Non-Disney Online Games Virtual Family Kingdom Thread

[TinkPinkPoem]

Well, lets say the word "one" is in adult vocab but not childs.
So adults can say "I'll take one" and other adults will see it as just that but children will see it as "I'll take ###"
This is how it was on a game I played a while back and was nice because the adults that played could actually carry on a normal conversation. I am not saying that it is going to allow a vulgar dictionary, just a more liberal one.

Thank you for making it clear for me, because I couldn't think of way..I'm a little tired at the moment!

 

[DaffyPluto]

Supposedly it will work this way, but I can't help but to wonder: Won't kids stumble upon people with a much broader dictionary in game? They can't just stop players with the extra chat option from wandering around..

And while the kids thankfully won't be able to give out any personal information or such, imagine all the things they may witness being said by some of those with "priviliged" chat.

I don't know how this will work.

Maybe if they have servers just for kids!

I for one am not happy about the ability to losen up the chat. What is it that us parents are worried about anyway? It not that our kids find a friend their own age thousands of miles away and tell them how to contact them on their instant messanger. Really what we are worried about is the predators out there, that we know for sure, are out there lurking about in these games trying to lure our kids into harms way.

Also we are trying to promote a ideal of personal information is not to be shared at any cost, between anyone at anytime by our kids. If kids see people with the freedom to do this they will want this for themselves and then, poof, there goes the ideal situation out the window.

For me the perfect situation would be a seperate space or place where adults only were allowed. Where we could sit at our machines and chat with other adults and have a drink and talk about adult things. In the game however all chat should be limited to kid appropriate conversations period. IMHO

 

[disvaclub92]

So I think the "normal" family type controls will be in effect for everyone but the ability to "losen" the controlls will be available to paying (Adult) customers.

I see your point, but if that was the case the "normal" family controls should have been in place once it was released to the public. I have seen alot of personal info given out in the short timespan it has been up.

 

[debbi801]

Well, it appears to be up. But, when I got in, I was in single user mode: couldn't talk and did not see another soul. I also still don't have my "day one" shirt.

 

[lizbeth374]

I for one am not happy about the ability to losen up the chat. What is it that us parents are worried about anyway? It not that our kids find a friend their own age thousands of miles away and tell them how to contact them on their instant messanger. Really what we are worried about is the predators out there, that we know for sure, are out there lurking about in these games trying to lure our kids into harms way.

Also we are trying to promote a ideal of personal information is not to be shared at any cost, between anyone at anytime by our kids. If kids see people with the freedom to do this they will want this for themselves and then, poof, there goes the ideal situation out the window.

For me the perfect situation would be a seperate space or place where adults only were allowed. Where we could sit at our machines and chat with other adults and have a drink and talk about adult things. In the game however all chat should be limited to kid appropriate conversations period. IMHO

I agree

 

[wenyeva]

People seem to be overreacting to such a small comment. Why not wait and see what was really meant before getting upset? I am pretty certain they didn't mean that all parental options would be pay to use, once the time comes. That wouldn't make any sense. It was probably just a poorly-phrased sentence.

I think that any pay options are a long ways off at this point anyway. They will have them, but it's not going to be today or tomorrow.

And the game is so primitive for the moment that parents of young children probably shouldn't let their kids log in unsupervised yet. Supervised is probably fine -- I actually haven't seen anything bad on there yet, and there's no personal messaging, so anything people say is going to be out in the open anyway. (The worst thing I've seen on VFK so far was someone spamming the room so no one else could get a word in. But their spam wasn't anything offensive, it was just the same word repeated over and over.)

This is not a bad thing -- we are seeing a lot of the development process publicly and being a more active part of testing than many users of other games get to be. That's fun. But it's not finished and so people who are protective of their children should keep that in mind.

I don't have kids and I am an adult, so for me it's fine. I am enjoying seeing things grow and improve as quickly as they are, and I wish people would be less negative about every trickle of information that comes out.

Now... regarding the Beta shirts... I logged in last night, and it was single-player mode, and version 8a was up. I started playing around with changing my clothes, and the beta shirt was available to me:

I started walking around and ran into the bugs I mentioned earlier, with having two hairstyles at once and even two bodies!

Then I reloaded, the game was back to 5a, and I couldn't change clothes anymore. But I still had my new look.

Then I reloaded again and the game said 8a again, and this time it was multi-player! And everyone started asking me about the shirt. I looked in my inventory and found... no Beta shirt. I still had it on, but apparently for some reason the shirt was out of the game.

So I think no one can get the beta shirt at the moment (unless it changes in 9a today), and that I only got it because I was lucky enough to log in right when the version of the game that allows it was running. Then they took it back down. I am sure everyone else will get their Beta shirts eventually. (They *should* say Alpha, though...) I'm afraid that if I take the shirt off I won't get it back!

 

[Dreamytime]

Well I got in - No Day 1 Shirt and no title for me.
But my boy account, Alias and his girl account and NeoPiratePrecious and Ezmi
all are titled - no shirt on any of them btw.


So I'm still Guest10667.

 

[OneLittleSpark]

Woot! I'm now officially SoupDragon!!

 

[thesupersmartguy]

Nice to see the game up and working, hope to see you all there.

 

[cteddiesgirl]

When I read the post about the pay to play and parental controlls I read it differently than all of you I think.

HOPEFULLY, what Sarah was saying is that if you PAY to play the game you have MORE control over Parental controls. Anotherwords if you are an adult playing, you can turn on and off a language filter to have a broader dictionary.
The only safe way to have this feature WOULD be a Pay to play because a Credit card varifies that the player in control of the account and parental controls is over 18.

So I think the "normal" family type controls will be in effect for everyone but the ability to "losen" the controlls will be available to paying (Adult) customers.

And I truly hope that this is what was meant. It would be in their own best interests.

 

[the_jedi_master]

Should I complain? I'm still Guest148!

 

[curlee-Q]

Woot im curlee-Q now

 

[goldengourd]

Should I complain? I'm still Guest148!

I know how you feel, I'm still a guest too. Guest1523. Sigh.

 

[Disneychick74]

I see your point, but if that was the case the "normal" family controls should have been in place once it was released to the public. I have seen alot of personal info given out in the short timespan it has been up.

I agree, they should have either made an age limit for beta testers to get the more "mature" crowd in or had the proper parental controls in place,
The other annoying thing is the wa people can spam chat, like 3 rows of Exclamation points lol VFK needs typing tickets!! lol

 

[wdwdreamin]

I just logged in real quick from work and I have my name!! I'm officially wdwdreamin--hope to run into some you later on tonight.

ETA--No beta shirt for me either though.

 

[OneLittleSpark]

Woot! I'm now friends with Littlebelle! That is you Belle, isn't it? If not I've just befriended a complete stranger

 

[WWEDUDE]

Why do guys get mullets and Zac Effron hair?

 

[Belle1997]

Woot! I'm now friends with Littlebelle! That is you Belle, isn't it? If not I've just befriended a complete stranger

Hi there yes it was stop in for a quick 5 minutes saw you there click friend request viola that simple It was my drive by friends making before I got back to work

Will be on more tonight

 

[Dagny]

I logged in, my name is approved but not beta shirt for me either

 

[tofubeast]

VFK_Dragon said the Beta shirts will be in our inventory when Beta is over