Pretty sure the MMO standard stance on swearing is, "There's a profanity filter and ignore feature...quit wasting our time."
In every other MMO it doesn't matter the context in which you swore, if you swear or use a racial epithet or vulgar word and someone hates you enough to report you, you get banned.
otomodachi wrote: »Pretty sure the MMO standard stance on swearing is, "There's a profanity filter and ignore feature...quit wasting our time."
In every other MMO it doesn't matter the context in which you swore, if you swear or use a racial epithet or vulgar word and someone hates you enough to report you, you get banned.
Not EVE, objectively. Not true in my experiences playing DAoC either. Just saying, don't use "every" unless you mean "every".
Just out of curiosity - was it "English %^&*(#, do you speak it?"Pretty sure the MMO standard stance on swearing is, "There's a profanity filter and ignore feature...quit wasting our time."
The only MMO I've ever seen that had a lax positon on swearing has been Guild Wars/Guild Wars 2. Their position has been it's okay to swear like "!@#$ I died!" in frustration but not AT someone as ABUSIVE language, but if you swear AT someone then you get banned (I got banned for saying a pulp fiction quote over map chat, I appealed that it wasn't an attack on anyone I was just quoting a classic line from a movie because we were talking about that movie, they lifted the ban)
Just out of curiosity - was it "English %^&*(#, do you speak it?"Pretty sure the MMO standard stance on swearing is, "There's a profanity filter and ignore feature...quit wasting our time."
The only MMO I've ever seen that had a lax positon on swearing has been Guild Wars/Guild Wars 2. Their position has been it's okay to swear like "!@#$ I died!" in frustration but not AT someone as ABUSIVE language, but if you swear AT someone then you get banned (I got banned for saying a pulp fiction quote over map chat, I appealed that it wasn't an attack on anyone I was just quoting a classic line from a movie because we were talking about that movie, they lifted the ban)
So it's basically, don't swear in terms to swearing, and aren't subjective at all? If this is how the rules are constructed IRL in the US I'm glad I don't live there lol.
So it's basically, don't swear in terms to swearing, and aren't subjective at all? If this is how the rules are constructed IRL in the US I'm glad I don't live there lol.
So it's basically, don't swear in terms to swearing, and aren't subjective at all? If this is how the rules are constructed IRL in the US I'm glad I don't live there lol.
So it's basically, don't swear in terms to swearing, and aren't subjective at all? If this is how the rules are constructed IRL in the US I'm glad I don't live there lol.
The TOS is an agreement. Since that's what it says on its face, that is how it would be construed. If someone uses profanity, they're in violation of the TOS. That's a no-brainer, since the TOS is clear on it. I'm not saying they should punish people for it (profanity doesn't bother me), but if you're playing a game that says that in the TOS, then it's hard to have much sympathy for people who get punished for it.
Seems clear to me. In one section: "2.7 You may not disrupt the flow of chat in chat rooms, message forums or games with vulgar language..." Another section refers in general terms to vulgar language. I suppose you could argue what is vulgar, but I think we all know what they mean. There is nothing that requires language to be sexually explicit, racially tied, etc. In fact, since they reference those things in another section, it stands to reason that the prohibition on 'vulgar' language isn't required to included those things, because at least two provisions of the TOS would be redundant if interpreted your way.