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Dizmaul
Profile Joined March 2010
United States831 Posts
May 18 2010 22:47 GMT
#61
yes its a sign for things to come just like all the signs before it... the world is so fucked up hah
It is what it is
BrogMaN
Profile Joined April 2010
United States108 Posts
May 18 2010 22:47 GMT
#62
Dang, I'm glad I made my ID reference drugs in a much more vague way.
Madness is a sane reaction to an insane world.
Champi
Profile Joined March 2010
1422 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-18 22:50:08
May 18 2010 22:49 GMT
#63
its a good policy, there are kids and sensitives who play blizzard games too, thats why theres a language filter. Dopeman isnt an offensive name and its deffinitely overkill by blizzard to ban you for this, but it is stil a good policy, hopefully they just tune it down a little in terms of strictness
Kinslayer
Profile Joined April 2010
United States129 Posts
May 18 2010 22:50 GMT
#64
On May 19 2010 07:47 QueueQueue wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 19 2010 07:38 Paramore wrote:
Totalitarian? I think this is taken out of context.

Think about Blizzard as a company that wants to sell a game that to an audience. Obviously, the larger the audience the better (more money). Restrictions such as "18+" rating or "contains drug content" or "explicit language" or "nudity" narrows an audience.

While it may be true that many of us are exposed to... see above... the fact of the matter is, some parents don't like their kids exposed to it. Therefore, to have the largest audience possible and have a game that can appeal to the largest audience possible, restrictions are put on the game itself rather than influencing the audience's or audience's parent's decision to purchase the game.

So before you go out and say that Blizzard is going to be all controlling and freedom restricting (very American of you) stop and think of it as a business decision first and ask "Why?" instead of making some garbage pole about whether people find it offensive or not (polls like those give zero useful information other than inflame the discussion).

Either way, I doubt my inability to create user names like "child pervert", "dope man", or "fuck tard" will deter me from purchasing the game. Afterall, I buy the game to play it, not as a means to be an "online billboard" per se. I guess since you also don't have beta anymore, you decided you had nothing better to do than to come on here and inflame a trivial discussion that will go nowhere.

P.S. Blizzard already said they are implementing chat channels for battle.net 2.0 after release. So get your facts?



I understand your point; however, whether the person's online ID is a drug reference, or the chat that is said online is a drug reference is essentially the same thing. You can't moderate the chat completely. This is why most games state that ratings may change during online play. The swear filter is easily bypassed, and in most cases is disabled anyways. So really, Blizzard isn't protecting kids from seeing inappropriate content by limiting people's IDs nor are they impacting the game's rating.


ah...but they are protecting them If the kids choose to go online and play, then all bets are off to what happens in that game session.

But...if the kid doesn't play online and just happens to browse the leaderboards to see his friend's rating or whatever and sees player IDs that are offensive, then Blizzard is to blame since that is not an online session.

LOTS of fine print dude lots.
JimSocks
Profile Joined February 2009
United States968 Posts
May 18 2010 22:51 GMT
#65
they should of just gave you a warning, and allow you to change your name.
Kantutan
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Canada1319 Posts
May 18 2010 22:52 GMT
#66
On May 19 2010 07:42 DreamShake wrote:
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On May 19 2010 07:38 Kantutan wrote:
Not offensive, but dopeman is quite a stupid name. Hardcore stoners are so bloody annoying.


Fail? Its a reference to a song, I haven't smoked weed in over 9 years.

If hardcore stoners are bloody annoying perhaps you should relax? Maybe smoke a joint?


No, not fail. Like Blizzard is supposed to go and find out first if a person named 'dopeman' based their name off a song or if they're one of those people who pride themselves on smoking pot. I have smoked pot, for the record. But based on experience, anyone who constantly talks about pot or references it in their names are complete idiots. I guess you happen to be an exception then, but I don't see why you're surprised at all that Blizzard is banning names like these.
Rintrah
Profile Joined May 2010
United States25 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-18 22:53:41
May 18 2010 22:53 GMT
#67
Outright banning is ridiculous. Hope that changes to resemble Xbox LIVE policy, where you just get told to change your name. I used to use Opiumjones as an alias and XBL wouldn't let me register it because of the word "opium". So i changed it to OPMjones and later got told it was inappropriate. I changed it and moved on, which is what I suggest some of you angsty teens try doing.
Playguuu
Profile Joined April 2010
United States926 Posts
May 18 2010 22:54 GMT
#68
Terrible policy. Someone probably got pissed at some cheese you did and reported you for it. Honestly though, I used to report people in WoW if they had a mildy offensive name if they ganked me a bunch. I'd friend them, then a few days later I'd have a random person on my friends list and ask them what happened. Haha, they'd be so pissed. Yeah it's a dick move, but I don't think blizzard should be so anal about it. They're well within their rights to dictate how you should name your character, but banning is a bit over-reactive.

