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Great. I guess this is in best interest for everyone. Why be a jerk, when you don't have to. Moding maps is also cool with me, if it offends someone, remove it.

I can understand they want to limit harassing, but i have to disagree with you on moderating maps Wowerine.
I could be (for the sake of an example, no offense) be offended by you, would that justify a ban?

While you have no choice to get harassed its possible just to avoid those maps.

Offending someone justifies the mod. Just look at the lvl in MW2 where they slaughter hundreds of civilians... that should get banned to...

Well, i didnt play MW2 so i cant realy respond to that. Could you please explain it to me or chose another example?

Ouch, thats pretty...rough.
Still, you cant remove everything that offends someone, that way nothing would be allowed. There have to be more precise rules.

I seriously doubt they'll be able to control the harassment at the level they want. There's just too many places to be.

Yea, thats another problem. Instead they should add all this manpower into developing new games :)

Sure. Developing Diablo 3 man. I'm sick of waiting :D

Well at least they're doing stuff other than plotting world domination aka : Real ID. :D

World domination right. Like they already haven't done that with WoW xD

Wolrd domination in 3 easy steps:
1. Enslave a lot of nerds (WoW)
2. ???
3. Prof...err world domination

Yeah. Already happened a few years ago ROFL

What sucks is that everyone in their Sentences ... in EVERY GOD DAMN SENTENCE ( like this one ) they must Swear ..... i do so too but its ALL BECAUSE OF THOSE DAMN TROLLS !! I LEARNED FROM THEM . So while its bad that there are people swearing , i believe That there arn't enough people to stop 75 % of the Whole WoW player Universe ..... they are even 90 % man .

they cant stop them , they can just Stop the ones they see even if they are looking for them , so it isn't Blizzard's Fault , they have a Adult Filter , WHAT MORE DO THEY WANT FROM THEM !??!?!?!? Dont blame Blizzard for something that your Common Gamers are doing .... Blizzard is not Turning a Blind eye God Fucking damnit !

if you want to sue them or insult them or whatever , you will lose ! and if you win then there would no longer be Warcraft , Starcraft , OR DIABLO ..... SO YOU LOSE BOTH WAY S BITCH .....

sorry i got angry.

also the MW II Mission is Just Brutal , i tried to shield most of them and hide them but .... utterly they all died ...... i think that MW II was Really Offensive . not to me ... but to 60 % of the people who saw that Video or played that Mission .
but they cant remove Everything ...... They even Asked you at the beggining if you wanted to skip that mission due to Offensive material .


and on another matter , We want Diablo 3 , we want diablo 3 ! .

world Domination is assured between Google , Microsoft and Blizzard . and maybe Japan or China ... prolly China

Too bad about the swearing. People just can't control themselves. And most of those players are teenagers. Not even mature people, so they learn how to swear, and you can hear those 15year old kids talking bad.

You can skip that level in MW2, btw. It gives you an option at the start of it. For those that are offended by it.

Yeah. Good thing they made that. Otherwise Russians would be really pissed of at that scene.

everyone swears man .... every single kid swear and yell and Nerd Rage ..... i would never do that , seriously , i use Caps just because i feel like it trying to be funny .
and its really good that MW II made that SKIP MISSION option

BoneArc you do swear a lot man xD I try to watch my tongue around here :)

I'm just glad that in PC gaming you don't counter many 13 year olds screaming in to their mics all the time, god what has the world come to. -_-

Xbox Live sure has plenty of little kids yelling and shouting , and they keep screaming how the game sux or people are noobs and they Rage Quit alot .

Yeah man. That is so bad for my ears. Take MW2 as an example. 12year olds on every step out there, and the game is rated M for Mature. lol

They should at least get voice changers or something xD

Ah, the lovely sound of those high squeaking child voices causing agony to your ears. As much fun as brushing your teeth with napalm ;)
If you ask me the best invention since sliced bread is mute...

Mute. Right, then you need to type xD

Soon every Blizzard game player will have own gm-guardian-angel to check his correctness.

Well, at least it limits unemployment...
On the other side: Who would want to work 20 hours a day to control one guy? Or would they use more than one GM per nerd....?

