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[–]UniQue1992UniQue1992 929 points930 points  (104 children)

There should be an option to turn this filter off, make it so it's on by default.

I fucking despise this filter, so many normal Dutch words are censored. Fuck this filter.

[–]aspen_2 301 points302 points  (41 children)

German words too! Enough / reicht - for an example..

[–]furry_cat 149 points150 points  (13 children)

Yeah I know. I tried to write fick once which in Swedish means "got". Got my fair share of censorship.

[–]Choltzklotz 111 points112 points  (1 child)

Fick your fair share of censorship *

[–]AblakeC 25 points26 points  (0 children)


[–]G0dsM0m 30 points31 points  (7 children)

Fick is German for Fuck xD that could be the reason

[–]furry_cat 11 points12 points  (3 children)

Yep, I know and I know :)

[–]SectorIsNotClear 13 points14 points  (2 children)

“Now, take your Wiener-schnitzel-licking finger, and point out on this map what I want to know.”

[–]Not_GenericMedic 6 points7 points  (1 child)

The ideal elite character. Damn, that'd make for a cool thing in the game.

[–]AggravatingMonk0429Enter PSN ID 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Holy shit... And also have Hans Landa for the Germans!

[–]tastickfan 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Aren't Dice Swedish?

[–]furry_cat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They are.

[–]dragonsfire242 188 points189 points  (21 children)

Because for some reason after world war 2 regular German words became “Nazi words” including but not limited to: Reich, Führer, and stuff like Kommandant

I guess DICE is just banning anything remotely similar, in a world war 2 game

[–]GodOfBenis 68 points69 points  (9 children)

Now now, we can't have people thinking there were Nazis in WW2.

[–]ShiftyShellback 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Why did I just read this in George Mcfly's voice? Now Biff.....

[–]StormTiger2304 11 points12 points  (7 children)

It feels like they're making fucking nazis a protected class.

[–]Littlejam1996 58 points59 points  (0 children)

Jetzt Reichs aber xD Yeah German is a really bad Nazi Language of course and everyone disagree is a Nazi themselves


[–]Definitely_Not_Frodoliberator best pistol 10 points11 points  (0 children)


[–]GarfieldVirtuoso 1 point2 points  (4 children)

Out of curiosity, I know that fuhrer means boss in german, does people there still use that word or after WW2 it got too associated with Hitler to use it?

[–]dragonsfire242 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s still a German word but I think Leiter is more common nowadays, but I’m not sure as I’m not a native speaker

[–]Mugiwara93 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Führer means more like "leader" or "guide"

It's still used today but people have some inhibitions to use it

[–]emanuxd11Enter Origin ID 69_Bully_Maguire 26 points27 points  (3 children)

You can't even type "Hitler"

[–]HelmutKahlid 27 points28 points  (2 children)

@%#!%! did nothing wrong

[–]emanuxd11Enter Origin ID 69_Bully_Maguire 46 points47 points  (1 child)

Why bother making a ww2 shooter if you think typing Hitler in a chat is offensive

[–]mb5280 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Because money.

[–]Clugg 18 points19 points  (1 child)

**%$! this filter*


[–]UniQue1992UniQue1992 16 points17 points  (0 children)

More like

%*&! $%!? filter

The filter censors so many normal words that you can’t even write proper sentences in-game.

[–]snuggiemclovinSnuggieMcLovin 53 points54 points  (26 children)

And yet they don’t censor 1488 or SS clan tags. I see them every game.

[–]KingFacocero 6 points7 points  (7 children)

What is 1488?

[–]snuggiemclovinSnuggieMcLovin 34 points35 points  (3 children)

Nazi/white supremacist symbolism. The 14 is for a white supremacist slogan, and the 88 corresponds to HH, “Heil Hitler.” They get used together and independently.

[–]AnimalMother880 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Damn am I glad I put the 0 at the end of my username.

[–]King_Kodo 8 points9 points  (2 children)

14 is for the 14 words, "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White children." 88 is "Heil Hitler" (H=eighth letter of the alphabet).

[–]Der_Henker777 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This can't be stressed enough!!!!

