[2020] The trollers have evolved and realized they can only get a chat ban.

Hey! If you check out the EOY article we wrote, we talk about addressing these things in the coming year. https://playvalorant.com/en-us/news/dev/end-of-year-competitive-play-area/

We're already working on this. It just takes a lot of time to design something that is fair, reasonable, and has a good chance of being effective; and even more time to coordinate across teams for how this actually gets implemented in game.

We don't want to do the thing where we roll something out and discover that we were too strict and banned half our players. We also don't want to roll something out, only to tighten or change up the rules a week later. There are a lot of risks here, so we're being diligent with the process.

I don't want to be dismissive or give you the "we're working on it ;)" dev response. Being real, I feel this. It royally sucks. That's why I swapped over to the Social & Player Dynamics team (along with my other kickass teammates). I'm sick of this sh*t, and I'm seriously invested in yeeting it out of our game. It won't be as soon as we all want, but we'll get there. I promise.

-fistbumps-

There are still some things that need to fall into place with our partner teams, so I'm hesitant to commit to a specific time. >< We'll keep you updated as more concrete pieces fall into place!