Why is there a swearing filter

[Thallia-2277436 (Thallia)]

@Adroi-tichondrius

Why have a filter which you can toggle on and off? If swearing isn’t allowed, you shouldn’t be able to toggle it.

@Vrakthris

@Mojoncito-grobbulus

Why not just make is to the swear filter can not be turned off?

Mostly, the mature language filter is not intended to give someone permission to use language that would otherwise be considered against our policies. It serves as a temporary shield, to help parents of minors and others, who do not wish to see such language, to block it.

@Vrakthris

Mature Language Filter (aka The Profanity Filter)

• This can be activated within your Interface Options: Main menu (ESC key by default) Click Interface > Social and check - Mature Language Filter.Once enabled, all inappropriate words in our profanity database will be filtered and masked to appear as jumbled characters, such as ‘*##@&’.

Note: The filter does not excuse the language used. The filter serves as a temporary shield, to help parents of minors and others who do not wish to see it, to block it. Our policies prohibit the use of both clear and masked inappropriate language.

@Adroi-tichondrius

This game has too many contradictions anyways. The game actively invites the player to torture NPCs and yet bad words here are the threat…?

@Vrakthris

While in-game content is governed by the ESRB and our Teen rating, player behavior is governed by the Terms of Use and Code of Conduct. With that in mind there is some content that while perfectly acceptable when experienced through the game (i.e. NPC’s, quest dialog, etc…) it would not be appropriate as part of a player discussion on the forums.