[–]Mertinaik 33 points34 points  (11 children)

Cuz Dice is afraid someone might write some triggering word like nazi or hitler in (supposedly) WW2 game.

[–]MiksteR_RdY 6 points7 points  (4 children)

Nothing about the Dutch language is "normal".

Source: My girlfriend's Dutch. Sounds like a German, an English person, and a French guy had a stroke and then fused.

Edit:// And no, German sounds awful too.

[–]realparkingbrake 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nothing about the Dutch language is "normal".


Edit:// And no, German sounds awful too.

You forgot the part about it sounding like they're trying to cough up a hairball.

[–]Km_the_Frog 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It doesnt make any sense. I can’t say fuck but I can say fuk. I can say piss but not shit. I can say im killing natzi’s but not nazi’s. Just fucking get rid of the filter and ban the children who are racist or harassing others.

[–]Not_trolling_or_am_I 8 points9 points  (1 child)

This was the epitome of the wierd "snowflake" attitude DICE had since the announcement of this game. Why can't this filter be client side is beyond me, it's just extra annoying steps to police something you really can't control.

[–]GiantCrayfish28 4 points5 points  (3 children)

I play on Xbox, so can someone tell me if “slurf” is censored?

[–]Tockity 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I have no experience with BFV, but you should check out FFXIV's filter. Censors words within words, across spaces, etc. And the words that it does censor seem completely random most of the time. I like to keep the filter on just for funsies.

[–]GomieGimmas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lol echt? Ik typ nooit in Nederlands dus heb geen idee... Welke woorden worden zoal gecensureerd?

[–]turdruffalo 999 points1000 points  (50 children)

There's a serious problem in the gaming industry concerning social priorities vs. profits. Just pop over to Blizzard at see what they're up to

[–]Quaser4Quntes 190 points191 points  (14 children)

It's not the whole gaming industry but mostly those corporations that try to protect the shareholders money. It just feels that way because those exact same companies have the biggest stack of chips to spend on game development.

[–]turdruffalo 46 points47 points  (13 children)

I hear you, yeah, the big companies have a huge market share and enjoy a tremendous amount of influence and profit because of it. They can literally afford to do the right thing and yet, time and time again, they opt not to. It's just sad. The world could be so much better. We could be so much better.

[–]Wilwheatonfan87 72 points73 points  (0 children)

Good news for Blitzchung in that situation is the Gods Unchained TCG owners matched the prize money and invited him to participate in their 500k tournament.


[–]Pancakewagon26 18 points19 points  (8 children)

dude that is a problem with every industry. Companies only exist to make money. That is their only concern, and it will only ever be their one concern.

[–]MartinspireMartinspire (flares should be nerfed) 8 points9 points  (1 child)

Or watch the latest South Park episode about it (S23E02 - Band in China)

[–]that_motorcycle_guy 9 points10 points  (5 children)

I think they don't want to be associated with anything bad that people can say in the chat...and I blame steamers/streaming for that. Just IMO. Because it is ridiculous, you can clearly hear your character say fuck but it's censored in the chat box. Makes no sense.

[–]Rumplestiltsskins 5 points6 points  (3 children)

I mean Bethesda's biggest games have china as the big bad guy and it hasnt hurt their sales

[–]Gracchus__Babeuf 8 points9 points  (2 children)

Yeah. The Thalmor are very clearly references to the Chinese Communist Party

[–]Quaser4Quntes 149 points150 points  (10 children)

If you want to write the German word for whole "ganz" or the German word for goose "gans" it's being censored aswell. Sometimes I feel like they just added a dictionary on the "feature" and set an algorithm to randomly pick words to ban.

[–]ukonkivi 68 points69 points  (4 children)

Whatever did Bruno Ganz do to deserve his name being censored :(

[–]Sike12 53 points54 points  (0 children)

He portrayed Hitler - there you got it.

[–]Jayrod413 33 points34 points  (3 children)

They literally did, word censorship is AI determined, they said so themselves

[–]cenorexiacenorexia 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yup, PS4 uses the same (or a very similar) annoying system. They seem to have one global blacklist of words which results in the German word "nicht" (="not") being banned because last I checked it's a sexual profanity in Dutch.

