help please son is distraught.

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I had two accounts banned and one xbox back in the day! Didn't surprise me since I knew what I was doing. There is a way of getting the gold transferred to another account, just give it a google ;)
 
It doesn't surprise me that 10yr olds are now "hacking". Console community especially on COD is truly soul destroying.

Although this could be a case as others have suggested of badcompany using his son to shield what he's been doing lol after someone posted that other thread.
 
Suarez7 said:
It doesn't surprise me that 10yr olds are now "hacking". Console community especially on COD is truly soul destroying.

Although this could be a case as others have suggested of badcompany using his son to shield what he's been doing lol after someone posted that other thread.
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I can't stand cod and would not let him have it even though all his mates had it but he mum went and got it for him. (We are not together and he lives with me)
 
badcompany said:
I can't stand cod and would not let him have it even though all his mates had it but he mum went and got it for him. (We are not together and he lives with me)
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Meh, regardless of if you are shielding or not, just keen to know the details that's all.

Not that I intend to backseat parent or anything ... BUT: Perhaps restricting your sons online presence (as he is only 10 years old) might be worthwhile and employing a "my roof, my rules" policy.

If you didn't want your son to play such a game, regardless of who bought it for him, you should have just confiscated it.

Either way, let us know the real reason behind the ban, so other, possibly unsuspecting XBL users, don't endure the same fate.
 
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Quite happy for him to be offline for a few weeks might teach him a valuable lesson.
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Go online on COD and play a few matches, it will teach you the kind of things your son will be hearing from other players, swearing galore and people shouting extreme stuff when they get killed in rage. It's really not a game for a 10yr old, I suppose you could turn the mic receive volume off though so he can't hear any of that.
 
DAIR said:
Why not for about 5 years?
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Have to agree with DAIR

I don't mean to crap on your parenting choices mate, but at ten years old his attention should be focused elsewhere. Reading, writing, heck even watching documentaries on nature etc. would be more beneficial for him.

My misses is a primary school teacher in a fairly bad area. If the kids parents enforced rules on playing games, and balance school work and education as a priority over fun pastimes (which are arguably above his age limit) I am certain it would make a drastic change to a lot of things.

I may have just opened a can of worms and derailed a little, but I stand by my points.

Again I also know nothing about your situation so the above points are not aimed directly at you. For all I know you could be a great parent. However, if it was me, letting my ten year old play COD, AND play online, is not something I would allow for various reasons.
 
I don't think you have to be a parent to know that games like this attract all sorts on line. The game itself is violent and on top of that the child is being exposed to the mature language
 
I must admit, knowing the XBL community like I do, and especially the COD one, I wouldn't let any of my kids access that until at least 14/15.

Although I guess that's a whole side issue for discussion in another thread.
 
Wouldn't have thought that a game that is what? 16+ be suitable for a 10 year old. However, my dad used to let me play or what films that were meant for an older audience when I was younger and I'm ok (although, what was an 18 then, might not be an 18 now), so it's a bit of a catch 22.

However, I think the main thing to take away from this is that he hopefully learns a lesson that breaking the rules is bad :), don't be too hard on the kid.

Also get the poor kid a PlayStation 4! Not an Xbox One :p.
 
So have you used the resources provided in my second post to find out what type of ban there is and also have you posted on the official forum to find out why he was banned?

Or is ignorance bliss? :p
 
Tummy said:
Wouldn't have thought that a game that is what? 16+ be suitable for a 10 year old. However, my dad used to let me play or what films that were meant for an older audience when I was younger and I'm ok (although, what was an 18 then, might not be an 18 now), so it's a bit of a catch 22.
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I'd agree with that, my parents used to let me watch 18 films at that age but that was stuff like Aliens, Terminator, etc and we were quite aware it wasn't real.

The language and attitudes in online gaming (COD especially) isn't something I'd be comfortable with a typical 10 year old being exposed to. It's not only full of swearing but racism, sexism, homophobia and a 10 year old is unlikely to be able to distinguish that those views are often coming from immature "kids" raging at being quickscoped rather than being how a normal person talks/reacts.

It's certainly a hard balance, when I was 10 if you were talking about multiplayer gaming it meant having your mates over to play mario kart and borrowing your parents' TV and I'd have no issue with a 10 year old doing that today. But online gaming is how most of us play with people we know nowadays and we get exposed to people we don't know and the anonymity makes people say things they'd never say in person and often just for a reaction either to vent frustration or "just for kicks".
 
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