If anything, they should at least give you a warning and make you change it to something less inappropriate.
I used to be just like you, then I took a sweetroll to the knee.
Koffiegast
Profile Joined February 2010
Netherlands346 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-18 22:55:34
May 18 2010 22:55 GMT
#69
I still dont understand the whole pursuit of filtering out any possible cuss word in any language. Last time I was chatting in Dutch with some mates and apparently the word 'hier' is filtered... (it means "here", like in 'her, there, yonder' ) . I mean why on earth!? Hier isnt even an English cuss word... I even looked up urban dictionary and nothing even is remotely the same as hier.
Wut
Kantutan
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Canada1319 Posts
May 18 2010 22:56 GMT
#70
Also, apparently it's not very well-known that you can go to the socials tab under options and disable the chat filter...
Koffiegast
Profile Joined February 2010
Netherlands346 Posts
May 18 2010 22:58 GMT
#71
On May 19 2010 07:54 Playguuu wrote:
Honestly though, I used to report people in WoW if they had a mildy offensive name if they ganked me a bunch. I'd friend them, then a few days later I'd have a random person on my friends list and ask them what happened. Haha, they'd be so pissed. Yeah it's a dick move, but I don't think blizzard should be so anal about it. They're well within their rights to dictate how you should name your character, but banning is a bit over-reactive..


People like you shouldn't be playing games online and you know it.

I don't like this whole reporting stuff...feels like we're in some totalitarian state with no freedom of speech.
Wut
condoriano
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States826 Posts
May 18 2010 22:58 GMT
#72
Anyone knows why this happened? It "expired"? Or did they not like my "rottedchode" id?

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Ridentem dicere verum quid vetat?
Foreplay
Profile Joined May 2008
United States1154 Posts
May 18 2010 22:58 GMT
#73
yes it's a horrible horrible policy.
Better than Pokebunny
Rkie
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States1278 Posts
May 18 2010 22:58 GMT
#74
hey, gotta love blizzard.
GGTeMpLaR
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States7226 Posts
May 18 2010 22:59 GMT
#75
this is a terrible policy and whoever banned you from the beta for having a name like that really needs a serious attitude readjustment, at least that's my opinion
junemermaid
Profile Joined September 2006
United States981 Posts
May 18 2010 23:01 GMT
#76
On May 19 2010 07:26 rockon1215 wrote:
My alt name is usually Gabe Uttsechs. Do you think that would be banned?



lmao... that is AWESOME
the UMP says YER OUT
nihlon
Profile Joined April 2010
Sweden5581 Posts
May 18 2010 23:01 GMT
#77
On May 19 2010 06:56 Zeke50100 wrote:
It's not that it's offensive, it's that it's inappropriate. It's like calling your character Marajuana. How do you think it would work out if everybody was running around with names like "Cocaine," "Weed," "Dope," etc.?

It's a justified policy.


??

I think it would work out just fine.
Banelings are too cute to blow up
Chairman Ray
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States11903 Posts
May 18 2010 23:04 GMT
#78
Blizzard is taking this too far. The number of people in the world who's parents won't buy them sc2 SOLELY because of no filters is nothing close to the lower customer satisfaction that the filters bring, that is if the former case even exists.
DreamShake
Profile Joined June 2008
Peru120 Posts
May 18 2010 23:07 GMT
#79
On May 19 2010 07:52 Kantutan wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 19 2010 07:42 DreamShake wrote:
On May 19 2010 07:38 Kantutan wrote:
Not offensive, but dopeman is quite a stupid name. Hardcore stoners are so bloody annoying.


Fail? Its a reference to a song, I haven't smoked weed in over 9 years.

If hardcore stoners are bloody annoying perhaps you should relax? Maybe smoke a joint?


No, not fail. Like Blizzard is supposed to go and find out first if a person named 'dopeman' based their name off a song or if they're one of those people who pride themselves on smoking pot. I have smoked pot, for the record. But based on experience, anyone who constantly talks about pot or references it in their names are complete idiots. I guess you happen to be an exception then, but I don't see why you're surprised at all that Blizzard is banning names like these.


Yes fail? The name is clearly not offensive. Also perhaps you should not make sweeping generalizations about people who reference pot. Its not a good trait.
Money!!!
Wings
Profile Joined January 2010
United States999 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-18 23:11:25
May 18 2010 23:08 GMT
#80
This is just one of many signs of things to come.

Blizzard wants to reap as much as it can from SC2. It saw the success of SC1 in Korea and is absolutely determined to become the sole owner of everything SC2-related (undoubtedly this was a factor in the Kespa decision, but I'm not saying Blizzard was solely at fault); no LAN, no chat channels (yet, hopefully soon), several expansion packs for SC2... its a money-milking machine planned to squeeze the dollars from everywhere and everyone possible. If you're asking whether SC2 will do such things like this without notice, yes.

After all, people with banned IDs are obviously not going to just suddenly give up the game because of that (the official game isnt even out yet, so records don't matter too much yet), although it may frustrate us. However, there are some people out there who would stop playing SC2 because of offensive names or whatever, and Blizzard is trying to not lose that market. Also, it helps that there's less chance of any religious trouble if there are no religion-bashing IDs out there...

edit:
On May 19 2010 07:26 rockon1215 wrote:
My alt name is usually Gabe Uttsechs. Do you think that would be banned?


lol at first i thought your name was trying to say "gave _____"
The probability of Kim Carrier getting all those predictions wrong is similar to the probability Flash loses a TvT. Kim Carrier MUST BE a genius. His only big mistake... STORK.
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