I really wish they'd charge more for Live

[Big Gulp]

The prevalence of kids on Live is getting out of control.  I can't tell you how many times I've been disappointed this weekend jumping into a game to hear some 12 year old's voice on the other end of the connection.  Damn, it makes me just want to exit out right then and there, and I usually will find an excuse to leave.

Why in the hell doesn't MS create a "geezer" gamer zone?  Or failing that bump up the subscription rate to something like $200 a year to keep these fucking children away from me.

[stray]

This is Gold you're talking about?

[EDIT]

Err....Or does Gold and Silver make that big of a difference on who gets to play what?

[Big Gulp]

Err....Or does Gold and Silver make that big of a difference on who gets to play what?

Gold is the paid service, and you can only play online with that package.  Silver is free, but you can still hit up the marketplace for Arcade games, movies, addons, what-have-you, just no online play.

[Yegolev]

When I was playing EQ and AO, I bought this speakerphone at Wal*Mart for $20.  I'd call up my friend and we'd jibba-jabba handsfreelike while camping orcs and pretending to be women so Taiwanese would give us phat lewt.  Good times.

[Velorath]

The prevalence of kids on Live is getting out of control.  I can't tell you how many times I've been disappointed this weekend jumping into a game to hear some 12 year old's voice on the other end of the connection.  Damn, it makes me just want to exit out right then and there, and I usually will find an excuse to leave.

Why in the hell doesn't MS create a "geezer" gamer zone?  Or failing that bump up the subscription rate to something like $200 a year to keep these fucking children away from me.

Bungie at least seems to feel your pain.

[ahoythematey]

I'd wish somebody would explain how it wasn't a feature from day one, for every live-enabled game.  I've been muting dipshitted assfucks in online games forever now on my PC.  Not trying to be snarky, just curious how people have survived live this long without it.

[Strazos]

If you start cursing and dropping racial slurs very loudly, I imagine the parents might come in, wondering what is going on while little Bobby is playing that M-rated game.

I imagine you could get a couple of laughs out of it.

[schild]

I'll admit it, I'm a trashtalking dick on Xbox live. But at least I try to be funny. Doesn't really matter if I'm winning or losing. One time in Lost Planet, I went into a game with a friend, and kept interrupting people with a bad joke. And it's not a short one either. And whenever someone would try to talk I'd yell at them to wait their turn. I kept playing and telling the joke. The joke tooka bout 4 minutes. And then, right after I was done, Agnarth picked up the mic and told the same joke... even slower. It was good times.

Really, if you're playing ANY GAME less than cerebral (for example, Catan, Senko no Ronde (yep, coming out here), and Culdcept will not have annoying people playing past the first week or two), you can be damn sure everyone else playing is an idiot. AND you'd rather have me in there telling bad jokes. Culdcept will be unplayable online due to the strategy required to play and during those first two weeks, you can be damn sure 50-75% of the people who play online will ask what they do every step of the way.

[Ironwood]

I'll admit it, I'm a trashtalking dick on Xbox live. But at least I try to be funny. Doesn't really matter if I'm winning or losing. One time in Lost Planet, I went into a game with a friend, and kept interrupting people with a bad joke. And it's not a short one either. And whenever someone would try to talk I'd yell at them to wait their turn. I kept playing and telling the joke. The joke tooka bout 4 minutes. And then, right after I was done, Agnarth picked up the mic and told the same joke... even slower. It was good times.

You're right, Gulp, this thing is badly in need of a mute user function;  Some people just don't know what funny is.

[sinij]

Mute is a must, I'd take it one step further and require permissions to speak to any given player.  Generally I don't even enable voice chat when I play FPS, if I need to play with my guild I simply use restricted access vent server.

[SnakeCharmer]

It's gotten to the point that when playing Madden '07 or CoD 3 online that I absolutely will NOT have my headset on whilst playing.  People talking just to hear themselves talk, extreme trash talkers, and whiny prebuscent brats make me want to pull my own ears off with vice grips and cauterize the bloody holes with zippo lighter. 

I'll talk a bit of smack while playing, but nothing out of hand; I keep it low key and respectable.

If there was an option to selectively mute people, I would be ecstatic.

[Surlyboi]

Squeakers

[SnakeCharmer]

Squeakers

Awesome.