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jidery

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The Problem with Kids and Gaming

I’m going to start this and flat out say it, children under the age of 14 should not be playing Rated M games. Now that I got that off my back, I can start my little rant. I have meet several kids in my gaming experience, and almost every time they were the worst people to play with. Teenagers are better than children with parents that don’t care.

90% of the children on M rated games are foul, disgusting, perverted, vulgar little know-nothing assholes who think they are the greatest person to ever play that game. If you do anything wrong they curse at you with their little high pitched voices and on top of that, when you do win, they’re really, really sore losers.

Now Stick and Stones MAY break my bones.. but, word can never harm me. I am not easily offended. They can be the foulest mouthed things in the world… It’s just words. I could care less… let them sling bigotry and hatred. What does it really do?

It doesn't really do much to me. But still, having some snot-nosed little punk whose testicles haven’t even dropped scream obscenities and racial/homophobic slurs at me isn’t exactly my ideal way to spend an evening. I wear headphones when I game because of this because I dont want my family to hear this while I try to enjoy the game working as a team with my teammates. PC gaming tends to draw an older crowd, and what kids are there are mostly more respectful.

I don't know what it is with M games and kids, but i have a feeling its the parents that let them play rated M games fault they act bad. If the parents let them play games as brutal as gears of war, then they must not do a who lot of other life lessons these kids need to learn also, such as respecting other people.

As the internet gets bigger and parents get stupider, this problem is only going to get worser. Kids take advantage of the ability to be anonymous on the internet, knowing that the worst they can get is yelled at over the mic. If i were there parents, they would be kicked off the game and grounded for months if i heard half the things I hear in online games coming from their little mouths.

Kids on E and T games are usually fine, but bring them into an M game, and they become the biggest assholes ever born, and don’t even get my started about Xbox Live…

Nate-Dog5532d ago

I'm not sure about XBL but there's a darn plentiful amount of kids on PSN, especially on CoD. People can say "oh well that's to be expected when you play a game like that", erhm no it's not, because when I play a game rated for 16+ or 18+ I don't exactly find it fun coming up against these little brats who's parents clearly couldn't care less about and just want to get off their hands. I don't want to be one of those people and criticise parents but it's not hard, you shouldn't let children play these games and let them be exposed to the sort of things that these games show.

The odd time I've come up against kids that actually seem to be just playing the game for fun or with friends who don't run their mouths off to other people, and fair enough to them, but it doesn't make any difference, it's ridiculous that they're playing games like shooters and other high-age rated games and the parents are the only ones to blame.

jidery5532d ago

I agree with you, but how can i not? you just summarized my blog post...

Nate-Dog5532d ago

Heh sorry if I did, a lot of people feel the same way I guess.

Syaz15532d ago

yeah, it happens to often that now people think it's normal for kids to be yelling vulgarities over the mic. no, it's never normal and shouldn't be there in the first place, since the game is clearly rated 18.

though to be fair to the parents, some bratty kids wont stop bugging them until they got the game. so yeah, it can be hard for parents to prevent their kids from getting those kind of games, when their kids are already screw ups in the first place.

IRetrouk5531d ago (Edited 5531d ago )

nate there are just as many or even more kids on xboxlive playing 18 rated games than on psn, gears, cod, gta, its ridiculous, i would never allow my children to play adult rated games, i dont even play them in front of them, violence is violence no matter what the medium that shows the violence is.

starcb265531d ago

And then the parents blame games for their child acting that way.

IRetrouk5531d ago

lol so true have a bubble.

GWAVE5531d ago (Edited 5531d ago )

Not that I'm disagreeing with the OT (kids are indeed annoying, especially on popular online console games like CoD), but I've encountered just as many idiot players who are adults. If anything, I've learned that idiocy knows no age limit, but kids can be especially annoying since you wonder where the parents of the kid are.

Playing Halo 2 on the original Xbox dampened my appreciation for online gaming on consoles. Then, playing Gears of War, Modern Warfare and then very briefly dabbling in Halo 3 and Modern Warfare 2, I am happy to have completely written off competitive online console gaming. Co-op is fine, but once it's competitive (especially if there are ranked servers) then people's attitudes go down the toilet.

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Kantor5532d ago

It has nothing to do with the games, and everything to do with parenting. Get one of those kids onto the internet, and they'll speak in exactly the same way. I know plenty of people of that age who don't scream homophobic and racial slurs online.

meeples9995531d ago

I'd have to agree. I've played mature games from a youngish age and i've not turned out like the people described in the blog and that's down to being brought up decently. I guess there are loads of other people out there like this but ofcourse the rude kids stand out more.

Anyway am i the only one who's surprised at how the kids can get away with being extremely rude without being heard by their parents or something? I mean if i was swearing and stuff eventually someone would hear and tell me to calm down and i'm more than old enough to swear. :/

MaxOpower5532d ago

I don't know if i recognize this problem. On PSN people seam to rarely play with Headset. So it is not that big of a problem for me. Or maybe it's because I don't play COD, or maybe it's because I'm European?..

meeples9995531d ago

Combination of all of them.

I don't get that kind of stuff unless it's a popular game like Red Dead Redemption or COD. I usually don't play those types of games so i'm safe from it all, phew!

femshep5531d ago

they are perverted =[ its gross

but it gets me heated when i 5 year old is allowed to play grand theftt auto and the only reason the parent can come up with is that he won't be cool if he dosn't play it

my parents always followed the esrb rating system and as a kid i hated them for it but now i can totally understand there reasoning behind it

MaxOpower5531d ago

"but it gets me heated when i 5 year old is allowed to play grand theftt auto and the only reason the parent can come up with is that he won't be cool if he dosn't play it"

No parent would ever say that....

femshep5531d ago

haha clearly you haven't worked a day where i work then =p you hear every excuse in the book

MaxOpower5531d ago (Edited 5531d ago )

And where do you work?....

mac_sparrow5531d ago (Edited 5531d ago )

Max, he likely works in GAME. That's the kind of crap I used to hear when I was there. For example, a woman brought GTA 3 to the counter for her 6 year old. My colleague explained that it was an 18 rated game, and unlikely to be suitable.The coversation went like this.

Customer: why what's in it?

Staff: Oh, murder, drug running, armed robbery...whoring.

Customer: Yes, it is boring isn't it. Anyway, we'll take it thanks.

That same woman came back and complained about the content of the game, tried to blame us to which she was told nicely that she was in the wrong, AND THEN said this.

Oh well, I'll just let him have it back then, you say I can't have a refund and he's played it now anyway.

Now I work in a school, and some of the games that the students are allowed to play amazes me.

starcb265531d ago

I've been playing violent games since I was three (I'm 17 now) and I've never acted like these brats.

AccountClosed570295531d ago

I think it's only a problem when they have mics that they can act bratty, otherwise, I don't care who I'm matched up with.

nskrishna25531d ago

My buddy and i run a gaming parlour near my place, and we face kids and their irate parents almost every week...
It all started when we a 6 year old came asking for Vice City.
We refused to let him play and instead hooked him up on a ps3 to play LBP.
The lil kid went crying and brought his mom along...man that was on huge argument.
I totally agree that it all depends on parenting...the lady refused to listen to reason and threatened to close the shop down...of course that wasn't gonna happen...but still...wtf...

AccountClosed570295531d ago

Speaking of Vice City, I actually saw an arcade machine with kids playing Vice City and San Andreas. Has anybody else seen something like this.

nskrishna25530d ago

I have no idea..:O
I don't remember the game being designed to play in Arcades...:O
Must have been hooked to a console or something

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