Apparently “DAVE” is inexplicably an inappropriate clan tag (not that it affects me). The reasoning behind this was baffling enough. Then, as if to add to my puzzlement, I found out today that you cannot use the term “latency” in your titles or descriptions. What the hell? So, you’re telling me a networking term is somehow unfit for the public eye? Are you afraid that people are going to read that word and explode from trying to figure out what it means? What, pray tell, is the reasoning behind this? Is it a system that randomizes what word it wants to filter? This seems to be the only plausible answer, as I cannot fathom why some of these words would be marked as inappropriate. If this is the case, who was the troll who implemented that system?
inb4 stop complaining, they won’t fix it, ect.
I’m not demanding they fix this, but I would like an explanation. I would really love to understand the mentalities at work behind this. In an M-Rated game, we should hardly have profanity filtered out anyway. After all, Microsoft would never market violent games such has Halo to children. They observe and respect the ESRB’s judgment, right? Right?
There have been quite a few instances of questionable censorship recently, but this problem is not Reach exclusive. Try putting the offending words into your XBox Live profile and you will see the problem is on Microsoft’s end. Apparently they had a crash about 2 weeks to a month ago that screwed up their censor master-list or something like that.
I couldn’t save a screenshot the other day because the description was not allowed, even though I had kept the description as the default gametype/date/time stamp. It kinda seems like it’s one of those things that can’t be changed so it must be endured, until MS gets their act together and fixes the problem.
Microsoft doesn’t seem willing to admit that Xbox Live suffers from latency too such as any other internet service. Dave is pretty self explanatory, like what kind of monster would put that kind of words for everyone to see?
No, seriously. I never knew about the crash on Microsoft’s end. While they are clearing the master list, they should fix the word assault. That’s something that has been bugging me since Halo 3.
Oh my god that assualt thing was enough for me to sell BLOPs but I sold it for Mass Effect2 so it was worth it. Isn’t it weird that i’ve never sold a halo game? even the original xbox ones?
> Apparently they had a crash about 2 weeks to a month ago that screwed up their censor master-list or something like that.
Yes.
But even several months ago, they blocked ridiculously-innocent terms. “Glitch” was blocked right-smack in the middle of the Reach Beta. “Epic”, “puzzle”, and “mystery” were confirmed to be blocked not too long after. And the detection method they use is sloppy and prone to the Scunthorpe problem, meaning that “grass”, “assault”, “grape”, “ba-Yoink!-t”, and countless other innocent words with profane substrings are also blocked. The filter is also unjustifiably paranoid, checking across word boundaries – “all skulls except” and “if a goal” are detected as “-Yoink!-” and “f*g” and blocked.
So to answer the OP’s question: what’s up with the ridiculous censorship is that all of the people operating the censor are both paranoid and insanely stupid.
Microsoft needs to realize we’re all big boys now and can handle a little harsh vocabulary. Block the kid accounts from seeing it, if you must bother at all.
