"Magnezone;c-17461510" wrote:
"Scobre;c-17461500" wrote:
This was an interesting article. Sims 4 being one of the games being recommended for kids to play:
https://www.pcgamer.com/parents-guide-to-pc-gaming/
The biggest problem we have had with kids and gaming has been Twitch. Our last Community Manager got heavily harassed because a parent wouldn't watch their kid on a 18+ Game Changer Twitch channel. So yes I rather have kids not play the Sims 4 and stick to the mobile games that are even more kid friendly than have Gurus being harassed because of absent parents. It isn't our job to babysit your kids online just because they can't follow site and game rules. This upset me greatly and the lies that were spread about it. So no let's raise the game to teen rated so the chance of things happening like this are lessen and please keep the kids away from 18+ streamers. I see it far too often as a Twitch mod rules being broken by unmonitored kids younger than 13. I tried my best to help this kid who was being sexually harassed. I had been following the channel know the channel rules. I had him reach out to SimGuruSteve and SimGuruGraham because it was a Friday and they were online. Sure the situation could have been handled better, but yes this is the risk of kids have to face and why making the Sims too childish is a very bad thing for crimes like this that continue to happen on Twitter and Twitch.
https://simscommunity.info/2019/03/11/lets-talk-about-what-happened-in-the-community/
I'm reading more into this as that article is very vague, and it seems SimGuruKate knew more about the situation for longer than she let on and just kind of swept it under the rug. The "harassment" she received wasn't because she didn't babysit someone's children, but because this situation was not handled and investigated as soon as The Sims Team knew about it.
This is a weird situation and whilst parents need to pay attention to what their kids do online, this definitely isn't the fault of "kids playing The Sims and going on Twitch". If anything, that's a super victim blame-y attitude. The Game Changer in question was sending sexually explicit messages to these children, this isn't just the case of "well these kids can't follow the rules!!!"
Things like this continue to happen on Twitch with different channels. The teen came into a 18+ Game Changer channel to report about another 18+ game changer channel, so yes I don't think that game changers or playtesters should have to baby sit kids. They were almost banned for breaking Twitch TOS saying their age. It just isn't fair to us as Simmers. It is just I am at a loss of how to make this situation better so it doesn't happen again. I don't like kids being harassed since I was flirted with when I was that age during a volunteer project. So yes I really don't think the game catering to 10 year olds is a good thing because it opens them to things like this especially while in social distance. Predators are in full force now and I hope that parents are aware of that.
