Report: Gun sales to be illegal for Xbox Avatars starting New Year’s Day
Image courtesy Game Rant.
It looks like the Xbox has a New Year’s Resolution in mind for its ubiquitous Avatars, promising to stop its gun addiction. Y’know, for the kids. Joystiq has discovered a post on Epic Games’ forums noting that Gears of War’s “Lancer and Hammerburst avatar items will no longer be available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace,” further explaining that “ anew policy goes into effect for all gun-like avatar items on the Marketplace” on January 1.
We’ve put out word to an Xbox representative to provide further information on the matter, but it’s not outside the realm of thinking that Xbox may be trying to enforce a more family friendly image for Avatars by removing guns from the Avatar Marketplace. On the bright side, if this change does occur, it looks like previously-obtained firearms will remain equippable, as the Epic post notes “If you’ve purchased the items prior to Jan. 1, you will be able to keep them.”
If we hear back from Xbox, we will let you know. In the meantime, does this new potential new Marketplace policy anger you?
SOURCE: Default Lancer and Hammerburst avatar items no longer available on Marketplace on 1/1/2012 [Epic Games Forums]
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DarkSuperior
January 12, 2012 at 9:14am
They should only ban the child account users of Xbox Live from buying it or seeing it and not let the adult users of Xbox Live suffer for their being kids on Xbox Live.
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NBA Kirkland
December 29, 2011 at 5:10pm
What's funny is they don't allow guns but they allow achivement pictures, that are viewable even if you haven't played the game, like this one from Saints Row: The Third (6th one down):http://live.xbox.com/en-US/Activity/Details?titleId=1414596717
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cart00nstrip
December 27, 2011 at 11:37pm
guarf1 brings up a neat option in making weapons adult exclusive (complete with badass poses would be killer) but, otherwise, I don't really have a problem with this; especially since "no weapons" was the rule from the very beginning of the Xbox Avatars program. Other than a few lightsabers, these are really the only weapons available for avatars, and since the animations for these two stink, I'm not gonna miss them much...
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guarf1
December 26, 2011 at 4:09pm
When the avatars first came out with NXE, I really didn't like them. When the avatar marketplace let you customize your avatar with guns, weapons, costumes and accessories it was a lot better from the plain looking options given in the beginning. A few of my friends avatars actually look pretty badass. My avatar has the locust head avatar award from Gears 3 and is wearing a pin striped suit. I was thinking of getting a lancer to complete the package. I find it pretty dumb that they have to completely remove something because it's not appropriate for a minority of players. Can't they just make it so you have to be using an adult account to purchase weapons? That is all.
