That has super annoying side effects because the PS4's chat system also replaces banned words with stars, leading to something like this:

"Das finde ich nicht schlimm!" (= I don't mind / I don't think that's bad)
becomes: "Das finde ich ***** schlimm!" (= I ***** mind / I think that's ***** bad)

Some other examples:
"Das hab ich nicht gewusst" (= I didn't know that)
"Das hab ich ***** gewusst" (= I ****** knew that)

"Morgen werde ich nicht viel Zeit haben" (= I won't have much time tomorrow)
"Morgen werde ich ***** viel Zeit haben" (= I will have ***** much time tomorrow! / I'll have a shitload of time tomorrow)

It can really alter the meaning quite significantly and is a big problem.

You always have to write that particular, very common word like "n.ich.t" or similar or rephrase your sentences to avoid it altogether. It's super annoying :/

[–]SwissCheese-Fugo 297 points298 points  (4 children)

But why would they do that if nothing happened at Tiananmen Square during 1989 involving students and military personnel

[–]Rollyoe 101 points102 points  (2 children)

I heard it was a peaceful gathering where they all voiced their love and support of the Chinese Communist Party. A man famously pleasantly talked to a tank in the street about his admiration for the party.

[–]MartinspireMartinspire (flares should be nerfed) 15 points16 points  (0 children)

A protest without tanks crushing the party isn't a real protest

[–]Azaj1 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I heard that people lined the streets with padding to reduce the damage that the tanks would do to the streets. What a thoughtful and peaceful time

[–]MadMan310 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This meme was made by the Xi Jinping gang

[–]merlins_beard_88 274 points275 points  (30 children)

Because money is more important than principles these days 🙄

[–]UniQue1992UniQue1992 70 points71 points  (2 children)

whispers Blizzard

[–]merlins_beard_88 27 points28 points  (1 child)

Is it April again?

[–]UniQue1992UniQue1992 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Let me check my phone!

[–]2lzy4nme 19 points20 points  (12 children)

I don’t think greed is a recent development.

[–]Quaser4Quntes 36 points37 points  (2 children)

EA is a NYSE listed corporation. What did you expect? A pepe the frog meme dog tag when you tbag a prone mmg player before knifing? I feel like most people don't understand who they are buying products from.

[–]Edgelands 11 points12 points  (0 children)

You mean like BF1 emblems?

[–]thegreatvortigaunt 16 points17 points  (8 children)

It literally always has been, that's how capitalism works.

[–]Hefty_BeatPreordered deluxe edition 24 points25 points  (3 children)

To be honest, history is not exactly DICE's strong point.

[–]ICA_Agent47 18 points19 points  (8 children)

The word "Trapped" is also censored for some reason while "Trap" is not. Makes zero fuckin sense.

[–]Z0mb13S0ldier 18 points19 points  (4 children)

Because Traps are gay and DICE wants everyone to be gay.

[–]UnSocial_Soul#MakeAirplanesGreatAgain 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Based and Redpilled

[–]EQUUSPRIME 117 points118 points  (4 children)

Because the game is playable in China.

[–]MuayThai1985 9 points10 points  (3 children)

No it isn't. You need to use a VPN to access the game from within China. You also can't purchase anything on origin from a Chinese IP address.

I know this first hand because I live there. I have a 100mbs connection but if I try accessing the game without a vpn my ping is over 300 on the server browser and I am not able to join any games. I also had my account banned 3 times (each time they reinstated it) because I tried to purchase origin access from a Chinese IP address. Ended up having to get a friend in Thailand to gift me BFV after my premier access expired.

[–]IggyWon 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Weird. I'm over in the Pacific region for a while on business and see dozens of Chinese in servers over here. More often than not if someone is obviously hacking they have a ping that more or less outs them as being from China (~140+).

[–]ASTRO99 39 points40 points  (3 children)

last time I couldnt even write numbers... first game of underground, everything was chopy af. am chatting with teammates and enemies

want to write my CPU model...nope cant post 4 numbers and a letter. ended up as giberish for some reason

had to type and space the numbers as words...instead of 8600K → eight six zero zero K otherwise it wouldnt let me post it.

