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I thought this game was for 13+?
« on: January 07, 2014, 03:01:35 am »
Has anyone else realized that some players in Feral Heart are like...younger kids? I just checked the forums rules and it says (and I quote), "This is a game aimed for kids 13+".... Considering I've seen 9 year olds playing this game, I have a friend online who is 11, and I saw a YouTube channel of a little girl playing, I was just wondering...

Why are there so many young people in FH? I was just curious because there is no way I'm seeing a bunch of players character names that aren't capitalized, or spelling words completely wrong (and then everyone talking about how "illiterate" they are)... Not that they're all like that I mean, but the ones who are make it kind of obvious in my mind ._.

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Re: I thought this game was for 13+?
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2014, 03:12:55 am »
I see what you mean, but many different aged people log on to the game. It is "aimed" at 13+. But people join any-ways. Since they are younger, they are bound to be not as experienced with being literate, etc... Anyways, to sum it up, I am guessing it is only ''aimed at 13+'', ''not has to be 13+.''

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Re: I thought this game was for 13+?
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2014, 04:15:35 am »
Well it's kind of hard to enforce a rule like that since people can pretty much lie about their age to register here and many other places. It's not like we can ask for ID here so it's impossible for us to really cut down on the number of young kids that might join. In all honesty though the age restriction I believe is more of a warning and a statement to parents of under age kids coming on and using this game but a also because there are some age restrictions for certain countries with sites like this one. If the game is stated to be for 13+ and some young kid comes on here and by some chance reads something inappropriate for their age we warned them so it's not like parents can say "but my child etc etc"... There's a rule written. If you decide to break it do it at your own expense. While we do try to keep the conversations and behavior as clean as possible on here there will always be those who think breaking rules is cool and pose a hazard to innocent & impressionable young minds.
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Re: I thought this game was for 13+?
« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2014, 07:37:27 am »
No place on the internet is really a "no child zone" since really kids can lie about there age to get access to any account. Mods can only do so much for the game when parents are letting 9 year olds freely go onto the internet without any supervision. The best things that staff can do to at least mellow out these odds are to just make things as friendly as possible so at least the majority of the people are happy.
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Re: I thought this game was for 13+?
« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2014, 09:01:48 am »
So am I in trouble then? I'm 12. Not to mention when I read the rules before joining two years ago, there was no rule about age. e.e and despite my age, I am a literate roleplayer.
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Re: I thought this game was for 13+?
« Reply #5 on: January 07, 2014, 03:22:42 pm »
I am younger than the age limit says, but like Feareh said, it's impossible to have a no child zone on the interwebz. I suppose it really depends on whether this young induvisual is comfortable seeing words like "crap" or "sexy/smexy". It's between them and their parents, really.

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Re: I thought this game was for 13+?
« Reply #6 on: January 07, 2014, 03:31:46 pm »
Alright. -innocently flails hands up- XD
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Re: I thought this game was for 13+?
« Reply #7 on: January 07, 2014, 10:30:59 pm »
Like the others have said, the whole thing about this game being 13+ is a recommendation and not a requirement. Even if this website and game is reccomended and intended for people 13 and older, there will always be the youngins who will be drawn to play a game that involves animals that they would want to join in on the fun too.

You could say this site is like a PG-13 movie. You can expect to see players who are slightly younger in the audience. I've been to movie theaters to see movies that were rated PG-13... and for good reasons too. In the audience were some kids that were as young as 6. The only reason they got into a PG-13 movie was because they had their parents there with them. With some of the movies we were watching, it made me wonder what the parents were thinking to bring their 6 or 7 year old to come see a movie that had content unsutable for kids their age. "Nice way to traumatize you kid, woman..." is what I want to say, but I can't tell people how to raise their kids.

Getting back on subject now... Feareh stated a good point when she said that no place on the internet is really a "no child zone". And she's right. Kids can lie about their age to get onto any site they want to. Nobody can really stop a child from logging onto a porn site, violent shooting game site, or any other adult site, now can they? The internet is a dangerous place for kids. The only people who can do anything about what their kids do online are the parents. Parental controls and website blocking is one alternative parents try, but even then Junior can go to his little buddy's house to view sites Mommy and Daddy restricted in their house internet server. Or there are some parents that just don't give a rats behind about what their kids get into or do online. It's the sad truth...

So when it comes to enforcing an age limit on FH, or any other site, there's really nothing anyone can do to stop little children under 13 from logging on or becoming members. Besides, there are some children under 13 who have proved themselves to be good members of the Feral Heart community. I would know, because I have some roleplaying friends who are pre-teens and they behave just fine. And then there are others who really have no business here, since they've proved to be nothing but trouble.

So that's all I have to say about the subject.
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Re: I thought this game was for 13+?
« Reply #8 on: January 08, 2014, 12:02:43 am »
What bugs me most about kids entering the game is that there, of course, is always going to be that rule breaker who could care less about innocent little kids' minds. Obviously, those trolls all seem to gather up at once place, and we all know that as Bonfire. And that's where most little kids go to because (this is what I think, it may not be true) they're probably still learning how to spell etc so Bonfire is probably the only place they can rp without being called an illiterate n00b.

Back on topic, with all these trolls entering Bonfire, it really bothers me when people behave inappropriately and/or cuss. I mean, the youngest age I've ever seen on FH is six; yes, six. That's either a kindergartener or a first grader. I'm sure we can all agree when I say that a first grader doesn't need to know every swear word out there, nor do they need to know what sex/rape is.

Being over the age limit, I already know about these things and it doesn't bother me much at all. Sometimes I hang around Bonfire just to "patrol" and/or stalk neons just because I know that kids don't need to know these things, being the considerate person I am. (Or at least that's what my real-life friends say. xD) Sometimes I might see someone say sh!t, or something along those lines. Not anything too bad, but usually I'll whisper these people and say something like, "Please be careful with what you say. There are elementary school kids who play this game." More often then not I get a response like, "this game is for people at least 13 years old, u noob. i dont even care about little kids." After that I block the person (just it case it ends up causing more trouble), but I always end up thinking, "there is no age limit on the internet. Kids can lie."
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Re: I thought this game was for 13+?
« Reply #9 on: January 08, 2014, 12:13:36 am »
I'm sure we can all agree when I say that a first grader doesn't need to know every swear word out there, nor do they need to know what sex/rape is.

 Sometimes I might see someone say sh!t, or something along those lines. Not anything too bad, but usually I'll whisper these people and say something like, "Please be careful with what you say. There are elementary school kids who play this game." More often then not I get a response like, "this game is for people at least 13 years old, u noob. i dont even care about little kids." After that I block the person (just it case it ends up causing more trouble)


When it comes to people like that, there really is no point in talking to them about the rules. They clearly have no respect for the rules, for the younger players, or the people who try to warn them about watching what they say. I've tried reminding someone in game once, but they pretty much told me, "You're not the boss of me" kind of attitude. So I took a bunch of screenshots of their bad language behavior, sent the screenshots to a mod, and never heard from that rule-breaker ever again. So instead of wasting your time trying to lecture these rule-breakers about the game rules and the fact of little kids playing the game, it would be easier to take screenshots and send them to a moderator.
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