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Wraith of the Lich...Qu**r? WT*? When Censoring just gets F*cking Ret*rded.

Category: Default Game: Default Posted on May 05, 2009 10:03 pm


As I just so happened to stumble onto Yahoo this morning, despite the fact that my job bans everything fun on the internet, I managed to type MMO in the search engine for news and find the most interesting thing. Apparently, Star Wars takes personal offence to being referenced to in a homosexual light. Yes, because how Jedi’s adopt little boys under their wing to call them Master isn’t questionable at all. Now, anyone who might of stumbled onto my personal blog on this site might just notice my certain taste in entertainment. While I refuse to acknowledge whether my sense of fun is purely a joke or an actual peek into my personal life (Where is the fun of telling?), it still amazes me how corporate censors still fly off the handle when trying to ‘cover up’ the wonderful world of ‘omg, He iz the gayz?’.

Back to my point, Star Wars Online declared and censored terms that are considered questionable at all. Excuse me while I point and laugh at this. Any 12 year old who has cable TV can make a dirty joke, gay or otherwise, about any mannerisms, words, speech, text, pictures, or relationships involving anything, but the catch is, that as long as the intent is sexually referring to intercourse between a male and a woman, or at the very least two hot chics, is completely okay and not frowned upon in the least bit. My guess is that even two ugly chics are okay, since these kids have never seen a real boob,outside of their sister and mother, in their life before anyways.  While the rest of the straights are completely allowed to giggle and ogle half naked digital girls in game (that are mostly played by other men in the first place) and chuckle on the sexual overtones in their quest lines, God forbid you make a comment about any ‘fencing’ or ‘long camping trips’ before one too many lines turn into an uncomfortable arguement about cucumber like objects where something happens to if it's played with too much.

Star Wars isn’t the first to take matters like these. As mentioned before, and recently in another article around this site, Warcraft got into plenty of hot water, banning guilds that claimed themselves to be LBGT friendly, but I’m sure after reevaluating just how much gay porn goes on in their RP servers, as anyone who has RP’ed in Silvermoon can tell you, they might of promptly taken back their statements with their tails between their legs. (*insert another gay joke here*)

Personally, I believe that instead of wasting efforts on trying to ‘Stop the Spread of the Gay’, game developers should concentrate on the other evils of online social interaction. Why not focus efforts on…Gee, I don’t know, stopping 30 year old men hitting on underage girls, showing up at their houses, and getting busted by cops for trying to reenact Japanese porn? Oh, and trying to stop the gold farmers? Fixing your glichy games and putting out new content that is actually interesting? Yes, I’m sure that the ‘Gay Fear’ is much more important. Assholes.

 

comments ( 12 )

momocowwy
Post Time : Sep 09,2009 12:56 pm

some games developers are putting gay stuff in their games not hints  just come straight out and say it forgot the name but theres a quest that involves a dad who doesn't understand y his son won't get married and at the very end guess wat his father still loves him :[ some ppl could learn sumthin from that

censoring dun bother me too much tho i like to make into a game "let's see how many bad words i can say out loud and not get censored"  great game everybody can join in :D

Aspharatos
Post Time : Sep 02,2009 10:20 pm

Combat Arms has the worst censor in the world, heh. There is actually an option to turn it on/off, but you could only do it from a config.ini, which is now encrypted (probably so you couldn't turn blood on/off either). Basically "We cant even say sniper!?"

Globalastro
Post Time : Sep 02,2009 7:50 am

lushy:

"It's pretty messed up how words get censored like that. Honestly, outside of completely racial hate slang (N*gg*r, H*nky, Sp*c, so on), you can't just band random nouns and adjectives. There should be an optional filter for all games to be able to turn those on and off and of course, a block feature. I shouldn't have to watch my private conversation because rated T games want to be douches and win the heart of parents who are stupid enough to buy their kids an x-box live account and video games without reading what it's about or take not of the forced rating displayed on the box."

and yet, these are the same parents that came into the blockbuster i work at to buy Grand Theft Auto 4 for their 5 year old children.  After explaining to the parent that the game is rated M and the reasons, they said "oh well, they want it"

the world we live in currently is totally backwards, but i guess there isnt much that can be done about it right now. 

