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[Werewolf486 ScorpS]

I would like to see the option to completely turn off chat.

This is not about filtering, it's not about your freedom of speech, it's not meant to infringe on your legal rights. This suggestion is so people who do not want to put up with inappropriate chat can avoid it and so people can let their children play MWO if they want. My kids would like to play and I would be willing to spend some money on them to do so, but not until I can turn off chat.

Devs, this is directed at you, again. I've asked for this and so have others, we'd greatly appreciate the option!

[Niehsm]

I'll jump on this band wagon. Please add an option to turn off chat, at least implement a way to block people who send offensive messages. No reason in the world to have dead players chatting up the living -- or for that matter even letting the dead see the in-game chat.

Frankly, as a very new player I didn't pay much notice to the chat window, There is just so much else to take in. But over the last few days, as situational awareness has gone up, I've looked for more info from chat than just "HFGL" or "Plan?" at the start of a match.

So tonight while playing (for about four hours) I had the displeasure to read players' comments that included sexual insults, racist remarks (including the N-word), and "derogatory remarks about sexual orientation" (the term ***-bashing, gets filtered here, how ironic). So at the end of my "relaxing-escapist-fun-game-time" I thought I'd take a quick search of the forums and find the "button" to remove that vitriol from the experience. But there isn't one! apparently!

Yeah Yeah, I've read the arguments: "Smack Talk" is a part of games.....blah blah. "Grow-up...Lighten-up", "Don't expect the Dev's to ..... just because you're so....., ....

So, well, yes, I completely understand that the internet is NOT the place to come for personal affirmation and it is not a "safe place" for anyone, regardless of age. However, when in a game, I do expect to have an appropriate tool to turn off the unreasonableness of reality. Just as in my real life, I have options for dealing with the kinds of comments that I read tonight.

As far as working toward a vibrant, thriving, exciting, MWO gaming "community", well...I'm sure the developers have no shortage of ideas for that (since the limits on that tend to be time and money, not inventiveness). I just hope it's a community that can allow it's members a measure of selectivity in how we are involved.

That's more than I meant to write --- thanks for sticking it out. Hope something good may come out of it all. MW is a great franchise, MWO is a fun, if limited, skirmish simulator. I'd love to see it grow into something with some depth and staying power.

HFGL!

[JudgeRW]

I've asked for this myself. Would love to shoot some robots with the kiddos, but just can't do it with the chat on.

[Werewolf486 ScorpS]

Thank you guys. Please spread this thread to other supporters. It would be nice to turn off Chat and be able to bring our kids (Next generation of gamers) into MW and show them how we do it!

[Rahl]

you know in other games they had a filtering system with just about every bad word invented. so when someone said F**k or along those line it would auto change it to some silly string. people had the option to turn it on or off.

So ya another option is to totally change it out so its off, but than kids couldnt see pug commands etc

[Kurshuk]

I agree. I found the MW games when I was around 10 and I love that this game could be the same type of experience for someone else. I'd like to see a parental option in the settings where you can disable chat and the social side of the game.

Kurshuk

[Spinzo]

Agree. Please allow us to turn off chat. Nothing ruins my gaming experience more than some of the arguements in global chat.

[Gaan Cathal]

Werewolf486, on 01 March 2013 - 12:53 PM, said:

As a parent and husband I would like the option to turn chat off!! I'd like for my children to be able to play/watch MWO and my wife to play without the sexual harassment!!

Two three things.

Firstly, how the hell do they know your wife is female in order to sexually harass her?

Secondly, the second exclamation mark isn't correctly sized with the others. It looks a little daft.

Thirdly, don't you need to be 16 to play this game? Seems odd to ask them to add in a function specifically on the basis of you wanting to break their rules? I'm aware it's a 'soft limit' and no-one really cares if you let your kids play, but that age rating serves as an indicator of the kind of content the game entails. Never mind that ESRB ratings (pre-launch, doesn't have one, I know) officially never apply to online interactions.

[Fabe]

I must be lucky or just don't play enough because I don't think I really see the level of language that the OP and his supporters are talking about.