Teens (13+) should not be widely exposed to hate speech and -Yoink!- propaganda like was commonplace in early xbox live days that everyone seems to remember so fondly for some reason. If you don’t think that’s reasonable I don’t know what to tell you.
It’s no secret and the volume at which it occured was unusually large. There are plenty of meme’s and shorts and journal articles about it. I ran in to it in H3 MM all the time, and so did my buddies who played with me.
When my son gets old enough to play shooters I would prefer he doesn’t just get to hear and read hate speech when he’s just wanting to do stuff like play around in a warthog. So I’m ok with a broad chat filter.
So you want to hide the real world’s activity from their eyes, for 5 or 6 years until they are 18, instead of -let’s say- let them embrace it and learn to deal with it?
You think it’s reasonable to remove the chat functionality from games and/or ruin the casual talk -trash talk included- for everyone, simply to “protect” the teen players between 13 and 18, who’ve already heard all of the curse words, who are using Tik Tok, Instagram, Tumblr etc., who’ve got full access to free -Yoink!- via their smartphones and who desire to play an FPS ? Very reasonable!
Meanwhile you are perfectly okay with them playing in a video game in which they shoot and kill. But no - viewing the f word in the chat or some one being mean to them would traumatize them and should be considered a bigger deal than the actual nature of the game, right? Yeah, reasonable.
News flash, in most countries of the developed world, teens are legally allowed to have -Yoink!- between the ages of 13 - 16 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent#/media/File:Age_of_Consent_-_Global.svg ), but somehow you think that toxic words in a chat should be a problem for them, instead of -you know- teach them to deal with it and prevent them from being weaklings and manchilds in their adult life. I suppose you expect them to talk like the prude citizens of Demolition Man when they are with their girlfriends and boyfriends, don’t you?
You’d better start learnin’ quick because kids are gonna be hearing stuff from their classmates earlier than 13 these days.
Swear words should be the least of your concern.
Yeah global chat isn’t a revolutionary standard ubiquitous feature in all games. Some games have it, others don’t, it’s not really a game changer outside of a player’s ability to trash talk the opposing team.
You’re saying that a AAA online multiplayer PC game without chat, is not “that deep” and is “tiny issue” or no issue at all. Okay then guys, enjoy your butchered sample of a proper online video game. With such statements you deserve all the bad watered-down games that you get.
Says some one who wishes for features to be removed and filters to be applied for everyone, to cater for his own needs and a smaller player base? Talk about empathy, yeah!!! Thanks for not replying to a rather simple question btw.
Have you forgotten? A teen is a child. According to the ESRB, you have to be 13 or above to play this game. Even Teens can be applied to this though. Just replace child with teen. Looking at your other messages after I left, it seems you are not a parent. I am not either, but I can understand their direction. Some parents would rather keep cursing to a minimum. Sure, school will teach them some of the bad things too. However, do you really want your kid to be the one yelling obscenities through open mic? If they don’t use the mic or chat system, then they won’t learn these things as much. Schools also keep kids in check. My middle school was anti swearing, and teachers would go after kids who swore. Even in High School they would occasionally police it.
Yes, boohoohoo, how traumatizing it would be for these adults to not read inappropriate text in a game where they pick up assault rifles and various weapons and kill whatever’s moving on their screen!!!
See the problem? Besides the age of consent is not the same as age of adulthood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_majority
This is the wikipedia page you should have used, which validates my point.
If that isn’t quite bulletproof (it may have been the wrong page), https://www.google.com/search?client=opera-gx&q=at+what+age+is+someone+an+adult&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
That will clear it up.
As for how you raise a child, not all parents want their kid to learn through exposure.
No, especially for Infinite. This game has toned down blood, swearing, and overall theme. The game is becoming more “broad”. You can see it expand to chefs, lore junkies, Star Wars fans, Sci Fi fans, people who watch shows, and, of course, young people.
Perhaps not the smart parent, but a strategy for parenting. Some may choose to pin point one area at a time. One parent may introduce them to political issues, another war.
Yeah, they do. Many teenagers (and children) don’t get an actual phone until they can drive.
They aren’t being denied features, but are being restricted in the use of a feature. If Minecraft removed the bug for iron farms, it wouldn’t be denying all players iron, just denying players how to obtain it.
According to the US, UN, EU, and CA, anyone under the age of 18 is a child. You start being a teenager at the age of 13 at which age you are still a child up till 18.
I don’t try and disregard entire arguments based on a few poorly chosen words, but you shot yourself in both feet with this one. It’s not a good look considering the context of previous replies.
Edit: of all the moves to make, doubling down wasn’t it bud lol. Definitely not worth a reply stoking your questionably legal worldview on the Halo forums.
Hahah, classy, resorting to personal attacks, when out of arguments. The chicken failed three times to answer how exactly Halo 3’s chat affected his life. Only capable of personal attacks, rather than constructing reasonable arguments. Another guy claims that the game is intended for teenagers and there he is playing it himself.
People of higher sense of morality, aren’t you? You go ahead and handicap your children by fetching their smartphones - really great move. They’ll become quite the programmers and innovators when they grow up. What a clown world.
