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Youth gorilla tag - can’t talk/hear others

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My 10 year old can no longer play with others in gorilla tag since the latest update. He only hears monkey sounds, cannot talk or hear others. We have re-set, updated the game. He got a message (3/31/24) when powering on that parental restrictions have been updated by meta but I cannot find anything online supporting that or telling me what has changed.

Has something changed that no longer allows under 13 to play? Is there a way to bypass?

CholeniAnswer

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Hi Khkroeger 🙂

Can my Child communicate with other players?
Children are automatically restricted from communicating with or otherwise making their personal information publicly available to other players. When your Child tries to communicate with other players using voice chat, only monkey noises will be heard by other players. No voice data of your Child is transmitted.

You can find this and other things about parent managed accounts in FAQ on Gorilla tag web page

https://www.gorillatagvr.com/

CholeniAnswer

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Hi Khkroeger 🙂

Can my Child communicate with other players?
Children are automatically restricted from communicating with or otherwise making their personal information publicly available to other players. When your Child tries to communicate with other players using voice chat, only monkey noises will be heard by other players. No voice data of your Child is transmitted.

You can find this and other things about parent managed accounts in FAQ on Gorilla tag web page

https://www.gorillatagvr.com/

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MisterArathi

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And how tf do I change that? Just because some parents are dumb and don't teach internet safety, doesn't mean we all don't.

Choleni

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I'm sure you do teach your children about that.
But unfortunately there is no option to change that.
Children from 10-12 can not communicate in that game.

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Muffins78

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My son who is 12 is very upset about this change and that they can't go into private servers. I teach my son internet safety and I am his parent, not Meta. He once loved this game now he says it is no fun b/c you can't really play with others if you can't communicate with them. I told him he only has a year left to put up with this nonsense.

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MisterArathi

Inspiring

I think there's a major disconnect between how adults perceive time and how children perceive time. When you're 30 plus, a year is nothing.

To a 10-year-old, or a 12-year-old, a year is either a 10th of their entire life, or a 12th. It is significantly more. I don't understand why adults can't seem to grasp that. In one year, they won't be playing gorilla tag. In fact, this change will ensure that the kids that really love it and want to play it, will never play it. The people running gorilla tag, have essentially decided to wipe out the game.

Choleni

Honored Contributor

I understand that your children are upset about this rule, but actually, Gorilla tag is a game for 13+ and on Meta Quest 2,3 and pro 10-12 old kids can use it with restrictions.

https://www.gorillatagvr.com/terms-of-service

What I want to say......if Meta haven't made the parental supervised accounts, your kids were not allowed to play the game at all.

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DiscoTreeMama

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Actually the game is rated E for Everyone. If it is not intended for Everyone change the rating.

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TheoG2011

Up and Coming

True smart person 😎👌

Choleni

Honored Contributor

DiscoTreeMama , MisterArathi

Yes, the store say youth 0 and that definately should be changed.

A lot of trouble could be avoid, if people don't have to search in the terms of service for that information.

4. Children

In accordance with the policies of Meta®, our Games are available to QuestPro, Quest 2, Quest 3, and next-gen headset users at least 10 years of age, and Quest 1 and Rift users at least 13 years of age. In accordance with the policies of Valve®, our Games are available to Steam users at least 13 years of age. If we are notified that you are under the age required by Meta® or Valve®, as applicable, your Account will be banned.

https://www.gorillatagvr.com/terms-of-service

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Friday567

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This monkey sounds only on accounts 12 and under is not helpful. As the parent i am not able to modify any content restrictions i can only allow access and times. Why can I not update chat type based off the maturity of my child. I can create a new account and claim the child as 13+ but then that changes the content that they might have access to.

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soundsosound

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If you want to protect the children, simlpy let them open private rooms, where they can meet with their friends only, and let them chat there freely.

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ParkerFamilyShared

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The issue is Meta's parental controls are still very limited and arbitrary. They only recently "allowed" accounts for U13 users(I think the cutoff is now 10?). Combine that with the fact they are getting sued by every parent of a dead or abused child, and this will only become worse. To protect themselves legally, they will make decisions that force parents to either ban their kids from anything touching their platform or to allow them to circumvent it, giving them access to everything. It's a mess, but not surprising its this way considering nobody has children anymore. It's actually going to get much much worse and companies won't spend any resources on aiding parental supervision unless they are forced to by a lawsuit or the government. Truth is, I think they prefer it this way. A frustrated child or parent that circumvents the arbitrary age restrictions allows them access to kids unimpeded while providing perfect legal cover.

Gorilla Tag, the app, would have to spend a lot of time and resources to make a custom parental control account solution(similar to Roblox) to safely allow U13's to play without potential legal liability. Given the Gorilla Tag isn't a full blown massive platform like Roblox, this won't happen.

Also, if you've listened to Gorilla Tag chatter before, it can get pretty vile. Some pre-pubescent boys in particular clearly have zero parental supervision and are on there, screaming racist obscenities and other vile things for sheer shock value. I ended up buying a second headset for my younger kid and that has monkey voices on(but it can also be toggled off for when he plays with older brother in lobby). We set strict rules on how that works, headset goes in time out if he doesn't abide. If you already own two quests, I'd set up an account on one that is 13+ and let them use that for these special circumstances. It's obnoxious, especially given pre-existing accounts have cosmetics they bought or earned, but what can you do?

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RileighPeaster11

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yes if u are under 13 and playing gorilla tag u only hear monke noises

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miniGam3sRunk3yVR

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okay so alot of them are saying that it makes you hear monkeys if you are 13 or under but that's not true, the real reason is because they have their voices turned to monkey. to change it you go to the computer (in-game) and go to voices and switch it to humans. hope this helps

Choleni

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Hi miniGam3sRunk3yVR 🙂

I assume you don't have a child account?
Because child accounts can't switch to the human voice.

https://www.gorillatagvr.com/

Gorilla tag FAQ

Can my Child communicate with other players?
Children are automatically restricted from communicating with or otherwise making their personal information publicly available to other players. When your Child tries to communicate with other players using voice chat, only monkey noises will be heard by other players. No voice data of your Child is transmitted.

Can my Child turn off hearing other players’ monkey noises?
No. You cannot disable this safety feature for Children.