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[Marissa Moira]

Microsoft Provides Examples Of "Acceptable Trash Talk" For Xbox Live

Here's what Microsoft says you can and cannot say when communicating on Xbox Live.

www.gamespot.com

Just to show that Microsoft is down with the fellow cool kids, here's what they list as acceptable trash talk.

Any lighthearted banter or bragging that focuses on the game at hand and encourages healthy competition."

They've also updated their Terms of Service because Nanny X-box will and can delete your account if you pull any shit.

"This means more than just not harassing other players--it means embracing them. It means saving those unsavory jokes for people you know will enjoy them. It means taking particular care for others while you play, keeping in mind how they might interpret your content."

Are you ready to love your fellow man in a 48 person death match? You better be or else you've just lost 60 bucks!

 

[_blank_]

"Hello fellow gamers. Just a trigger warning - I will probably end up calling half of you "faggots" or "shitfucks" or "cocksuckers" or an assortment of other salty phrases in the upcoming game session. Further, I will probably infer that your mother is promiscuous and your father enjoys watching interracial relationships. However, I mean these in a healthy and encouraging manner and I look forward to playing games with you and simulating sexual actions above your artificial corpse. Thank you."

 

[Zeke Von Genbu]

Oh please saying KYS is such a nothing insult these days unless you've never been on the internet, if you're so on the edge that someone saying KYS will drive you out a window then basically anyone yelling anything at you could do that. Even the acceptable phrases would probably cause someone to go into a suicide driven fit, because typically from what I've seen people who are that willing to off themselves over video games feel like trash or worthless, so claiming basically "you suck compared to me" would probably do the same thing anyway. Can't wait for these "acceptable" phrases to be "unacceptable" if some sad lunatic goes out a window because someone said they suck at a video game.

 

[Marissa Moira]

Here's also the real kicker these rules can also be retroactive. There's nothing in the TOS that has a grandfather clause or anything.

If someone has proof of past transgressions they can in theory submit it under the new rules.

 

[robobobo]

Honestly, if someone's a worthless shrieking faggot on voice comms I'm not going to lose sleep over them being banned. I don't want to encourage people to take offense at everything, but that kid who thinks repeatedly screaming NIGGER into his microphone is the height of wit is just annoying to all involved.

 

[Ruin]

It kind of blows my mind my future kids will never experience calling someone a nigger or a faggot for the first time in a multiplayer game. That was like a gamer right of passage and not it's gone.

 

[Coolio55]

 

[Juan But Not Forgotten]

It kind of blows my mind my future kids will never experience calling someone a nigger or a faggot for the first time in a multiplayer game. That was like a gamer right of passage and not it's gone.

The future looks like this, only even more cucked.

 

[Autopsy]

No one's ever bothered with homebrewing Microsoft's shit just because why the fuck would you when you could just buy a PC, but procedurally banning 2/3 of the userbase to mitigate "toxicity" seems like a wonderful way to finally jumpstart that community.

 

[Anonymous For This]

To be fair, most of Microsoft's audiences are too stupid to find the mute button, so there is a use for this.

 

[Poiseon]

Well, that's a great fucking idea. I miss the days when companies just said: "Give us your fucking money," All this bullshit about idiots in power in these companies thinking they'll change society by ruining their companies consumer base. You. Are. A. Business. Not a fucking Church, or moral entity. You dumb niggers sell people shit. Get over yourselves.

 

[SpergPatrol]

So you can tell them to get the fuck off the game and come back when your good but you can not tell them to get out of the country?

All the acceptable shit is literally just censored versions of what was listed like it is still being a jerk and the guy who wrote the article and made these rules must be tone deaf because all of those phrases are still negative they just censored the swear words.

You can tell the kid to quit the game and get wrecked but don't you dare call him a "fuckhead," in that same sentence that is just too far apparently.

God damn adults are not adults anymore, they think we can't handle the word "fuck," in mature games where we see tits and blood out of every corner.

 

[Kirito]

Who'd have thought there'd come a day when nintendo does the least to censor shit on their consoles.

 

[ApatheticViewer]

This is why I have a PC. Enjoy censorship plebs

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

Can I get the kid that sang jingle bells using only the word "no" for an entire match retroactively banned? If yes, I'm ok with this.

Excellent subtitle @Marissa Moira.

 

[Fagnacious D]

Just to show that Microsoft is down with the fellow cool kids, here's what they list as acceptable trash talk.



They've also updated their Terms of Service because Nanny X-box will and can delete your account if you pull any shit.



Are you ready to love your fellow man in a 48 person death match? You better be or else you've just lost 60 bucks!

So if anyone's offended by anything I say, they can get me banned? Neat.
By the sounds of it if I simply tell some one they need to stop throwing the game I could have my account locked. Not interested in using Microsoft's text/voice chat anymore.

 

[ZB 584]

Console gamers

 

[Marissa Moira]

Who'd have thought there'd come a day when nintendo does the least to censor shit on their consoles.

Ohohohoho you're in for a treat.

Nintendo has shacked up with Tencent. Nothing is off the table and tencent's history of fucking with companies is legendary.

This is just Nintendo being late to the party as always. They'll announce global etiquette changes for developers and players, just give it time.

 

[UE 558]

It’s like MS saw Soyny’s recent bullshit and though “Yeah, that’s a good fucking idea”

 

[Night Owl]

I've literally seen twelve year olds saying worse shit in public than whatever is considered going too far for MS.