Microsoft to Censor XboxLIVE - finally - thank god!

Well it seems Microsoft has finally got the approval for its patent on "real-time" censorship that will enable it to bleep or remove objectionable content from XboxLIVE in Real-Time  . .

Hopefully reducing the HUGE amount of abuse that goes on there. Many gamers steer away from it, fearing the racial, sexual  slurs as well as the swearing screaming-memies that just flood the service, often ruining the "fun" for many people who just want to enjoy some online gaming. Check this out and pass comments.

I'd rather just take a few seconds to mute people then let MS censor people's conversations.

Try putting in "Virginia" in your Profile.  Go ahead.  Try it out.  Needless to say, I don't like it, because too much stuff will get censored when it shouldn't.

I tend to mute every one who is not on my friends list as other wise nine times out ten you just get abuse from 12  year olds

This is stupid, If I want to drop an f bomb to one of my friends  I should be allowed. I hate how people get offended so easily on XBOX live yet they'll never use the complaint system.

"This is stupid, If I want to drop an f bomb to one of my friends  I should be allowed. I hate how people get offended so easily on XBOX live yet they'll never use the complaint system."

I still want to be able to enhance sentances by using "fucking" as an adverb...you know...the right way.

I see this failing horribly. I don't want to be mothered by Microsoft.

I'm a big boy, I know how to Mute people.

Hopefully it's optional.

BS

I'm a grown-ass man, why can't a 12 year old call me the n-word on xbox live anymore?

"This is stupid, If I want to drop an f bomb to one of my friends  I should be allowed. I hate how people get offended so easily on XBOX live yet they'll never use the complaint system."

censorship? more like censorSHIT.
ha!

I can say that I hate it when people start saying shit like "hey, you fuckin' nigger" or "fuck you, Jewfro".  I'm not a fan of racial slurs at all.  Cussing in general though...I mean, fuck, it's just cussing.  The moment that people stop treating it like it's some form of fucking blasphemy (and can even tell me who decided what words were bad and what words weren't in the first place)...that's the moment that people will realize how stupid it is.

Approval for a patent does not necessarily mean this sort of technology could ever be successfully implemented.  I doubt we will see it this generation, and probably not in the next generation, either.

Something tells me this technology won't work that well. It'll probably wind up mistaking clean words for dirty ones and not recognizing some dirty words at all.

i just want someone to explain to me why it took this long.

Perhaps it could be used for the zones or whatever they're called (Family, Recreation, Pro, Underground).  They could just just match up "Family" users with other Family users and have the censoring concentrated there only.  I don't think the zones have any practical use at the moment, but correct me if I'm wrong.

I'm sure it will be optional. I just mute people who piss me off however.

Any idea how this technology cencors stuff? Does it listen to what you say THEN put it through?
... or is it like Nostradamus and predict your every fucking move!!!!!!!!! *puts on tinfoil hat*

i don't really give a s***.....what the f*** was tha-god d***!!!

Isn't that invasion of privacy. I don't want people listening to my conversation, that's kind of creepy but I get it if its for total tools.,

I fully endorse this endeavor. As lo0ng as it is used in a responsible way and is used to keep people from griefing with words, using racial slurs, or just disrupting the gaming experience, i am all for it. Plus this is the first step to making online gaming something more than the underbelly of the video game industry.

I demand a refund. I'm going to go buy a PS3.

In all honesty, this TOTALLY isn't going to work. I can't discuss the intricate problems facing the dam industry today! I cannot discuss Heaven and Hell!

I like people being able to say what they want, ya know if it bugs you that much, Mute Them! One of the best parts of online gaming is finding someone who gets pissed off really easily and trash talking them. Whenever i start doing that, after the guy gets mega pissed off and leaves (eventually after cursing me out multiple times), my team all un-mute their mics and are cracking up. Its one of the few things that releaves stress is a good laugh. So I say F censorship.

"I see this failing horribly. I don't want to be mothered by Microsoft.

I'm a big boy, I know how to Mute people."

It's simple, when I'm playing Viva Pinata co op I tend not to swear at whatever 8 year old limey british kid I'm playing with. When I'm playing M rated gears of war I think we can all say frustrated swearing at team mates and especially some competitive swearing at enemies in Halo 3 is always welcome. This is pretty much the worst addition to XBOX live. There's a mute button for a reason. It's not the swearing on XBOX live that's the problem, it's annoying mexicans not shutting up and constantly speaking mexican in unrelenting amounts. Egad.

Lol with the strong northern English accent I have it will probably not even understand what im saying.

this had better not make the lag problem any worse

Its easy enough to ignore morons on live, as many as there are...so I'm hoping you're right MB, and this doesn't get put in for a long time..but I'd rather never see it, don't fucking censor us..no one was asking for that. I can just imagine...already playing a multiplayer M rated game, where characters are throwing shits and fucks around, and getting it censored when just talking amongst friends or something. There better be a way to disable it if you choose to, because this is going too far.

Wonder if it will actually work. Censored or uncensored, I don't mind either way. Oh, as long as it's not a loud distracting beep.. that'd kind of suck.

They said it could be..between a big bleep out, another kind of noise, or just silence where you hear nothing. Either way this is a step back in general, and a huge mistake.

As mentioned, this hardly means they are anywhere near implementing this stuff.

Another reasson why psn will win over live

Well no where in the patent is xbox live mentioned, this is a patent from 2004 they just granted it likely has nothing to do with xbox live but other services and likely will not come about any time soon.

This is crap...when I'm having fun with my friends, we slip swears all the time. If people don't like it, mute us, that's what it is for. I will be very pissed off if MS goes through with this bullshit.

"Approval for a patent does not necessarily mean this sort of technology could ever be successfully implemented.  I doubt we will see it this generation, and probably not in the next generation, either."

damn that can't be good. you mean actually censoring spoken stuff??? really?

I think this will be a family settings option.  I for one will use my mute button but if my son is playing he will have the censor option, it's either that or mute all option for him because of the large amount of racial and derogatory idiots who just learned how to swear in gradeschool and are using Live as their testbed.

I think this is a great idea if used optionally for parents.  Now if it is mandated, it will fail as there will be ways to pronounce words around the filter...just like typing SH!T instead of SHIT....there will be a way to phonetically circumnavigate the software.

This is also very cool though as technology wise, it shows we are that much closer to speech recognition software to really use in games etc... If MS is going to implement this in Real Time, it must work pretty dam good.  I mean darn good :)

"this had better not make the lag problem any worse"

"Another reasson why psn will win over live"

Man don't be a pussy. The assholes on live is what makes it so awesome...

"Try putting in "Virginia" in your Profile.  Go ahead.  Try it out.  Needless to say, I don't like it, because too much stuff will get censored when it shouldn't."

If it works properly this can only be a good thing, but I doubt it would work properly. I can't see how it would work in real time. There would have to be a delay, which would suck.

But just because they've filed a patent for it doesn't even mean there are plans of integrating it into live. Microsoft is a huge company, the gaming sections of it is only a tiny part. The chances are that their plans are to use this for something else, not for live.

That sound crap tbh.
If people are so bothered cant they just mute? :S

It sounds like a terrible idea. What will be censored and what won't? For example, 'douchebag' is offensive to yanks but over here, no one cares. And really, why go to all that trouble when you can just select mute player from the in game menus.

Looks like you won't be able to tell someone to 'duck under cover' anymore.

Should the technology ever be implemented, if it didn't actually let the person set the filter themselves, that'd be fucked.

If Microsoft wants to lose out to Sony, this is the way to do it.

as long as there's an option to disable it, I have no problems.