I’ve gotten a lot of feedback from players on the idea of a chat log as a part of parental controls. Some people have had some terrific ideas which we’re going to consider. Some of the emails I’ve received have pointed out “Hey asking someone their age isn’t necessarily a bad thing”… and these people are absolutely correct. In fact, I play in a BF2 clan and we specifically ask that people under 18 not join our Teamspeak chat. There obviously need to be guilds and clans that want to be over 18 only and perhaps have a more M rated chat. I certainly respect that.

A lot of people thought I perhaps overreacted because the only fact I mentioned was that someone had asked her age. Well that isn’t all that happened. This person also asked my 9-year old daughter to be his (and I can only assume it was a guy) “girlfriend”. I’m sure you can understand why I wasn’t so cool with this. Could it have been innocent? Sure.

Hopefully it was.

I’m not about to take that chance though and I’m sure any parent of a 9-year old girl would likely feel similar.

Smed