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We're doing "no internet connected games", which seems like a reasonable balance.
by seany 2y ago
We're doing "no internet connected games", which seems like a reasonable balance.
- tshaddox 2y agoEven that’s a little unfortunate, because in my experience the older generation of straightforward competitive multiplayer games can be a productive and mostly safe experience.
- wincy 2y agoWeird my experience as a teenager in the early 2000s was being told how much everyone had carnal relations with my mother on multiplayer games on the internet.
- philwelch 2y agoThat’s just socializing with other kids, not being preyed on by an abusive game industry.
- Apocryphon 2y agoIt was still a form of abuse, just not backed by multimillion corporations. Boys will be boys, but it’s less toxic when it’s in real life with kids you actually know and can see, vs. anonymous strangers over Xbox Live.
- philwelch 2y agoTrash talk during competitive games is normal, harmless behavior, not abuse. Boys back then weren’t sheltered and overprotected the way they are now so they could handle it.
- jmb99 2y agoI would argue the opposite is true. I would much prefer some faceless stranger to trash talk me over the internet, who will disappear from existence in 30-40 minutes, than have the same happen from someone I actually know and have to interact with on a daily basis.
- tshaddox 2y agoYeah, different games had different cultures. That’s why I hedged with “mostly safe.”
- tuna74 2y agoMy 8 year old plays Fortnite sometimes together with his friends. I am a bit jealous, they seem to have a lot of fun. Sometimes one of his buddy brings his Switch home to us and they can play together in the same room (I have a PS5 my kid plays on).
- Ekaros 2y agoI don't have kids, but now I am thinking about possibilities of setting up some old Windows PC with collection of DRM free relatively age appropriate zip or installer files. Preferably with mostly random filenames and only some list somewhere. Then allowing kids to just pick anything from there.
- pton_xd 2y agoThat makes me a bit sad to hear as a good portion of my social interaction as a kid was via multiplayer games. And all that time spent ended up leading to a career for me. It's a tough decision for you though, games and life in general are quite different now.
- Sakos 2y agoThe nature of online games has changed. There's a huge difference between the predatory nature of modern multiplayer games vs Battlefield, Counter-Strike, Quake, AoE2, etc.