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[Soultraxx]

I agree that a chat filter is needed.

I dont want to turn team/ lance chat off as sometimes someone takes the time to say useful tactical info.

Make it optional so people who want to see offensive language can still do so that way everybody is catered for.

Strangely enough the only other MMO I play is DDO which has swear filters and the ability to block individual players chat and voice, yet there is next to no bad language used.

[Joseph Mallan]

FupDup, on 26 January 2015 - 06:26 PM, said:

3 Years, US player. 0 vulgarities issued in Chat. 29K posts here, slightly more swearing on my part. In real life... Got a Co worker that I wave and say F U to everyday. He says it back, cause there is a no abusive language mandate.

Go figure.

[Mudhutwarrior]

Joseph Mallan, on 27 January 2015 - 04:18 AM, said:

3 Years, US player. 0 vulgarities issued in Chat. 29K posts here, slightly more swearing on my part. In real life... Got a Co worker that I wave and say F U to everyday. He says it back, cause there is a no abusive language mandate.

Go figure.

Watch the Departed. That's where I grew up and how everyone talks to each other. Never worry about language, worry about who is going to stab me instead. It's ok though. Chicks dig scars.

[Joseph Mallan]

Mudhutwarrior, on 27 January 2015 - 04:41 AM, said:

Watch the Departed. That's where I grew up and how everyone talks to each other. Never worry about language, worry about who is going to stab me instead. It's ok though. Chicks dig scars.

As a former Marine swearing and joking about Skull sex was dinner talk... Not everyone can handle such base communication. *SHRUG*

[Mudhutwarrior]

Joseph Mallan, on 27 January 2015 - 04:46 AM, said:

As a former Marine swearing and joking about Skull sex was dinner talk... Not everyone can handle such base communication. *SHRUG*

Don't worry about them. Let them hide happily. It's a very dark world as we both know. They can have fantasy island. Just leave us alone with the PC bullcr.....

[Joseph Mallan]

Mudhutwarrior, on 27 January 2015 - 04:50 AM, said:

Don't worry about them. Let them hide happily. It's a very dark world as we both know. They can have fantasy island. Just leave us alone with the PC bullcr.....

This we agree on.

I tell everyone I meet, "I will say or do something you are not going to like. It is not personal or intentional. But I say what I think how I think it. I am sorry you are offended, but not for speaking my mind."

[EvilCow]

They are going to implement an ignore feature with VOIP, just extend that to text messages. There is no need for a filter nor to spend much extra development time.

[Mawai]

Bartholomew bartholomew, on 26 January 2015 - 08:46 PM, said:

You can turn of the various chats in the settings. Would only take a moment at startup. They probably should hotkey that too.


Edit. plus if you had a screenshot of that, you can turn it into support. Enough of that will get a ban on someone.

Actually, I don't think you need a screenshot ... all you need is to be able to identify which game and players since as far as I know PGI logs just about everything INCLUDING game chat.

Also, if you are in doubt ... nasty name calling is against the code of conduct and terms of service and can get you banned.

http://mwomercs.com/...nduct-expanded/

Edited by Mawai, 27 January 2015 - 05:33 AM.

[Raggedyman]

Darth Mech, on 26 January 2015 - 06:16 PM, said:

Instant disconnection. I can take good-natured ribbing, even in foreign languages, but the trash that was scrolling tonight from these kiddies was just too much to take and never happens in German or Russian. I guess those guys are just better mannered. Unbelievable that PGI hasn’t built in a “foul” filter for uncouth Americans in the chat.

Filters don't work, they are either too hard and disrupt legitimate communications or too soft and allow those who want to be abusive to carry on unabated. Plus they present a barrier for the kiddies to try and get around to prove how clever and edgy they are, so can actually encourage abusive language.

What you really need is a quick and easy 'mute this person to me' button that will stop them annoying you by you no longer seeing their waffle. One click and they are out of your life, and the more people they upset the less people there are listening to them. It's an incredibly simple means of self moderation.

[Kristov Kerensky]

First off, I LOVE how you make it so very very clear that non-Americans NEVER cuss. I guess my aunt born and raised in Russia is an extreme exception to that rule, and my other relatives from Russia as well, because they ALL make Marines in a combat zone look like priests in the presence of the Pope.

I've got friends all over Europe who cuss constantly as well, same with my Aussie and Kiwi friends. Hells, even my Canadian friends cuss constantly when we're gaming, and we all know how polite Canadians are supposed to be right?

Personally, the only times I've seen a lot of cussing in the General Chat in MWO, Goonies were involved every single time. And that stopped some time ago, so...

I live in the center of the US of A, so I tend to play prime time USA when I do play, and I've not seen anyone cussing in chat in..well...like I said, not since the Goonies were playing in force and used to purposely do it to get people PO'd. Bunch of em got banned and that stopped a while back. I've not done any CW yet, just solo and team drops outside of CW, not seeing this type of thing at all.

