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What is up with the 6 year olds playing video games rated 'M'? And playing them online without supervision? And playing them at 3:30am on a school night?
Where are these kids' parents And does anyone else find this really annoying?
They're easy enough to spot...they have gamertags like "Soccer99", lol, and their voices are high-pitched enough that they clearly don't have any body hair yet. And they bust in your game lobby like, "HEY! HEY! CAN YOU PLEASE PUT BIGJIM2000 ON MY TEAM? HEY! CAN YOU TURN GRENADES ON? HEY!"
Anyway, my point is not that they are annoying....although they ARE annoying....my point is that these are younglings who needn't experience the "real world" of bloody and violent games just yet, and certainly shouldn't be mixed in with high school and college aged people playing a game in which your skill at talking trash and smack is just as important as your kill to death ratio.
There could be more than one reason for children to be on at 3 in the morning. What if they're in another country? The time difference could easily explain that part.
As for playing "M" rated games.... Some parents just don't want to obey the ratings.
Oh, and I probably sound like a child with a high voice over Xbox Live - the mics really do make everyone sound weird.
There could be more than one reason for children to be on at 3 in the morning. What if they're in another country? The time difference could easily explain that part.
As for playing "M" rated games.... Some parents just don't want to obey the ratings.
Oh, and I probably sound like a child with a high voice over Xbox Live - the mics really do make everyone sound weird.
The time difference could explain some of them, but I've asked most of them because it bothers me so much. I will ask them how old they are, and they say their age (I've ran into 5 year olds...that's crazy), and where they are from. Most are in my timezone or the one that is one hour off from me. Haha, I even ask them if their parents know that they play...or maybe they got a hold of their big brother's console. Most don't answer me.
I don't think that parents realize the things that are SAID on xbox live. I guess I was just hoping some unsuspecting parent would read this and pull their 4-10 year old out of the game.
I sound like a young child at first too because I'm a girl, but you can tell a very young child immediately. I'm not talking about 11 & 12 year olds....they are old enough to have heard and seen all that stuff already anyway. I'm talking about the under-10 crowd.
Does it make a diffrence if their setting is set to family?
No, unfortunately I don't think it helps much. I mean, it might help with the "in-game" violence like curse words coming from the game itself or the amount of blood that you see when you kill someone, but when you play online, any amount of control like that is taken away because you're playing against other people and they can say and do whatever they want. It's pretty crazy!
Does it make a diffrence if their setting is set to family?
a 5 yr old kid should NOT be on xbox live chatting it up with older people. I have heard some utterly disgusting things while online. I would NEVER let my kid chat it up online with anyone. Maybe when he is 15/16 but not now.
a 5 yr old kid should NOT be on xbox live chatting it up with older people. I have heard some utterly disgusting things while online. I would NEVER let my kid chat it up online with anyone. Maybe when he is 15/16 but not now.
Umm.. Yea. I know, this is an old Thread but could someone tell some dumb german what a "M rated" game is?
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And does anyone else find this really annoying?
