Racism, misogyny, transphobia, homophobia, etc exist in every game. Not that they should. Most games try to prevent this and have steps in place The issue is when you don’t take steps to actively try to prevent that it festers. You can say “we should keep the conversation about Marvel Rivals only” which is cool in theory, except when the same people saying this get online and say racist or transphobic slurs in every single match because they died a single time Why are people getting banned or timed out for trying to defend themselves when attacked based on their identity? Why are pro players allowed to laugh about countries getting bombed and telling others they hope they are next? Why are pro players or tournament casters allowed to say slurs and instead of punishment basically get a promotion? Why is this normalized? Bigots should be afraid. They shouldn’t feel comfortable. Let them make alts, and keep getting banned. Let them lose all the skins and progress they got on their accounts I’ve been gaming for most of my life. I was in the COD lobbies. I was in MOBA lobbies. I was in Overwatch lobbies. Rivals is unfortunately the worst. A year ago you could say it wasn’t as bad as any other game, but they just let it fester and grow and now people feel safe to be scum Anyone who makes others feel smaller just for being who they are, something they can’t change and shouldn’t change, just shouldn’t feel safe in the game. Bans need to mean something At the end of the day, we all love these heroes and Marvel. If this game wasn’t Marvel. If it had ZERO Marvel IP to it, would you still be here?