Holy shit ....... 1/3 of the World is Playing while the 2/3 of the world that remain .... are Watching their Everymove ... if that isnt World Domination , i dont know what is ....

well if It limits Unemployment , it will eat off all of Blizzards money Gyorn. so They cant do that Ever ...

Well, i dont wish for Blizzard to go bankrupt (after all they produce amazing games!) but i would still laugh at any company getting broke cause they tried to censor stuff. In my opinion thats what they deserve for trying to "moderate" people beyond a certain limit.

So true .... i Wouldnt want Blizzard to die like that ! BLIZZARD is way smarter then any other Company , They wait to have enough money so they can Own the competition with Starcraft2 THEN Cataclysm and THEN Diablo 3 , AND THEN maybe Warcraft 4 .

they are really good in the gaming industry

Wow. Blizzard is unbeatable at this point. Try counting the monthly subscriptions of WoW players... Get the point?

thats true , but when they release a Game ? THATs just amazing at how much they sell ... Starcraft 2 allready sold 1 million and more copies

1 million times $60 is a fine earn. You don't really need to spend that much money in development. So they will always be in a plus when it comes to money.

You got any figures how much Starcraft 2 was in development + ads (there was a TV comercial in germany oO)?
60 million should be sufficient but i bet its a lot they blew to finish it.

That is just the beginning. Wait a year, and then tell me how much they earned, + I didn't mention DLCs and the two sequels :)

I hope they wont make DLCs for Starcraft 2, i cant stand those. I already dont like them splitting it into 3 parts. Just there to rake in more cash with less work if you ask me...

That's what DLCs are for. They might be released for Starcraft 2 as map packs, just like MW2 is getting theirs :)

I take no responsibility for what happens when they try that kind of crap on us...
I have high hopes for the map editor, if we are not allowed to use it...dont even want to think about it!

Really? There is no map editor for Starcraft 2? Man that sucks. I used to spend hours and hours with the map editor for Warcraft 3... I never made anything useful, but I tried some units out, and saw the capabilities of the game...

What? No, i just dont want to think about what might happen IF they dont include one.
Im pretty sure they know how the custom maps boosted wc3 and thus will try the same for Starcraft 2.

Dude ... what are you blabbering about , there is a map editor for Starcraft 2 .... how do you think people are making Custom games and custom maps ?
what about all those Censored by blizzard maps that people made ?

@Gyorn - you almost scared me there dude, I was all like WTF? No map editor? Glad that thing is settled now.
@BoneArc - I got it all now.

I reckon they should introduce different levels of chat filtering. Swearing is one thing, but there's stuff out there that's offensive without using curse words.

Plus, what will happen to the horsing around on Trade chat before servers go down for maintenance? Don't tell me they're going to crack down on our silliness- this is WoW, not school.

Just my thoughs MorbidFool.
If you ban word x there will be a new word y to replace it in no time. If you want to be offensive you will always find a way.
Besides, if you cant stand this kind of stuff stay away from the internet, you will find it every two clicks.

Or they could just censor the bad words being used in chat - that might help just a little bit :) And issue bans, I love that part :)

Those filters would have to be ultra restrictive. Lets take an easy example (hope im allowed to use that word here ;p):
Lets imagine the word 'porn' gets censored. People will move on to say 'p0rn' instead. Censor it too, it becomes 'pron', censor that too to get 'pr0n'...
In fact ive seen all of those on several occasion even without censorship and i doesnt even use whitespaces.
A filter getting it all would be strong enough to sever everyday talk by accidentaly detencting stuff. E.g (sorry i always take you Wowerine ;) ): Yesterday i met Wowerines ex, censored to Wowerine* **.

