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Reward Systems Need an Upgrade
Cordova, TN; April 24, in the year of our Lord 2017--
Family Friendly Gaming, the industry leader in covering
the family friendly video games is addressing an area of
improvement for the video game industry. Families are not very
thrilled about the reward systems found within Xbox Live Gold,
and Playstation Plus. Month after month the free games are rated
‘M’ for macabre and morbid. Where are the free family friendly
video games? Is Microsoft and Sony sending a clear message to
families? What do you think the message would be? If they are
sending a message, then I believe it is this – they do not want
families to participate in the Xbox Live Gold, and Playstation
Plus systems.
I personally have never been much of a fan of these systems. I
hate getting games for free only as long as you pay for the
system. I despise the majority of the games that are included in
these systems. I am offended by having to pay to play games
online. I don’t really play online that much anyways so it is
not a service that has much value for me as is. I am unhappy
that the free games are in the digital download format, and
require massive space on the hard drives. So it is not like I am
some fanboy who all of sudden realizes these companies are not
providing for families. I have been a critic of these systems
for many years now. I just found a brand new problem with them.
We have been checking here at Family Friendly Gaming and rarely
see ‘E’ for Everyone Six and older only rated video games being
released as free games. I have never seen an ‘EC’ for Early
Childhood rated game being given away as a free game. We have
seen month after month of the extremely limited seventeen and
older only ‘M’ rating. We have also seen some thirteen and older
only ‘T’ rated games. Usually we question if those games should
have been given the seventeen and older only rating though. The
rewards systems needs to let families pick their preferences for
the free games. If you want more family friendly titles then
these rewards systems should provide for you. Sony and Microsoft
need to move away from the one size fits all methodology that
neglects family friendly gamers.
God bless,
Paul Bury
Family Friendly Gaming