Language Filter Is Crap

[Symbiant]

It states the game is for 13yr old children.

In most societies profanity is something most parents do not tolerate around kids.

Just because someone has not reported does not mean that nothing will be done.

I mean come on I had a buddy suspended for 72 hrs for announcing the person that pulled the hunt early.

The reason was name shame.

In the end it will be decided by the gm. Assumption is the mother of all evils and assuming that its just for hate speech could cost someone.

Abuse is also in the eye of the beholder. An example: I think a parent spanking a kid for being bad is not abuse but, someone else could and report it and you spend the next 6 month dealing with cps

[justinjarjar]

Never seen someone report it let alone a GM care. And just talking about parenting your kid either is cussing at 13 or you probably banned them from video games at his point. I would not let my 13 year old on an mmo unless they where mature enough to play it (which then cuss words do not matter). You have very Christen sensibility, which is fine, but many people find over bearing or sheltering. I think there are may issues in the world that need attention much more then having someones kid be introduced to cussing at the age 13. There are jokes in movies about teaching kids cuss words at this point, society no longer cares as much.

[lydiah]

It states the game is for 13yr old children.

In most societies profanity is something most parents do not tolerate around kids.

This is the full ESRB rating for "Teen" :

Games with this rating contain content which the board believes is suitable for those aged 13 years and older; they can contain moderate amounts of violence (including small amounts of blood), mild to moderate use of strong language or suggestive themes, and crude humor.

Also, when you say parents do not tolerate it around kids you are absolutely right. If you don't tolerate it, don't let your kids play it. Oh wait but OP is an adult? To me, if you don,t tolerate it, don't look atit. Don't blindly report players who use strong language just because poor little you are offended by something that is being said in a game and in an anvironement where it is expected to happen.

Plus it is such a very small issue in comparaison to a whole world of things that devs could spend time on.

[DarthSanguine]

It states the game is for 13yr old children.

Nope, the game is rated 16, not 13.

[Shadray]

Can't help but chuckle a bit at the fact you used 'crap' in the title but *'d out some words many would find less offensive.

[Wobble]

Can't help but chuckle a bit at the fact you used 'crap' in the title but *'d out some words many would find less offensive.

So you would find sh** less offensive than crap? I think you might want to set priorities.

[Lemuria]

So you would find sh** less offensive than crap? I think you might want to set priorities.

I think they were more likely referring to the word 'damn'. I've seen Saturday morning cartoons that use it infrequently.

There's only one thing that annoys me about the filter, and that's when it asterisks out words that are clearly not intended to be curses. For example, writing "isn't it" becomes "isn'* **". A smarter filter would probably help, but it's also probably more trouble than it's worth to make one.

For my part, I keep the filter on simply because I have young children and I don't want them picking up bad habits. It doesn't offend me personally. The biggest problem with making the censorship more heavy-handed is that we'll end up getting more unintentional censors than before, and that would eventually make chat unreadable with it on.

[Shadray]

So you would find sh** less offensive than crap? I think you might want to set priorities.

I said 'some' of the words, not 'all'

[Julienne]

You can also say cun* in the chat without it being filtered.

[Kaedan]

So you would find sh** less offensive than crap? I think you might want to set priorities.

None of those words are offensive unless used to directly describe someone. If used as an expletive, there's nothing offensive about them. They're just words. Enunciations. Not dissimilar to an exclamation mark.