to stamp out the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MonteCristo slams devs for failing to tackle sexist abuse towards women in games Riot Games\/Twitch: InsightOnEsportsVeteran esports commentator Christopher \u2018MonteCristo\u2019 Mykles has called on game developers to do more to tackle sexist abuse in their games, especially if they want to integrate more women into the professional scene. MonteCristo has been a prominent name at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}