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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.
What happens if you say things that used to get you banned on Twitter e.g. 'a man can't be a woman'?
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.
Well, FF14 itself has some pretty awful chat censoring so Xbox being in the same boat isn't too farfetched
it censored the S T D in "harvest dance" and I bet the A S S in class. I know this because of Runescape
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.
You can all continue your bashing, I was wrong someone explained to me this is a new policy, that's why it only happens for me in this brand new release. I'll try latter on ps to confirm but their response seemed informed wich leaves me rather worried for future censorship on my xbox.
It's not xbox, go ahead start a chat with the youngest person on your friends list then say raid mass class sass said .... they do not censor any of these I even got away with R.Aids. sqaure on the other hand does.
I can't even buy this game right now, seems like it's unavailable everywhere and the digital downloads are still halted. Awful start by SE for a game they already messed up once.
*Edit* I am sorry for the wall of text. But people are talking this game down for little to no reason. It needed to be addressed.
This is FAR from a "awful" start. Their problems consist of crowded servers, which is a good problem for them to have. Though it is definitely an annoying one for people who want to play.
It is hard to log in due to the high volume of people playing. Or you cannot create a character on your selected world as they are over full.
The ONLY bug with the game, I repeat ONLY bug with the game is the Duty Finder (IE Instance finder) doesn't work well. It takes anywhere from 20 min to 3 hours to find an instance with it.
This is an awesome game. It plays fantastic, it has a great story. Everyone who can play it seems to love it and the only thing people are upset about is the inability to play due to over crowded servers.
Look at other MMO launches, and you will see this is one of the best launches of an MMO ever. Hell, just look at the launch of 1.0 That was one of the WORST launches in MMO history. WoW suffered worse, SWOTR, Rift, Tera, FFXI, EQ2... I can go on.
They should have had the problems fixed after todays update, however it didn't work properly due to them having "Conservative" expectations. They added 3 new servers and increased capacity on every world. However it still wasn't enough.
Again, not a bad problem. People obviously want to play this game. Though, again, this sucks for consumers like you who have yet to be able to buy the game.
However you can more than likely find a copy if you look well enough. I went into a Gamestop on Sunday and saw some regular PC and PS3 copies. But try the stores you wouldn't normally go to. Like Sears, or Walmart. Or even Target. Try FYE if you have it in your local mall. Just call around. It shouldn't be that difficult.