MechWarrior Online has released emails showing she received a 48 hour suspension from the game for starting messages in the in-game chat with the phrase “trans rights”.Developer Piranha Games had responded to the player, who tweeted the messages out here, via its online support stating that “while real-life political discussions are important” the studio did not believe the online chat is the “appropriate environment for such discussions”.I'm a member of an MWO clan that subtitled its two comp teams Trans Rights and Trans Fights.
Within a week of the comp season starting, though, PGI staff renamed the teams, and our inquiries were uh… yeah. Those PGI tweets I link in my final email are in my first tweet.
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