New York to Use Emergency Alerts via XBL, PSN, Wii
Posted by BlindMango on 8:21 AM, Nov 24th, 2009
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New York State is testing a plan that would not only broadcast emergency alerts over television, but online gaming networks as well. “The goal is to reach younger residents who spend more time on the Xbox, PlayStation, or Wii than with television or radio,” stated New York State Deputy CIO Rico Singleton. Singleton adds that the plan makes sense “considering the amount of time our youth spend on video games.” This plan is supposedly in the testing stage at the moment. It will be good to know right away when Niko Bellic is on another rampage.
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good idea, hope this thing comes global and announces any wars between countries, considering i have no idea what countries are at war. anybody know?
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^Lol. Yeah, this is a good idea and will probably gives some children an excuse to stay on their console longer.
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I suppose this is a step in a good direction. I wonder what kind of emergencies they’d report.
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OMG, I seriously hope this isn’t adopted nationally. For those in NY, I hope this goes away. If this is implemented the same way online via consoles as it is TV, it’ll be horrible. Imagine this:
Playing a “BlazBlue” with an opponent of your skill-level, or in a heated firefight in “Call of Duty”, or in the final quarter in a game of “Madden”. You’re just edging-out victory but it’s still anyone’s game. All of a sudden your speakers cut-out and the screen flashes these large red letters across the screen, “[THIS IS A TEST OF THE CONSOLE EMERGENCY BROADCAST SYSTEM. HAD THIS BEEN AN ACTUAL EMERGENCY, YOU WOULD'VE BEEN PROVIDED WITH INSTRUCTIONS ON WHAT TO DO. AGAIN, THIS IS ONLY A TEST. THANK YOU. YOU MAY NOW RETURN TO YOUR GAME]“. Your game cuts back in after the 30sec. interruption. You discover you were easily combo’ed to death in “BlazBlue” without blocking or throwing up a counter; or somone knifed you in “CoD”, you re-spawned, and than they knifed you again for the end-game kill; or the opposing team in “Madden” ran right past you to score a TD and than a 2-point conversion with no resistance.
Wow, I haven’t heard of anything to disrupt gameplay this bad since… glitching. I mean this could be seriously bad. I admit that it’s good to be informed of an impending disaster in order to avert it. I just hope that’s all they use this for if it takes off. No warnings, please!
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@Lord_Orpheo:
Damn, I didn’t think it would be that bad, I was thinking it would be a small alert in the corner of the screen. Thinking about it actually, a small alert in the corner probably wouldn’t suffice for an emergency situation.
If this does indeed happen, it’s likely that there’ll be a roar of complaints and demands that it’s removed, so hopefully we won’t see this happen anywhere else.
Thinking about it, wouldn’t it make more sense to have this in place in LA or Washington, where there’s a chance of earthquakes or potentially active volcanoes. New York doesn’t really seem the type of place that needs it. Unless I’ve misunderstood the intentions of an emergency broadcast, we don’t have anything like that in England
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what is this post to mean what they mean by this
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@DamonTheMoney: yhea i agree with you, if it is an actual disaster that could effect me then yhea i wouldnt mind being shaked on COD but if its a warning then thats just annoying
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