Xbox Live Internet Thugs

[Ayepecks]

So two days ago I was playing Gears of War 2 online. It was Guardian, and I was the last guy alive on my team with 3 guys left on the other team, both leaders dead. I stayed holed up hoping to get a stalemate and was seconds from doing it, and I killed one of their guys in the process with a grenade placement. The two others flanked me and I fired a Torque Bow shot to hopefully distract them from getting closer (again, seconds away). It worked, but one had the Boomshot and fired it up in the building (on River) and killed me.

The entire time, however, some guy on my team (vI STRYKER Iv) was just harassing me and telling me how much I suck instead of helping me out with the ghost cam. So the game ends, and the entire time he's going off "you f******* suck, I'm going to kill you, your parents, ..." and so on. Then after the game he sends me a message saying he hopes I kill myself, how much I suck, and goes on and on with profanity for about 15 or 20 seconds.

I responded to him saying he died and I didn't, so maybe he wasn't that much better than me (I scored better than him, too), so he responds again with profanity. And then again with profanity after I try to get him to stop messaging me. I filed a complaint with Microsoft on Xbox Live (for online harassment through voice messages), but I honestly doubt they're going to do anything. I would post the messages to show you how vulgar they are, but they can only be heard over Xbox Live.

Anyone ever had a problem similar to this? How'd you go about telling Microsoft?

[Sethos]

yeah, tried this plenty of times! I usually just laugh and block communication :) Just funny how the majority of these kids hang around games like Gears of War and Halo or at least, that is where I've seen the most of them. I can't be bothered reporting them because I hate wasting my time on something where i can't follow the process or see if anything happens.

[SMELTN]

Happens all the time now, not just with Live, but with every online game/voice chat/ etc... Nothing you can do about it, and reporting them won't stop it. Other's will take his place and do it as well.. It's one of the biggest problems with Online social interaction now a days, people are behind the mic, or the screen, so they can act how they want to, without any repercussions.

[FreqFace]

Wow do people seriously care that much about games that they wish death upon others who beat them? That's just pathetic.

[what]

Happens more than it should, but there's not much you can do. Until you can get everyone's name and contact details there will always be people who abuse anonymity over XBL.

[Sethos]

Happens more than it should, but there's not much you can do. Until you can get everyone's name and contact details there will always be people who abuse anonymity over XBL the Internet.

Fixed that for ya' ;)

[Brad.]

I hate kids like that. Seriously ****s me off and ruins the game.

Had a 11 year on Gears 2 yesterday, the **** coming from his mouth was unbelievable!

But saying that, my brother is as bad as you've explained. One day I'll get him in a CoD or Gears 2 match with some of you guys to witness it. It's embarrassing.

[ozgeek]

I wish talking on online games is banned. I am deaf and all I hear from playing on Halo 3 is all gibberish and they distract me from the game. That is why I mute but why won't it remember the settings. Everytime I go online Halo 3, I have to go to Settings > Voice Communications > Mute.

[GNRambo]

I wish talking on online games is banned. I am deaf and all I hear from playing on Halo 3 is all gibberish and they distract me from the game. That is why I mute but why won't it remember the settings. Everytime I go online Halo 3, I have to go to Settings > Voice Communications > Mute.

iirc you can disable chat via xbox dashboard. So any game you go on wont have chat.

[Sethos]

You can go to privacy settings and make so you can only hear players on your friends list, ( You can also disable it completely ).

[-Nic-]

That's crazy...but that's also why I usually only game when I have some actual friends on LIVE to play with.

[Vykranth]

This is the reason why I don't play ranked or public games anymore on CoD4, GoW2 or Halo.

There are people who are just plain rude and idiots. I report them and submit feedback on them: these are the only things I can do about it and if it can help get rid of these ********, I am ready to spend time going into menus

One day on Cod4, I played with friends against a team: the members of that team were insulting us with racist and xenophobic comments: when we checked their profiles, we found out that half of their members had 'Code of Conduct' in their profile and the other half had even worse comments compared to what we heard.

It took us 15 minutes but we reported each and every one of them.

[Ayepecks]

A couple of things:

- I don't want to block everyone's communication. Just this person. But how do I block him from contacting me? I've only found how to mute him in-game.

- I know trash talking happens all the time in game... but have you guys really had people send you voice messages over Xbox Live after it occurred?

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

A couple of things:

- I don't want to block everyone's communication. Just this person. But how do I block him from contacting me? I've only found how to mute him in-game.

- I know trash talking happens all the time in game... but have you guys really had people send you voice messages over Xbox Live after it occurred?

Go into his profile and there should be a Block option. I've used it a few times myself.

And no to the second Q.

[Brad.]

A couple of things:

- I don't want to block everyone's communication. Just this person. But how do I block him from contacting me? I've only found how to mute him in-game.

- I know trash talking happens all the time in game... but have you guys really had people send you voice messages over Xbox Live after it occurred?

I have had someone send voice messages to me after games. Mainly demanding a one on one on Halo. So ridiculous. I then play him one on one and win, then he continues.

Then I block him xD

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

Only ever really notice Halo being bad for it, probably due to the popularity.

Sad to hear but, some people are just completely brain dead on the social scale.

On the other side, it's great when you get a good serious group of people in your team - That usually happens best with real people you know though, but can happen with randoms.

