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    Nov 5, 2013
    Azidonis posted a message on Reaper of Soul First Look: Westmarch Bestiary
    I thought Deckard Cain was the last of the Horadrim...

    Who is this Lorath Nahr, and why is he playing like new Cain?
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    Apr 25, 2013
    Azidonis posted a message on Mature Language Filter
    Quote from shaggy

    Quote from tanis0

    I curse all the time in my personal life, but I don't swear at work and I rarely, if ever, swear in print in any format. It's not like you can't express an idea without doing so, so why pick this particular fight?

    Quit it with being reasonable.

    You know very well that everything Blizzard does has to be met with EXTREME OUTRAGE.

    @OP
    Get a life. If you don't like it go play PoE and leave us the fuck alone.

    Funny how you ask me to leave you the fuck alone. You would say the same thing in-game, would you not? Of course you would! And that's my point. Should I report you for that? NO!

    As for the 'personal life' thing, is gaming not included in 'personal life'? Should we all need to be on our best business manners in order to kill hordes of fantasy demons?

    You know, I'm done with it. Some of you fan boys are too brainwashed to even carry on a valid discussion about this subject.
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    Apr 25, 2013
    Azidonis posted a message on Mature Language Filter
    Quote from DeepThought

    Quote from Azidonis

    That said, whatever happened to, "Hey John Doe, this is Game Master Bootlicker from Blizzard. We wanted to let you know that you are getting complaints for your overuse of obscenities. Would you mind toning it down a bit?"

    And John Doe replies, "Sure thing."

    A 30 second conversation instead of just waving the ban hammer. Abuse of authority, imo.

    Is this really how you imagine this exchange going down? The GameMaster respectfully asks the player to calm themselves, and they politely respond "Yes m'lord!"?

    In my mind a more realistic scenario is the GameMaster respectfully asking the player to calm themselves, and the player impolitely calling the GameMaster a s*&$c*#! and telling them to f&$% themselves with a cactus before complaining about not yet finding their Crit Chance Mempo and the fact that their login credentials got stolen when they were purchasing gold from a third-party site.

    Considering the maturity level of many of the players who frequent the Battle.net forums, I'm not surprised that the default position for a GameMaster is to hand out a temporary ban, especially when the user is obviously in violation of a clearly presented rule.

    I love how you made up some wildly immature teenager to help represent your claims.

    Again, I'm assuming an adult level of maturity here. The OP that I linked the blue post of demonstrated it aptly. That you would cite some random 12 year old mentality as an example of why Blizzard should ban first, communicate later, is a symptom of a greater problem - that is, bad parenting that allows these little kids to play the game in the first place.

    Again, why not just remove the language filter altogether, and go back to the #%@ - instead of giving ADULTS the ILLUSION that it's okay for them to say what they are thinking in a MATURE RATED game?
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    Apr 25, 2013
    Azidonis posted a message on Mature Language Filter
    Quote from xspeedballx

    The game is not Adults only. The game does officially allow Teens to play. You can argue all you want that most teens have seen, know, and say bad words. However it is not yours or anyone else's right to expose them to those words, or concepts(words are more than words after all). You also assume that everyone over the age of 18 that plays WoW/D3 also plays games and watches movies with sex and swearing. That's a fairly narrow viewpoint.

    By and large private communication is not moderated. So if you are in a guild of adults and want to swear, you can, and you can turn the filter off to see it.

    "Online Notice: Includes online features that may expose players to unrated user-generated content (Macintosh, Windows PC) "
    http://www.esrb.org/ratings/search.jsp

    They were warned.

    If you are naive enough to think for one second that the people playing this game (and we must assume they are all 17+, or Blizzard is in violation, right?), have not been exposed to a little profanity, then you might need a reality check.

    Not only that, but as I said earlier, the game itself has mild profanity included in its shipped dialogue. Thus, anyone who has played the game even through Normal, and watched all of the cut scenes, has indeed been exposed to some profanity.

    But, you are wanting to talk about degree maybe? Maybe "damn" is not as "bad" as "shit" or "fuck"? Give me a break.
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    Apr 25, 2013
    Azidonis posted a message on Mature Language Filter
    Quote from xspeedballx

    Mature Language filter exists for people to filter out language that they prefer not to see when people decide to break the rules and use it any way. If you disagree with the rule, you are perfectly free to go elsewhere that does not have that rule. You are also free to argue for why the rule should not exist. You are even free to break the rule, and then get punished for it.

    This is Blizzard's angle, sure. That the filter is there only to protect the innocent little eyes of the adults who otherwise play games with Mature Ratings (with swear words programmed into the game's dialogue!), watch porn, action movies, and political thoroughfare. And when they decide they are strong enough to turn their filter off, and expose themselves to a couple of choice words, they get their pants in a bunch and want to cry to daddy Blizzard.

