Microsoft may be walking the plank
The facts are still unclear when Microsoft will implement a new tool to clean up the online experience for Xbox life users. The most obvious time for the censorship tool to be implemented would be during the new Xbox experience set to be released in early Nov.
Now that they have the program and software patented, they plan to use this to make it more “family friendly.” When a gamer would begin to say a certain word, the software recognizes it and will either bleep or silence the rest of the word.
As Microsoft has not yet released what they plan on doing with this software, whether it will require all users or make it optional, perhaps even part of the parental controls, so it’s hard to say much at this time. If Microsoft does force this tool on everyone however, it will create a plethora of new issues and most likely even turn some gamers away from it. When a person goes to play a game rated Mature, they should not expect to have their language altered while the game itself can use explicit terminology.
Most of you gamers that have been on Xbox live also realize there is the issue of the younger gamer generation and their poor use of words. There is nothing better than playing a round of Halo only to be inturupted by a 10 year old cussing up a storm. So the idea of this program being used to clean up Xbox’s image is a joke.
Play This says: We are 100% against censorship and feel this new tool may very well be the downfall to Xbox. Granted we will still play the thing, but we can only hope as of this time, that Xbox will make the software optional.
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