Why I banned my son from playing Warhawk

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#1 unimpendium115
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I witnessed him playing warhawk with the local option of servers in the UK ,that was fine but then he connected with global servers and found many American matches so he joined one,now take this how you will American players but i had to stop him playing because the foul and racist language brought to this game seems to be thanks to the USA players,it was F this and f that along with other nasty racist N words,i dont understand why you guys cant open your mouthes without bad language pouring out. And yes before you ask,it was only the americans swearing,i know most of you guys are not like this but the indeed are giving the good folks a bad name. Please stop swearing where you know kids could be playing.
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#2 GlavinChris
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it is unfair to make a broad generalization like that, so next time just have him play on a different server.

-The Glavin

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#3 Password1233456
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thats not judgemental at all
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#4 G-Legend
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I agree it's not the swearing as much as it is the racism as well I don't get why people have to throw out racial slurrs just to make a statement or just to piss off someone else good move. People who use these racial slurrs or swear out of the abnormal are just ignorant I can understand a few swear words but the constant usage is terrible.
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#5 Shaqneel
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Well there are a lot of idiots out there screamin whatever they want now that have a headset. It's definetely not a good thing, but all I can really say is to try and eithe avoid the american matches or turn off the mics and speakers. After all, you're there really to play, not to socialize or take part in their profane banter.
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#6 aznfool07
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I wonder... Is there an option to mute them?
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#7 Magic_Sea_Otter
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dude, if you werent so ignorant you would know its rated T. so if your son isnt a teenager theres one strike. and also, it says on the box andas you start up the game "game experience may change during online play" so maybe if you knew what you were buying, you would know it probably isnt good for your child.

I'm done now, i dont want to start a battle....goooosfrabba.......im calm now :D

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#8 Swedish_Wolf
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Must be a way to mute people.
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#9 rm_fc
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there is an option to turn off the mic and you or your son wouldn't hear any one speaks through the mic.
i'm not supporting them put you can't stop 100000 fromsaying that
in other word you can reach them all in here:roll:
i'm not american tho
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#10 thenycest1_b_basic
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its true. almost every resistance game i joined i had to mute at least 5 people cuz they were really immature and cursed alot.
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#11 Cutekitten6_18
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Play with the headser on so the voices go through it, but keep it awy from him so he cant hear what people say.
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#12 thenycest1_b_basic
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dont be flaming him. would u want UR kids to learn stupid curse words at a young age? no? good

cuz i sure dont.

now sony implement a mute all button.

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I witnessed him playing warhawk with the local option of servers in the UK ,that was fine but then he connected with global servers and found many American matches so he joined one,now take this how you will American players but i had to stop him playing because the foul and racist language brought to this game seems to be thanks to the USA players,it was F this and f that along with other nasty racist N words,i dont understand why you guys cant open your mouthes without bad language pouring out. And yes before you ask,it was only the americans swearing,i know most of you guys are not like this but the indeed are giving the good folks a bad name. Please stop swearing where you know kids could be playing.unimpendium115

turn off the mic............. mute the other players there are ways around it. It not just americans I dont talk like that ......well maybe after I am drunk ahah
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#14 vegetattack15
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I agree, apart from the generalization. Too many people use foul language. It's usually teenagers, if you really feel the need to make a generalization.

My suggestion, play alone, find a group of friends who are above this kind of behavior, then create a game with a password and invite those people. Your son can then play without hearing innappropriate language.

If your mission here is really to get people to stop swearing, good luck, but it will never happen.

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#15 G-Legend
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dude, if you werent so ignorant you would know its rated T. so if your son isnt a teenager theres one strike. and also, it says on the box andas you start up the game "game experience may change during online play" so maybe if you knew what you were buying, you would know it probably isnt good for your child.

I'm done now, i dont want to start a battle....goooosfrabba.......im calm now :D

Magic_Sea_Otter

In a way he is true except for that fact that he was being rude lol

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I witnessed him playing warhawk with the local option of servers in the UK ,that was fine but then he connected with global servers and found many American matches so he joined one,now take this how you will American players but i had to stop him playing because the foul and racist language brought to this game seems to be thanks to the USA players,it was F this and f that along with other nasty racist N words,i dont understand why you guys cant open your mouthes without bad language pouring out. And yes before you ask,it was only the americans swearing,i know most of you guys are not like this but the indeed are giving the good folks a bad name. Please stop swearing where you know kids could be playing.unimpendium115

Dude the game is 16+....by that age a kid should be able to decide what's good and bad.....if he's younger than it's your fault...

