[FONT=Tahoma, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif]We've been paying so much attention to SOPA that we forgot to look out for the smaller, more annoying versions of ourselves. On January 1, Xbox Live avatars will lose the right to wield new gun-like items. That's right, they can hold flowers and blow bubbles, but heaven forbid one of them pull out a laser blaster or a Gears of War lancer. According to Epic Games' community manager Raczilla's forum post "Starting on Jan. 1, 2012, the Lancer and Hammer-burst avatar items will no longer be available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace. If you’ve purchased the items prior to Jan. 1, you will be reimbursed. A new policy goes into effect for all gun-like avatar items on the Marketplace. [/FONT] What do you all think about XBL removing the weapons from avatars?
Seems pretty daft as gunlike avatars would come from games that use guns. So why would one form be fine but not the other. The only people i can imagine who would want this is people who hate guns and don't want people in their buddy list to be wielding them.... maybe they should toughen up a bit.
Blowing bubbles into peoples eyes is agressive. Ban that item right now! This is silly, MS being overly cautious. I'm wondering whats happened to provoke such an action from them?