Adult content driving away younger players

So, this is whats happened. I have a few friends who are 13-12 years old. I want to have them play with me, but the only problems is that they'd instantly have to leave becuase of adult content, language, etc. Is there a rule that we can make to let younger people play?

Rules already exist; there is a reason why the harshest insult you see nowadays is "nub".

Adult content is obviously [Spoiler]

I don't get what you're saying, do you mean their parents wouldn't allow them to play or they would leave because of a few naughty words? I don't think I've ever even met a 12-13 year old who would do the latter, you must have some weird ass religious friends if that is the case.

It would be weird enough if there were parents that wouldn't let their 12 year old children play a game like this in the first place, I mean there's not exactly any violence or shocking scenes in it and you'd have to be incredibly naive to think a 12-13 year old kid doesn't already know plenty of foul language.

[Fx]Drone I guess you've never been to white middle-class America. This sort of supervision is (perhaps surprisingly to foreigners) incredibly common here. Where do you think the ESRB came from? And all of our censorship laws? Until recently it was common to bleep the phrase "god damn" even on stations that broadcasted the "damn" by itself, for fear of the reaction of parents protecting the virigin ears of their children. Puritanism runs through the veins of American culture (though decreasingly so every day).

I guess I'll save you the rant on how idiotic this is, but suffice it to say that the experience described here is very common in the states. I think an on-by-default-disabled-with-a-button chat filter is a reasonable thing to implement for cases like this.

I agree that the parents are being irrational, but omitting this feature effectively excludes those kids from playing an otherwise family-friendly game.

c'mon kaen ESRB is not a stupid system. Even if there are curses in the game it is rated T for teens which is 12+ and most importantly I don't think that most of the parents even know what that means since there are so many 'cod kids'.

quote: the parents quite literally hover over their kid's shoulders

damn i wouldnt mess with them

The only way to be absolutely safe is to play in private room.
Public online gaming is not an enviroment that will ever be perfectly clean.
Do not play Tabula.

Orfelius

You are clearly unfamiliar with the history of video games in the US. The ESRB was the result of the video game industry opting to self-regulate rather than be subjected to harsh federal regulations (a la FCC regulations over TV and Radio). In the late 80's/early 90's as videogames moved into peoples' living rooms, there were vocal witch hunts against any content that might be considered dangerous or disturbing to children (according to a few hundred rich old white men). Seeing this coming down the pipe, and having witnessed first-hand the wrath of the federal government on other media industries, the videogame industry collectively shit its pants and formed organizations to regulate content before the federal government could do the same. The only reason it isn't a "stupid system" is because the industry pre-empted the government from creating one.

So, I didn't mean to imply the ESRB was itself that bad, but that it is an artifact of our endless holy war against pictures and words that old people don't like.

EDIT: Here's a good example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Entertainment_Protection_Act
Introduced by two of the most prominent liberal members of congress at the time, would have restricted sales of mature-rated video games in the same way that alcohol is controlled, complete with audits and FTC investigations.

I think what previous posts meant to say was that these are exactly that: excessive and irrational.

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