Coming from a gay mmo player, i would like to thank you for this post.

Keldius
Post Time : May 17,2009 11:15 am

In FFXI there is a Language filter  you can turn it on or Off when you turn it on they censor like 10 word or less

AkatsukiSwordmaster
Post Time : May 09,2009 4:32 pm

Haha. nice job with the article lush. lol.

@invasion I read your comment and I like how you pointed out the good players were NON-ASIAN 

adults. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL. YOU 

FAIL.

Keldius
Post Time : May 08,2009 11:55 am

Like I always said too much censorship Kill the censorship where is the free expression in that where is the freedom soon we wont be able to talk at all I,m exagerating Maybe not its start slowly

Invasion
Post Time : May 07,2009 3:28 am

 Its meant to protect you from yourselves. A game would only employ censorship when it needs to, which is pretty much the case in most online games where you find immature kids spamming all sorts of vulgarities and stuff. I play World of Warcraft and it doesn't censor anything because it doesn't need to, reason being most of the players in there are (non-Asian) adults who show a lot of respect even to enemies of opposing factions.

Lushy replied at 7:35 pm May 08,2009
But the problem is that you're targeting one of the sexual preferences to 'tone it down', but you leave all the other borderline porn up as long as it's straight porn. It's like say 'okay these 2 guys going at it is fine, but these 2 guys and a GIRL, is perfectly okay for everyone."
DemonLudmilla
Post Time : May 07,2009 2:37 am

Did you try out Sociolotron? the graphics aren't the best but you can do pretty much what you want there

Lushy replied at 7:34 pm May 08,2009
Because....I like to play a game.
thedarkdonut
Post Time : May 06,2009 5:24 pm

Good job on the article.

Lushy replied at 7:32 pm May 08,2009
Thank a lot
Meaut
Post Time : May 06,2009 2:44 pm

AMEN TO THIS BLOG! Best one so far...you should feel awesome right about now for speaking up about all this nonsense. I want to be able to log into a game and see half naked men running around..but I cant..only boobies..sigh..

Lushy replied at 7:31 pm May 08,2009
lol I just think it's retarded to want to play all sweet and innocent when parents and retards complain about the 'gay', all the while leaving blatantly sexual jokes and suggestions that are straight around still.
KingBabar
Post Time : May 06,2009 12:29 pm

I agree targeting the "gay spread" is very offensive and just shows how shallow and greedy these game companies are.  Make the game and stfu about anything else.  especialy blizzard they need to just burn.

Lushy replied at 7:30 pm May 08,2009
Like I said, Blizzard, on an RP server, There is so much gay sex around there, that you might as well oil up your asshole before logging in. It's stupid for them to try to say 'that's wrong' or 'it's for the kids sake we do this' when they have have naked, titty showing avatars and more quest lines that make big dick jokes than I can count.
sdhf
Post Time : May 06,2009 11:34 am

to much censhorship is retarted >.< i remember trying to play some game the other day and type in "I had to think long and hard about which skill to choose" and it said "Please dont use bad langauge". Now which part of that is bad?? im guessing the "long and hard" part.... but its just annoying. The worst game to chat in would prolly be runescape. the last time i played a few years back after pressing enter all i saw was the **** **** ****** *****? he said to ***** ***** 

Lushy replied at 7:29 pm May 08,2009
It's pretty messed up how words get censored like that. Honestly, outside of completely racial hate slang (N*gg*r, H*nky, Sp*c, so on), you can't just band random nouns and adjectives. There should be an optional filter for all games to be able to turn those on and off and of course, a block feature. I shouldn't have to watch my private conversation because rated T games want to be douches and win the heart of parents who are stupid enough to buy their kids an x-box live account and video games without reading what it's about or take not of the forced rating displayed on the box.