Xbox Live shuts down 'Fort Gay' gamer plus Stepto ripping on thetechgame

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Microsoft Corp. and Xbox Live are apologizing to a small West Virginia town and a 26-year-old gamer accused of violating the online gaming service's code of conduct by declaring he's from Fort Gay.

The town is real and its name has been Fort Gay since 1932. But Seattle-based Microsoft and the Xbox Live enforcement team wouldn't take Josh Moore's word for it.

They suspended his gaming privileges for a few days last week until he could convince them his Wayne County hometown is real.

Xbox Live chief enforcement officer Stephen Toulouse acknowledges the agent reviewing a fellow gamer's complaint against Moore made a mistake.

He says keeping up with slang and policing Xbox Live for offensive language is challenging, but mistakes in judgment are rare.

Toulouse says training has since been updated. related to stepto You can also hear stepto ripping on thetechgame and s7 it seems Xbox Live enforcement have resorted to child like name-calling video found after the break


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xPredatorzPosted:

Also for the Recent Posts on this Story, A Age Rating on a Game is Guidence. If a Parent really see's no harm in there kid playing Modern Warfare 2, I mean 13 but Mw2 really has no harm to me. Its not like im going to go and grab a gun and go round shooting people, I take games not seriously but people do sometimes and thats why a Age Rating is there for.

People like this Stepto just needs to get a punch in the mouth, He makes Thetechgame (Us) a Kiddies Day Care. Which we are not, If Microsoft aren't that Scared of us then why don't they Close this site. They are scared because we have the Upper hand.

xPredatorzPosted:

That Video is just stupid, He can't do nothing and he live's with his Grandma.

Jacob8hockeyPosted:

Ok I understand what your saying about modders and cheaters and fat kids complaing. But people gotta learn to accualy do somehting about it, it helps alot about calling in with some info because they have a better chance of doing something. I once called in complaining and gave them a GT and some info and they looked into it right away. (About modded gamerscore) They said they realize what they have done and will reset them. I dont know if they did but I am taking their word.

Jacob8hockeyPosted:

Just backing up my posts so I dont look like a idiot.

This is a qoute from ESRB. Who rates the games.

What else can parents do to get help with video game purchase decisions?

ESRB ratings are an excellent source for guidance and information about game content, but we also encourage parents to go beyond the ratings and do their own research about the games they or their children are considering for purchase or rental.



Basically saying, our rating are only a warning, not a must follow rule. Microsoft cant and will not ban anyone because of there age.

KontaKtPosted:

KontaKt
Jacob8hockey But it isn`t illegal to play a game underaged. Just because a 11 year old can not buy a rated M game doesnt mean they dont have the right to play it. If they piss you off so much just mute and report, but what about you kids? gonna make them play the rated T games till there 17? (if this still exsists then) And how many of you are accualy over 17? Maybe like 25% of the site and maybe 20 % of xbox live, if you ban the kids then you take the fun from live. And so what if kids sit at home all day and paly cod? Most kids are fat and lazy and thats all they want to do. Its a free country. Did you never do something that someone didnt thing you should have been doing? Never got drunk before 19 or 21? Even though its not illegal to but it is to purchase it. Its the same as video games. And good for you not living with your parents. Your like part of the 10% of live that dont.


Im not saying remove the kids that are underage an regardless of the fat 11yr old kids sitting with a bag of cheetoos stuck under there third roll, Im saying they cry about modders an cheater when most of the kids are under age an they are the ones creating the problem,, not the modders so if its that big of a deal to them then they can start enforcing rules for underage gamers... Pretty simple actually,, they can lose money an kick the modders off or let it go an shut there mouth an keep making money an the I can still legally drink if Im over the age of 18, there is a limit its like 0.02 anything over that is illegal

KontaKtPosted:

Jacob8hockey But it isn`t illegal to play a game underaged. Just because a 11 year old can not buy a rated M game doesnt mean they dont have the right to play it. If they piss you off so much just mute and report, but what about you kids? gonna make them play the rated T games till there 17? (if this still exsists then) And how many of you are accualy over 17? Maybe like 25% of the site and maybe 20 % of xbox live, if you ban the kids then you take the fun from live. And so what if kids sit at home all day and paly cod? Most kids are fat and lazy and thats all they want to do. Its a free country. Did you never do something that someone didnt thing you should have been doing? Never got drunk before 19 or 21? Even though its not illegal to but it is to purchase it. Its the same as video games. And good for you not living with your parents. Your like part of the 10% of live that dont.


