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IllegalPaladin on 14 August 2007
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sieanr said:
ssj12 said:
na, they wont, but this is good, I wish more MMOs, Nintendo, and Microsoft would do this in their games (especially Microsoft, I hate those whiny 9 year olds.)

You know you can mute other players in a matter of seconds. And if you really hate it, just turn off teamspeak all together. At the very least, with live you can leave feedback and report the person.

Unfortunatly, this only applies to Home. This means that there will still be people standbying/exploiting in resistance, with no effectuive way to get rid of them. Sure, you can ban their account but they can make a new one in a matter of minuets

 

Of course doing things could be difficult, but it's not all impossible. While making new accounts could be a problem, new patches can help fix bugs and exploits and there can be fixes to take care of some other problems. While it is more game specific, I believe something that they're adding to Warhawk that was a problem in the beta was that server hosts who would constantly rip out the internet from their PS3 close to the end of a round could actually get their hosting ability suspended.

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As for Home, this is good (hopefully only used in EXTREME cases though) because people who were interested and skeptical of Home were all interested in how that stuff was going to be taken care of. While your own apartment probably wouldn't be looked at, cracking down on people being racist, harrassing others, crap like that is good. So the only question is now, how will their policies for punishments work?

I can just see it now: Little Timmy makes a forum post on Sony's official forums bitching up a storm. "I was doing stuff in Home and I suddenly got banned. WTF is goin on you *naughty words*". One minute later, somebody makes a post asking him what he did to get banned, and the kid answers "I was hating on a noob who was wearing a green shirt. Only *naughty word*'s wear green shirts".

. . . Actually, I saw something similar to that on Steampowered.com's forums. Some guy made a post asking why he was banned from Steam and he was bitching and cursing up a storm calling Valve every name in the book. The next post was from somebody who worked at Valve who was like "Let's find out why you were banned here. Oh yes, you tried to use 20 false credit card numbers to purchase Half-Life 2".