S. Harassment and Lack of Accountability in DBD
Yesterday, while playing the game as a survivor, I faced one of the most disgusting moments in my time playing this game. After I got down by a player controlling Kaneki (that already makes weird sounds normally), this player (for not being able to hook more than 2 times during the entire match), just let me slugged on the floor for about 2 minutes and a half while going back and forward (insinuating a sexual assault). Luckily, I had some players to help me get up and they even got a hit for me to escape from the match.
However, even though we all escaped, I felt like a bitter taste for now being able to report this player in my PS5 consoler (not because I did not want to, but because I could not find a way to reasonably begin the process). Also, I was so focused on trying to escape that I did not record the interaction because I was in shock with it. People close to me were victims of S. Assault and Harassment, and this player behavior triggered a whole new kind of mental distress in me. I felt not only uncomfortable, but hopeless in getting this player any accountability for his actions. As a result of this experience, I will refrain myself from further buying playing and interacting with this game or community until further actions are taken to address S. Harassment and new accessible ways to report it in game.
Today, I am here to bring up my voice to this huge problem in our player base that thinks that this kind of “joke” is acceptable. Going back and forth for minutes behind a female character is a clear textbook example of S. Harassment. In this game, as in any other game, we must have a civil and respectful interaction between ourselves. We don’t need to be friends. We don’t need to talk to one another. We just need to respect one another.
I feel absolutely disgusted, and angry with what happened to me. I feel not only vulnerable, and revictimized by the same problem, but now in a different environment. I cannot stress enough how traumatic a situation like this is for people who survived real life s. assault, but I can only try to voice it.
Developers, please, revise your reporting system to consolers - specially in PS5 - to make it more accessible and straightforward to report cases of S. Harassment such as the one I have lived.
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DBD has a lot of moments like this. The 'hump-tech' you're describing above but even t-bagging and some of the Moris are very intimate and darkly suggestive. It's just how the overall game and community likes it i guess. What else we gonna play?
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Interesting how culture dependent such things are: in the Russian community, nobody ever calls it "humping" or anything similar. They call it just "trampling" and such, never associating it with anything sexual, because this is what it physically is. Only westerners see something sexual in this simple walking back and forth, probably because some streamers forced this idea (I don't remember people call it "humping" before 2020 at least).
Even survivors' teabagging is closer to "sexual harassment" in this regard, because Russians also call it "teabagging", and being "teabagged" by 4 people at once must feel extra horrible, I guess we should address this then, huh?
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Long as it's not hacking or holding the game hostage forcing the other player to D/C to get out. Any in game action isn't really punishable simply walking back and forth over a slug trampling, humping w/e you want to call it is not more worse than 4 survivors tea bagging the killer. If you're over sensitive over such a thing I really don't recommend playing DBD as it has one of the most toxic communities I've ever seen.
Your also very lucky to have no game chat at all since consoles don't have it. End game chat either goes 1 of 3 ways. Gg which is rare, nothing and everyone just insta leaves or every slur is throw out in chat because one side didn't like how the other side played.
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Viciously murdering pixels is A-okay but dont you dare virtually walk back and forth on top of pixels!
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That’s the real problem with this game and “community”, sexual harassment is always dismissed from conversations because some players refuse to recognize the seriousness of the problem and ways to address it. Note that no one in this comment section did not even addressed the other points that I have asked to be addressed. Instead, they perpetuate a narrative that harassment is not for “sensitive” people. The lack of empathy, compassion, and respect in this forum is what makes my new player experience and many others so hard. We can’t have the minimum of humanity and understanding over the necessity to be “winning” an argument here. I am done. You guys really need to reflect more on your own positions in this situation.
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That’s my point. Thank you for understanding.
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it's a known fact that the people who waste people's time to imitate SA against people who are incapable of reacting are the first and loudest to complain here about toxic survivors.
negativity begets negativity
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i mean.. if another survivor spams the wave animation at your butt are you also going to call that out in the same way or only when the killer does it?
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This is not a reportable offense. People are always going to find a way to do something that someone perceives as “offensive” in a game. If everything like this got banned, there wouldn’t be a game to play.
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