New York State Wants to Put Emergency Alerts in Your Online Games

man made disaster is a bullshit term for terrorist attack.

and it would be odd seeing a alert about a terrorist attack during a game that features terrorist attacks. it may confuse the player about a mission objective lol.

They need to find a replacement for the EXTREMELY LOUD!!!! tv announcements that happen at two in the morning, tell me i am not the only one bothered by that

what is the point of this? i don't mean to sound like a jerk, but i don't want to be playing on my Wii and get interrupted about whatever happened when i can read about it online the next day.

this sounds like a solution to problem that doesnt exist. a answer to a question no one asked.

calm down guys-- these people **most likely** aren't idiots. it probably would only alert you to major events, not the "warning warning FLURRIES TO HIT LANDFALL IN 3 HOURS beep beep beep eerrrrrrrrrrrr" we hear all the time on tv.

1984 - BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING. Not so worried as I am annoyed about the emergency broadcasts, it is a good, if not extremely annoying way (which most people will ignore) to get information out to the younger generation. Hopefully they won't test the system every day. However, who plays most of these games, 8-10 year olds who won't care. Now monitoring of Facebook and Twitter is a terrifying thought, the government should not be monitoring personal pages. The fix to this though, close your social networking accounts, then they can't view them.

I'm with you guys, it sounds terribly annoying and possibly confusing. Plus, as a gamer, you have to wonder what kind of lag this thing may tack onto your game.

Hopefully this idea stays in America and doesn't make it north of the border. :D

how about instead of on our tv's and radio's its in our cell phones. could be less anoying, altho i dont see any need to be warned of an event that has already occured. Not like i can stop an attack thats 10 states away. Scare tactics to kids playing games? who knows. I say leave the gamers alone, Plus useing phones, and phones haveing gps these days, You can warn people remote to the issue instead of everyone in the usa that a ship sank in the ocean.

another government waste of tax payer dollars.

The emergency broadcast during games would hopefully be geared toward those life threatening evac notices such as Tsunami Alerts, Tornadoes, Volcanic Eruption, etc. Things you need to know right now. Of course the problem with that is generally bad weather disrupts your net signal so you won't be online anyway.

As for monitoring of social networks, keep your privacy set to friends only unless a business account. At least then if the FBI is hacking your files you can at least cry violation of rights.

Ultimately I would never tell anyone to delete their account that is just ridiculously short sighted. Parents should be monitoring their kids and most of us have friends who should speak up if we act suicidal. Most of the drama posted now days is just for attention since someone truly suicidal will probably keep it to themselves.

Anyways...the idea of the broadcast is not horrible - all other issues aside - I just think it may be illogical and not really thought out.

no way hosay

I wouldnt mind it as long as they dont have the stupid weekly tests interupting half of every show you watch.

You know what? This has been put in place because someone is jealous of us having the game before them. F**kin jealous government dudes

Do they honestly think a gamer is going to get off their ass to look outside and check.

I'm from Canada so I'm not scared of a Emergency like 9:11, or any shootings etc. I think its stupied if its an emergency and you where gaming and didnt notice the emergency you are to stupied to be alive anyways. Just one mans opinion.

Cheers.
Twisted-FX

i am so happy that i dont live in your country,chaking facebook for suicidal its such a lie haha . its just a way to control you :p poore people that money could be spand to help people so thay dont even thing abaut that. i hope that thay dont do that .

and as a gamer i would probly stop playing becouse of those alarms :)

ps:sorry my english is bad .

good thing im not american

Is that an Itech scope?

Canadians I believe they are talking about orange alerts more importantly than they are talking about real emergencies. My comment was directed at that idea. No avid video gamer is going to leave their video game environment to see if the kidnapped Johnny is outside.