If this is how the developers respond to a ban then I have no business playing this game.

Calling someone a whore on a game is an entirely different bag from sexualizing a child, and to treat a random insult as if it's the equivalent of that in order to save face against abusing your power as a developer isn't something I feel is right.

A 12 year old should not be using their mic on a mature rated game like this. Friday the 13th is not a family-friendly series. Do you know why some kids play Call of Duty despite it being a mature rated game, with completely toxic communities cussing left and right?

Because there is a parental filter option in almost every one to cut out on the violence and swearing, and most parents have the foresight to disable the childs ability to hear people ingame.

Maybe I didn't check the options well enough, but this game does not have a parental filter, it is rated for a mature audience, and there is no way that the child wasn't reasonably aware of the games content, or in the case of their parents buying it....their parents.

So I don't buy that this is ''especially'' terrible of an offense simply because the ''victim'' who themselves were breaking the rules is a 12 year old, they are subject to the same standards and fairness that everyone else is because this game as the emergent assumption that you're a mature audience when you play it. So stop acting as if ''it's a child'' adds any weight to the issue. Don't try to act like this is some sex-trafficking crime please, someone insulted another person on the internet. A permanent ban is a little excessive in this case, although a temp ban or extended mute to where the player can't talk shouldn't be too hard to ask.

You are forcing someone who paid 40$ for your game to never be able to play it because he insulted someone on the internet, if you are so offended and outraged by such a common occurence that you would cheat someone out of 40$ and NOT punish the fuckwit who themselves were breaking the rules THAT YOU SET then you are not developers I want to support and I regret buying this game.

''sexually objectifying a child''. For gods sakes, you're writing him off to be some war-criminal-child-rapist, and then threaten to ban people for calling you out on white-knighting? Fine, because this isn't white-knighting. It's simply an abuse of power and extremely awful behavior on your part. There doesn't need to be a fancy nebulous term to describe it, I really regret wasting the money and time on this game that I did. Good day F13, you had a lot of potential but you simply were given to a naive and childish group.

If calling a female a whore is sexual harrassment, why do you have an achievement called ''Chad is a dick''? Isn't that the same fucking thing? There is a clear double standard issue here, this is clearly motivated by personal friendship between the 12 year old kid and the devs and a PC narrative being pushed. People wonder why everyone has issues with PC these days.