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March 20, 2003

The Politics of Voice Chat on Xbox Live

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.

Posted by justin at March 20, 2003 10:57 AM | TrackBack

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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 on March 21, 2003 06:50 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 on March 21, 2003 09:11 AM

i love sex

Posted by: hamidreza on April 6, 2003 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 on April 12, 2003 11:57 PM

qas

Posted by: AL_DARKY on December 13, 2003 12:44 PM

i want x box live for rainbow six 3 but my parents dont want brordband

Posted by: it on January 9, 2004 01:09 AM

i want x box live for rainbow six 3 but my parents dont want brordband

Posted by: it on January 9, 2004 01:09 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 on January 15, 2004 01:13 PM

broad band cost $35.00 a month and up. stop whining and get a job

Posted by: wilco on February 1, 2004 10:43 PM

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