Me, I could give a rat's furry rear end about people cussing in a video game based on war and combat. I figure it's actually something that makes the game a little more immersive, since anyone who's ever been in a combat zone can tell you, cussing is REAL common during combat.

This complaint reminds me of the guy who wrote a letter to the editor once complaining about seeing naked women at a strip club....

[BellatorMonk]

It would be nice as even my Son wants to play this game, however my Wife and I said "No" for the sheer MA rating of chat. It is what is for now and he just buys and plays other games.
PGI's loss for that market..however at the same time I can agree it's really an adult game at it's core. Chat and gameplay.

[blood4blood]

I have no problem with adding a chat filter, but I'd rather have a nice in-game personal messenger option instead, so people can have private flame fests if they want but no one else has to get involved.

[HARDKOR]

DC's because someone swore when he could have turned off all chat in same number of clicks? Accuses people of cheating for disagreeing with him?

Time to join mudhut and oldradagast on the block list.

[Darth Mech]

InspectorG, on 26 January 2015 - 06:18 PM, said:

Welcome to the interwebs.

Thanks for the (belated) welcome, but I’ve been lurking and surfing the “interwebs” as you call it since ArpaNet became UseNet.

I’ve been playing on-line games since they were first introduced on CompuServe and that other service that I can’t remember right now. Prodigy? Was that it? Played MW:2(NetMech) on Kali in TKZ, Grand Council, FWL, and that other ladder. MSZone, Everquest from beta, Asheron’s Call from beta both for 10 years, etc. etc., and every one of those instances / games quickly instituted filters, or the player base governed itself and instituted its own filters, to keep out foul-mouthed creeps. This type of filtering technology has been around for DECADES, and yet PGI cannot stoop to provide even the most basic of filters so that we who wish to do so can avoid the Creep Zone and its denizens.

Perhaps that is a function of PGI not having the funds or guts or coding skills to put in place the machinery that can so easily dispose of these creeps, exacerbated by the function of a new generation who never learned how to conduct themselves in the proper manner on the playground.

[Gantry]

I really don't understand you guys that condone hateful vulgarity and trash talking in a video game. Yes, I know it's a sign of the times and there is no such thing as respect for yourself or others anymore--among teens especially. When VOIP comes in, it's going to be 50 times worse. I, for one, will have it disabled unless in a known group, and I fully am in favor of a chat filter.

It's not like I don't swear every day on the way to work or if I pound my finger with a hammer or whatever makes me mad at the time, but in the context of entertainment and playing a video game, I'm pretty annoyed at seeing or listening to some idiot slinging crap because he's mad his pixels blew up. Don't you guys just want to relax and have fun in MWO without all the hate?

[Xythius]

Darth Mech, on 27 January 2015 - 02:27 PM, said:

Thanks for the (belated) welcome, but I’ve been lurking and surfing the “interwebs” as you call it since ArpaNet became UseNet.

I’ve been playing on-line games since they were first introduced on CompuServe and that other service that I can’t remember right now. Prodigy? Was that it? Played MW:2(NetMech) on Kali in TKZ, Grand Council, FWL, and that other ladder. MSZone, Everquest from beta, Asheron’s Call from beta both for 10 years, etc. etc., and every one of those instances / games quickly instituted filters, or the player base governed itself and instituted its own filters, to keep out foul-mouthed creeps. This type of filtering technology has been around for DECADES, and yet PGI cannot stoop to provide even the most basic of filters so that we who wish to do so can avoid the Creep Zone and its denizens.

Perhaps that is a function of PGI not having the funds or guts or coding skills to put in place the machinery that can so easily dispose of these creeps, exacerbated by the function of a new generation who never learned how to conduct themselves in the proper manner on the playground.

Or perhaps someone hasn't learned to get over things. You're obviously an adult, you should have learned a long time ago that in life, you're simply going to have to deal with situations that you don't like. Like it or not, just because you use something, doesn't mean it caters to you. Don't like what you see in chat? Turn it off. I have thousands of drops in this game and I would say less than 20 actually had useful, game changing information broadcast. Also in those drops, you know what I didn't see? Anything like the examples you posted. I have never seen blatant racism, outright bullying or threats of **** of any kind (even as just a joke).

All those games you mentioned - and I played a good number of them as well - had language filters on them, and I would make a sizable bet that outside a few 'delicate daisy's' such as yourself, everyone turned them off. Same as it would be here. If you are that sensitive, or afraid of what your kids/grandkids may see, perhaps Candy Crush or Farmville are more suited to you.

[LowSubmarino]

If harsh language scares you away....what will a bunch of lasers do, eh? ^^

[Brody319]

[HARDKOR]

The real question is, if a neckbeard gets offended in the woods, do the trees drink his tears?

[Brody319]

HARDKOR, on 27 January 2015 - 03:11 PM, said:

The real question is, if a neckbeard gets offended in the woods, do the trees drink his tears?

Too salty. Would kill the roots.