Hello everyone, I know we all faced the problem. Those whiny kids on Xbox Live. Sure we complain about them being annoying. To prevent our problems we mute them, boot them, and even tried submiting player reviews to prevent future contact with them too.
Here is what I want to point out: that all the above is good, but we should also keep a look out as we are in our local game stores. When we see what looks like a parent/ guardian wanting to buy a M-rated game at the store. At least see if they have a young child with them, if they do, go up to them and see if they know what the ESRB is. You will be doing yourself and everyone else on Xbox Live or Playsation Network a huge favor.
Also surely you going to post after this, may I at least tell you now, it is true that some parents don’t pay attention to these things they just spend money away just to make the child happy. (This though isn’t true about all parents, I know so don’t have to tell me ok. I don’t want to hear million complaints about the topic, pointing at me saying, “That’s not what we do” or “-Yoink- You, I’ll do everything how I want”, well I am just pointing out the most noticeable solution.)
Wow really…you hate kids that much you’re starting some kind of campaign to get them off xbox live. Well I for one have nothing against them provided they’re mature (and believe me a lot of them are more mature than some 25 year olds I’ve played with).
> Wow really…you hate kids that much you’re starting some kind of campaign to get them off xbox live. Well I for one have nothing against them provided they’re mature (and believe me a lot of them are more mature than some 25 year olds I’ve played with).
I never said that I hated kids, I know they can be mature, but they don’t want to.
I know that there are other older people who are immature, I got stuck with a couple of drunks playing SWAT on Reach. They argued with each other and the other team mate about who were the better shooters.
I’m also not campaigning against them, I am pointing out the obvious that the problems of young gamers are the parents. Because if the child is ruthless or complains a lot at home or at school, do you think they are going to be any different on Xbox Live?
I do speak the truth about me not saying that I hate kids, because if you would notice in my first post, HATE is not in it. Nor is it in the title.
> > Wow really…you hate kids that much you’re starting some kind of campaign to get them off xbox live. Well I for one have nothing against them provided they’re mature (and believe me a lot of them are more mature than some 25 year olds I’ve played with).
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> I never said that I hated kids, I know they can be mature, but they don’t want to.
> I know that there are other older people who are immature, I got stuck with a couple of drunks playing SWAT on Reach. They argued with each other and the other team mate about who were the better shooters.
> I’m also not campaigning against them, I am pointing out the obvious that the problems of young gamers are the parents. Because if the child is ruthless or complains a lot at home or at school, do you think they are going to be any different on Xbox Live?
> I do speak the truth about me not saying that I hate kids, because if you would notice in my first post, HATE is not in it. Nor is it in the title.
Are you implying that underage gamers should not be on xbox live? Not all underage gamers are immature. Obviously, you haven’t played with any of the underage gamers on waypoint…
> > Wow really…you hate kids that much you’re starting some kind of campaign to get them off xbox live. Well I for one have nothing against them provided they’re mature (and believe me a lot of them are more mature than some 25 year olds I’ve played with).
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> I never said that I hated kids, I know they can be mature, but they don’t want to.
> I know that there are other older people who are immature, I got stuck with a couple of drunks playing SWAT on Reach. They argued with each other and the other team mate about who were the better shooters.
> I’m also not campaigning against them, I am pointing out the obvious that the problems of young gamers are the parents. Because if the child is ruthless or complains a lot at home or at school, do you think they are going to be any different on Xbox Live?
> I do speak the truth about me not saying that I hate kids, because if you would notice in my first post, HATE is not in it. Nor is it in the title.
Well the phrase “whiny kids on xbox live” seems to imply you have generalised all kids as such. The fact is, this is not the case. Kids who are mature shouldn’t be forbidden from playing because they happen to share an age group with some immature players. That’s a rash, unnecessary and rather flawed generalisation. Your title is “Our Underage Gamers Problem” but the fact is, I and many others don’t have a problem. You do.
He has the RIGHT to tell us that he don’t like kids on xbox live. I share his opinion on that. If they are underaged they shouldn’t play a game that is rated mature. It’s not my problem that parents are too stupid so I will troll the kids and have fun.
Jeez, now you are trying to get on my nerves. Look all I am saying is that everyone has a problem once in a while with kids ok. I just wanted to point out what I wanted, and an obvious solution, if you wanted to make a court case about it you should just make your own topic about making a court case.
Also to tell you guys yes I have played with and against younger gamers because that is all that it seems to be on Halo: Reach or any M-Rated Multiplayer game anymore. Because everyone either quits or leaves those games due to the younger kids.
