Chat System Anomalies - Disecting the flaws.

[Edward Edgemenace]

Originally Posted by Captain Sureshot

Well, what I said was that it was "perfect for a game geared toward 8-12 year old children" so I will stand by my statement.
EE, you are confusing the game's voluntary ESRB rating with whom Disney is targeting the game to.

Perhaps you misread what I wrote? Regardless, it is far from perfect, for 8-12 year old children, or anyone.

You specifically stated you never have "much trouble" working around the system, yet you don't use the speed chat (supposedly that you say that Disney says is the target audience of ONE survey commissioned by a new and clearly misguided team) that you also claim to be perfect, despite routinely not using it (perhaps never?)

And yes, you would be shocked to learn how many complete lines of your text are simply not sent at all to other open chat recipients (despite every indication to you that it is sent) even when there are no italicized words, nor any comment in the removed text that is not completely innocent and directly game related.

To fix the problem, the development team can issue a series of warnings to the sender, or issue warnings to the message recipients, or issue both warnings and the text, or flag the conversation for moderator review (auto-report) or any combination of those actions. Simply removing the game-relevant text silently, harms the game overall.

Obviously, this tactic is not in any way geared towards protecting minors. Technically, they do have the mechanism to save chat logs server side. Some text can occasionally be found in the client-side game logs. From a technical standpoint, client-side logs are comparatively very simple and lightweight. And yet, no provision is made for the easiest of logs - a timestamped client side text log of chat. Nor is any variation of it, available. This particular design choice is not a feature to protect children or even Disney - it is a feature to protect lawyers.

That is not a system that is "perfect for a game geared toward 8-12 year old children" at all. You yourself concluded "they earn a fail" and I certainly agree with that.