Avatars only to be used in family friendly games

Posted Aug 5th 2008 4:00PM by Dustin Burg
Filed under: News

As Microsoft figures out their game plan for how they're going to implement Avatars into the Xbox 360 community beginning this Fall, we're receiving a steady trickle of news surrounding their Avatar decisions. Most recently, Microsoft's Eric Kilgore confirmed with Develop that Avatars will only be allowed to be used in ESRB rated E10+ games which are seen as non-violent, family friendly games. So, we won't be seeing Avatars taking over our Gears or GTAIV worlds which, admittedly, is okily okay with us. Kilgore did say that their E10+ Avatar policy could change in the future depending on how things work out, but again, Microsoft's Avatar game plan has yet to be fully fleshed out.

[Thanks, DCB and SS1029]

Tags: avatar, avatars, fall-update

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8-05-2008 @ 4:04PM

Apeezee said...

I think that this is a GREAT idea. Cause i think avatars are not useful for the mature (21+) gamer. So keeping them exclusive in games geared toward younger audiences will keep me happy.

8-05-2008 @ 4:09PM

Neuromancer said...

...Said the cat wearing the bowtie.

;)

8-05-2008 @ 4:10PM

Apeezee said...

Hahahaha, touche teacher!

8-05-2008 @ 4:12PM

VPhoenix said...

Agreed. It would be simply bizarre for these avatars to be popping up in M-rated games anyway.

8-06-2008 @ 4:41AM

bboston7 said...

It would be fun to mess up my avatars face in GTA. I would use Niko's full arsenal on it.

8-05-2008 @ 4:15PM

Manvir (El Homer) said...

8-05-2008 @ 4:17PM

Shashwat said...

Avatars are incredibly stupid. Nobody would want to be seen playing Gears of War 2 with their avatar. Their ugliness demands that they be killed with fire and rocketed out to space.

8-05-2008 @ 5:30PM

joey said...

At the very least, chainsaw one.

8-05-2008 @ 4:17PM

e.Missark said...

O for f$cks sake! Here I was thinking I could shoot my avatar to death and watch its little cartoony ass bleed on the ground while I chainsaw another avatar.

DOH!

8-05-2008 @ 4:18PM

Magic Whiskey said...

Think about how disturbing it'd be to see a Mii-like avatar in a Gears of War game with a Lancer. That'd freak me out much more than a Locust..

..same with the Muppets.

8-05-2008 @ 4:51PM

ZEBRA NINER said...

Muppet Swedish chef is the scariest... HE DOESN'T HAVE EYES!!!

8-05-2008 @ 4:18PM

andyg8180 said...

i was hoping to teabag a couple people....

ahhh welll

8-05-2008 @ 4:33PM

Toby said...

I want Cog armor for my avatar =(

8-05-2008 @ 4:52PM

Timur Tabi said...

I'm confused. How would an avatar integrate into these games? Would the avatar literally appear as a playable character in the games?

8-05-2008 @ 5:06PM

jkdoug said...

See: Wii Sports

8-05-2008 @ 5:06PM

Apeezee said...

It could be incorporated in a number of ways, terrifying ways. But it would seem that they are going to keep it to board games and such. The Wii incorporated their Mii's into the actual game play, so it wouldn't be too much of a stretch for xbox to do it. I just don't wanna see it in my games. :)

8-05-2008 @ 4:53PM

Jonah Falcon said...

Rats. I wanted to see an Avatar being blown to blood bits in Left 4 Dead. Or have Niko see a Gwen Stefani Avatar and have a little hot coffee with her.

8-05-2008 @ 5:21PM

Dirty said...

No hot coffee avatar edition?

8-05-2008 @ 6:22PM

Robert Aitchison said...

I know that AO games in general are just this side of theoretical but seriously the idea of an AO game that uses the Avatars sounds reeeeeallly interesting :)

8-05-2008 @ 6:26PM

Eddie said...

I'm with the rest of you. I wanted to perform unspeakable, unholy and inhuman acts against my own Avatard or those belonging to and bearing the likeness of my friends and enemies.

This is officially Avatarded. And so help me MS, if I can't customize my Avatard to look like a 12 year old Malaysian boy... there will be Hell. Toupe.

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