Game name contains reserved or profane words

Trying to make a game and it keeps giving me ^^the error... I tried making game from play btn and lobby create with asdf / asdf, to no avail. Anyone else started getting this bug recently??

I did for the first time a couple days ago. Ultimately had to close d2 and battlenet app (ctrl alt del). Then could make games again.

I once did Nightmare

Andariel runs for an SOJ (didn't get one btw). And when I came to run 1488 I got the same message. Turns out that 1488 is some kind of Nazi number. I didn't even know numbers could have political opinions, but there you go.

KeepHammering wrote: 2 years ago

Turns out that 1488 is some kind of Nazi number. I didn't even know numbers could have political opinions, but there you go.

14 relates to an unscientific and badly written social manifesto by a group of people wearing bedsheets and 88 is related to praising a questionable historic figure from Austria with a distinct style of haircut and beard. Happened to me with

Travincal runs as well and i'm quiet ok with it.

Also, i perceive a decline in racist slur and hate speach ingame, compared to the game 20 years before. Maybe it has something to do with the average age of the ppl playing it.

Blubbalutsch wrote: 2 years ago

14 relates to an unscientific and badly written social manifesto by a group of people wearing bedsheets and 88 is related to praising a questionable historic figure from Austria with a distinct style of haircut and beard. Happened to me with

Travincal runs as well and i'm quiet ok with it.

You're right, of course. It's just a number. I just hope none of my favorite numbers decide to become nazis.

Blubbalutsch wrote: 2 years ago

Also, i perceive a decline in racist slur and hate speach ingame, compared to the game 20 years before. Maybe it has something to do with the average age of the ppl playing it.

That's hardly fair. People back then didn't know what hate speech was. How were they supposed to avoid it? Also I think that Bnet is just as cunty today as it was back then, which is to say not a whole lot.

I dare say that perceived decline is because the explicit-chat filter in-game is bugged and always on even after disabling it so you can't see said speech.

Not sure what US servers looked like back in the day as it was pre-global but comparing my experience 20 years ago to the interwebs today...today is far, FAR worse. Like..it's not even a contest. And that's not even counting social media.

That's probably why I enjoy this here little blissful .

Io community so much.

Blubbalutsch wrote: 2 years ago

Also, i perceive a decline in racist slur and hate speach ingame, compared to the game 20 years before. Maybe it has something to do with the average age of the ppl playing it.

Schnorki wrote: 2 years ago

I dare say that perceived decline is because the explicit-chat filter in-game is bugged and always on even after disabling it so you can't see said speech.

Not sure what US servers looked like back in the day as it was pre-global but comparing my experience 20 years ago to the interwebs today...today is far, FAR worse. Like..it's not even a contest. And that's not even counting social media.

That's probably why I enjoy this here little blissful .

Io community so much.

I think the average age of the player base plus a contemporary social environment that's more aware and considerate of others are contributing factors. It's not acceptable to say things that were regularly said 20=25 years ago and many people playing this game aren't trying to be edgy, counterculture teenagers or young adults anymore. Players don't find it pleasant to be around people who are insufferably ranting about dumbass shit that's false, misguided, and irrelevant to this game.

There was a neo-Nazi on Americas SCNL that I came across in several

Baal run games a couple of weeks ago. The guy clearly couldn't take a joke when other players would comment that his character name was sus (it was) and I found out one of his mule character names was not just sus, but should have been a bannable offense. Guess those word censors don't catch any German, do they, ATVI? Anyway, he predictably went on unhinged and unprovoked rants about blacks and Jews during games. The guy was a pariah by way of being an absolute failure of a human being. I haven't seen him around anymore and I can only assume or hope that he's been dealt with.

All that said, I found that example to be the exception. It was such a rarity that I had to question whether I was actually seeing what I saw. That's unlike 20 years ago when calling someone a racial or gay slur (or even just calling something "gay" for no damn reason at all) was a regular occurrence online.

I had this happen to me last night, just exited and relaunched the game. Weird that it happened on a pvt game with no name.

zZorceressTraderz wrote: 2 years ago

I did for the first time a couple days ago. Ultimately had to close d2 and battlenet app (ctrl alt del). Then could make games again.

Thanks that worked for me, never seen it before til tonight.

KeepHammering wrote: 2 years ago

People back then didn't know what hate speech was.

You have to be joking or an idiot to think that...

i find it stupid if 1488 is a 'improper' number.. if words and numbers keep getting banned, soon in 1000 years time no one can say 1 word without offending someone.. almost already there.. just ridicolous

Illusions wrote: 2 years ago

i find it stupid if 1488 is a 'improper' number.. if words and numbers keep getting banned, soon in 1000 years time no one can say 1 word without offending someone.. almost already there.. just ridicolous

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