Microsoft's latest PS4 promotion stunt.

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Uh, people who play COD on XBL are forever making bigoted and offensive comments about all manner of things... everything from each others' mums, to Jews, sexist comments about women, or wild speculation about each others' sexual involvement with priests as a child.

The vast majority of the plebs who play Call of Duty are in no way affiliated with any games companies.
It should be parents' responsibility to raise their children to be decent human beings... not the responsibility of games companies.

XBL has always had an option for blocking people ; for example those who make offensive communication.

Hm, the thing is though, there's really little that Microsoft or Activision or whoever can do about this sort of thing. PARTICULARLY when it's voice chat, instead of text based.

I mean, think about it: The sheer number of people that play not only those games, but other similar titles, or those on Xbox Live as a whole. The number is staggering.... and that's just the start. There's simply no true way to police or enforce those kinds of numbers. The various admins and whatever do what they can, but.... really, they can only do so much. It doesnt have much to do with the company itself. They simply dont have the ridiculous numbers of trained employees that would be necessary to even come close to putting a dent in this problem.

It's a sad state of affairs, but that's just how it is. And there's worse gaming communities out there than those.

Indeed so.
Questions for the OP would be...

(1) What do they think companies such as Microsoft should be doing about this, other than what they already have (for example, implementing the block function of XBL)

(2) Why do you think they ought to be doing this ?

I see.

A report from yesterday states this -

http://www.gamesreviews.com/news/10/transgender-journalist-wasnt-called-thing-statement-issued/

You will please excuse me if I do not fall over with astonishment at this revelation.

It seems that certain people should actually make the effort to establish the facts of a situation before hurling accusations around, demonising an entire industry, and arranging to check into a sex-hotel along with their preordered PS4.

And a certain person seems to have been doing a wounded swan routine.... frankly, making a mountain out of a molehill in order to gather support from easily manipulated members of society.

I wonder whether a certain somebody will throw a big stop about that person's "lackluster and limp" apology for basically making sh*t up and using their false claims as a basis to accuse that comedian of harassing them .... I mean, it's not like they're flaggelating themselves with remorse. All they did was say sorry.


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You may refer to me as either "ma'am" , "Your majesty" or "Your Highness", from now on.
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I also expect everybody who refers to my seating apparatus to call it a throne, regardless of what it actually is.
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