Slippery slope to what? In-game chat and even chat apps like discord aren’t public forums, you’re held to the rules set by the company providing the services. If you can’t abide by the rules they set, they reserve the right to remove you and revoke your access. Their goal is to provide an appealing service to the widest audience possible not cater to a bunch of toxic folks who can’t mind their temper.

If you can’t contain yourself, or at the very least mute yourself and you get banned that’s on you.

The internet sounds great but the subscription set up sounds horrible.

The US does not have the internet infrastructure to support the kinda of speeds needed to have this sort of subscription service gobble up the majority of the market share.

It isn’t unheard of for rural communities to have 3mbs download speeds.

lol where have you been? This has been an ongoing issue for CoD games going back to 2007 when Modern Warfare originally released.

But racism and sexism have been existing issues in the larger gaming community for years. I can testify to that through lived experience.

Friends can go a long way to help insulate you from the toxicity. But if you’re playing solo you’ll seldom get a break from it.

While it’s true it’s inevitable that people will act shitty that doesn’t mean we , as the collective community, have to tolerate the bad behavior.

The only way to truly deter trolls is to simply remove them. Play by the rules you get to play, don’t play by the rules you get banned.