amusement a forbidden word

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Originally Posted by Eul

http://m.memegen.com/y3d3ww.jpg

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What an appropriate picture, considering that the (original) Spider-Man trilogy featured a Peter Parker that didn't use "web-shooter" devices to create spider webs, relying instead on something more...icky (ew).

The best part about the profanity filter was in the launch of 2.0 when most of the returning FC members from 1.0 didn't turn it off. And in trying to organize and help one another out, we kept trying to explain something about a basement level of an area in game.
That too, was not allowed.

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Originally Posted by KoroushSensei

tried to create a new fc with the word amusement in it. it's a forbidden for some reason. really square!!!

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Their filter is word specific and doesn't parse with regular expressions, otherwise they could code a filter rule to allow amusement but block the inappropriate word within. I've encountered this nonsense before in another game where we all had to learn h0w to typ3 and ch4ng3 letter5 t0 numb3r5 to say things as simple as c0ngratulations because the filter didn't like 'congratulations'.

You can't use Elezen and other Eorzea words when creating ranks in your free company. I'm honestly unsure what they constitute as unacceptable in their filters @_@.

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Originally Posted by AkashiXI

You can't use Elezen and other Eorzea words when creating ranks in your free company. I'm honestly unsure what they constitute as unacceptable in their filters @_@.

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They may be 'reserved words', much like computer programming languages have reserved words you can't use for variable, procedure, class, object or function names.

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Originally Posted by RyuRoots

I think it was PSO that bleeped "shoes" and "saturday".

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>_> That's almost as bad as this one I played, can't remember what it was, it was in like 2005?, but anyways, it'd filter out certain equipment in the game and monster names... lol

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Originally Posted by RyuRoots

I think it was PSO that bleeped "shoes" and "saturday".

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Shoes Saturday

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Originally Posted by AxelDH

If you take the 'Amu' and the 'T' off... I think that may be the problem!

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Ah yeah "stealth" censoring is something SEGA was well known for in PSO. You're trying to figure out why a seemingly harmless word is censored and then you break it apart and find the reason.

The funniest one I've seen was in LOTRO. That game is developed and run by Turbine, Inc., but the word "Turbine" was blocked by its profanity filter at one point. That led to all kinds of jokes about a company regarding their own name as a profanity. The names of a couple class skills the game uses were blocked as well (though I've forgotten now which ones).

I came here thinking this was gonna be another "the game is boring" rant.