Avatars only to be used in family friendly games

by Dustin Burg { Aug 5th 2008 at 4:00PM }

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

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Apeezee @ Aug 5th 2008 4:04PM

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.

Neuromancer @ Aug 5th 2008 4:09PM

...Said the cat wearing the bowtie.

;)

Apeezee @ Aug 5th 2008 4:10PM

Hahahaha, touche teacher!

VPhoenix @ Aug 5th 2008 4:12PM

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

bboston7 @ Aug 6th 2008 4:41AM

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

Manvir (El Homer) @ Aug 5th 2008 4:15PM

Shashwat @ Aug 5th 2008 4:17PM

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.

joey @ Aug 5th 2008 5:30PM

At the very least, chainsaw one.

e.Missark @ Aug 5th 2008 4:17PM

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!

Magic Whiskey @ Aug 5th 2008 4:18PM

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.

ZEBRA NINER @ Aug 5th 2008 4:51PM

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

andyg8180 @ Aug 5th 2008 4:18PM

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

ahhh welll

Toby @ Aug 5th 2008 4:33PM

I want Cog armor for my avatar =(

Timur Tabi @ Aug 5th 2008 4:52PM

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

jkdoug @ Aug 5th 2008 5:06PM

See: Wii Sports

Apeezee @ Aug 5th 2008 5:06PM

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. :)

Jonah Falcon @ Aug 5th 2008 4:53PM

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.

Dirty @ Aug 5th 2008 5:21PM

No hot coffee avatar edition?

Robert Aitchison @ Aug 5th 2008 6:22PM

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 :)

Eddie @ Aug 5th 2008 6:26PM

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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