IMPORTANT Feature Request: Disable Global Chat

Just as long as your kid knows not to give any personal info away really, you should be fine. I mean come on, giving your age away, who gives a ♥♥♥♥? I'm 12, and honestly my parents tell me "don't talk to strangers." Sure don't talk like face to face with them, but who cares if its on global. They can threaten me, but who cares they can't do anything. What they'll report me? Mute me? I can always end a pic of them threatening to SC and they're banned. Just trust your son, global chat is really just annoying people, good people and recruiters/asking for a clan. The worst I've ever seen in global is people getting inappropriate, and it has only been one person. If he can't be trusted, because he's too young or whatever, don't let him play, if he's smart and can be trusted, just suck it up and trust him. IMO, people really go way too crazy for safety things, like disabling global chat for a kid who knows what he/she is doing. Just my perspective of a 12 year old.

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Originally Posted by matthewe

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


I'm sure I can speak.

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It's also incorrect usage and very derogatory. Just like using "lame" and "gay" to mean objectionable things. I get that people do it all the time, but it doesn't make it right. Instead of using "dumb" for "stupid" why not just use "stupid"?

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Originally Posted by LOBPeterTheGreat

Times have changed, yes. And therefore parenting must evolve too.

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Precisely, and the solution isn't to block or ban access to information because access is virtually unlimited.

You can't raise a child in a bubble so instead one can aim to raise the child to be smart and aware of the surrounding world. Personally I started talking well actually writing with strangers online when I was a teen and now over twenty years later I still do it and tryto educate my kids on what is proper online do's and don'ts.

Otherwise parents would be like the little dutch boy with his fingers in the dam trying to stop the water finding new ways.

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Originally Posted by MormonJudy

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.

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I work for a software company so I am very familiar with Feature Requests. That's why I added this request here. Apparently, not many parents are on the forums :D

Regarding time and resources, SC makes over 2 million bucks per day. I think they are doing ok with time and resources: http://www.forbes.com/sites/karstens...any-supercell/

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Originally Posted by Glaciesvir

You can't raise a child in a bubble so instead one can aim to raise the child to be smart and aware of the surrounding world. Personally I started talking well actually writing with strangers online when I was a teen and now over twenty years later I still do it and tryto educate my kids on what is proper online do's and don'ts.

Otherwise parents would be like the little dutch boy with his fingers in the dam trying to stop the water finding new ways.

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My son is 6 and shouldn't to talk with strangers via video games for a long time.

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Originally Posted by dahimi

Precisely, and the solution isn't to block or ban access to information because access is virtually unlimited.

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Many successful apps and devices support parental controls. This is common standard now because everything has changed.

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Originally Posted by Isaacium

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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I saw that vid, and after seeing that, I can definitely see where you are coming from

I am a parent of two children and it's because of Global and to be honest some Clan chat that I won't let them download and play this game. But that's fine. The App Store is full of games that I believe are much more suitable for kids their age.

Parents everywhere face the same issues regarding protecting their children from dangers on the internet. This discussion really is about where do we draw the line between Game maker's responsibility and Parent's responsibility to help children to stay children.

I've chosen to make it my responsibility for my children, not Supercell's.

kids know more then you think, and even without the internet, the number of 'innocent' is very few. Even with blocking things on the internet or doing this or that prenatal control function they can learn things from their peers.

In the end what others said about "getting with the times" is correct. Having access to global is not a big deal as long as he saying nothing about personal info. This means not answering questions like age or where you live. Maybe general like saying USA? but ya keep it very vague.

As long as he understands not to talk about those things because many are out there to cause harm, there is no issue.