Being salty when not doing well at video games is a fairly common sentiment amongst those in the competitive gaming community. However, especially when directed at those who run that game, there are lines that shouldn’t crossed, something one proFortniteteam has come to learn the hard way.
Epic Games' popular free-to-play battle royale is currently wrapping up its fifth season of Chapter 2. The crossover-heavy season brought a wide variety of characters to the island, includingGod of War’s Kratos,Halo’s Master Chief, and more. Set to begin tomorrow,Fortnitehas been steadily releasing bits and pieces of information, with aunique solo experience kicking things off for Season 6.
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Epic Games has reportedly kicked out aFortniteteam from competing in the ongoing Fortnite Championship Series, or FNCS. The teamwide boot stems from a particularly nasty tweet from one of the teams players, Wrigley. While the tweet has since been deleted, along with the deactivation of the entire account, Eurogamer managed to view it beforehand. The profanity-laden tweet reportedly told Donald Mustard to go kill himself. For those who don’t know, Donald Mustard isFortnite’s director and Chief Creative Officer at Epic Games. Basically the last person any scornedFortnitecompetitor should attempt to call out.
While it us unfortunate an entire team suffered because of a single person, it appears Epic Games is setting a zero-tolerance precedent for this kind of talk going forward. Hate speech of any kind should be banned on social media, although gamers have also been gettingbanned on Twitter for typing “memphis,“showing that social media moderation still has some ways to go.
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