Xbox trolls, get ready to have your fun ruined: Microsoft will be censoring you

Hopefully you'll be able to turn it off for people on your friends list or something. There are plenty of times when cursing is appropriate and very necessary among friends.

****ing fantastic idea.

Yay carnie talk!!!!

My guess is this will be some sort of parental control. Or at least it should be.

Sounds awesome.

I still have absolutely no interest in talking to anyone, online or off line, while I'm playing a videogame. However, if I ever did, I now could do so without getting cussed out by strangers.

Definitely agree with Reaprar on this one. If MS scans for curse words, they can scan for anything. I wouldnt't be surprised if a simple joke between friends, or a bit of trash-talking could end up in a lawsuit now somewhere down the road.

I'm going to wait to pass judgment until I see how it works. I am hopeful however.

Personally, i have a weird appreciation for the trash talk, it's kind of a way to let you know who the dicks are. I started playing R6: vegas 2 and actually found myself playing with friendly people who worked as a team and i really appreciated it, but that politeness would be meaningless if everyone had to be polite all the time.

It's not really a freedom-of-speech thing for me, its more that now i'll have no point of reference to define the people who i'd actually like on my friends list.

what is this FUCK you speak of?

i wonder if they'll censor GAY next?

Wow, despite how much I hate Micro$oft . . . if they do this right, this could be the greatest thing ever! I don't see what everyone is complaining about, since this saves the hassle of muting and dealing with the 808734387 retards on Call of Duty 4, etc.

This better be a parental control, not enforced. Otherwise, the shit is going to hit the fan.

THE SKY IS FALLING!!

I'm sure this will be something implemented under the parental controls as Danmartigan had mentioned. My only question is will this be something you can restrict to people not listed in your friends list?

If anything it'll force people to follow Sterling's example and invent new and exciting ways to curse or at the very least give way to a whole slew of obscene amalgams.

My new misogynistic insult is Twat-Rocket!™

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This is great news. One of the reasons I don't like playing online is all the racist and sexually bigoted verbage by a bunch of teenagers and repressed 20 somethings. Hopefully this helps to teach these kids some class, and to "trash talk" without having to rely on hate speak.

will this delay the speech as you say it, to when ppl hear it?

LOOK OUT BEHIND YOU!

oh nevermind. it's too late.

It could be good, depending on how Microsoft implements this. I'll have to wait and see before I pass judgment, but if it gets rid of the annoying cocks on XBL, I'm for it.

As long as I have the ability to turn the censor option on/off then I think it's great. I would probably use it.

I could do with less N-bombs, but I don't want Microsoft telling me I can't call my friends "fucktards"

This'll never work. With the colourful insults the more imaginitive mind can conjure up, the quality of microphone feeds and massive variety of accents and speech patterns I can't see it censoring much/correctly.

I think this is a horrible idea and that it really sets a scary precedent for the future of online gaming. Now, I hate getting into a room with a bunch of idiots yelling and throwing around racial slurs as much as the next guy, but I have to agree with previous posters when they say that a little trash talking adds to the fun of playing certain games. When I was freshman in college, my roommate and I would play Gears of War against two guys that lived down the hall from us, and the barrage of curse words that flew out of our mouths was absolutely insane. After we played, which ever team won would rush to the other team's room and continue the trash talking on a personal level. Trash talking in good spirit is fun. Mute someone if they are being an idiot, I know I do all of the time. Also, isn't this what the gamer zone thing (whatever it's called) is for on XBL? If you want to stay away from that kind of thing don't pick Underground! Just thought I'd add my .02

Worst/Best idea ever

Good idea, but there should be an option to turn this on/off. You know, what with freedom of speech and whatnot.

"You piece of mother licking pie I'm to to stuff you with turkey stuffing, I'm Old Greg"

it could work....

If it's possible to choose not to have things censored, this is going to be absolutely awesome.