Predators moving to consoles

[Onyxmeth]

DMeisterJ said:

HappySqurriel said:

MontanaHatchet said:

HappySqurriel said:

... and people wonder why Nintendo choose the friend-code system.

So that the online experience is lessened for millions of gamers in order to prevent a few stupid children from contacting pedophiles which can be done on a computer or other device capable of using internet anyways?

I just love how considerate Nintendo is.

 

First of "lessened" is a subjective term and (personally) I'm far happier to be able to play an online game without hearing from the 11 year old boy that found out it was fun to play with himself, or from the insecure racist who decides that everyone should hear about how much he hates other races ...

Beyond that, predators are on the internet and seek out places where children are and most parents did not grow up in an internet connected world and do not understand the dangers that it provides. It will take decades before the "Common Sense" protection of the internet truely become common.

Truly spoken like someon who doesn't own a 360 or play it online. 

Those occurances are few and far between.  I get so angry when I hear that, because that doesn't happen all the time, or even half the time.  If you're playing a game of Halo 3, and every match you get someone like that, you're living under a bad tree.  I don't get that a lot.  And when I do, mute them.  A simple button press and you don't have to hear anything.  You can actually turn voice chat off for every game, so you never hear what anyone says.  Ever.

I don't understand why someone would defend not having voice chat. It's completely optional to use but at least it's there in case you ever do want to try it. I personally don't play Smash online anymore because I felt like I was playing against the computer since it's identical to the online matches.