I think they should make some sort of age filter in the game. I don’t want to play with or against 12 years old so please make a 12 years old playlist and a mature playlist. Thanks.
You don’t seem to realize that you’re being immature yourself Arbiter. In such case, you don’t fit either.
Discriminating an age group original poster… No.
> You don’t seem to realize that you’re being immature yourself Arbiter. In such case, you don’t fit either.
> Discriminating an age group original poster… No.
I don’t care about being mature or not. It’s the age and not the grade of maturity. I just don’t want to play with kids. I never liked them and I never will.
I agree with your idea, there’s too many “adults” who let children play with everything that falls in their hands without the proper education and guiding.
And said so, I wanted to add that I usually play Reach with my lil’ brother who is 10 years old (every other game he plays isn’t uppter than +7, the only thing he really likes about Halo is the mega bloks lol) and it’s a pitty I have seen children older acting like the ones you describe and ruining the experience for the rest of players.
(And I can’t help but find myself feeling sorry for them, human-senseless behavior…)
Oh, you can’t even start imagine how shameful was going to buy Halo Reach’s Leg. Ed. with my brother.
> > You don’t seem to realize that you’re being immature yourself Arbiter. In such case, you don’t fit either.
> > Discriminating an age group original poster… No.
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> I don’t care about being mature or not. It’s the age and not the grade of maturity. I just don’t want to play with kids. I never liked them and I never will.
Do you realize what the demographics of this forum?
I have no remedies for you.
You might want to leave.
> > > You don’t seem to realize that you’re being immature yourself Arbiter. In such case, you don’t fit either.
> > > Discriminating an age group original poster… No.
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> > I don’t care about being mature or not. It’s the age and not the grade of maturity. I just don’t want to play with kids. I never liked them and I never will.
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> Do you realize what the demographics of this forum?
> I have no remedies for you.
> You might want to leave.
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> Now you just opened your wound.
That’s one of the reasons why the communities these days just suck horrible. Most posts here I don’t even read because you can clearly see that this is the feedback of some kid.
the esrb is a joke. i was playing doom when i was 5 years old. yes, some little kids are annoying, but we have no right to deprive them of fun we KNOW we got when we were younger. parents are not as stupid as most people believe. they themselves grew up around the esrb. lets focus on more important things like underage use of alcohol and tobacco… not video games
I have to agree with anyone who says that link was too extreme and that the idea is also to extreme. I wanted to point out is the mute option is there and that parents should at least be pointed to the right direction before ruining the game for other people.
If I have to explain the parent thing in long term I will.
The parent goes to the game store and purchases the most favored game that is out in stores, most likely to be M-Rated, the store clerk will sell the game to the parent or in the parent’s presence. The child who gets the game will get on line if able because the parent allows them to because they probably bought their Xbox Live too at some time. Like I said the child gets online, when they get on the begin to talk about anything. Then someone has to make a big deal about it, in a general sense, they complain to the kid to be quiet or they get rude about it instantly. Later as they (the gamer who was annoyed) gets into the next game or into another match they might just hold a grudge and complain during that match and it carries on like a disease. They* just get too flustered and ruin the game, all because of the parent who purchased the game for their child.
If anyone, I repeat, if anyone has a problem with my examination. Just try to prove me wrong with a nice sit down negotiation or examine it yourself when you play.
I dont have a problem with kids playing games. And the video game companies are pretty happy about it, so they aren’t going to change. Thats not to say that if I were a parent I’d have my children play these games, either. I’d make them play my games, probably. (mario, donkey kong, star fox, etc) Because if they jump right in to FPS games they wont even know what a game is.
As far as letting people play with just older folk, well, that’s pretty reasonable too. Ideally there would be a submit player review feature called “underage” and then games like halo could let you choose a psych profile to avoid reported/confirmed underaged players. Odds are they would end up playing with their own age, whether or not the game is rated mature.
> I dont have a problem with kids playing games. And the video game companies are pretty happy about it, so they aren’t going to change. Thats not to say that if I were a parent I’d have my children play these games, either. I’d make them play my games, probably. (mario, donkey kong, star fox, etc) Because if they jump right in to FPS games they wont even know what a game is.
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> As far as letting people play with just older folk, well, that’s pretty reasonable too. Ideally there would be a submit player review feature called “underage” and then games like halo could let you choose a psych profile to avoid reported/confirmed underaged players. Odds are they would end up playing with their own age, whether or not the game is rated mature.
so if me and some friends reported some “overage” player, they would get stuck playing “underage” players?