Then you didn’t READ the post again, check the post, look up the word CAN in dutch, I am dutch and find it very annoying I cannot converse in my own language without the profanity filter unjust scrambling everything.
It doesn’t only do it on english forums, it also does it in D2r chat and we cannot turn it off, even with friends.
What you call hidden profanity, I call my home language.
Its just mindless removal imo, the constructive part was to be how annoying it is you cannot normale converse in a non-english language when in a game with dutch friends, not only a certain word that are not considered swearing blocked, some word that have nothing to do with swearing are blocked as well and some of them are quite basic words you use a lot.
I mentioned it in the post because it took me a while to figure out why the word got scrambled and I hoped people would understand what the fuzz was about, my english is fine but a lot of the slang is not always known to me (still don’t know why the 2 quite common names in the post are considered against code of conduct and no one could tell me not even US cititzens).
You see hidden messages where there are non, I even mentioned it (as you probably read), because I expected you to do the whole reporting story again, even though it wasn’t about that, just as the previous post wasn’t about that, it was about chatting with my friends online, I don’t care about the profanity filter when talking to people not in my friend list, I do care that blizzard will not let me speak with my friends normally.
I really think blizzard and tbh you as well are just taking it a step to far, there a thing like being to thorough, especially if its for the wrong reasons, not every crusade is just.
As a side note, it wasn’t just in the Lobby, the spammer does not get blocked at all, not even if you went into a game, you couldn’t turn of the lobby and you couldn’t block the spammer (strangely it only happens with spammers, I never see the normal conversations or questions).
The game can’t differentiate between an account used to spam and one used to do whatever else. I do realize Block is not working.
You can use
/whois name to get the Battletag
/ignore Battletag
That is the old way and I THINK it still works.
I saw nothing “hidden”. I understood your issue. You don’t like the profanity filter because it interferes with common words in your native language.
Regardless, Blizzard does not let us post even “masked” versions of profanity on the forums. You got a gentle warning if it was just removed and no suspension.
You knew that word was not ok here so just don’t do that please. That way the mods don’t have to mess with posts.
Do you enjoy that you have to lie constantly to protect Blizzard from obviously valid criticism?
Every single other Blizzard game has the OPTION to toggle the profanity filter on or off, including the BNET application. This is the first game that’s come out since “the incident” (as we’re not allowed to mention it or we get our posts removed/censored and account suspended) and suddenly there is no option?
I was talking about the Code of Conduct that prohibits that sort of thing in games and forums. I was not talking about filters in that sentence. Context matters.
Do you enjoy intentionally misrepresenting what I say? Or did you just not understand?
“This is how Blizzard’s modern games”, this is what you said, you said “modern games have been…” NOT “this is how the Code of Conduct has always been”.
Maybe you should say what you mean instead of telling people that they’re misrepresenting what you say? Because this is NOT how Blizzard’s modern games have always been, they have ALWAYS had the profanity filter as an option.
In a game where you fight the devil, monsters with blood and tentacles, harlequins, a 20ft woman with melons the size of my head, tortured bodies, you mustn’t see bad language.
Yeah, sometimes I really try to make any sense of what is going on here, but does not compute.
The filter.
Changing the amazon to Willem Dafoe, leaving the legs bare though.
Changing the Assassin, putting pants and her because only amazons and sorceress can show skin there, but wait make it even better put white pants on her because her legs were white(ish), I think putting on the barely visible pants is not really usefull, but if your gonna put on pants, atleast make them fit the rest of the outfit, all dark grey/black with white pants.
Andariel, except for the loin cloth that was to provocative on the assassin but fine on her, she is not wearring any clothing just a chain with endings just to cover the colored bits, is quite fine, nothing wrong with that
Now I do agree nothing wrong with Andy that way, it’s how it was (upper body atleast) so imo it should stay that way, call it sentiment.
Just not sure why a game where that is ok needs language filters, needs the amazon to become more masculine and the assassin needs to be wearing an almost invisible pants.
There is no mention of marketing for China for D2R
China has cultural limits on bones/blood/undead. Stuff there is tons of in D2R.
China recently prohibited any entertainment that does not go by traditional male/female roles (strong man, weak woman, exaggerated features).
China does not speak English - which the filter handles.
You seem to be, yes. You are upset about a text filter.