[–]FoxxyMika 28 points29 points  (0 children)

That's just how offensive that CPUs existence is obviously

[–]urahawk 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Does Battlefield 1, a game about a war, have more censorship than Roblox?

[–]tsmeagain 91 points92 points  (0 children)

The new South Park episode "Band in China" sums it up quite well how corporations adjust their content to be China friendly. A must see.

[–]SteroyJenkinsSteroyJenkins 11 points12 points  (2 children)

From what I read months ago Dice claimed they used an algorithm to determine what words started fights in chat. Those words then got censored. As we can all see it led to some dumb censors.

[–]orange_jooze 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's what it is, but we can't let that stand in the way of outrage.

[–]pillliq 10 points11 points  (2 children)

dice can ban word ,can't ban chinese cheater

[–]LimJaheyTPSupervisor 45 points46 points  (13 children)

I've found that retarded fart isn't censored, I read the chatbox way too much.

[–]UniQue1992UniQue1992 35 points36 points  (7 children)

retarded fart, gonna use that now

Hey you prone camping retarded fart, why do you prone all game on the same spot with your bipod?!

[–]KarmaIsAFemaleDog 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Retarded fart @$$!@!@$ square

[–]DoctorNeko 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This reminds me of the old days of iRO. Bastard was censored in chat, but they had a weapon called Bastard Sword.

[–]Lobos1988 9 points10 points  (1 child)

'Inbred' is also uncensored

[–]MongrolSmush 15 points16 points  (0 children)

"Inbred retarded fart sniper" has a nice ring to it.

[–]hacksteak 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Moron is also uncensored.

[–]ComradeSnib 8 points9 points  (1 child)

Why is there a filter in the first place? Most people who battlefield aren't 5 years old.

[–]blerizzy[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Rated M game with censorship of words I can probably type in roblox

[–]MexiMcFly 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I know this is just a chat box in the game but I think people need to take a step back and look at the implications censorship like this brings, especially with protesters being thrown out of the NBA preseason games.

No one wants to piss off their Chinese overlords, and they are slowly starting to push their censorship into things that the rest of the free world enjoys. I think last I heard got whatever reason clash of clans and such does the same thing, but I forget the reasoning.

[–]Yrguiltyconscience 9 points10 points  (0 children)



Because EA is sucking genocidal, commie *ick, that’s why.

Screw freedom of speech and human rights, we gotta keep those Beijing money rolling in!

[–]Beta1548 45 points46 points  (1 child)

Tldr: EA gargles Winnie the Pooh’s balls

[–]MaelarionMaelarion 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Straight up gargling honey

[–]AleksandrosIII 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Because it's not a thing.


[–]thosememesrealsanitater 5 points6 points  (0 children)

EA doesn't even really have much of a market in China. Maybe they have future prospects in china

[–]MinuteRow3 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Your character is literally screaming "IM FUCKING DYING HERE, MEDIC!" while being fallen but yet you can't type that BAD F*** word in chat, what psycho even made this filter lol

[–]realparkingbrake 4 points5 points  (2 children)

You can't type Tiananmen Square Massacre because some folks use phrases like that to freak out players from China who play in servers in other regions, hopefully causing them to leave the server and take their game-breaking lag with them. Since EA cares only about filling servers and not about game quality, they try to filter phrases that people might use in this way.

I understand to some extent why a game company would use a language filter, audio or text chat in online games can get incredibly toxic. Anyone who was in the original lobby chat in PUBG remembers the nonstop torrent of racial slurs, deranged sexuality, barnyard animal noises etc. Ironically they finally turned off that chat because hack sellers in China were sending in bots with recorded messages advertising hacks, sometimes there would be three or four yelling over each other so nobody could hear anything anyway.

But it's always a losing battle, the punks who want to spew racial slurs in chat just alter the spelling and keep on doing it. Live admins had a way to take care of that, an automated language filter does not.

