Guild Wars 2

So, the language filter is quite… unique in Guild Wars 2. The above word is “Reputation”, but since puta means female dog in Espanol. Whenever I type the harmless English word, the four letters are covered with the filter stars.

I do not know how the language filter is setup. But you would think that if my language is set to English, and my country is in the United States. The filter would not censor words with another language curses.

Anyone else agree/disagree?

Disable the profanity filter in the game options.

Ignoring a problem doesn’t make a problem disappear.

was hilarious in GW1 when the word assassin was filtered out considering that was a name for one of the classes..

Darkobra.6439:

Ignoring a problem doesn’t make a problem disappear.

What? Its a filter done by a program, its never going to be perfect because its programmed by humans. And removing the filter is not ignoring “the problem”, it is quiet literally making “the problem” disappear.

Togashi Jack.9531:

was hilarious in GW1 when the word assassin was filtered out considering that was a name for one of the classes..

Ah the good old “I’m an ******in” in GW1, fond memories.

I often get baffled when someone says “I can’t write that” and I am like “you sorta just did and I saw it just fine”. But then I realise some people might still use the profanity filter.

I honestly think this so called “profanity” is nonsens, people can be really nice and friendly spewing a little “profinity” without any harm to anyone, and people can be extremely mean and rude idiots without a single swear word.

Often I will say why bother with the filter (people that don’t seem to mind the swear words, and even use them and don’t realise the filter can be turned off) But sometimes someone have decided to turn the filter off and then proceed to be offended when someone uses “bad” words. To those I would like to say… if it offends you so much use the filter.

I have no idea how extensive or what the filter is, but since I actually want those that seem to be offended by a few words to use it, it would be nice if a thing like this was not an issue. I think.

A profanity filter is like a burglar alarm. It does what it does. But, relying on it to the exclusion of everything else will cause issues down the road.

Case in point: the OP’s title.

I know that here in the forums the filter can be quite funny.

Lexandro.1456:

Darkobra.6439:

Ignoring a problem doesn’t make a problem disappear.

What? Its a filter done by a program, its never going to be perfect because its programmed by humans. And removing the filter is not ignoring “the problem”, it is quiet literally making “the problem” disappear.

And it can be CHANGED by humans. The problem has been brought forward to be changed by humans.

People have the profanity filter on for a reason. You’re saying that to fix something broken, you must either live with it or throw the baby out with the bath water.

Nice try. 2/10.

Human make errors, no program will ever be error free when created by a human. Its a none issue. Your making a mountain out of an ant hill. The game has more fundamental issues needing resolving.

More like make the profanity filter unable to be disabled. If the head honcho of a cutthroat band of aerial pirates is using “crud” and “noggin” for potty language, then obviously GW2 is rated 4+ and any unfiltered cuss must be met with permaban.

And you’re, once again, saying “Ignore the program’s flaws because it’s meant to have flaws.” Then you followed it up by implying it takes a GREAT DEAL OF TIME AND RESOURCES to change a CENSOR!

Halt the Living World team! The censor team needs reinforcements IMMEDIATELY!

You obviously know nothing about coding, because changing a language filters definitions can be absolutely bloody murder at times, even when the coding is impeccable.

Again you are making an argument just to argue. Its a none issue. If you dont want chat filtered for possible profanity, turn it off. Either way the likelihood of it changing any time soon is slim to none.

You say I know nothing about coding, yet you assumed it’d take a great deal of time, resources and even the game’s updates to entirely stop to change this. You assumed that the people working on textures are going to stop working on the new Lion’s Arch to go help with this. You assumed the story writers were going to leap on board to help.

They have designated teams for this. I suggest you educate yourself on the matter or continue your trend of covering your ears and singing loudly so it no longer exists. Either way, it’s not your call to make what they spend their “valuable resources” on.

Darkobra.6439:

You say I know nothing about coding, yet you assumed it’d take a great deal of time, resources and even the game’s updates to entirely stop to change this. You assumed that the people working on textures are going to stop working on the new Lion’s Arch to go help with this. You assumed the story writers were going to leap on board to help.

They have designated teams for this. I suggest you educate yourself on the matter or continue your trend of covering your ears and singing loudly so it no longer exists. Either way, it’s not your call to make what they spend their “valuable resources” on.

No you assumed all that. I neither mentioned it nor assumed any of it. I stated quiet clearly that coding is not easy and will never be perfect. Nothing more nothing less. You really should stop making all those kinds of baseless assumptions, it does nothing for you.

That reminds me of the silly GW1 word filter, when you couldn’t even write the name of one of the enemies in the game: kitten ed Cleric.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/kitten ed_Cleric

Surprise, surprise, the forum filters it out too. That is kind of silly guys, it really is.
Should I write Danged Cleric instead? Dang!

That’s America for you. For some reason that particular word is considered an expletive in the US.