Now You Can Shut Up Racist 13-Year-Olds In Halo: Reach!
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And this is why Bungie is great.
Thinking up awesome ideas and putting them in new environments. (This has probably been on the PC before, but Bungie are basically the inventors of all cool features console. (Well, Xbox...God, I sound like a fanboy.)) There is a reason why Bungie is praised for making FPS's popular on the consoles. (Though, that is a curse as well.)
All I can say is, I just don't want to wait a month, and I'm LOVING the armour permutations, I do love me some character customisation.
Thinking up awesome ideas and putting them in new environments. (This has probably been on the PC before, but Bungie are basically the inventors of all cool features console. (Well, Xbox...God, I sound like a fanboy.)) There is a reason why Bungie is praised for making FPS's popular on the consoles. (Though, that is a curse as well.)
All I can say is, I just don't want to wait a month, and I'm LOVING the armour permutations, I do love me some character customisation.
Man I'm confused too. Why didn't they have a mute button to begin with? Seems kind of obvious to me.ben---neb said:
Good for Halo:Reach. Altough it might hamper the Halo experience if you can suddenly get rid of them, it would probably be a whole different vibe to play the game. 'Polite' games will get abused, hard, unless they have some more clever functions that prevent that.
Problematic. This kind of safeguard would be just as prone to griefing as the original plan laid out for matchmaking.caseylakes said:
Think about it: if you're a troll and you know that abusing the polite option to annoy people will make you unable to use that option, the better way to grief people is to turn that around. Join polite games, mute everyone in the game, leave, repeat. Enough trolls figure this out and all the honestly polite people can no longer play with the polite option because the jerks have banned them out of it.
The result? You end up worse off than you would be if the jerks can just false-polite annoy games.
The mute feature seems to be easily abusable and a problem. Does this mean you could for example mute people on another team if your "premade group" outnumbers the drop ins for purposes of harassment and to avoid ad-lib cooperation?
I honestly think that Ignore-type features should be removed from games because I feel it's both shallow to assume that you'll never want to hear what someone else has to say, and also because in raids and such in WoW I've occasionally had to play middle man between two people who both ignored each other in a PUG raid, or worse yet, wind up with people on ignore by other people who can't even remember why they put them on ignore to begin with...
The racist 12 year olds and "Barrens Chat" type discussions going on in Trade or whatever strike me as the lesser of two evils. Those who disagree probably don't realize that the grass is ALWAYS greener on the other side of the pasture.
That said I've never (to my knowlege) been put on an ignore in a game, I just know I've found it a pain in the rear dealing with other people who make regular use of the feature to isolate themselves.
I honestly think that Ignore-type features should be removed from games because I feel it's both shallow to assume that you'll never want to hear what someone else has to say, and also because in raids and such in WoW I've occasionally had to play middle man between two people who both ignored each other in a PUG raid, or worse yet, wind up with people on ignore by other people who can't even remember why they put them on ignore to begin with...
The racist 12 year olds and "Barrens Chat" type discussions going on in Trade or whatever strike me as the lesser of two evils. Those who disagree probably don't realize that the grass is ALWAYS greener on the other side of the pasture.
That said I've never (to my knowlege) been put on an ignore in a game, I just know I've found it a pain in the rear dealing with other people who make regular use of the feature to isolate themselves.
That's a problem with the users, not the feature. I'm loathe to /ignore someone on a long-term basis, but on several occasions I've used it to ignore a griefer or jackass in the short-term. Then I just clear my /ignores when I log out as the problem is likely to be gone by that point. It's very handy if you don't overuse it.Therumancer said:
Halo 3 did have a mute option. Hold down 'Back' to bring up the score, scroll down with the right stick and press 'X' to mute someone.Brotherofwill said:
Which is why I'm really confused about it.
It sucks to be a teenager on this site...so much abuse.
I don't see how this works for me, seeing as preferences can be changed on a whim. Oh well, more of the Halo cake is good for me. Can't wait to jet-pack my ass to victory.
I don't see how this works for me, seeing as preferences can be changed on a whim. Oh well, more of the Halo cake is good for me. Can't wait to jet-pack my ass to victory.
Glad to see the feature is starting to come up on consoles. From the bit of Xbox Live I've played courtesy a friend, it makes me so glad I can mute people on PC.
Though I'll wait for games under polite with conversations like "Please go to hell" or "I'm terribly sorry, but your mother is too fat, and is encroaching on my space".
Though I'll wait for games under polite with conversations like "Please go to hell" or "I'm terribly sorry, but your mother is too fat, and is encroaching on my space".
Maybe I will actually get Reach now. Of course, with the mute thing, what would stop the racist dumbasses from using it on you? The problem of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) comes to mind. In the end, we may end up with the system being abolished, because Bungie simply cannot keep up with the amount of Mute Bans, or the system might be left in place, for the same reason.
Isn't there a Mute button on any given persons Xbox Live profile which will mute them no matter the game you're playing?
Doesn't every decent game have a mute feature?
A basic feature that's built in the console the game was made for is not a grounds to get excited.
Doesn't every decent game have a mute feature?
A basic feature that's built in the console the game was made for is not a grounds to get excited.
