Ever since I started playing Halo Reach (and ODST) I’ve been using “KING” as my service tag, it makes it easy for people to find me and it’s an easy short prefix to my GT.
But when I signed in to xbox live today my tag was changed to “H488” and when I go to change it back to “KING” it won’t let me saying that it is not allowed on Xbox Live
I understand the banning of some service tags, such as swears and drugs and such. But why would you ban “KING”?
That’s actually a pretty cool tag. 343 or microsoft, who ever is in charge of this should really get better at their job.
> That’s actually a pretty cool tag. 343 or microsoft, who ever is in charge of this should really get better at their job.
Agreed, I just watched my friend play an infection game where someone had the tag of “69ME” but you apparently can’t have “KING” at all.
I just got on and found out mine has been changed from BLU to H488. Now when I try to type BLU it says it cannot be used on Xbox LIVE. Wow. How is BLU offensive or suggestive in anyway possible? I mean, I can change it to BLUE, or something else, but come on.
Apparently, the map name filtering is pretty bad too. the map name “Capital” is not allowed on xbox live.
> Apparently, the map name filtering is pretty bad too. the map name “Capital” is not allowed on xbox live.
The same filter is applied to all user-created content, including map variants, game variants, and Service Tags. (And in the former two cases, your gamertag is checked as part of the filtering process, since apparently it is embedded into the data.)
The filter is starting to get notorious for being prone to insane false-positives. The detection technique it uses is extremely sloppy (Scunthorpe problem; checks across word boundaries; etc.), and someone at Microsoft keeps adding blatantly-innocent words (“basic”, “epic”, “glitch”, “mystery”, “puzzle”, “base”, et cetera) to the blacklist.
Don’t expect a fix. So long as it doesn’t cause Microsoft to lose money, they won’t care.
Yet in Halo 3 you couldn’t have N64, or P52. But in ODST and Reach you’re allowed those and Sony, SNES, Sega, etc
> > Apparently, the map name filtering is pretty bad too. the map name “Capital” is not allowed on xbox live.
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> The same filter is applied to all user-created content, including map variants, game variants, and Service Tags. (And in the former two cases, your gamertag is checked as part of the filtering process, since apparently it is embedded into the data.)
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> The filter is starting to get notorious for being prone to insane false-positives. The detection technique it uses is extremely sloppy (Scunthorpe problem; checks across word boundaries; etc.), and someone at Microsoft keeps adding blatantly-innocent words (“basic”, “epic”, “glitch”, “mystery”, “puzzle”, “base”, et cetera) to the blacklist.
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> Don’t expect a fix. So long as it doesn’t cause Microsoft to lose money, they won’t care.
Wow, Microsoft failure again. What do you mean by “it checks your gamertag?” If your service tag is similar to your GT it gets filtered out? And if so, how come it took so long to get it to get rid of BLU, but I’ve used BLUE before that, and as of now?
they really need to get these fixed, some of the tags that are blocked are totally absurd and in no way offensive.
> Wow, Microsoft failure again. What do you mean by “it checks your gamertag?” If your service tag is similar to your GT it gets filtered out?
If your gamertag has something that the filter would classify as obscene, then you cannot upload anything you create to your File Share.
So, for example, someone with the gamertag “MysteryMan” wouldn’t be able to upload. Or anyone whose gamertag includes “epic”, “titan”, et cetera.
EDIT: Fixed typo.
Oh wow. Yeah, Blue is the worst swear word of them all. I’m so ashamed at having it as my name.
/sarcasm
glad im not the only one. My tag is shot and apparently bungie finds me offensive. Plus every time I log on to halo now it says my tag is not allowed even though I changed it so I wouldn’t have that stupid H488 thing.