Im not saying remove the kids that are underage an regardless of the fat 11yr old kids sitting with a bag of cheetoos stuck under there third roll, Im saying they cry about modders an cheater when most of the kids are under age an they are the ones creating the problem,, not the modders so if its that big of a deal to them then they can start enforcing rules for underage gamers... Pretty simple actually,, they can lose money an kid the modders off or let it go an shut there mouth an keep making money an the I can still legally drink if Im over the age of 18, there is a limit its like 0.02 anything over that is illegal

Jacob8hockeyPosted:

TTG SEAN i have just been thinking about your comment and your right why don't they ban off all the kids who should not be playing mw2 because its an 18 looks like microsoft make the laws as they go along i remember when mw2 came out they added a rule about glitches due to the abuse of bugs yet they do not seem to want to deal with the issue of kids playing 18 titles xbox live a lawless land?

KontaKt
Jacob8hockey
KontaKt I think its cute how they cry about cheaters an modders and whatever els when the biggest problem overall is THERE UNLAWFUL SALE OF games to MINORS, You need to be atleast 18 to play the game first of all... Hell i got carded when I went to buy mine and Im 20 yrs old,, NONE of the COD games would be as great and made as much money as they did if Minors didnt play the game... So they can cry about the cheaters and modders when Its themself who created the problem, and WHY cant an xbl member report theses problems? you tell me why? exactly you cant or els 75 percent of there money would be gone because they dont have minors giving them there lunch money
No offense but that was the stupidest thing I have heard. The kids just have there parents buy the game because it is rated M. Doesnt mean you have to be 17+ to play it, it is all just a warning. Ever notices "Online interactions no rated"? So don't complain about chirpers our little kids. Its like going to the movies, you need a parental note or something to enter 14+ movie if you are younger. Just get over it.


You proof my point ANY RESPONSIBLE parent would not buy that game for there kids, I can go to any gametype right now an I will put money on it that there is a 11 year old kid throwing threats around like hes going to come to where i live an stab me....BUT YET you can only report for trash talking an thank GOD for for toggle mute.. then even after they are muted they send messages to you swearing they will end your life... Simply its sad... What kid sits at home all day in the summer time to play xbox... an yet they have to nerve to make fun of people that are of age to play the game. In witch I have a job full time.. Make my own money and dose not still live with my parents...
But it isn`t illegal to play a game underaged. Just because a 11 year old can not buy a rated M game doesnt mean they dont have the right to play it. If they piss you off so much just mute and report, but what about you kids? gonna make them play the rated T games till there 17? (if this still exsists then) And how many of you are accualy over 17? Maybe like 25% of the site and maybe 20 % of xbox live, if you ban the kids then you take the fun from live. And so what if kids sit at home all day and paly cod? Most kids are fat and lazy and thats all they want to do. Its a free country. Did you never do something that someone didnt thing you should have been doing? Never got drunk before 19 or 21? Even though its not illegal to but it is to purchase it. Its the same as video games. And good for you not living with your parents. Your like part of the 10% of live that dont.

SeanPosted:

Microsoft make too much money from the kids and they wont enforce the ages on games because Sony wont lol don't want Sony being 1up now things need to change as for cheaters Microsoft also make alot of money off them to because they ban the user gets a new system new LIVE account and more DLC the cost of fixing the issues falls on the game developers who now have to make their game bullet proof the only cost to Microsoft is reputation modders need more respect ok fine some know nothing but others push the bar most of the stuff in mw2, knife, ac130, nuke, chopper gunner, was all made by modders even Semtex them took these ideas from the community and black ops also has stuff taken from the community i think they care more about cheaters than anything


