After Uno on 360 took about 5 seconds to become Chat Roulette with more penises, it’s actually kinda funny we didn’t see this coming. Ultimately it will become an issue of proper moderation for the services involved. Any shitheel can upload video of his drunk, naked wife on Facebook, too, they just have to act quickly when violations are reported.
Quaro
1862
Yeah any of those people could have been streaming from any cheap laptop or whatever already. Just a novelty for the moment so getting some news coverage.
Thongsy
1863
You’re right, I remember all the uproar back then. I guess we try to believe in the good of humanity too much and forget there are a lot of douchbags out there that would do these kind of things.
sharaleo
1864
Except that Microsoft and Sony have a platform and brand to protect. Can they afford to have the next gen consoles become perceived by parents as enablers for creation and, more importantly, consumption of such content? Or is it less important now they are both trying to be entertainment hubs, as opposed to just games machines? I mean the reality is that this kind of content can be consumed on practically any device these days, does it matter if consoles are just one of them?
Canuck
1865
Maybe they’ll implement some kind of parental controls with pre-approved channels with the option of being able to add others by using some kind of parental code.
Quaro
1866
Kinda like Nintendo being surprised that children were able to get to pornography on the Wii-U… because it has an internet browser.
Razgon
1867
Why aren’t these people just banned? I would think that would end the abuse rather quickly, if you lost the use of your machine. The thing is, people think that their actions have no consequences on the internet, and that needs to change.
EDIT:This is in response to the drunken naked wife.
I agree with Quaro and Brad.
This is unfortunate, but honestly I don’t really see why it matters that the PS4 is what was used to broadcast this. He could have done the same thing with a webcam hooked up to a PC (or an iPhone for that matter) and a Twitch account. The proper response is banning him from Twitch for breaking their TOS. (Also, in this specific case, maybe his wife bringing him up on charges and possible civil action, but that’s outside the scope of this discussion).
So, is Twitch streaming on PS4 behind the PSONE subscription?
- I would assume you have to register for a PSONE Sub with a credit card?
- How many children have credit cards?
Alternatively you’ll need some sort of ‘community moderation’ (I.e. easily trolled) that can quickly block streams that get reported - which will then need some SOE interaction to verify the claims and if possible take action vs. the streamers or those who reported it.
When setting up a PSONE for your children I would then guess you’d need to flag the account as such and either have it block any video at all from the games being played, or require the streamed videos to have “community moderators” present (unable to talk or broadcast, just able to click ‘block’ if anything “Inappropriate” (depending on country I would assume) occurs.
Regardless; seems like a lot of stuff that has to be done as an alternative to just having it disabled to anyone not verified to be above a certain age.
It’s PS Plus, but no. None of the streaming features are paywalled. Blocking access to streaming (both viewing and broadcasting) with parental controls should be easy enough, though.
Chaplin
1871
It is on par with someone streaming on PC, but one of the new fancy features of the next gen consoles is quick and easy application tabbing and integration. The kind of crazy adult foolery is entirely too close to standard console use for comfort. And you don’t even need too look for it. Due to the rubber necking instincts on this, it is pushed to the top and occupies most of the initial streaming page.
It will probably settle down, but I would like either stricter ToS monitoring for Twitch as a gaming broadcast or the option to disable some “games” from being able to be watched (ie turn off the Playroom game channels). This as opposed to a potential hobbling of the really cool game streaming service for actual games which would be a sad and rather unfortunate result of the 15 minutes of self/spouse/friend degradation fame going on.
stusser
1872
Twitch does police its channels, but it’s impossible to catch everything within 15 minutes. They’ll ban accounts as it happens. Like someone else said, anyone could do the same thing with any $300 laptop, it’s not a console-specific problem.
The solution is access controls in Twitch. Just restrict access on controlled accounts (ie, your kids’ accounts) to verified streamers, who won’t risk losing their access by breaking their TOS.
Teiman
1873
wat its dis
Opening your playground to kappa, is opening the internets to your life, kappa.
Fozzle
1875
Not sure if I posted this in here or not, but my PSN is Fozz_thulu. Would love to friend a couple more qt3 folks… I am still really enjoying my ps4. But I do now find that I am gaming in this pseudo 3screen mode, Tablet for typing and checking messages, vita for remoting and as a second controller when mine is out of juice, and the TV of course…
Thongsy
1876
One of the main features I thought was stupid but I seem to do a lot now is watching the streaming feeds. I don’t watch for any real extended length of time but I do seem to watch quite a bit. Watch some guy play Battlefield or CoD. Watching people using the playroom app and just basically holding a chat session.
Two things I have notice, first is are all CoD players on speed and/or crack or something. Every CoD stream I watch the player is running around looking left or right and running at 100 mph. It’s no wonder I was terrible at that game as I play at a much slower, deliberate pace trying to be aware of my surrounding.
The second thing is how people react when it’s a guy or if it’s a girl that’s streaming. When it’s a guy it seems he gets asked if he’s gay or called gay. Gets asked if he’s high or drunk, smoking weeding or if they have weed in some random item nearby. Then also somebody usually asks them to put something on their. Very odd. When it’s a girl people are seemingly much more respectful though many do try to hit on them. But then there are one or two guys who will be douches and say some kind of offensive things. But many seem to shrug those comments off. And both genders seem to get many people who want to befriend the streamer to their friendlist though probably for much different reasons.
In a way, Cod is the new Quake/UT of a new generation, it’s all about running around shooting everything you see, with DM/TDM being one of the most played variations.
Becoming
1878
Except it has all the spazz, but none of the movement, map control, or weaponry skills required. I played the Blops 2 free weekend and literally just put perks into movement and smg with laser sights and became a Rambo-tard machine hipshooting my way to the top every time.
Instead of a skillfully cooked meal, it was like binging on cheatos, complete with the self loathing afterwards.
But then when you have such terrible maps all you can really do is camp a corner for all you’re worth or just run like your ass is on fire and your head is catching.
TurinTur
1879
In general terms, for the mainstream players, not like both need the same skills :P
KevinC
1880
I agree with Becoming, that’s my fundamental problem with CoD. If you’re going to have gameplay that’s just about Rambo-ing around and spraying bullets like an idiot, at least make it interesting. Unreal Tournament had tons of mods (I’m not referring to user content, I’m talking about stuff like tweaking gravity), guns had multiple fire modes and behaved very differently: flak cannons and goo guns and ricocheting razors around corners to decapitate people with, etc. I was playing this in 1999 and if I’m not mistaken UT even came out on the PS2. Fast forward 13 years and everything interesting has been stripped out, leaving nothing but mindlessly racing through maps and laying on a trigger.
