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Champions IS on a death march: http://bit.ly/ZmbMW 10/26/2009 |
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The Tragic Story of the Cussing NPCs : http://bit.ly/ZmbMW 10/19/2009 |
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Very interesting read imo RT: @mkerstein: interesting read: http://bit.ly/ZmbMW 10/19/2009 |
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Kill Ten Rats —
... Elder Game is one of my favorite MMO blogs, and each post is worth its weight in gold (especially at about 12 a year). Eric gave me a morning chuckle hypothesizing the creation of Champions Online’s profanity filter such that the filter started attacking NPC text. When NPCs are saying stuff like ““put that $#@*^!& a pine box” what do you think the normal MMO player replaces with the censored text? I think that would be a fantastic April Fool’s joke for an online game. Create a “censor bot” that replaces a few words in every ...
You’ve Got To Curse At ALL The Players!
Broken Toys —
Eric Heimburg at Elder Game on why superheroes have potty mouths.
Jim in QA gets tasked with testing the new profanity filter. He doesn’t know how to make a test plan, and Marty the engineer didn’t have time to make one for him, so Jim just loads up the game and starts typing in cuss words. It seems to work. But he knows that he needs to file a bug on the feature. When QA is in trouble, they always file a token bug on each feature if they can. That way they look like they’re working. (In fact, you can tell if a QA department is borked by how many ...
Random Shots: Link Of The Day
Bullet Points —
The big link that's making its way around the MMO blogging community today comes from Eric from Elder Game. This month's post (I kid!) takes a poke at the oddities in Champions Online's profanity filter. Very funny stuff. But like his prior post about the game, a little disturbing as well. In his post, he posits a chain of events that might lead to the hilarious implementation of a profanity filter that is so far reaching that it even standard game text is expurgated. That's the funny part. What follows, though, is his ...
The hardcore language (filter) of Champions Online
Massively —
... - and NPCs! Eric Heimburg over at Elder Game ran into some NPCs having their rather harmless (read: written by game designers) chat censored out due to the crazy filters. Based on his experience, he proceeded to spin an amusing tale of how he suspected the design and testing of that particular feature might have gone down to leave it in as ...
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Rainbow MMO! —
The Elder Gamer has a great, and oft linked to, story up on his blog about the profanity filter in Champions Online and how it has effected even NPC characters. ...
Champions Store gets retconned
Don't Fear the Mutant —
... ever happen again? The whole thing is a serpent’s nest of potential conflict between Cryptic and the players. And I’ve lost all faith in that the devs have any clue what they are doing. I am not saying that this is all a conspiracy, that this has been planned all along and that prices of retcons in-game was kept high to pave the way for the C-store option. Neither am I saying that this will “kill” Champions Online, I think the retcon will sell and probably quite well. I’m not all gloom and doom . But I do believe that the current development team is showing signs of being ...
“It’s easy”
Psychochild's Blog —
... Unfortunately, this attitude doesn't apply to just players; sometimes developers can fall prey to it as well. Eric over at the Elder Game blog wrote about a profanity filter gone wrong. I ...