[–]Wyld0rc 26 points27 points  (0 children)

This feels like an opportune moment to dredge up the good old "right side of history" argument.

[–]Nihilisticlizard2289 16 points17 points  (16 children)

Why were you trying to write Tiananmen is the first place?

[–]IramainChrion 4 points5 points  (0 children)

To ensure they don't lose the market in China or other countries.

Companies, particularly gaming and Hollywood don't give a damn about your freedom to say what you want, bot if it gets in the way of that sweet, sweet communist china cash.

Look up the recent South Park shutdown.

[–]The_Average_Man1 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The word "helmet" is censored. You can't even talk about the cosmetics in this game.

[–]YAMUUUUUUUUUU 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Its to prevent complain and to sell the game in China. Its like the n word, in some country it doesnt matter but it still censured.

[–]meowctaz339 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Alright that does it I'm uninstalling this game. The lack of updates was one thing but supporting a regime that has killed millions and oppresses it's own people to this day is the final straw

[–]mjhs80 4 points5 points  (0 children)

How very NBA of them.

[–]Kiskikena 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah the filter is weird, the other day it censored me the word “shine” (I think it was, but if not it was another regular verb), and well I tried to say something to a squad member of mine and it censored the whole sentence but it let me say the words one by one (and well, it was regular communication for a game). Really weird filter

[–]thocerwan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I hate this false naïveté. You know why, just say it ffs.

[–]Lowblockify 3 points4 points  (0 children)

To be fair, most of the chat filter was done using an AI to detect certain words used by certain people to determine what words get on the lost.

The massacre is impossibly fucked up, seriously, but a lot of people do use it as a point of racism and not always in sincere consideration of what happened. I'd imagine once you get a ton of the [MAGA]BasedGodTrump guys doing it over and over in chat and outside the game where the AI pulls it's list that term was added.

Not an excuse for it, it's stupid as hell and we shouldn't even have the filter in the first place, but I can see why it was put on there. Hopefully they follow through with their months-old promise to remove but I doubt that.

[–]pillliq 4 points5 points  (0 children)

try free tibet

[–]Megamillionare22Megamillionare22 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s so you can’t ban the Chinese hackers

[–]Siffer703 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Another company bending its knee to communist China.

[–]J0shuaSC 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hmmm looks like EA is pulling a blizzard

[–]blerizzy[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In a rated M game of killing the other team, of desensitizing people of ending eachothers lives , I have to worry about saying poop or tiananmen. Really interesting.

[–]TacoMasters 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yeesh, these comments are braindead. No, it's not an anti-Hong King conspiracy. The issue is that the chat filter is overly aggressive for some reason and it has been this way since the alpha.

[–]TheMexicanJuanKilllerWhale 11 points12 points  (0 children)

u/tiggr_ we need answers

[–]made3 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Something is really wrong with the censoring in this game. I am German myself and as funny as I am, I wanted to write "Kraut" sometime but nope. Censored.

Friend of mine wrote a whole sentence about Apex and the whole sentence got censored.

[–]WearingMyFleece 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Kraut was used as a derogatory term, so maybe they’re worried about Germans today being abused by it. But then again it’s a WW2 game fighting against and playing as Nazis (who were called Krauts) but that don’t have any Nazi symbolism anywhere only Wehrmacht symbolism to avoid European laws... so idk.

[–]blankedboy 9 points10 points  (1 child)

How about “Free Hong Kong”?

[–]MookieFlav 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Works just fine

[–]HanstheHanz 4 points5 points  (0 children)


[–]andrusbaun 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Try Free Tibet :P it is censored as well.

[–]cubanjew 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's hilarious. You know DICE put more effort into the chat filter than the rest of the game when you can't even say the name of the person respobsible for the war that this game is based on (Hitler).

[–]WebDBA11 22 points23 points  (36 children)

Got to cater to the communist countries who don't want their dirty past exposed or chatted about.

[–]sasslfrassl45 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I imagine if Turkey was a major power that these corporations would be censoring the Armenian genocide.

[–]tfastBT7atCoMMUnisM 2 points3 points  (0 children)

China is coming for you

[–]GREDENIAND 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah, shit, here we go again...

