IMPORTANT Feature Request: Disable Global Chat

I assume your child is not be supervised while playing the game? If he was you obviously wouldn't have any problem with there being a public chat, as you would be watching over him. Seeing as your child (or anybody else who is playing the game) is on either an Ipod, Iphone, Ipad, or android devise, the have unlimited access to the internet, and a million other ways to talk with "strangers". If you can't control your son enough to have him not access public chat, but allow him to have unlimited access, unsupervised, of the internet, then there might be something wrong, but that isn't really on topic. Public chat has report, and ignore features, which is honestly more then most online games, I think Supercell has done a great job making Public chat, and Clash a very safe place, that is doubled if your child is 13+, and smart enough to not give out personal information to random people, or to simply ignore Public chat, which is what I do most of the time.

You asked one of the other posters on this thread if he/she was a parent, I will tell you right now that I am not a parent, but this doesn't discount any of my above points. I feel very protective to some people, who I allow to play this game at my house (my nephew and niece for example) they are over at my house quite often, and I am very pleased with how SC has made public chat very safe, and not mandatory. Nobody HAS to use it, and even if they did, there is almost 0 negative content on there.

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Originally Posted by LOBPeterTheGreat

Your responses.

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Even young people can be really formal, we have to do it in school!:rolleyes: (Get owned):cool:

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Originally Posted by MormonJudy

I assume your child is not be supervised while playing the game? If he was you obviously wouldn't have any problem with there being a public chat, as you would be watching over him. Seeing as your child (or anybody else who is playing the game) is on either an Ipod, Iphone, Ipad, or android devise, the have unlimited access to the internet, and a million other ways to talk with "strangers". If you can't control your son enough to have him not access public chat, but allow him to have unlimited access, unsupervised, of the internet, then there might be something wrong, but that isn't really on topic. Public chat has report, and ignore features, which is honestly more then most online games, I think Supercell has done a great job making Public chat, and Clash a very safe place, that is doubled if your child is 13+, and smart enough to not give out personal information to random people, or to simply ignore Public chat, which is what I do most of the time.

You asked one of the other posters on this thread if he/she was a parent, I will tell you right now that I am not a parent, but this doesn't discount any of my above points. I feel very protective to some people, who I allow to play this game at my house (my nephew and niece for example) they are over at my house quite often, and I am very pleased with how SC has made public chat very safe, and not mandatory. Nobody HAS to use it, and even if they did, there is almost 0 negative content on there.

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Thanks for joining the discussion! My son is partially supervised. In other words, sometimes he's playing with me and sometimes by himself. Thankfully, Apple has several parental controls for their devices. So just to clarify, *no*, he does not have unlimited access to the internet. In fact, his iPad is on lock-down from the internet...for his safety of course.

I just thought this would be an easy feature that would put many parents mind at ease. I am glad the Global Chat has some features in place right now to report, but that's not the point of my request. My request is to disable it all together. I know other parents would agree and be thankful.

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Originally Posted by UltraDragonMaster

Even young people can be really formal, we have to do it in school!:rolleyes: (Get owned):cool:

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Young people are very smart, yes! But, generally, young people have no idea what it is like to be a parent. You won't know what it is like until you are one.

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Originally Posted by LOBPeterTheGreat

My son and I love playing the game together. However, I DO NOT want him talking to strangers or even seeing what strangers are saying. Most parents would agree. PLEASE provide a way to disable Global Chat ASAP.

Thanks for a great game!

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As a teen myself, I understand why u want the global chat to have the capability of being disabled. But really, I don't mean any disrespect by this, but what do u think is going to happen if it gets a disable function? Your child is probably smart enough to learn how to turn it back on. They could however create parental functions that include a password, but that's not likely going to be initiated. I do think that there should be more safeguards against the creepers on global. Like it's been said, the chat is for clan recruitment and discussion about the game...there shouldn't be much if any drama and immature behavior. I don't personally have any suggestions that could be implemented without being abused, but somebody needs to be working on how to make the global chat a safer, and more productive place. Sure people can have a little fun, but people shouldn't be able to get away with asking random strangers where they live or to give their email addresses for the world to see.

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Originally Posted by LOBPeterTheGreat

Thanks for joining the discussion! My son is partially supervised. In other words, sometimes he's playing with me and sometimes by himself. Thankfully, Apple has several parental controls for their devices. So just to clarify, *no*, he does not have unlimited access to the internet. In fact, his iPad is on lock-down from the internet...for his safety of course.

I just thought this would be an easy feature that would put many parents mind at ease. I am glad the Global Chat has some features in place right now to report, but that's not the point of my request. My request is to disable it all together. I know other parents would agree and be thankful.

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I believe that nobody "wouldn't" like this feature, because it doesn't effect you in anyway if you don't use it, it could just be a checkmark box in settings. That would be very simple (I think) for SC to implement, however a feature that created a whole new "parental controls" type of feature could get very complex. From SC's standpoint, we have to think, how much time, and now many resources would it require to create this feature, and how much money would our company generate because of that feature. Unfortunately for parents who care to be slightly more "protective" then other parents, SC would not generate very much income from a parental control feature. Think about it, you yourself allow your son to play even though there is public chat. SC would have to figure out how many people DON'T play the game BECAUSE of public chat, and out of those people how many would buy in-app items and then they would probably judge that from a business stand point it wouldn't be worth if for them.

Considering a five-year old was able to ♥♥♥♥ into his dad's xbox one account, any teenager should be able to ♥♥♥♥ into this feature. I say teach your son about the danger of talking to strangers, and if you catch him on global, reprimand him. Depending on the maturity of you son, you could even let him be on global. When an adult see's something offensive on global A. He reports and mutes the offender or B. He gets off ASAP. If your son is mature, he would do the same.

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Originally Posted by LOBPeterTheGreat

Young people are very smart, yes! But, generally, young people have no idea what it is like to be a parent. You won't know what it is like until you are one.

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I may not be a parent, but I act like a parent.

I may be very young, that can shock you for the way i respond. But you will never know.

I could be smart, or dumb.

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Originally Posted by matthewe

I may not be a parent, but I act like a parent.

I may be very young, that can shock you for the way i respond. But you will never know.

I could be smart, or dumb.

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Or both.

Dumb means you can't speak.

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Originally Posted by shivampaw

Or both.

Dumb means you can't speak.

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I use Dumb for being stupid and missing the obvious..


I'm sure I can speak.