CODE OF CONDUCT

We cherish our games, our players and our communities, and so we’ve created the 2K Code of Conduct to ensure that 2K communities are safe, respectful, inclusive, and fun places to be. 

This Code of Conduct  outlines the standards that all 2K players are expected to meet when playing our games or engaging with our employees or communities. It also reflects the Terms of Service that players sign-up to before gaining access to our games.

We take breaches of the Code of Conduct very seriously - violations can result in various penalties such as blocking violative content, limiting access to some in-game features, or banning players entirely.

Please make sure you are familiar with the Code of Conduct before you play, and help us to uphold our community standards by reporting any content or behaviour that falls below this standard.

Happy gaming. 

2K

The 2K Code of Conduct applies to all players, and any characters, teams, groups, content or conversations that they create or engage in. 

1. Be kind

• Don’t engage in hate, or encourage, glorify or promote violence, discrimination, dehumanization or hatred based on a person’s protected characteristics (such as gender, race, religion, sexual orientation).
• Don’t harass, bully, abuse, sexually harass, humiliate, intimidate, insult, attack, defame, stalk, marginalize, wish death or harm upon, dox, tell someone to hurt themselves, or otherwise intentionally cause emotional harm to anyone, and don’t encourage or incite others to do this.

2. Be respectful  

• Don’t expose other players to language, imagery or content that is likely to be considered offensive, vulgar, profane, or inappropriate for the game’s general audience.
• Don’t share content that involves nudity, sexual acts, sexually explicit subjects, or pornography.
• Don’t share content that shows real-world violence, or that is meant to be shocking, gruesome, or disgusting. 
• Don’t mock or glorify recent tragic events in ways that are insensitive to victims and their loved ones.
• Don’t use the likeness of other people, whether public or non-public figures, either as images or simulations, unless it is explicitly allowed by the game.
• Don’t disrupt gameplay or communities through excessive trolling, griefing, or trash talk.
• Don’t disrupt conversations or communities with spammy, obnoxious or repetitive content, such as content that is posted at high volume, is of low quality, is scraped from other sources or is begging for engagement from others.

3. Be safe  

• Don’t engage with, glorify, promote or attempt to normalize violent extremism or criminal organizations. 
• Don’t engage in, glorify, promote or attempt to normalize child sexual exploitation, endangerment or abuse.
• Don’t threaten, promote, glorify, or endorse acts of violence or exploitation (against people, animals or property).
• Don’t seek to acquire, distribute, promote, buy or sell, illegal or regulated products or services (such as drugs, tobacco, alcohol, pharmaceuticals, prostitution, weapons, hazardous materials, financial services etc).
• Don’t promote or encourage  participation in dangerous activities that can result in real world harm to people, (such as dangerous real world stunts, or tutorials on making firearms or explosives). 
• Don’t encourage, glorify or promote self-harming behavior, such as eating disorders, cutting, or suicide.
• Don’t violate your own or others’ privacy by sharing (or requesting) personal information such as address, phone number, social handle.
• Do secure your account by having a strong password, hiding any personal info if streaming, and denying others access to your account(s). 2K will never ask you for your password, and you should never share it!

4. Be honest  

• Don’t cheat, collude, hack, phish, steal, use unauthorized mods or any other means to gain an unfair advantage or outcome.
• Don’t attempt to manipulate any aspect of our games through inauthentic means, such as generating artificial traffic, using harmful uploads, misusing third party software or hardware, creating accounts at scale without permission, or abusing our reporting systems.
• Don’t use 2K services for unauthorized commercial purposes such as advertising, commercial spam, selling or farming accounts, virtual currency or digital goods, or conducting fraudulent in-game trades.
• Don’t attempt to circumvent 2K safety systems, get around any suspensions or account restrictions, or to gain unauthorized access to accounts, systems or in-game assets. 
• Don’t attempt to distribute anything that’s designed to exploit people or systems (such as malware, viruses, spyware, or other malicious software).
• Don’t abuse or exploit bugs, glitches, promotions, incentives, rewards, or in-game mechanics, for personal gain, or in ways that provide an unfair advantage. 
• Don’t impersonate people, players or systems (or attempt to misrepresent yourself) for deceitful or nefarious purposes.
• Don’t use others’ intellectual property without permission.
• Don’t intentionally undermine or share misinformation regarding 2K rules, policies, systems or processes.

5. Restricted Persons & Jurisdictions

2K may prevent some players from accessing our games. We try to limit this to the following cases:

• Players who are located in a sanctioned region.
• People who are individually named in international sanctions lists.
• Players who are notorious for committing egregious real world crimes that have endangered the safety of others.
• Players who pose a direct threat to the safety of 2K players or employees.

6. Be engaged   

• Do go out of your way to welcome, include, and integrate new players to our community.
• Do report bad actors or content that you encounter using the player report mechanisms in-game or on the 2K website
• Do notify local law enforcement and 2K if you believe a child is in danger.
• Do participate in the community outside the game too! Join Discord, live events, discussions, and create fan art.
• Do give us feedback! We review our policies and moderation systems and processes regularly to keep them current and effective.