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Xbox Live's New Gamertag option
Posted on Friday, March 5 2010 @ 23:12:41 Eastern

In case you haven’t heard. Xbox Live now has a feature in which you’re allowed to “express” yourself. Now expressing yourself with gamers around the world is a plus and minus on whether you’ll be friendly, or if you’ll turn to the dark side of all hatred.

The new feature allows Xbox Live users to add their; race, religion, sexual orientation, and nationality to their Xbox Live Gamertag. Allowing this feature was designed to help the Xbox Live community by sharing more about their personal selves and to interact with one another.

"Under our previous policy, some of these expressions of self identification were not allowed in Gamertags or profiles to prevent the use of these terms as insults or slurs. However we have since heard feedback from our customers that while the spirit of this approach was genuine, it inadvertently excluded a part of our Xbox Live community" -Marc Whitten: Xbox Live General Manager

The idea allowing more visible parts of your Gamertag is worth placing, as long as it’s optional. Now I know there are positive attributes about the new feature such as sharing/interaction with another user, but there are some negative parts that could put a minus on his/her Gamertag

First, racism and stereotypes are around us. If you don’t want to be insulted because of your persona, then don’t show it. I’m going to write with huge bolded capital letters for this next concern; THIS WILL NOT PREVENT SEXUAL PREDATORS! This is one of the main worries users and non-users concern about. The adding of your persona to anything interacting online is completely optional. If you want to go and get ass-raped by some creepy ass individual all because you think they seem like a great person to “play” with, then you pal is a complete dumb-ass.

The new feature should have been made when Xbox Live first came out, why it took so long? I have no idea, but I’m pretty sure something along the line, people are going to be much more than just, “Hey N00B! Suck my boomstick!”

"This update also comes hand-in-hand with increased stringency and enforcement to prevent the misuse of these terms," he added. "I truly believe that our diversity is what makes us strong: diversity in gaming and entertainment options, and diversity in the people that make up this amazing community."-Marc Whitten: Xbox Live General Manager

Comments

TheDiesel
Joined: May 2009

Posted: Mar 16th, 2010 at 6:36 pm
Yeah, the whole Race, Religion, and Sexual Orientation is not a smart idea at all. Check their profile and watch the slurs drop like rain.

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De-Ting
Joined: Nov 2006

Posted: Mar 16th, 2010 at 8:05 pm
It was already not worth it to pay for Xbox Live, now it seems like they should pay you to use it.

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schimmel
Joined: Nov 2005

Posted: Mar 17th, 2010 at 10:17 am
I don't care seeing as I never go into people's profiles anyway, and to be perfectly honest I mute 9/10 of the people I play with anyway so why do I care what they're saying about me while I play games going "lalala! I'm not listening to you!"

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Lien
Joined: Feb 2008

Posted: Mar 19th, 2010 at 11:23 am
I seem to recall that xbox live banned people who expressed their sexual orientation ("Not appropriate to families and children" they said i think) in their game tag. This whole new feature was to "fix" this but we all know that it won't stop bigots online. Hey at least Microsoft will get the GLAAD community award right?

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UghRochester
Joined: Jun 2006

Posted: Mar 24th, 2010 at 1:47 am
Yeah this information is no biggie, but since MS changed their terms for Xbox Live people are just going to be the same.

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DBucks8
Joined: Nov 2005

Posted: Mar 25th, 2010 at 1:49 pm
I like Xbox live. it makes it easy to play with peeps. I don't give a **** about their race/religion/sexual orientation/nationality. That is just pointless. haha! I mute everyone too Schimmel, or i just stay in a party with my friends.

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