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This is a little bit to much just to play a game.. There are Communities that are adults playing together if you really don't want to play with young players. 🙂
Best thing i can recommend you is that you should join EA Gaming & Battlefield Discord channels. You will find many adult players there. Or maybe a Platoon/Clan that will be kind to invite you to play with them.
You can ask there for players with same age as yours. 🙂
EA Gaming -> https://discord.gg/DZzTUsZwm2
Official Battlefield Channel -> https://discord.gg/battlefield
- 4 years ago
@WindowsManTv_CZE So I anticipated the first sentence, but to answer this more general suggestion of finding groups, this isn't about just finding "the right game for me". This is about changing the culture of the BF community, which can be pretty toxic and racist, like all shooters.
- WindowsManTv_CZE4 years agoHero+@TuskegeeHeir
I understand to your point but EA can't ask for ID's to play a game... People always will be like this way. Some players are toxic, Some players are playing for fun, Some players are playing only with friends...
You or EA can't change players choices or how they act. I know its bad but we live in 2021. 🙂
You can Report players for cheating, abuse, (toxicity) and harassment here -> https://help.ea.com/en/help/faq/report-players-for-cheating-abuse-and-harassment/- 4 years ago
@WindowsManTv_CZEI feel like you didn't read the entire post, because I addressed this too. "There will always be one" is never an excuse to sit on your hands and do nothing.
- Fringerunner4 years agoSeasoned Ace
@TuskegeeHeirWindowsman isn't wrong though. The issue you want to tackle (not that it *shouldn't* be tackled, i'm actually with you there) requires more than just one game putting in some kind of framework, it pretty much requires internet access itself to be keyed to some kind of IRL ID like passports etc, because if it's digital, it can and will be spoofed (pretty sure the idea behind the TPM reqs on windows 11 is to try to achieve something along the lines of what you're asking for more than it has to do with ITsec or anything else).
And right now, there is a way to achieve what you want as suggested by others (i do this automatically in just about all games now as i'm just tired of the constant flow of stupid over unmoderated voice chat) which is turn off ingame VOIP as a rule, assume chat will be horrid and just try to catch the few times where relevant information is being put out, and find a guild/discord etc where there's clear rules and active moderation.
Some potentially good news for you though, first it should be relatively easy to find a portal server with constant admin presence if it launches with the admin tools "promised", and second I've seen at least one guild so far advertising on this forum with a a code of conduct pretty close to what you're asking for.
Maybe go ping them and see if the community is what it advertises, and you'll get more or less what you ask for via their discord.
Directly implementing what you're asking for is going to be legally difficult in quite a few countries, and damn near impossible in some, so EA/Dice taking that upon themselves is a cost/benefit question that lands squarely in "oh hell no", even if the idea itself probably would make policing the community a lot easier/better.
It's not perfect, and while your idea has merit in theory, implementation is just about impossible unless it's internet-wide, and even then some people are just so blindingly stupid/xenophobic/racist that even that wouldn't stop them from going full idiot on a daily basis.
Much like in real life, the trick is to pick your friends rather than try to eradicate stupid.(edit: again though, this isn't a long-term solution or "right", but it is what it is on the internet atm. Again, change there has to happen at the root/culturally, not via individual games)
- 4 years ago@Fringerunner I appreciate the difficulty of the system logistically, but I also know it can be overcome in most countries BF has a presence in if it's taken seriously. Some countries would probably be left out, I realize that. But this is also not something any player would be compelled to do regardless. Would it suck for those players in an unserved country would would also like age-gated play? Absolutely. But I take that as a challenge and not a barrier.
Companies not unlike EA constantly brag about how they solve tough problems, so I think it's entirely fair to tell them to put their money where their mouth is. This is a real problem, but no meaningful action has ever been taken on it and it's long-past time somebody do so. As far as the wider gaming community, devs talk. They look at what other devs have done and how it worked and try to see if they can implement the same systems. GDC revolves around this, and it only takes one system to work for others to then start copying and remixing it for their communities. In academia we do this via publishing our research. We expect and encourage other researchers to read and run with it in almost whatever direction they deem useful.