I am only disappointed that MMOs have removed tools from players that allowed them to police the situation themselves. EQ1 had a specified "out of character" channel (/ooc) and most people, unless they were purposely trying to be asshats, would move talk about sports and other real life issues to that channel if asked. This let people who wanted to avoid that stuff simply hide that channel. More recent games have done away with that, so with no alternative, all out of character chat HAS to share space with in character chat, which leads to more friction.

I'd love to see the return of /ooc to more games.