. He explained that he could “see merit in the games here where you roleplay survival [or] war scenarios,” expressing that a large portion of’s roleplay community servers are just that: “engaging, interesting, compelling, and educational” experiences that explore the diplomacy, humanity, infighting, politics, and suffering of global catastrophe. He doesn’t want to police these. However, Newman noted that certain kinds of moderation issues crop up.
The problem for us is that lurking in some of these games are a bunch of guys that really seem to love the Nazis. It seems like a few of them really love the Nazis outside of the game, too. That creates problems.
Newman concluded by wondering how can server owners who are seemingly allowing Nazis to proliferate incan “work together” with the game’s developers to stop the problem before a ban comes. He noted that while this may turn into an argument, this isn’t about freedom of expression.“This isn’t a loss of freedom,” Newman tweeted. “This isn’t an attack on your free will. This isn’t mind control. This is nothing new.
While it doesn’t seem definitive that Garry Newman and Facepunch Studios will ban servers populated by Nazis just yet, it’s clear that the team is paying more attention. It’s one thing to use a role-playing server as a means to learn the historical ramifications of a genocidal group. It’s another to use the game to push real Nazi propaganda, something Newman, it seems, now hopes to stop.