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It removes any and all reason to play online. Might as well play bots.
Rocket League has an option called quick-chat. It's only canned messages. And in QC mode you only see or reply QC messages. Make being real toxic difficult.
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Minetest seems hardcoded to have much smaller worlds than Minecraft (32,000 vs 30,000,000 blocks in width)
I believe it makes up for that quite usefully by having a similar depth/height limit as width.
Minetest is probably the best Minecraft alternative; it's free and open source software, which avoids the danger associated with centralized retaliation systems like the one Microsoft is operating. Also, it's easier to write mods for, partly because mods are written in Lua, and you don't have to install mods on the client, just the server. https://www.minetest.net/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6Fyav6FiIs The vide…
I can no longer justify this kind of privacy invading anti-user behaviour for a silly block game, so I've chosen to just quit Minecraft after ~12 years of playing. At Assembly, I discovered that Minetest (with the mineclone 2 gamemode) is a very passable clone of Minecraft, with an open protocol and game source code. If I want to play a game like that again, I'll just go for Minetest.
Oh shit, they are moderating chat in a game for children and responding to player reports? Pretty ghoulish, if you ask me. /S Come on, are we really complaining that public chat is moderated now? Is that really where the bar has sunk to?
Better call the police and have you locked up for the rest of your life for that.
Unless you pay your government a little $30 more, pretty please? ; )
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Having experience with all of following three: kids, minecraft online, kids playing minecraft online, no. If someone get banned unfairly with such frequency, they are either super extraordinary unlucky or just some of those kids do mess and trolling on the side.
Sure. But the kids getting banned may not be the kids doing the messing and trolling on the side.
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> revoking people's access to what they bought on shoddy evidence - if this actually starts happening to a lot of people I hope they get sued I wouldn't put my money on them winning that one. It's wrong, but the laws were written by and for companies. I don't think a judge is going to say that a company who runs an online service can't ban users for violations of their policies. Hell, if the law cared about making su…
They are not running the online service. These are community servers.
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It's Chuck E Cheese's. Pretty sure that is a private business. They can mostly do what they want in most jurisdictions. If you want to censor communication in your own home, go for it. If I paid for a license for Minecraft Java edition, why can't my friends and I play and communicate as we see fit?
Private business like Chuck E Cheese will ask you to tone it down or leave in such situation.
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no in-game chat or VOIP. Have people found creative ways to communicate, or solicit/"bootstrap" further communications? If you can send someone a bit, you have enough to send them your endpoint at another service to communicate. In a multiplayer game, where presumably you can see the decisions of other players, the prerequisites are met. (I am by no means a gamer, but have witnessed how creative young humans can be a…
> Have people found creative ways to communicate, or solicit/"bootstrap" further communications? Not so much bootstrap other communications... but I remember how many penis emblems I encountered on Mario Kart DS despite Nintendo banning them very rapidly. Nintendo hasn't done a draw-your-own-emblem since, I don't think.