dailymail.co.uk — A mother has described her shock when she found her eight-year-old son learning swear words from Nintendo Scrabble - after she bought the game thinking it would be a fun way for her son to improve his vocabulary. lol
Dec 7, 2008 View in Crawl 4
mrlizardDec 8, 2008
I swear I only clicked the save comment button once. Apparently not....It's Ubisoft's fault I double-posted and Digg's fault for only letting me edit, not delete, a comment. Yeah, that's it!
mrlizardDec 9, 2008
I just got this particular scrabble game. Here are some more facts:1) Junior mode is off by default.2) You set junior mode in your user profile. It's not that easy to find.3) It does say that junior mode is to prevent virtual players from playing offensive words.4) Without using any swear words myself, I set it up for swear words (making words like "hit, "hat," "sh," "lit," or "it."5) It looks like it only uses "offensive" words as a last resort. It was rare for it to place the words down, but it happened. I have no problem letting my son play this, but I really think it deserves at least a "T" so people who don't want their kids playing a game that plays "offensive" words won't buy it for their kids. 3+ and "f**k" just don't go together.
quenlinDec 20, 2008
Political correctness.
bribwk55Dec 26, 2008
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH!!
Closed AccountDec 29, 2008
@subliminalurge - Psychologists have found those practices to be archaic and abusive. Technically you're living in the past, but to each their own.
peanut1972Jan 7, 2009
I can completely understand her shock and outrage. I found out about that cool website family friendly gaming that actually tells people about stuff like this in their reviews. She should have gone there first.