| windbane said: Except, like every other game, Live, and PSN that allow you to create your own username, there is a filter usually. Also, I could care less about being safe. Those words do not hurt me. There's a reason everyone else does it another way and no one ever complained about it. The worst complaints you get is a game like EQ when people tried to get around the filter. Most people had decent names anyway, and if anything people were annoyed by the filter. I'm windbane on this forum, most other forums, and the PSN. It's also my e-mail on some services. That's the way it should be to me. |
But you gotta think about more than just "me". People have to step out of their own worlds for a second. Nintendo just is NOT gonna allow their reputation to be stained as making it easier for children to run into questionable content through their services. It's one thing to buy the game but another thing to deal with online vulgarity and harrassment. It's simply going to be the drawback to Nintendo's service. But hey it's free. Beggars can't be choosers. If you want the old way there's XBox Live to consider. You'll pay but you'll get the type of service you desire.
Nintendo's approach will hurt them less than you think.
Filters would be a good idea. Maybe if you feel so strongly about it maybe you can share your concerns with Nintendo. A censoring module that prevents certain types of content from reaching the impressionable.
And yes I'm saying this without having any kids. I stepped out of my own world. Vulgar jackasses online are only an annoyance to me to inspire muting or blocking but I'm looking outside of that and thinking about how thse types of scenarios would affect different individuals. Nintendo is trying to lessen as much of the liability to their service as possible. You know how people like to sue for every little thing–legit or not.
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