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[Particle Man]

Oh, what a good idea! take away even more forms of communication in a team game.

why dont you loner types just stick to single player games if you want to shut yourself away from other people so badly? And you parents that want to "protect" your childtren from life threatening things like "bad Words", maybe you should be better parents and make them play age appropriate games.

"My kid cant hear the Fword, that is wrong! but it's okay for him to spend hours murdering people" (whichi s what we're doing here, after all)

Edited by Particle Man, 10 March 2013 - 12:51 PM.

[DrSecretStache]

Oh, how the trolls come out of the woodwork when parenting is mentioned.

Still don't see how hard it is to put in an optional filter. I don't see foul language often, but it bothers some people, me included.

The way I see it, if all you can come up with is explicit, use a dictionary

[Alois Hammer]

Werewolf486, on 09 March 2013 - 10:30 AM, said:

Werewolf486: Can we have an On/Off switch for chat?

Bryan Ekman: No plans.

Unthinkable- refusing to add the ability to turn off your kids' chat window until you turn your back for 15 seconds and they turn it right back on. Of all the nerve.

[Thunder Lips Express]

i would like an ignore, some people are rather irritating at times

[keith]

silly thing to seguest. y not add a chat filter? a common thing in many mmos. yes it does not really work if u want to cruse, and many different languages have different cruse words. it does block out 90% of the cruse words in the english language.

[Teralitha]

Chat is pretty easy to ignore, Heck I barely notice it now....

[Chavette]

Stupidest thing Ive read today. Apart from 10-20 exceptional parents, only a large amount of trolls/bads would use it, to hide in their world of ignorance, where no one brings up their mistakes, gives them advice.

[Alois Hammer]

Teralitha, on 10 March 2013 - 01:46 PM, said:

Chat is pretty easy to ignore, Heck I barely notice it now....

That's probably just a side effect of believing everyone else is completely inferior to you intellectually and just ignoring them reflexively like you do in the forums.

[Lubalin]

Hopefully instead we'll get chat filtering, blocking/ignoring, and a way to report people.

[Lefty Lucy]

I'd be fine if there were an option to turn off chat if there were an option to filter people who had chat turned off out of your own team.

When I PUG, I absolutely expect my team mates to be communicating and listening to communication. I do not want to play with players who don't want to communicate.

[Gremlich Johns]

Werewolf486, on 10 March 2013 - 11:50 AM, said:

This isn't a hard thing to do in Cryengine from what I've been told. As for the reason for wanting the option to turn off chat, if you read my sig, you'd know it has nothing to do with bothering me, it's more for giving my children the chance to play MWO instead of being stuck with MW4. I don't want them to read what's being put in chat, and if they are playing it would be with me, their mother, or our friends in TS. We'd be giving the direction instead of the pugs or adult players.

As a parent i refuse to even let my kids have a cell phone until they have a license to drive, they don't have facebook pages, their internet time is monitored, they aren't allowed to do google searches as I've seen pics of topless girls come up while searching for George Washington. I'm just trying to be a responsable parent to my children and raise them the best we can. I'd like to be able to drop with them without putting tape on my monitor(not an origional idea) and enjoy some family gaming time.

Filters are for some peolple, not for us at this point. I don't have an opinion either way on filters, I can take'm or leave'm. But I think ALL games should have the ability to disable Chat.

If we lived in the 1950's again, you might find many, MANY people of like mind.

However, society is evolving, sometimes not necessarily for the better. Multiplayer video games with their ubiquitous in-game chat are not the places you should be allowing your kids to play if you are this concerned about the trolls and foul-mouthed teens and 20-somethings. I suggest you give up this one-man campaign and only direct your kids towards single player games where you have the most control. Your only other option would be something like creating Christiangamer.com that could provide servers for multiplayer games that will have controls over everything else but how you smite low your enemies.

A better option is to educate your kids about the in-game chat trolls and how what they say has no impact if you choose to ignore them. It's part of their "ecosystem" whether inside or outside your home - prepare them instead of keeping them ignorant. By and large, I think the MW crowd tends to be a bit better than the other gamers out there.

Edited by Gremlich Johns, 10 March 2013 - 02:21 PM.

[LordBraxton]

Matt Minus, on 10 March 2013 - 12:15 PM, said:

You sound like a horrible, self righteous tyrant of a parent. The kids have already heard all the words you;re trying to shield them from, and a booby never killed anyone.

guess his kids didnt breastfeed

[EmCeeMendez]

I second the suggestions for board games. Although, your kids may still pass notes saying "boobies" and get a chuckle out of that.

Seriously though, you're making it sound like MWO in game chat is NSFW. I dunno what lobbies you play in, but I see GLHF and SQUAWK every now and then, and that's about it.

[Nonsense]

It'd be cool to have a mute option for individual players, but don't play multiplayer games if you don't like chat.

[Werewolf486 ScorpS]

It's a serious post being trolled by a group of people who's choldren will likely grow up and go to school with guns, rob stores, ****, kill, or worse.

I fail to understand how anyone who is trolling this could even care enough to do so. It wouldn't affect you in the least bit. Further more, You have no idea how I raise my children and I would appreciate you keeping your opinions on how I raise my top of their class well behaved children to yourselves. I don't shelter them, I don't beat them, i don't mistreat them, I teach them values I doubt some of you would understand, values I was raised with. Panda, Ghostbear, and others seem to feel the need to constantly be A - Holes about every post I put up on this subject and if they want to spend time doing that then they can waste their time.

It comes down to this, I'm willing to spend money to buy them MC and stuff for the kids, if PGI wants more of my money then they should put Chat On/Off in.

[Coolant]

I don't ever recall a single post about players wanting to be able to turn off chat. Honestly don't know what the big deal is. I do wish you could keep chat on all the time like it was in Mercs. That way an actual ongoing conversation could take place. Would also allow a little more teamwork organization. But, I understand options are always good, the more toggles the better, I just wasn't aware it was such a high priority for the community.

[Alymbic]

....Interesting thread so far, but personally I would rather chat be always on. If I see the whole enemy team pushing across caldera under ecm, I genuinely want my whole team to know without fail what is about to hit us.

[Panzerman03]

Werewolf486, on 10 March 2013 - 02:45 PM, said:

It's a serious post being trolled by a group of people who's choldren will likely grow up and go to school with guns, rob stores, ****, kill, or worse.

I just wanted to take a moment and congratulate your level-headedness.

But seriously, if your kids are under 13 and you're of the sheltering mindset they have no business playing multiplayer internet games. As pointed out, it violates the ToS. Also, this is a team based game where communication is a crucial aspect.

Maybe turn them loose in the testing grounds. Or stick to single player games like MW4.

[The Cheese]

It seems like one of those things that multiplayer games just have. It's a given. I can't imagine why it was left out of this one.

Personally, people talking **** does't worry me too much. Some people hate it, and I don't think those people should have to put up with it. An option to mute individual players would be pretty well recieved by a lot of people, I think. From what I've seen, those players who mouth off a lot never really do much in terms of meaningful communication anyway.

Then, there's the younger players to think about.

Won't somebody please think of the children?

Edited by The Cheese, 10 March 2013 - 03:02 PM.

[Belisarius1]

This is a team game. Communicating significantly increases your team's chances of winning. You would like to go totally incomunicado, to the point where you don't even see what your team might be trying desperately to make you aware of.

....and you don't see a problem with this?