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#17 Magic_Sea_Otter
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its rated T!! if his child is young he shouldnt be playing in the first place. plus it says "game experience may change during online play"
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#18 Magic_Sea_Otter
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its rated T!! if his child is young he shouldnt be playing in the first place. plus it says "game experience may change during online play"
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#19 Rhaxdric
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How olds your son?
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#20 Magic_Sea_Otter
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oops sorry bout the dbls

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#21 Robotron92
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its a fun game and i dont think he needs to never play it i just think you have to controll the voice chat by muting it or figuring out someway to get rid of the talking
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#22 Ninpo_Osa
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Sounds like the kid might be a touch too young for this game. That being said, I've been playing the game literally since the PSN launch and I have heard nothing that's in the same galaxy as what I heard playing Halo 2 on Live.
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#23 Rhaxdric
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its rated T!! if his child is young he shouldnt be playing in the first place. plus it says "game experience may change during online play"Magic_Sea_Otter

Ditto, if your kids is really that young he shouldn't be playing it in the first place. But if he's like 13 or 14, I think he'd be mature enough to hear vulgar languages and ignore it, I know I was able to...

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#24 jester0815
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dude, if you werent so ignorant you would know its rated T. so if your son isnt a teenager theres one strike. and also, it says on the box andas you start up the game "game experience may change during online play" so maybe if you knew what you were buying, you would know it probably isnt good for your child.

I'm done now, i dont want to start a battle....goooosfrabba.......im calm now :D

Magic_Sea_Otter

I have to agree with you on that. Everyone thinks it's the guy/girl's responsibility to let the parent know what it is rated. Do some research before you buy a game for your child. You can prevent the whole bad experience by not enabling him to play online.

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#25 rikhan_z
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those kids were proberby just sad or argny... don't worry about them, they're proberby end up in prison or something for something more sinstar.
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#26 vegetattack15
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those kids were proberby just sad or argny... don't worry about them, they're proberby end up in prison or something for something more sinstar.rikhan_z

Proberby wil, sinstar kids.

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#27 LoG-Sacrament
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whenever i go on, im lucky if theres 2 ppl with mics. the worst ive ever heard was "d@mmit." but i once heard a UK player swear so you guys must all only know curse words.
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#28 spikeydude97323
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Lol sorry if Iswore at your son but if he stole one of my kills or team killed me the lil b*stard deserved it:P

Btw I agree about the racit comments theres no need for it.

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#29 finalfantasy94
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Wait a minute people talk in this game lol,but yea I have that habit to. Its basicaly oh F no or get teh F out of here cause I swear I killed him. I dont over do it I just use it when nessecery. Im sorry,but im 19 and im old enough to curse if I want to. If your kid doesint want to hear it then tell him to mute the mic.
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#30 EMERlCa6969
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I wouldn't ban your son from playing Warhawk. Just try going to a new server, or stick with UK servers. Also, I have been in plenty of matches for 360 games where English people are cursing left and right. Making fun of just about everyone. Every country has there fair share of people to be ashamed of. If you'd like, I'll be picking the game up soon. Just add me to his friends list. I'd be more than happy to have a nice match without any profanity at all.
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#31 Adultgmr77
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I kind of agree w/ orginal post, if you play PC games online, most if not all have admins watching servers. Everyone of BF2/BF 2142 servers specifically say: "foul language or racist remarks will get you kicked or banned!!!! I play Warhawk all the time, and I have had to put people in their place. People say stupid stuff about sex, race and has noting to do with capturing a flag or a zone. Some of you losers need to get banned or kicked from these servers. If u are hosting a server more power to you, but those ranked servers needs admins like it needs parents. Like an earlier post, we play to have fun and not socialize, but we shouldn't have to listen to a bunch of immature, disrespectful, incompetant losers cursing up a storm and acting like a bunch of Klu Klux Klan memebers.
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#32 justifythegame
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first of all, you all don't know if his kid is a teen or not. second you don't know if he bought his kid the game or if his kid bought it himself. and third, i agree, here in america, a lot of kids go around saying whatever they want, maybe if our parents were more strict like you are with your kid, some of us wouldn't be the way we are. But anyway, you should know that most all online games i've played, people are always cursing. you won't be able to stop them by creating a post on gamestop, its up to you to decide what to do as a parent, and banning him from playing online is all i would do. btw there are online games where you dont use headsets.
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#33 Diomedes1976
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Turn off the mic or dont let him access the global server ....
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#34 tomgps
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I witnessed him playing warhawk with the local option of servers in the UK ,that was fine but then he connected with global servers and found many American matches so he joined one,now take this how you will American players but i had to stop him playing because the foul and racist language brought to this game seems to be thanks to the USA players,it was F this and f that along with other nasty racist N words,i dont understand why you guys cant open your mouthes without bad language pouring out. And yes before you ask,it was only the americans swearing,i know most of you guys are not like this but the indeed are giving the good folks a bad name. Please stop swearing where you know kids could be playing.unimpendium115

Because we all know Americans are the root cause of all evil :roll:

If anything, it's generalized racist statements like these that would cause Americans to continue cussing/swearing/and using all sorts of foul language to keep you and your son off the servers.

