Yes, they should be allowed to play anything as long as their parents approve. |
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36.8% (64) |
No, they should be restricted. |
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6.3% (11) |
Only 16 or older. |
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9.2% (16) |
They just have a bad reputation. |
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13.2% (23) |
There should be easier ways to mute annoying kids online. |
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34.5% (60) |
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1055 Joined: 22 Oct 2008     | |
Paperboy  Posts: 30 Joined: 15 Oct 2008     | I hate the immature. They are annoying and deserve to have their accounts taken away. All they accomplish is to ruin my gaming experience. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2768 Joined: 18 Sep 2007    | Kids belong in gaming, so long as they have adequate adult supervision. If you don't like their voices on chat, mute 'em; if you're playing the Haloz (as the OP's icon suggests to me) it's dead easy to do already. -- Steve |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1332 Joined: 17 Feb 2008    | Banning kids from gaming is possibly the worst idea I've ever heard. Sure it might make the online scene fun for a few years but after a while it would just cause the industry to collapse. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1607 Joined: 17 May 2008     |
So many adults account will be banned if such a rule would be implemented. But hey, I certainly wouldn't mind it at all.
This. Not to mention, most of us, 'Adults', started gaming a while ago, even before we were considered 'Adults' by society. So, I really don't see why a kid should not be allowed to play games like Halo, WoW, or even, L4D. But it's always better if the parents themselves are gamers. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1166 Joined: 22 Nov 2008    | muting is not difficult on almost all games I play, but then I play those well designed things from valve..... |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 428 Joined: 15 Jun 2008    | Kids should not be banned, jerks, assholes, and immature racist twats should. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 694 Joined: 1 Sep 2008    | Touchy issue. Adequate adult supervision is right. I'm 15, and I've been playing games like Halo and Gears of War for a while, because I enjoy them. It depends on the maturity of the player. I've had Live for a year, and I've seen children that sound about six years old that spout slurs and cusses that they probably don't even know the meaning of. This is where I draw the line. If you play a game that your parents bought you, fine, its their fault if curb stomps leave you scarred for life. However, if you act like a dick because you heard Marcus Fenix say it, drop the controller and go back to Nintendogs. My point is that Kids should be able to play a game like GTA if their parents say its fine. Its the parents job to make sure the parents aren't doing things they shouldn't, and that is the problem. Kids belong in gaming, mostly in their own realm of all the Kid-Friendly (yet still fun) Nintendo Games; my gripe is that they aren't usually fun to play with. I don't judge on age because I know that I was that young once. Of course, I have the same problem with older people too. You aren't much better than them because you're "old enough." A jerk is a jerk, no matter what. Whatever happened to actually reading terms & rules. I can take 10 year olds on COD4, as long as they just act civilized. |
Infamous Scribbler Posts: 694 Joined: 1 Sep 2008 |
Damn Right! |
BANNED  Posts: 3535 Joined: 11 Oct 2008    | Yes, yes they do, unless of course you want the gaming industry to perish, in that case then no they don't. User was banned for: FUN FORUM GAME THX FO PLAYIN :3. (Permanent) |
Beat Writer  Posts: 169 Joined: 30 Nov 2008   |
Took the words right out of my mouth. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1055 Joined: 22 Oct 2008 |
no, i prefer CoD4, i just saw the pic on gamesradar and liked it. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 195 Joined: 25 Nov 2008    | Only if they can be quiet and curteous when asked, should they be able to stay. |
Press Junketeer Posts: 428 Joined: 15 Jun 2008 | The problem is there's no test for maturity. There are incredibly nice, polite, intelligent twelve year olds out there. There are also 'adults' twice their age with half their... reasoning capacity? I don't want to say brains, but I can't think of a word... :X intellect? |
