News
Local Play Suffering
Cordova, TN; July 2, in the year of our Lord 2014--Family
Friendly Gaming, the industry leader in covering the family
friendly video games is addressing a problem in the video game
industry at this time. Poor representation of local game play in
the final released products. Too many video game publishers are
limiting the local video game content, and replacing it with
online only video game content. Which presents a myriad of
issues that families have to address. Online predators, foul
mouths, hate speech, expensive fines from Internet Service
Providers, slow Internet, micro-transactions, and more.
Families tell us all the time that they like to play games
together. They like to play in the same room. If someone gets
out of hand they can be dealt with swiftly. Online there is that
anonymous factor and too many people online are abusive. Rules
are not enforced in a fair manner. Christians are discriminated
against by too many moderators online. The online experience has
been soured by too many for too long. I talk to fellow families
all the time. Many of them have closed the door to online, and
will never open it again. So when companies move modes from
regular to online only - they are taking away from these
families. Ultimately many families refuse to purchase products
if they are too online heavy.
The economy is slipping and sliding down yet again. The
government can not spin the numbers to make it look better. The
government can not cook the books to show the opposite. Instead
we all have to face the reality of we have less money to do more
with. That means most families can not afford the highest
Internet packages, and equipment needed to play online. Families
can not pay the high fees of going over their Internet monthly
usage limits. I stopped counting how many people will not play
online games because of this issue. I have talked to many angry
people who already paid for a game, and do not want to have to
pay more to play it online. Video game publishers can not expect
families to keep shelling out money to play games online.
I strongly encourage all video game developers and publishers to
be considerate of families. To provide all modes offline as they
provide online. To think of regular normal play first, and
online game play second. Families and regular gamers will be
appreciative of the local game play modes. This can help bring
families closer, and give them one more thing they can do to
spend quality time together.
God bless,
Paul Bury
Family Friendly Gaming