[–]whitlink 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If I find out China is censoring what I write I’m going to be pissed.

[–]Evonos 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The filter is anyway bad.

Like a German serial can't write "Hitler" a USA serial / game copy can write "Hitler" and the german one even can see it.

Atleast the last time I tried it when an entire server was bored at waiting for people we fucked with the filter.

[–]McJeditorMcJeditor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ironic how soldiers in-game shout “FUCK!” every few seconds but typing it in the chat, no no

[–]hangaroundtown 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wow, i get banning Nazi imagery , but dam banning what you can say in chat ..... thats too far....talk about being Net Nanny on a violent game...what a bunch of hypocrites

[–]D3AD_M3ATFPSG PCmasterrace 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Go watch the latest south park episode they explained it fairly neatly

[–]GravelsNotAFood 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can someone explain to me the reason for the filter at all? You are playing a game, depicting war. The most horrific act we as a species have ever devised, and the worst global war in human history at that. Yet you can't even say Nazi? The name of the leading force of one of the 2 fighting factions? Does nobody else see how asinine that is?

[–]Gl4dius44 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dice and EA are sucking up to communist mass murderers, but they are so woke. Therefore everything is ok! Fucking boot lickers!

[–]muffinbears 2 points3 points  (0 children)

china controls all!!! worship the poo bear!!!!!!

[–]DEATHKILLA1989 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They bow to China

[–]LeifEriccson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You also can't type "suck" or "stupid"

[–]C_S_Preacher 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They have servers in China, that's why.

[–]OfGodlikeProwess 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pathetic kowtowing

[–]Lincolns_Revenge 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Game is rated PG as far as language is concerned, M for violence, and CB for "China's Bitch".

When the Pacific content comes out, you can bet your ass they will be careful not to offend China in any way involving their depiction of Japan or China's role in the war.

[–]brotherscro 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There was a time when people werent snowflakes and didn't have to censor anything smh

[–]dacherrybombiFlyAircraft 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The word “sucks” gets blocked. Like seriously DICE?

[–]Mattie_Fisher 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Delete this post or they'll deduct your social battlepoints.

[–]test_user005 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s been like this for a while I think it was to prevent people spamming it to try and kick enemy team members. Also suck is censored so its to prevent toxic behavior kinda like when overwatched changed gg ez.

[–]SweetzDeetzTheGrapeTrain19 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why do you need to?

[–]MuayThai1985 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can't say CCP either. I don't know why they censor this stuff when the game is banned in China anyways. Only people playing it are breaking Chinese law by using a vpn.

[–]furry8 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Wow - the company virtue signals that they care about womens rights and all races. But actually doesn’t

[–]cattygaming1Enter Gamertag 17 points18 points  (18 children)

Anything that is offensive in any way is banned.

[–]kylemk16 72 points73 points  (7 children)

But that's only offensive to the Chinese government. Censoring it is like censoring the holocaust because its offensive to nazis.

[–]cattygaming1Enter Gamertag 19 points20 points  (2 children)

I'm pretty sure holocaust is censored as well not saying I support banning words at all but that's the way dice has made it.


I think the main goal was plainly to get people to chat about the game and only that instead of angry bickering.

[–]blerizzy[S] 12 points13 points  (5 children)

Who’s to say what’s offensive? Where is the line drawn

[–]cattygaming1Enter Gamertag 16 points17 points  (3 children)

Dice. They probably didn't want the game banned in China.

[–]FireAngel2254 6 points7 points  (2 children)

Makes sense. China banned BF4 so I doubt DICE wants that to happen again.

[–]UniQue1992UniQue1992 6 points7 points  (0 children)

China's government and their control is a virgin country, I feel sorry for the people living there.

[–]Wyld0rc 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Right side of history btw.

[–]malonkey1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am offended by the concept of written language and demand that all text is removed from the game.

After I have finished making this reply, I plan to flagellate myself.

[–]Setesh57 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And I really wish typing "Tienanmen square massacre 1989" would get Chinese players disconnected, as last night, I had a match where a Chinese hacker went 234-1 due to aimbot and wallhacking.

