Howard of Smart Mobs sends another provocative article today:
Multiplayer online games played with text chat have been around for decades. And there have been a few games promoting voice chat - notably FireTeam and CounterStrike.
Microsoft's Xbox, eager to stay a "living room" machine and avoid keyboard and mouse has bet its online gaming on voice chat systems. And according to the BBC, Xbox live voice chat gaming is a hotbed of arbitrary personal politics:
Xbox Live seems to have reinforced national stereotypes for many people. One British gamer I came across "booted" any Americans who joined his games, while a US gamer hosting a site would remove anyone French, citing their lack of support for the war in Iraq.But besides these sad exclusions, it appears that Xbox Live is a great way to meet other gamers, practice a foreign language skills, and have fun with online multiplayer gaming. "A Melting pot of online gaming." Yum! I want to try it.
Xbox Live is quite possibly one of the greatest peripherals ever. Though I wish people would just get online and play. The Xbox Live arena doesn't seem like an appropriate place for people's political agenda.
Posted by: Jimnice | 03/21/2003 at 05:50 AM
Reading the Slashdot story on this article, I found this GamerTagDatabase with listings online of the best and worst players of xbox live. albkickinyoass is ranked the worst right now - looks like he's a bad, bad man. Not so revered as LadySpyder , for example!
Posted by: Justin | 03/21/2003 at 08:11 AM
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Posted by: hamidreza | 04/06/2003 at 11:36 PM
I hate you need a credit card and broadband!
i hate it very mutch my mom and dad are people from 1600 they dont want broadband en I want it!
so it littele bit sucks that you need those things for xbox live!
Posted by: Gurty | 04/12/2003 at 11:57 PM
qas
Posted by: AL_DARKY | 12/13/2003 at 11:44 AM
i want x box live for rainbow six 3 but my parents dont want brordband
Posted by: it | 01/09/2004 at 12:09 AM
i want x box live for rainbow six 3 but my parents dont want brordband
Posted by: it | 01/09/2004 at 12:09 AM
I got Xbox Live, Its fun! I dont have much friends though lol, seeming i just got it yesterday .... Well back to looking at GamerTags
Posted by: Shenko | 01/15/2004 at 12:13 PM
broad band cost $35.00 a month and up. stop whining and get a job
Posted by: wilco | 02/01/2004 at 09:43 PM
Think simple. Learn different. Macinstruct.net
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Think simple. Learn different. Macinstruct.net
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