Punkbuster 'language filter'

[Strega]

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If you can't handle foul language, get off the f*cking internet. If you are a child/minor and your parents don't want you to see that kind of language, I think there needs to be better parental control. Hell, you can cuz in EverQuest, and you can play it at age 13. You don't get auto kicked for it.

[Lugal317]

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Its all that PC crap. You can't swear, but you can kill. You can't show a nipple, but you can show people boning under the covers moaning and sweating. You can't say c*nt, but you can say b*tch (TV). Its just crap that makes people feel better about their parenting skills. Oh... BF2 is okay because it has a language filter.

BS, if you are worried about your child being "exposed" to explicit content you shouldn't be living during this day and age OR you need to lock him/her up in his room with no internet, no tv, no radio, no access to the outside world. P.S. everyone playing this game or everyone that allows their child to play this game should be responsible for knowing that it comes with crude violence AND harsh language.

[FLIPINOM4D]

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down with teh Filter!

[mikezrocks]

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Ive been kicked 2 times for saying WTF stupid spawn campers! and a fue times for saying real cursewords...anyway It should be set that you can only block real curse words

[exho]

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Language Filter = Lucifer

[Desertfox]

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im 14 and I play it dont bug me :-/

[RAF92_Warhawk]

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There is just no need for a language filter in FPS

[whoster69]

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In my opinion the one thing worse than a bunch of jerks swearing all the time is the language filter. I'm against this kind of censorship.

[imported_Soda]

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I hear people always swearing online or at school. It doesn't offend me in any way even if it's towards me, but I just don't like hearing swear words. They just seem unacceptable to me, especially in a school environment you hear someone swearing at every corner. I agree that PB filter is a little rough, but I guess it teaches people not to say bad words.

[tcp1]

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I swear, good or bad, I get kicked a lot for it.

[Robske007a]

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In a post i have read, 'to promote teamwork, it's good that they turned on language filtering' hmmm, lets compare that with real life activity, lets say in Irak, when the american troops encountered enemy fire, what will they say: "O sjeez we got enemy fire friends" or "holy sh!t, enemy tank inbound, find some cover" "f!ck i'm shot!".

[Robske007a]

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I'm glad to see that my thread survived, I haven't seen it in a while, and people keep voting :p and the results are visible, more then 75% of the BF2 community wants that annoying filter away.

[Bildungsroman]

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i agree,its ok to kill somone but you cant say penisasshorse****er, if u are to much of a mommas boy to hear swears get the hell away from an online fps, i hate that excuse oh its for kids, the only ppl i know dont like swears are religous freaks and gays, u dont see our soldiers yelling at ppl calling them a silly poopoohead, why not put a black bar over the guy when u shoot him that way u wont see violence, un****enlievable

[Xanthias]

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The problem I have with non-filtering a server is that people get too much of a kick out of abusing the ability to use words like that. We've had a couple people see how much crap they can say before they get kicked. A couple people are very talented and can say ALOT in 10 seconds!! :-x

[Regent]

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This argument is so tired... You're entering a server which you don't own, and therefore your first amendment rights have been left at the door, period. Most gamers have trained themselves to watch the server chat, and believe it or not, they don't find the torrential downpour of profanity in most servers to be entertaining. Much less if they've invested the time and money required to setup and admin a server. People trash server admins for being short with them, but they might want realise that the BS gets old soon, and you're just not that special. Most mature people just want to play the game.

It's very much like having a party at your house. You extend an invitation to some friends, and tell them to bring theirs. Well, it's a party, so we're gonna have some fun! As usual, some jerk goes too far with the "fun", and distracts every person in the party with the ensuing screaming match, and ejection. That's what it's like to have some foul-mouthed jerk show up and distract everyone from the game with their antics. It annoys people. It's not funny. Adults, on average, don't like it. It distracts people from the entire purpose of the game, which is to engage in a friendly competition, and have some fun.

I'd like to imagine that every person who posts a rant on this topic is 12-16 years old....but I know that just isn't true. How would you like it if you invited some friends out to an R rated movie with your family, and one of them kept shouting obscenities at the screen? Don't you get it? Online gaming is a SOCIAL SITUATION, and you may want to exercise a reasonable amount of restraint, especially as children may be watching the screen, if not playing the game directly!

And before you say kids shouldn't be playing the game... they do anyway. Server admins can't prevent children from entering the server, but they can control what goes on once they arrive. Hence the need for a profanity filter. I don't know what further explanation could possibly be necesssary. Grow up.