BANNED  Posts: 932 Joined: 17 Aug 2008  | I hate them in most games, but if they do what I say in L4D and we make it out alive I tolerate them. User was banned for: Oh god, bees.. (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1055 Joined: 22 Oct 2008 |
did you read my post? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2107 Joined: 1 Jan 2008   | If I'm on the internet, my standards of conduct are already exceptionally low. If somebody acts really immature and douchebaggish in a way that is entertaining to me, then I laugh with them. |
BANNED Posts: 3535 Joined: 11 Oct 2008 |
Did I quote you? No, so why are you taking it personally? I never even mentioned your name, but hey, since you felt I was talking about you maybe this is your conscience telling you something right? Take that as a hint. User was banned for: FUN FORUM GAME THX FO PLAYIN :3. (Permanent) |
Beat Writer  Posts: 224 Joined: 5 Apr 2008   | Kids online have a horrible reputation of painfully squeaky voices and bad behavior, such as team killing. This leads to many automatically assaulting anyone that sounds like they are under the age of 15. The problem is that many kids actually do this sort of stuff, but other kids, like me, are decent, mature gamers, and they deserve a chance before the canon is fired. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2422 Joined: 6 Mar 2008 | Immature kids are far less annoying than the thirty-year-old wannabe lieutenants who play every round of Counter Strike like it's Waterloo. That said, I would ban anyone with an unbroken voice from online play. |
Paperboy Posts: 30 Joined: 15 Oct 2008 |
Not necessarily, if those lieutenant wannabe's are on your team and they don't talk much it could be good for your team. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 800 Joined: 25 Nov 2008   | I don't think that they should be banned. I do believe every game should come with an option to easily mute people. |
Muckraker  Posts: 292 Joined: 13 Oct 2008   | If a kid has valid approval from his/her parents, (s)he can play any game his parents let him/her. When I say valid, I mean that the parents know whether or not the aforementioned child can handle the game. As for online, if you don't like them, just mute them. I've had to mute as many immature teenagers as many immature kids. (From the sound of their voice, atleast)
Who the hell died and made you king? |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1055 Joined: 22 Oct 2008 |
sorry then. i was kinda in a flame mood. |
BANNED Posts: 3535 Joined: 11 Oct 2008 |
All good, sorry If I got over defensive as well :). User was banned for: FUN FORUM GAME THX FO PLAYIN :3. (Permanent) |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 606 Joined: 26 Sep 2008  | There should also be easier ways to kick out annoying people online, regardless of age. Muting them is too often not enough. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1514 Joined: 28 Jul 2008   | Let me tell you, most asshole you meet online are over 16... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3459 Joined: 3 Nov 2008   | They are fine if they don't bother me and I hate it when people get started with them it just makes it worse. I say if you start to hear them just mute them immediatly instead of yelling at them. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1181 Joined: 2 Sep 2008    | Ban them all from the internet and games. Society has taught me to burn my bridges. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 151 Joined: 2 Dec 2008   |
I couldn't say it better myself. |
BANNED  Posts: 2505 Joined: 19 Aug 2008 | I can't stand annoying little mouthy kids online. There annoying as hell! User was banned for: Poll: Round 5 - Field of Four - (1) Turbine vs (1) Nintendo. (Permanent) |
Anonymous Source  Posts: 7 Joined: 9 Nov 2008 | Although there are a lot of annoying kids online, I'm sure that there is a lot of mature kid gamers as well. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1394 Joined: 31 Aug 2008  | There should be some sort of maturity test kids have to take in order to play online games. |
On the Record  Posts: 6617 Joined: 29 Jul 2008   | If kids didn't game adults would not have eventually started gaming and we would not be where we are today. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 66 Joined: 24 Jul 2008     | Online games? YES RESTRICT THEM! We have enough grown up people throwing their lives away on WoW and such, kids need to go to school >.>; Kids, stay in school, don't play videogames! |
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Do kids belong in gaming? Or should there be more restrictions?
I personally think that, instead of not allowing kids or teenagers to play games (multiplayer especially), there should simply be easier ways to mute players who are annoying.