    It's ridiculous. Support it all you want. It's simply ridiculous.

    I'm offended by people who are offended by other people's language choices.

    If Blizzard is going to treat it in that manner, they should remove the Mature Language Filter completely, and let us go back to seeing !@%@#%@#%^@#%#@%
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    Apr 25, 2013
    Azidonis posted a message on Mature Language Filter
    Quote from tanis0

    While I tend to agree with you, this is the general policy of every large video game's official forums I've ever been on. The response is always that the mature language filter is there to "protect" people from those who break the rules, not to invalidate the rule.

    Have you ever been to the GGG forums?

    I mean, I understand if someone is cussing every third word.

    But, if someone say, is doing MP10 ubers on hardcore, and gets killed by a lag spike, you would probably expect them go run off at the mouth with a stream of obscenities.

    Not only that, but the game has a Mature rating. I don't care if people playing the game are underage - they shouldn't be.

    That said, whatever happened to, "Hey John Doe, this is Game Master Bootlicker from Blizzard. We wanted to let you know that you are getting complaints for your overuse of obscenities. Would you mind toning it down a bit?"

    And John Doe replies, "Sure thing."

    A 30 second conversation instead of just waving the ban hammer. Abuse of authority, imo.
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    Apr 25, 2013
    Azidonis posted a message on Mature Language Filter
    http://www.diablofans.com/blizz-tracker/topic/259415-account-suspended-for-bad-language/

    I had to laugh at Blizzard for this, but I genuinely feel bad for the player.

    What's the Mature Language Filter for anyway, if not to let people filter out language they would prefer not to see?

    And on a game with a Mature Rating...

    +1 more for Path of Exile
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    Apr 22, 2013
    Azidonis posted a message on Patch 1.0.9 Preview, a dream...
    I was really enjoying it right until I read the words "account bound".

    D2 has zero account bound items (0), and works just fine, but D3 players seem to think that account bound items are the way to go.

    If the system is actually fixed, no account bound items are necessary.
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    Apr 11, 2013
    Azidonis posted a message on A Paragon Level 100 Bonus
    Quote from Nodnarb

    Just thought I'd start a topic to see what you guys think would be a cool bonus for reaching PL 100. (other than what is given already of course)

    I personally would like to see an extra active and passive skill unlocked... I think this could be game changing.

    Being a WW barb I think being able to Leap or use Rend would make for some fun...heck maybe even having call of the ancients along with my current build could be sweet!!!

    I thought being Paragon 100 already carried bonuses?

    This thread is just more proof that the "entitled" people will constantly want "MORE".
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    Apr 10, 2013
    Azidonis posted a message on Kripp and Alkaizer talk about Diablo 3
    Quote from Diablofan0815

    Plus, the experimental playground called Path of Exile has no balancing whatsoever, the major reason why all the kidz praise it.

    This is something the D3 team does not understand. The game does not have to be balanced. The only reason to try and balance it at all is for PvP, which actually matters so little that it's not worth it to balance around PvP in those games. Add to that, the fact that neither game is made to be an e-sport, and the whole idea of balancing anything goes out the window.

    The skills, abilities, and specs should all work, and be viable in some way throughout the entire game. Sure, some builds will be outliers, but that's just part of it. PoE accomplishes this well. D3 fails at it miserably.
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    Apr 10, 2013
    Azidonis posted a message on Kripp and Alkaizer talk about Diablo 3
    Quote from Bagstone

    Well, guess what, whenever I see these "uber players" like Kripp and co. they play the same stupid boring builds that everyone and their dog is using,

    You are talking about the type of guys that INVENT the builds that everyone uses, complaining about how they are using the same builds as everyone else.

    Derp.
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    Apr 5, 2013
    Azidonis posted a message on Should AH's be removed from Diablo 3?
    Quote from ruksak

    Just thought we'd take a sample from our fine website to get a feel for how the players feel on this issue.

    Remove them both, imo.
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    Mar 29, 2013
    Azidonis posted a message on Jay Wilson: Auction Houses 'really hurt' game
    Why is Jay Wilson still allowed to even mention Diablo 3?
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    Mar 3, 2013
    Azidonis posted a message on Who is Travis Day
    Well, the guy has a degree in "Political Science, Philosophy, and Economics". Beware. He could probably talk you into spending more money.
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    Mar 1, 2013
    Azidonis posted a message on Travis Day On The Salvation of Diablo 3
    Quote from Catalept

    Hell... it's about time.

    Yes. I kind of like this new LD.

    Doesn't seem like an f-ing loser.
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