Every time I try to game online with strangers, it goes badly.
I just recently got an Xbox 360 again and I hooked up with a Gold subscription mainly for the Netflix access (no TV, weak PC). I decided to try out the online features of Fable 2 and the very first person who talked to me sent me this message: "fuk off." I guess it might have been because my "orb" was in one room for a long period of time (trying to hit the 4 targets to complete the Castle Fairfax quest - annoying!) but so was his. I immediately filed a complaint and turned off the "see everyone" feature.
Then, last night, I was playing a few games of Uno ranked matches just before sleeping and one game I ended up in contained two guys telling each other, in great detail, why the other was gay. I couldn't figure out how to mute people in that particular game and didn't want to delay my plays long enough to do so, and finally I had turn my speakers off.
I'd pay an extra $2 (or even $5, to compensate for all the people who would/should get banned from online play) per month for heavy-handed moderation on Xbox Live. As it is, whle I'd like to buy a 360 for my nephews so that we could play together online, I'm afraid that, despite activating parental controls, they'd end up being exposed to this nonsense. It's depressing to think that at some point my sister is going to [have to] turn the kids loose on the Internet and they'll become online jerks just to keep up.
PC online gaming? It works all right if you don't mind playing with the same people over and over again, but as soon as you try to break out a little and find some new folks everything turns pear-shaped there, too.
Maybe I'll enjoy online gaming more when my RL 360 friends all start getting into the same game at the same time. Today, right now, I'd have a hard time playing any of my 360 titles online because I just can't take the garbage, and playing online without communication seems to me a pointless exercise.
I just recently got an Xbox 360 again and I hooked up with a Gold subscription mainly for the Netflix access (no TV, weak PC). I decided to try out the online features of Fable 2 and the very first person who talked to me sent me this message: "fuk off." I guess it might have been because my "orb" was in one room for a long period of time (trying to hit the 4 targets to complete the Castle Fairfax quest - annoying!) but so was his. I immediately filed a complaint and turned off the "see everyone" feature.
Then, last night, I was playing a few games of Uno ranked matches just before sleeping and one game I ended up in contained two guys telling each other, in great detail, why the other was gay. I couldn't figure out how to mute people in that particular game and didn't want to delay my plays long enough to do so, and finally I had turn my speakers off.
I'd pay an extra $2 (or even $5, to compensate for all the people who would/should get banned from online play) per month for heavy-handed moderation on Xbox Live. As it is, whle I'd like to buy a 360 for my nephews so that we could play together online, I'm afraid that, despite activating parental controls, they'd end up being exposed to this nonsense. It's depressing to think that at some point my sister is going to [have to] turn the kids loose on the Internet and they'll become online jerks just to keep up.
PC online gaming? It works all right if you don't mind playing with the same people over and over again, but as soon as you try to break out a little and find some new folks everything turns pear-shaped there, too.
Maybe I'll enjoy online gaming more when my RL 360 friends all start getting into the same game at the same time. Today, right now, I'd have a hard time playing any of my 360 titles online because I just can't take the garbage, and playing online without communication seems to me a pointless exercise.