KontaKt
TTG SEAN i have just been thinking about your comment and your right why don't they ban off all the kids who should not be playing mw2 because its an 18 looks like microsoft make the laws as they go along i remember when mw2 came out they added a rule about glitches due to the abuse of bugs yet they do not seem to want to deal with the issue of kids playing 18 titles xbox live a lawless land?


exactly I couldnt say it any better myself they,.. okay say if I go into a FFA game more than likely theres some kids boosting in witch ruins the game for everyone els,. then after the game is over you get a message from some random askin if you want to host a boosting lobby, MORE THAN likely that person is under the age of 18 and the idea to cheat is intriguing to kid who play the game every day... AND yet the worst thing they have done was take out the third person cage match...when i play mw2 I mainly play hardcore SnD, and even then I got two kid sitting in the corner the whole game shooting each others shields... there for I blame them for the cheaters an modders why point fingers at TTG or 7s when they give the option to cheat and mod... thats just my opinion Im sure there are kids that play the game that have no desire to cheat or modd.. and Im not saying I have not cheated or modded I get into a 10th lobby almost everynight and Most of the money the hoster makes is off kids using there parents paypal...

KontaKtPosted:

TTG SEAN i have just been thinking about your comment and your right why don't they ban off all the kids who should not be playing mw2 because its an 18 looks like microsoft make the laws as they go along i remember when mw2 came out they added a rule about glitches due to the abuse of bugs yet they do not seem to want to deal with the issue of kids playing 18 titles xbox live a lawless land?


exactly I couldnt say it any better myself they,.. okay say if I go into a FFA game more than likely theres some kids boosting in witch ruins the game for everyone els,. then after the game is over you get a message from some random askin if you want to host a boosting lobby, MORE THAN likely that person is under the age of 18 and the idea to cheat is intriguing to kid who play the game every day... AND yet the worst thing they have done was take out the third person cage match...when i play mw2 I mainly play hardcore SnD, and even then I got two kid sitting in the corner the whole game shooting each others shields... there for I blame them for the cheaters an modders why point fingers at TTG or 7s when they give the option to cheat and mod... thats just my opinion Im sure there are kids that play the game that have no desire to cheat or modd.. and Im not saying I have not cheated or modded I get into a 10th lobby almost everynight and Most of the money the hoster makes is off kids using there parents paypal...

jorgesalas831Posted:

TTG SEAN i have just been thinking about your comment and your right why don't they ban off all the kids who should not be playing mw2 because its an 18 looks like microsoft make the laws as they go along i remember when mw2 came out they added a rule about glitches due to the abuse of bugs yet they do not seem to want to deal with the issue of kids playing 18 titles xbox live a lawless land?
I agree

KontaKt
Jacob8hockey
KontaKt I think its cute how they cry about cheaters an modders and whatever els when the biggest problem overall is THERE UNLAWFUL SALE OF games to MINORS, You need to be atleast 18 to play the game first of all... Hell i got carded when I went to buy mine and Im 20 yrs old,, NONE of the COD games would be as great and made as much money as they did if Minors didnt play the game... So they can cry about the cheaters and modders when Its themself who created the problem, and WHY cant an xbl member report theses problems? you tell me why? exactly you cant or els 75 percent of there money would be gone because they dont have minors giving them there lunch money
No offense but that was the stupidest thing I have heard. The kids just have there parents buy the game because it is rated M. Doesnt mean you have to be 17+ to play it, it is all just a warning. Ever notices "Online interactions no rated"? So don't complain about chirpers our little kids. Its like going to the movies, you need a parental note or something to enter 14+ movie if you are younger. Just get over it.


You proof my point ANY RESPONSIBLE parent would not buy that game for there kids, I can go to any gametype right now an I will put money on it that there is a 11 year old kid throwing threats around like hes going to come to where i live an stab me....BUT YET you can only report for trash talking an thank GOD for for toggle mute.. then even after they are muted they send messages to you swearing they will end your life... Simply its sad... What kid sits at home all day in the summer time to play xbox... an yet they have to nerve to make fun of people that are of age to play the game. In witch I have a job full time.. Make my own money and dose not still live with my parents...