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A small moment in gaming history (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/2northamerican4you@sh.itjust.works
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/33911926

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[–] 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

XBL's auto-censored word list was (and maybe still is) wild. If you have any PC ports of Xbox games from around the 360 era, there is a chance the plain text file that contains the list is in the installation folder somewhere (IIRC, Dark Souls Prepare to Die Edition has it). Bans were usually automatic if you had any of those words anywhere in your profile, and it included "gay."

You also couldn't put shit like "Halo sucks." You could put "Mario sucks" or "Sony sucks" but any disparaging comments about Bill Gates, Microsoft, or any of their IPs would result in an error.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago*

    Working for Xbox this list was so God damn funny. It's not just words like "shit" or "fuck" it's the various permutations someone might use to get around the filter too so you just see things like "hitler", "hiiiiiitler" "hitttttttler".

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Dark Souls also censored the letters 'nig' in the middle of any words. In a game where half the npcs are called 'knight something', your character would end up being called 'k***ht character'.

    The solution is to change your language, create your new character using your knowledge of what the menu items are, and change it back again once you've got a savefile. Top coding, there.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago*

    That's also how the XBL filter works. I am pretty sure they literally just copy and pasted Microsoft's code for it into theirs and didn't change a single thing, which is why it has the XBL filter txt file in the first place.

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