Prediction: Slippery slope is real and this is the start of full online language policing. Soon, companies are googling to ban acronyms because “they can misconstrued as bad speech.” Next, it will seem like it goes uphill with introduction of better sound quality in voice chat but it’s a bait. Next, any bad words (from nigger to nazi to damn) will be forbidden.
Why? Video game companies will be selling player’s voices. Can’t have any naughty words in the final product!
It doesn't matter what you say if you are a white man. You'll never win. They want you gone. There are no speech rules you can follow that will spare you from the mob.
The sad thing is that's exactly how bad this will be, a little known fact about Battlefield 4. It wasn't even necessarily EA that killed it that time round, it was extremely awful admins and how they setup their servers. If it wasn't ridiculous weapons restrictions that would get you insta-banned if you tried using what they didn't allow it was a keyword based chat filter that would constantly pick up ordinary words as swears because they put so much shit in the filters themselves. This is going to be the future of mainstream multiplayer gaming.
Oh mass surveillance on gamers has been in the works for months. It's not just a profitability thing, the glowies are in on it too because they're desperate to find some far right extremists but they don't realise that the average VOIP is just autists sperging at each other at 3:00am. The glowies have convinced themselves that games communities are a hotbed of extremism and that's where they're going to find them.
Prediction: Slippery slope is real and this is the start of full online language policing. Soon, companies are googling to ban acronyms because “they can misconstrued as bad speech.” Next, it will seem like it goes uphill with introduction of better sound quality in voice chat but it’s a bait. Next, any bad words (from nigger to nazi to damn) will be forbidden.
Why? Video game companies will be selling player’s voices. Can’t have any naughty words in the final product!
It doesn't matter what you say if you are a white man. You'll never win. They want you gone. There are no speech rules you can follow that will spare you from the mob.
''Where are you from''
''Scunthorpe, England.''
YOUR ACCOUNT HAS BEEN BANNED FOR MYSOGINY.
''... what? Oh, Scunthorpe, my fault for offending the trigglypuffs ruling us.''
The sad thing is that's exactly how bad this will be, a little known fact about Battlefield 4. It wasn't even necessarily EA that killed it that time round, it was extremely awful admins and how they setup their servers. If it wasn't ridiculous weapons restrictions that would get you insta-banned if you tried using what they didn't allow it was a keyword based chat filter that would constantly pick up ordinary words as swears because they put so much shit in the filters themselves. This is going to be the future of mainstream multiplayer gaming.
In our investigations, LOL sometimes stands for "Lucifer Our Lord" and is offensive to the Jewish and Islamic playerbase. Enjoy your ban.
Oh mass surveillance on gamers has been in the works for months. It's not just a profitability thing, the glowies are in on it too because they're desperate to find some far right extremists but they don't realise that the average VOIP is just autists sperging at each other at 3:00am. The glowies have convinced themselves that games communities are a hotbed of extremism and that's where they're going to find them.