[–]HappyCompyTW 13 points14 points  (4 children)

This & the recent Blizzard stunt are just more examples that multinational corps don't give a shit about anything other than their shareholders' profits. Just as Milton Friedman intended. Absolute cancer.

[–]sasslfrassl45 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Whenever companies get involved in politics, they lose money. The Blizzard boycott is proof of that.

[–]Brado_Bear 6 points7 points  (9 children)

I think 88 was censored too when I checked. Some dude had that many kills and was cheating and when I typed it I found out.

[–]xDeathlike 13 points14 points  (8 children)

88 is short for hh (8th letter in the alphabet) which is a commonly used number in the (at least) german neo-nazi scene (you can figure out what it means)

[–]Lobos1988 11 points12 points  (7 children)

Or... You know... A year

[–]xDeathlike 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Really, didn't know there is a year 88, guess I missed that! Next you're gonna tell me that it's a number or something stupid as that. /s

I was just saying why it is censored, not that I agree with censorship. FromSoftware censored character names in Dark Souls... when you had a character name containing the word "Knight" it became "K***ht".

[–]nordic_boiHOYskreien 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Damn it! We just lost our only way to combat Chinese hackers

[–]smilly08 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At times I do this joke and just write random symbols so ppl think I'm swearing

[–]NIGHTFURY-21 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Phucken....square massacre

[–]BadMilkCarton66 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hmm ... 🤔

[–]drew8080 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Band in china

[–]yauka 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Type "CCP" and it is also banned

[–]GotTheNameIWanted 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nothing should be censored in an online chat for a game. At the very least it should be optional. Absolutely ridiculous PC shit. So annoying.

[–]its__Magic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

***** MAN! BLACK MAN! .. .. ***** MAN! .. WTF!?

[–]Imperator461 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Guessing there’s a financial connection to some big Chinese media company somewhere

[–]BaphometMagni 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Controversy not permitted.

[–]Pic2144 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did you know you can't type "skyscraper" either

[–]RagoatFS 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ill add Tiananmen is the name of a place so its weird like censoring "Armenia" because of the Armenian Genocide

[–]Hozi250 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This can't be real right? EA is fully US backed and DICE is a US and EU company, how did this get into the system!

[–]SosaBabySixNine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wasn’t there something similair to this early on in the release of the game? Oh boy seems like they didn’t change much!

[–]OldSchoolSmurf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

EA collects cencored word from worldwide I guess, not paticulaly for China.

[–]HansMoleman679 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Shine is censored too

[–]Berge_Flow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fuck this filter! I have wonder what the hell is going on in BF chat that Tiananmen needs said though :D

[–]SeeJay_DZ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bowing down to the Chinese government so they dont get blocked out of sales in that country

[–]NitoAndTheFunkyBunch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"you got to lower your ideals of freedom to suck on the warm teat of china"

[–]ItsJustDash 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is one of the things that just made me turn my nose up to the game and still bothers me is the overbearing censorship.

Since I finally bought the game, I sometimes just try to find out what stupid words are censored with friends while we do stupid one liners in chat seeing what is censored and what is not. The other day I found out Vape is censored. 10/10

[–]osamas_goat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cause it didn't happen

[–]Xebbey 1 point2 points  (0 children)


[–]DatBoiDanny 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Censorship in a rated M for Mature game

[–]LeDerpZod 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because its not real silly. [NO FURTHER QUESTIONS]

[–]glitchyGUN11 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What can't you type?

[–]RobitMonkyMadmanRobotMonkyMadman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It never happened

[–]cola-up 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So like this isn't on purpose it's just a bug in the filter. I mean it does suck ass so it makes sense.

[–]Stupeetdoonoo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I cannot believe the word "poop" is censored. Wtf.

[–]Merax75 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is actually a really good question. Amazing how far this has gone with the video game industry bowing to Chinese authoritarianism.

[–]DoughAlphaOne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just another American company selling out to the Chinese censorship.

[–]ShaggyGotSauce 1 point2 points  (1 child)


[–]blerizzy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)