Have a great day mate.

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#35 Grantelicious
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I'm biased towards the UK because i'm from there but i always find you join a Euro server and you get childish behaviour, you join a American server and you get more of the same, you join a UK server and it's very mature and fun.
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#36 Nike_Air
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Just let him play without a mic. I agree that things get out of hand with swearing and racist comments but that is not something exclusively done by U.S. players.

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#37 Xire_XII
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With all respect, I played with some UK players two days ago who had the very same foul mouth. Generalizations are not good and deserve to be overlooked when you're looking at a broad subject like an online game. It's online, same as how these forums are. You'll be running into all sorts of people, even the dirty mouthed ones from all corners of the world. There's no helping what people you will run into, let it being regional or global. Yet you do have the option to mute, you do have the option to go to another server if dirty language really does offend the morals you're trying to bestow onto your son. Though you can ban him from playing Warhawk, there are still precautions you can take if you decide to let him play again.

I can say this honestly because I've clocked almost two twenty-four hour days into the game all together, there's been little foul language that I've heard. Yes I've heard it sometimes frequently on a few matches but for the most part, it's been decent unlike many other games like Resistance or Halo 2.

That's just my two pieces, hopefully I didn't come across as rude or judgemental.

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#38 LittleYoshi
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[QUOTE="Magic_Sea_Otter"]

"game experience may change during online play"

That's true, BUT I don't think saying bad words apply to that!

(The gameis rated T) why are so many players mean to other players (saying F word to each other) Have some respect for each other and play fair.......I'm just saying.

But if it was a rated M game that would be a whole another story.

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#39 mfp16
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Good, i'm glad you banned him from playing a game he shouldn't have been playing to start with. If you would have followed the ratings on the box in the first place there would be no reason you needed to come here and spout wild generalizations about a group of people.

Wait, wasn't one of your complaints racist language? Re-read your own post and see where that one lies.

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#40 tfaa
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ummm..did you notice the desclaimer at the begining of the game?
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#41 unimpendium115
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it is unfair to make a broad generalization like that, so next time just have him play on a different server.

-The Glavin

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it is not unfair saying that simply because the only people swearing were american,i do not think every american swears ,only every single match played with americans on warhawk seems to bare the problem,if i heard any other country doing the same it would not seem like a generalisation but the sad fact is ,it was only the americans doing so...and obviously i did make it clear in my post that its not the whole united states but many if not all on warhawk. It concerned me enough to write it here and you should take stock of that.the upshot of all this is my son will not be playing this game ever again because of a few spoiling it for him,i bring my kids up with respect and it disturbs me to hear this kind of language from any nationally.
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#42 Dogswithguns
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It's the real world. get use to it.... but anyway, there were hardly anyone was talking on WarHawk, very few did.
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#44 Videodogg
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It goes both ways, Sir. I cant tell you how many rude British folks i have come across in MotoGP07 on Xbox Live. Cussing is not limited to Americans...dont fool yourself. How about keep you whinny kid off the online games?
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#45 Grantelicious
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I'm a believer in giving children freedom and not restricting what they watch/play within reason. I watched 18+ movies when i was 5 and my mother bought them for me and this was the time of the 80's horror movies lol. I never turned out crazy or wanted to kill anyone, your children should be smart and have a mind of their own.
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#46 EMERlCa6969
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I don't see why all of you are being so harsh. My parents wouldn't let me play the original call of duty online because people were swearing. I was 14 at the time. There is no reason to assume his child is like 7. Some parents don't want there kid hearing foul language. Especially f this and that with some racial slurrs thrown in. I can't say that I blame him, I don't either.
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#47 Keasy4
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well in Resistance UKers throw out curses as well as racist comments so its not ignorant Americans its ignorant people that dont know better... so dont generalize one group of people...
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#48 finalfantasy94
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I guess it should say "game experience may change during online play. Such as the large use of the F word,racial slurs and comments about your mama doing sexual things to another player"

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#49 emitsu97
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I'm an American and completely agree with you.
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#50 unimpendium115
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dude, if you werent so ignorant you would know its rated T. so if your son isnt a teenager theres one strike. and also, it says on the box andas you start up the game "game experience may change during online play" so maybe if you knew what you were buying, you would know it probably isnt good for your child.

I'm done now, i dont want to start a battle....goooosfrabba.......im calm now :D

Magic_Sea_Otter
My son is 14,no matter what age....a game of any classifecation should not be conducted like this,i find it hard replying to you after saying basically its ok to act like this IF THE STICKER ON THE BOX ALLOWS IT.I brought my kids up believing its WRONG to swear and especially wrong to bander the N word about...no matter what the sticker on the box says. im just a concerned father.