Turn off chat, unsuitable for kids.

[bothered]

I bought this basically for my Grandson who is 9. He loves the worms games. I was alarmed to see the chat window full of obscene messages. After looking through the options I found a profanity filter which almost works but still leaves things like ' I want to suck your ****. Not good enough for me I'm afraid. Is there a way to turn the chat off fully unless he is playing with me or his uncles? If not then I'm afraid I'll be asking for a refund. It's a shame a fun child safe game is spoiled by foul mouthed people and a lack of a 'shut up' button.

[Credipede]

The chat is a big problem in this game, you're right. I'm going to ask the developer if he will add an option to disable the chat completly (even in lobby).

[bothered]

Got a refund, shame really, he would have liked it.

[Admiral Obvious]

The thing is that you've got the entire age spectrum from people that are probably 40 to 50 years old, all the way down to people possibly 4 or 5 years old playing this game.

Combine that with the anonymity that comes along with "Internet", people will say/type the first thing that pops into their brain.

Unfortunately there's no way to mute chat in this game as of yet, but seeing as we are nearing the final stretch, it's very possible in the near future that the features you ask for will be added.

[Wesenater]

there is a profanity filter in the setting though

[Admiral Obvious]

Originally posted by Wesenater:

there is a profanity filter in the setting though

Trust me, it's not good enough. It's just like the FCC in the US. They might bleep out the curse words on a TV show, but we all know what they said.

These TV shows get a higher TV rating primarily due to the presence of the bleeps.

When people circumvent these filters, the problem is exasperated.

In my personal opinion, kids should be kept away from games that have online chat functionally until they are roughly 13 years old. Some games are exceptions, obviously, but for "general public" games, chat should be an optional feature.

[Admiral Obvious]

Well, that was quick.

Lobby chat can be turned off now.

[mimizukari]

"kid friendly" is stretching it, this is a game of mathematics, calculations and then learning them all over again when it comes to wind, it's a game with a high skill cap and while kids can play, I doubt they're the target audience.

[mimizukari]

Originally posted by Admiral Obvious:

Well, that was quick.

Lobby chat can be turned off now.

and yes, looks like that is a thing now.