In the end, as we exhausted the means to resolve the issue through mediation, we had to take action using other tools at our disposal, even though we believe such measures should be avoided whenever possible. However, despite these attempts we kept having to deal with slander, extreme slurs directed at other players, content creators and company employees, as well as calls to violate our EULA. We tried to address the situation with them several times, over a very long period of time - months and years. The comparison to SirFoch is not lost on us and is exactly why we always try to resolve conflicts through dialogue first. Unfortunately, as described by /u/GBR2021, this has been the case with the content creator in question. We have no issue with people disliking the game or its aspects, but we are not fine with crossing these lines. However, there is a line between being passionate and being outright offensive, as well as between criticizing the game and insults, slurs and other extreme expletives. Dozens of creators who openly criticize the game and who do so in a rather emotional way are proof to that. We also understand that we all get emotional when talking about the game sometimes, so we always look for the essence of the content without taking the emotional delivery personal. We can disagree with the creator’s position, but we will respect it and take it into account, as long as it is presented in a relatively civilized way. We value any content dedicated to our game, regardless of whether it contains any criticism or not. Wargaming employee Ev1n responded to that comment by explaining the company's rationale for taking action against Nomen: On top of it an endless stream of racist slurs (WG catering to the n***ers in the West you know) and homophobia all over." Nomen is a guy who would spend 30 minutes describing how WG employees of his choice should f*** their mothers. "Aside from having some absurd views about the game itself (Thunderer, Georgia, Alaska, being bad, Kremlin unplayable bad, DDs and smokes being OP, general poor level of knowledge about game mechanics) he has been very abrasive and offensive in a way Foch has never even dreamt to be. According to one of the commentors in the Reddit thread discussing him: What makes this matter different than the previous incident, which involved a creator named SirFoch, who used plentiful cursing to lambaste Wargaming for a vehicle it introduced, is that Nomen's content is not only critical of the game but also ventures into territory that can rightly be considered offensive by just about any standard. Back in 2017, the company found itself facing criticism for threats one of its employees made to a World of Tanks creator, including that it would "go through YouTube and take it down with a copyright strike." While that matter was resolved with little damage and with an apology from Wargaming, another recent incident has evoked memories of that one, as well as casting a negative shadow on the whole concept of using DMCA takedowns to remove controversial content.Īs Massively Opinionated reports, Wargaming did indeed issue a DMCA strike against a Russian World of Warships content creator on YouTube who goes by the name of Nomen. Wargaming has found itself embroiled in another controversy regarding issuing a DMCA takedown of a content creator for one of its games.
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