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windbane on 24 April 2007
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johnlucas said:
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.

John Lucas


Well, I believe my viewpoint is that of most online gamers except you guys that excuse everything Nintendo does and assume it's for the best just because they are doing it. I understand that some parents are paranoid about what their children experience and probably don't pay enough attention to what they are doing to begin with. I feel sorry for Jack Thompson's son because I doubt he gets to play video games at all.

I don't think the reputations of PC developers have been tarnished all of these years because they don't hinder the ability to CREATE YOUR OWN USERNAME. Give me a break. The names are no more offensive than any in this forum. A filter is not a new idea and has been used for many games.

Xbox live is not the only option. I will not pay $50 a year to play online games. I have the PSN and it has 40-player voice chat in Resistance. I've played PC games for years and those are free. Counter-strike, believe it or not, has the ability to change your name even while you are playing. Oh, and voice chat.

Contrary to popular belief on this thread, the games are not littered with vulgarity and you always have the option to turn off voice chat if the occasional idiot annoys you.

I think trying to protect this reputation for protecting the kiddies is overdone and unneccesary. It seems a step backward, not progression. Kids play online games all the time. I learned to type in chatrooms for Diablo 1. If Nintendo is that concerned, just put parental controls in the game or Wii itself, put some filters in, and let people create their own freaking user name. Why is that so much to ask? It's a standard feature. Different is not always better.