Get back to me when they start changing the game to actually sell in a market that speaks Chinese and has massive cultural restrictions. - A market they currently are not selling D2R in.
This is pretty funny. They don’t sell the game in China. So yeah. There are no China related restrictions.
IF they ever sell there, it would be a diff game completely and it would have to be run by a Chinese company.
sigh. The content created by the Devs is what is reviewed and rated. Period. That is rated M.
The player generated content (names and chat) is not rated. That is subject to the policies of the game company.
This is Blizzard’s code of conduct and has been since at least 2004.
Yes, the filter is stupid and makes typing hard when it grabs normal words. It has nothing to do with China though.
Welcome to polite society where you interact with people of all ages from all over the world and you need to behave in public. Save the colorful stuff for friends who get it.
MVPs are other players who help with tech/questions. etc. I don’t work for Blizz, get compensated by Blizz, or speak for Blizz.
Feel free to be upset about the profanity filter, but blaming it on China when China does not speak English, and the whole rest of the game is not ok for their standards …it is not made for China, very clearly.
Why are you constantly referring to the Code of Conduct when it has NOTHING to do with the Profanity Filter?
Hello? If someone doesn’t want profanity, they simply turn the profanity filter on, problem solved. If they don’t care then they turn it off. Wow. I don’t understand how the “Code of Conduct” has ANYTHING to do with it WHATSOEVER.
And btw, I seriously doubt Blizzard’s Code of Conduct had ANYTHING to do with “Trolling” in it considering the term didn’t even exist back then, saying it hasn’t changed is just another lie. I know, because I’ve been on the internet since well before then and “Trolling” is a MUCH more recent term than 2004. Now who’s misrepresenting things?
You’re a straight up liar for Blizzard and have done so on so many occasions it’s hard to keep track. In fact, it might as well be your job description.
Edit 2: If this post gets removed, you all know what happened.
trolling as a term started in the 80s/90s with www.kevinandkell.com/1997/kk0826.html clearly showing it was a common term by 1997 and it was used in d2 chat from the start.
“Common Term” LOL, like you don’t think they update their Code of Conduct constantly to manage changes in social behaviour over time. It absolutely was not used in a widespread way, the way it currently is, until well after 2010 MINIMUM.
What dream world are you living in? Yes, it “existed” before its contemporary usage, but “common”, that is a complete fabrication, just because you can google its “existence” doesn’t make it “common”.
Edit: And it ESPECIALLY was not used to the extent where it warranted its own section in a legally binding document.
Yeah, I do say so, and you know what else, back in 1997, Google barely existed back then. I mean, it did, but it was still competing with other Search Engines like Yahoo and Alta Vista and Ask Jeeves.
You think a SLANG term like “trolling” was somehow “popular” or “commonplace” on the internet back then? Let alone scribed into a lawful document??? Yeah right. They barely even had instant messenging services back then (and I used virtually every single one, IIRC, ICQ, MSNmessenger). I THINK I know what I’m talking about.
Btw, she can defend herself, if she has a copy of the “unchanged” 2004 “Code of Conduct” I’m sure she can find it for us or at least speak up for herself as to how it is even possible that a company like Blizzard doesn’t change their Code of Conduct in over 16 years. Because that is absurd in itself.
This filter is insanely furstrating when words that are NOT insult are $@*!ed but some insults are not.
Whenever i tell my french friends “à plus tard” (which only means '“see you later”) it LOOKS like i insulted them while i did not, and if i call them “putin de con”, it does not get censored.
If you are not willing to let us disable the filter, at least let us chose which language we filter for.
What are you even going on about? Nobody said it did not change over time. Of course it did. My point was that the restriction on language has been in it since at least 2004. They mostly enforced it in WoW - you had to put in a ticket back then to report someone, but they did suspend or ban them. The same restrictions on language have applied to every single one of Blizzard’s games, and forums, since.
Why are you so desperate to misrepresent things and pick a fight?
I despise when companies use censorship. It’s actually one of the main reasons I quit WoW. Since the allegations, it seems blizzard is trying to bubble wrap the community from being offended and it’s ridiculous. I’m 36 years old and I’m the youngest of my friends that play d2r and we sure as hell don’t need to be babysat. I’m a strong believer that profanity is a way people express themselves, in creativity, comedy and culturally.
