It's been a bit of a lackluster year for commercial MMOs. What has there been so far? Star Trek Online (STO), Global Agenda, and the ill-fated All-Points Bulletin (APB). Star Trek was only half-finished at release, Global Agenda less than half-finished, and APB set a new record for MMOs, shutting down its servers less than three months after it released.
On the other hand, single-player titles have been on fire. Single-player gamers got Mass Effect II, StarCraft II, and Civilization V, games that dazzled, pushed gaming boundaries with innovative play, and, quite simply, redefined their respective gaming genres. MMO gamers? They got blah.
Final Fantasy XIV fans can now properly benchmark their PCs and check out some of what's coming to their game this summer.
Richard writes: Final Fantasy XIV Online on Xbox is built for newcomers.
The Xbox profanity filter is currently ruining the readability of the FFXIV chat on Xbox Series X/S due to censored words.
Lol, damn... At this point, they were better off keeping FF XIV away from Xbox. It has been nothing but obstacle, after obstacle.
I'm not convinced this is the profanity filter. It doesn't make sense to censor words like class, harvest and dance. It seems to be a bug.
Yeah these new fangled filters are going a bit too far. I have a game that filters "wtf". It's a censor for a self-censoring phrase. But I think overall it's how it should be. If you don't want certain language being used in your game by your player base, then it's up to you to filter/ censor the language you don't want. I can respect that. What I can't respect is when you say things that are not really offensive then you get ostracized for it.
This is completely false, I tested this on my son's child account and mine, this is not Microsoft censoring they will censor swears but not the combination of letters I can prove this with a screenshot where I use all mentioned words in the article but do not know how to upload a picture.
Good article, though. : )