EPTReally Blizzard? - Page 6
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ptbl
United States6074 Posts
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DND_Enkil
Sweden598 Posts
On February 17 2011 17:42 telfire wrote: So, if you swear on an Apple iPhone Apple can come take your phone away? If you use a G5 mouse to click a porn link Logitech can come take back your mouse? And if you use a condom outside of marriage, the condom-maker can take it back because they do not condone sex between non-married couples? It's none of Blizzard's business what I say to people. They have no right to press their morals on people. I would take it to court if this happened to me. If you go on a golfcourse, and pay for it, they will kick you out if you insult other players. If you stay at a hotel and insult other guests you can get kicked out. If you log onto TL.net and insult other peole you can get banned. If you log onto battlenet 2.0 and insult other players (and they complain) Blizzard can ban you. What you tell your friend IRL it is none of Blizzards buisness, but if you insult him over battlenet is is thier buisness, it is thier house and you are not forced to even be in it. Again they would not take any action unless it is reported. I would suggest going to a golfcourse, call a complete stranger "fucking faggot" and other things and see how it goes for you, i guarantee you they wont accept your excuses. Good luck with taking it to court, while at it insult the judge and try to use the same immature excuse when he gets angry. | ||
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oBlade
United States5756 Posts
On February 18 2011 02:33 DND_Enkil wrote: What you tell your friend IRL it is none of Blizzards buisness, but if you insult him over battlenet is is thier buisness, it is thier house and you are not forced to even be in it. This isn't self-evident. I can say "faggot" over my Verizon land line without their van coming to my house and their employees stamping an education sticker on my door. But the guy on the other line can just hang up if he can't take the simple use of a word. Also, try think about whether the policy itself makes any sense. Simply saying that it's their rule is a cop-out with respect to whether the rule is just or helpful. WoW/Battle.net 2.0/xbox live community moderation is a novelty compared to say the original Battle.net or just going into a Quake 3 server. As Tyler already said, it's redundant to offer a mature language filter and then ban people for using mature language. If you don't want to see it, the option is right there. On February 17 2011 21:17 OmniEulogy wrote: lol. Sounds like a plan. But then blizzard would start getting mad that people aren't using the mic system they installed and sc2 would start scanning your computer for outside client programs and ban you if skype was running! ... anyway yeah I think just not talking to anybody ever would solve the problem. rofl This isn't unheard of. When GameRanger was Mac only, the owner blocked use of a competing VOIP program in order to get people to buy the premium subscription which included VOIP. | ||
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limonovich
England226 Posts
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DND_Enkil
Sweden598 Posts
On February 18 2011 02:54 oBlade wrote: This isn't self-evident. I can say "faggot" over my Verizon land line without their van coming to my house and their employees stamping an education sticker on my door. But the guy on the other line can just hang up if he can't take the simple use of a word. Also, try think about whether the policy itself makes any sense. Simply saying that it's their rule is a cop-out with respect to whether the rule is just or helpful. WoW/Battle.net 2.0/xbox live community moderation is a novelty compared to say the original Battle.net or just going into a Quake 3 server. As Tyler already said, it's redundant to offer a mature language filter and then ban people for using mature language. If you don't want to see it, the option is right there. To tackle the first argument, there is a difference. Your telephone is a simple tool for communication, it is up to you to make contact with anyone, if you join a telephone conference hosted by someone that person can shut you down. No one here is saying that they should kill your internet because of what you say in a game or that DELL or whoever made your computer should care if you use your computer to chat with someone and call them gay. Battlenet is essentially a social network under Blizzards administration that connects users for chatting and playing games. By entering this network you have to agree on certain number of rules, and Blizzard has the right to enforce said rules if they want to. For Q3, CS etc you are entering private servers, and the moderation or lack of moderation is up to whoever runs the server. I remember people getting banned from Q3-servers for being dicks... As for the language filter, i do not take damage from seing bad words, nor am i offended really. And when chatting with my friends i use bad words and want to be able to, that does not mean i want to be called a "dicksucking faggot" or whatever by someone i dont know. It will not upset me and is worth about as much attention of mine as it takes to report and ignore. Actually, something as small as that would not even be worth the time for me to report it, would just ignore and move on. | ||
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lazerwizz
Hungary53 Posts
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closey
Hong Kong272 Posts
On February 17 2011 08:07 Enki wrote: I had 10 years of dealing with this type of stuff with SC1, just doesnt phase me anymore, I have accepted that its just a part of online gaming. I have had people wish cancer upon me in SC2, you dont see me throwing a hissy fit demanding the guy get sent to the gallows. They have a chat filter in League of Legends as well. Doesn't stop alot of people from being reported. Apprently even if they have a chat filter and the person isnt using it, the fault is on you somehow, because they are too lazy to click a box. Except in SC2, the chat filter is ON by default, so that means you have to go an extra step to uncheck it manually, and it automatically gets checked every patch. Doesn't mean going all the way to uncheck the box makes you want to hear those words instead of a bunch of symbols? | ||
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