Game Pass Ultimate user suspended for saying GG
An Xbox Game Pass Ultimate user has reportedly been suspended for messaging someone GG after they played together.
03rd Sep 2023 21:06
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Game Pass Ultimate user suspended for saying GG
An Xbox Game Pass Ultimate user has reportedly been suspended for messaging someone GG after they played together.
03rd Sep 2023 21:06
Image via Microsoft
An Xbox Game Pass Ultimate user has reportedly been suspended for two days for messaging someone GG.
This suspension comes after Xbox’s recent announcement of the eight-strike system for community management.
A game pass user may have been suspended for saying GG
A Game Pass Ultimate user has been suspended for two days after messaging GG to another user, receiving two strikes for the message.
Reddit user Kind_Fox_6358 shared their experience of being suspended on the XboxSeriesX forum, stating that the report had come after they had declined 14 requests to game with another player.
They said: "He messaged me first, it wasn't anything bad either. He spammed me with a bunch of invites but I was full. I don't think he liked that I wouldn't play with him. If he would have waited 30 mins my friends got off and we could have played."
Kind_Fox shared the message they received which informed them of the suspension, including the message which they were suspended for which read: "2v3 ggs." Some commenters both on Twitter and on the original Reddit thread speculated that the "ggs" could have been what got the user in trouble.
While GG is commonly known to mean 'good game', GGs is a bit more ambiguous. Some see it as saying 'good games' while others read it as 'get good scrub'. Kind_Fox has confirmed that they intended the message to mean 'good game' however this may not have been clear in the context of the rest of the thread.
Xbox recently changed their community management policy
Xbox recently introduced a new method of community management which gives players who are found to be acting in a toxic way a set number of strikes.
Strikes will remain on a player's account for six months. When players receive eight strikes, they are banned for a year from multiplayer games and Xbox social features, however, they will still be able to access their single-player game libraries.
The decision to implement this rule has been controversial, with some players worrying about being falsely reported when playing games like Overwatch 2.
Dave McCarthy, CVP of Xbox's player services, said: "We are constantly improving our safety measures and bringing more systems and tools in place that empower players to respectfully interact with one another – because everyone deserves a place to comfortably be themselves online, free from harassment and bullying."
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