Donât know why it just popped up, it never felt in place. First time I read it I was like âokay, this is a first and only time I heard thisâŠâ
Regardless, this change affects nothing but consistent language being used.
Again, this was never mentioned. Not a single mention anywhere in the change that this was because of it being a bad word for the kid.
Misogyny, itâs still deeply ingrained in loads of players.
People are coming up with their own reason. Nowhere was it said that they removed it because it was a bad word for the kid. They removed it for consistent language usage reasons.
First we need to look at the category of a product.
WoW is a PEGI 12 game with Violence and bad language.
According to PEGI classification:
And, in this particular case;
The important question here, for me at least, is whatâs a mild swearing and whatâs a sexual expletives?
Mild swearing could be for example the expression âDamn it!â thatâs widely use in World of Warcraft. Meanwhile the expression âBastardâ or âBiâŠâ could be classified as a sexual expletive.
Personally, Blizzard gets a big Bruh from me but comes down to interpretation.
Nowhere was it said that the word was removed because it was a curse word, bad word or a bad word for kids.
Itâs literally stated why it was removed: âit stuck out from other language in the game.â, not because of the reasons everyone is throwing in here.
WoW is Rated T for Teen, A curse word fits ans fine. aNd it fit garrosh hsi character.
And the game much woorse then a curse sword genocide, slavery, racism,killing massacaring innocents for the lols(dk starting zone) and thats just a few examples
Iâm more about the WAY they did the feedback and did something, so basicly a few thousend players would call for a change collectivly (no feedback from Devs from twitter), but one guy and his kid gets to change a thing in the game
You know, Iâd actually rather they removed it because of some half arsed attempt as wokeness rather then one of the developers not wanting his kid to hear a bad word, all while letting him play a game that is clearly marked as being unfit for his age.
Mass murder, torture, chemical warfare , genocide and the implication of rape are all fine but a devs kid hearing a bad word is the real evilâŠ
Letâs try to be rational for a moment. The gameâs instances of dropping insults such as this one can be counted one hand. I personally only know/remember this one.
It actually makes more sense for it to be removed, but I also agree with the post saying it was a missed opportunity replacing it with âwitchâ, but I suppose that wouldâve meant more work.
Yeah wow Rated for Teens and up + it has a mature language filter.
If that devs dint want hsi kid to hear a curse word in wow the filter is for a reason And if its under 12 then its theit fault aswell as the kid shoudnt even be playing the game yet.
And if a single curse word is so bad then kid shouldnt be allwoed to go otuside or watch tv or use internet either as are much more outhere and much worse thingsâŠ
This is something that always makes me smile when we see complaints about wow about any aspect, itâs not the violence or the killing that is upsetting itâs that there is a bad word, or a gay character etc.
Itâs marketing.
You, as team member of Blizzard, give the impression that you and your family play the game together; the game is a family investment, a moment were they bound and enjoy.
You give the impression youâre sensible to controversial and that the team is working to âmake the game betterâ.
You listen to the most little and insignificant feedback, even if that feedback comes from a kid.
Therefore the product should be family-friendly and others that feel identified by those values will play the game as well with their kids.