Socom has always been good for mature gamers, shame they botched it for release... It's on the road to recovery but LOL :p

I've had great times on TF2 as well with social gamers.

That being said though, every game has it's jackasses, just gotta block/avoid them.

MS/Sony should really come down far harder IMO, start banning accounts and even at the extreme consoles for people's behaviour.

[kalam_]

One of the greatest things about the new update is group chat. I can just form a group chat with my friends and chat with them while ignoring anything else going on in the game. It's a lot nicer than having little 10 and 11 year olds screeching at us.

[Brad.]

One of the greatest things about the new update is group chat. I can just form a group chat with my friends and chat with them while ignoring anything else going on in the game. It's a lot nicer than having little 10 and 11 year olds screeching at us.

I was then gonna say that!

Back in the days of playing cod4 and Halo 3 with friends it was great in private chat, ignoring all the trash talkers but when there was 3+ of us it was really annoying.

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

Reminds me of this image

Censored for Neowin :p

That image seems to apply for message boards and anything you can hide behind a user handle as well.

[Azusa]

So two days ago I was playing Gears of War 2 online. It was Guardian, and I was the last guy alive on my team with 3 guys left on the other team, both leaders dead. I stayed holed up hoping to get a stalemate and was seconds from doing it, and I killed one of their guys in the process with a grenade placement. The two others flanked me and I fired a Torque Bow shot to hopefully distract them from getting closer (again, seconds away). It worked, but one had the Boomshot and fired it up in the building (on River) and killed me.

The entire time, however, some guy on my team (vI STRYKER Iv) was just harassing me and telling me how much I suck instead of helping me out with the ghost cam. So the game ends, and the entire time he's going off "you f******* suck, I'm going to kill you, your parents, ..." and so on. Then after the game he sends me a message saying he hopes I kill myself, how much I suck, and goes on and on with profanity for about 15 or 20 seconds.

I responded to him saying he died and I didn't, so maybe he wasn't that much better than me (I scored better than him, too), so he responds again with profanity. And then again with profanity after I try to get him to stop messaging me. I filed a complaint with Microsoft on Xbox Live (for online harassment through voice messages), but I honestly doubt they're going to do anything. I would post the messages to show you how vulgar they are, but they can only be heard over Xbox Live.

Anyone ever had a problem similar to this? How'd you go about telling Microsoft?

It's a gaming system in a box what do you expect of course you're going to get the dumb ****s using it.

[Huleboeren]

So two days ago I was playing Gears of War 2 online. It was Guardian, and I was the last guy alive on my team with 3 guys left on the other team, both leaders dead. I stayed holed up hoping to get a stalemate and was seconds from doing it, and I killed one of their guys in the process with a grenade placement. The two others flanked me and I fired a Torque Bow shot to hopefully distract them from getting closer (again, seconds away). It worked, but one had the Boomshot and fired it up in the building (on River) and killed me.

The entire time, however, some guy on my team (vI STRYKER Iv) was just harassing me and telling me how much I suck instead of helping me out with the ghost cam. So the game ends, and the entire time he's going off "you f******* suck, I'm going to kill you, your parents, ..." and so on. Then after the game he sends me a message saying he hopes I kill myself, how much I suck, and goes on and on with profanity for about 15 or 20 seconds.

I responded to him saying he died and I didn't, so maybe he wasn't that much better than me (I scored better than him, too), so he responds again with profanity. And then again with profanity after I try to get him to stop messaging me. I filed a complaint with Microsoft on Xbox Live (for online harassment through voice messages), but I honestly doubt they're going to do anything. I would post the messages to show you how vulgar they are, but they can only be heard over Xbox Live.

Anyone ever had a problem similar to this? How'd you go about telling Microsoft?

Haha - youre just as internet thuggish as him :p

Altho I do it myself when playing with friends :rofl:

[Ayepecks]

Huh? Helping someone out with the ghost cam isn't being an "internet thug." It's what most people do in Gears of War 2 to help their teammates. Instead, he sat there insulting me the whole time instead of being constructive and giving me useful information.

[Hoffnungstod]

why does it bug you that much? who cares. kids will be kids, its really not that big of a deal. if something like this bugs you that much how will you deal with bigger problems in life? talking ish is something that just comes with online gaming so get use to it.

[BoJo]

Post his gamertag on /b/. Sorted.

j/k :p

[Ayepecks]

why does it bug you that much? who cares. kids will be kids, its really not that big of a deal. if something like this bugs you that much how will you deal with bigger problems in life? talking ish is something that just comes with online gaming so get use to it.

Kids will be kids? How will I deal with bigger problems in life?

No offense, but you're chastising the wrong person here, especially with your messages. So let's not punish kids for doing stupid crap, because they'll be kids? That's a lame excuse. Bigotry has no place anywhere. And you're honestly telling me to worry about bigger problems in life when people can't even act properly on the Internet? Seems to me like you need to reverse your train of thought there. Why should we not punish people for acting inappropriately on Xbox Live? If they did something like that in real life -- make a "bigger problem" to quote you -- then what happens then?

And this person didn't sound like a kid. At the very least he was 18, which to me signifies he was an adult.

I want to make sure Microsoft is aware of his messages (hence why I'm not deleting them from my account), that's all. I posted the thread to see if anyone knew how it worked, as there are Microsoft employees on Neowin. Nothing more, nothing less.