Whatever man :D Something has to be done, for our childrens sake... xD

Here's the thing. You can't limit every single little thing that goes on. This is an access source where as long as you pay a subscription fee, just about anyone can do whatever they please within said limits instituted by a said provider, in this case being Blizzard Entertainment. And even then,Blizzard cannot control absolutely the actions of every single player, and control its content to an absolute degree. You can't control everyone's behavior. You accepted that risk when you began playing a MMO. And not every single game should be confined within limits to have certain content. If that were true, books would never be written - most definitely certain books. Most specifically books that challenge God, books on erotica for women, books on sexual reproduction, books on the human body, books on human physio-chemistry, books that challenge societal norms like heterosexuality, books on topics more obscene than I could even fathom to ever write on a comment, and we'd all have to live in a totalitarian regime for that to be done. Grow up. Sure, stuff like this is going to happen. But as long as you're there to put it into perspective that your kids can understand - that "yes, there will be strange people in the world that will want to do that - that's why we avoid them". So then yeah, it's okay. I don't understand some parents sometimes. All because you see dirty sexual ads and advancements made by some sixteen year old girls on myspace doesn't mean that myspace was responsible for making those sixteen yr-old girls into sluts. Your daughter was a whore before myspace and is still a whore after myspace, with or without it - it wasn't the media that made her like that. It was your own damn fault as a failure of a parent. I just don't understand some of you people. Blame stupid media for some stupid shit that you yourself could very well have contributed to on your own. Take a good long look in the mirror some time and figure out who's really at fault, don't think too hard - you might go into a seizure and die. And we all don't want that. If you don't like such said behavior or words spokenin an online nearly open source multi-player video game - there were parental controls available through the WoW website and on the game. I bet you didn't even know that one? If you did - you wouldn't have said the things you've said. And if you still feel that it would not have been enough, and you don't want to deal with uncertainty, or the fact that you just simply refuse to support blizzard in its interpretation and enforcement of its own game's social policies - then don't play WoW , play a completely different game other than that one. No one is sticking a gun to your head and telling you to play and pay that subscription fee to that one video game. Much in the same way that no one pointed that gun to your head and told you to start smoking, you didn't have to start - and you sure as hell shouldn't have to continue. You knew all the risks, so why do you do it? It's because you're a moron and you expect everyone else to conform and accede to your demands and wants when you fail. And when you fail, everyone has to get butt-hurt along with you. And that screws everyone else's personal enjoyment, because you couldn't have yours or be responsible for your own. Sorry buddy, the world doesn't work like that. Should have put in a little more extra effort in thinking things through, and putting in the extra precautionary measures. No one is going to raise that dumb shit kid of yours - you have to - nobody else, but you. Go plop your kid in front of the computer and introduce him or her to Toon Disney, if you're that butt hurt that your precious values have been violated. I am not going to sit here and read your comment and see everyone else coddle you and console you, and I sure as HELL won't do so myself. Here's a very personal $%^& you from me to you to anyone whose beleaguered by the idea that something like this is trivial. Go eat a whae-burger with QQ-fries , and a Butt-Hurt-Tears soft drink.

@psypho - I sure can't respond to that. You just wrote it all :D

@psypho

The only person here getting butt-hurt here is your mom and she loves it almost as much as you love it when it's done to you ERP style. You're QQing over Blizzard laying the banhammer cuz now you can't get all weird and freaky in Goldshire anymore. Sorry, guess you're gonna have to get off your fat retarded ass, go out into the sunshine, lose all that unsightly flab around your tits and grow a personality so you can get laid IRL. But that ain't gonna happen cuz your dick's so pathetically small your mom thought it was a birth defect when you dropped outta her womb. Who's QQing now from all the butt-hurt?

Cracking down on public messages is one thing, but if someone is harassing via whisper, it's up to the victim to report that, it shouldn't be up to Blizz to decide if that was appropriate or not. It was a private message between two people. Unless one of them decides to make it a public issue (by reporting it, or moving it to public channels), Blizz should really stay out. I understand that this is their game, and everything you type DOES go through them. But just 'cause they can see your private messages doesn't give them the right to decide if they were inappropriate or not. Publicly, Goldshire needs to be a bit more G-rated, but when they start censoring whispers, they've gone a bit too far. And I disagree with censoring offensive Starcraft maps too. If you don't like whats in those maps, don't look at them. That's like saying "I don't like looking at boobs, so the internet should delete all porn."