Tinge is a forbidden word?

[Verty]

Just like you're not allowed to name yourself "Gay Whatever".
"Gay" is a bad forbidden no-no word. Can't have that in our heterosexual christian video game.

[VeyaAkemi]

This situation reminds of a situation with a dogshit MMO I used to play, Digimon Masters Online, don't look it up, don't play it, it's terrible and it makes XIV at its lowest look like a shining example of excellence in comparison, I played it purely for being a Digimon fan and it holding me hostage, but anyway, it had a word filter and one of the words blocked was "shine", since it means "die" in Japanese, a pretty dubious thing to block to begin with, it was really annoying because there exists a Digimon called ShineGreymon, it being heavily sun-themed and "shine" there clearly using the English meaning of the term, and this Digimon was in the game, it made absolutely impossible to talk about the bastard without having to mess with the word to bypass the filter, every time.

Anyway, word filters in games can get really stupid.

[DiaDeem]

Try summoning anyone with the word "Knight" in their name in Elden Ring lol

[VeyaAkemi]

Try summoning anyone with the word "Knight" in their name in Elden Ring lol

Cofagrigus: "First time?"

[TKMXIV]

Remember when XIV launched on the Xbox and Xbox's censorship systems went crazy?

[Amarande]

Even a phrase like "The thing is" gets censored: "The thin? ??" and I've never understood why.

Reminds me of the old Guild Wars days where we had Captain Quimang as a quest boss in the newbie area in Factions and folks in guild would tell me it was getting censored out ... LOL

The more fearful part about it in my eye though is whether these seemingly arbitrary censors that often require research to even figure out why they are considered problematic, are also used verbatim in report processing (based on the experiences of a friend who got suspended back in Stormblood + my own experiences of the reporting process on the rare occasions where I have felt it appropriate to report someone, it appears there is in fact a "robotic rubber stamp of guilt" step applied for profanity specifically).

It would explain how so many seemingly upstanding FFXIV players I know have experienced account marks across the years (and I'm sometimes surprised I haven't, lol) ...

[MayuAmakura]

It's ironic how they censor these words and sentences yet ARR is full of NPC's swearing on each other and wishing awful things. Women who always mention "I had to do <insert> for money!". Yeah