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>Those of us who remember looking through Duke Nukem 3D fan pages for a new, great map to play and share with friends know what we've lost here, and, to put it
by sprout 16y ago
>Those of us who remember looking through Duke Nukem 3D fan pages for a new, great map to play and share with friends know what we've lost here, and, to put it bluntly, it sucks. Every now and again you'd trip over a swastika, but the Star Wars total conversions, the Predator sound packs, and the maps based on Star Trek ship layouts were always a good time. Those days are behind us.
Only if you buy this shit. I've got a large library of games with minimal DRM and large modding communities. Graphics stopped adding to the experience five years ago. I am quite content to battle away on Age of Mythology, Morrowind, Neverwinter Nights, Age of Empires III, the original Jedi Knight, and a dozen others.
When I game at all. It's just appalling that people so casually accept censorship in this day and age. As Ars says, this isn't a simple matter of keeping the trolls at bay:
>There is also the matter of the rating: StarCraft 2 is rated Teen, and if Blizzard doesn't keep Mature-rated content out, there could be a serious backlash.
Good content will be banned to keep the environment at a teen level. This is disgusting, and make no mistake it is censorship.
- potatolicious 16y ago> "Good content will be banned to keep the environment at a teen level. This is disgusting, and make no mistake it is censorship." Actually, it's irrelevant anyways. Note that games have explicit disclaimers that online play is unrated by the ESRB and may be effectively higher than the game's box rating. The ESRB acknowledges and accepts this - games are rated based on predictable content (e.g., dialogue in singleplayer) and do not include unpredictable player-generated content within reason (e.g., people swearing in multiplayer). So, the whole ratings argument is bogus - SC2 will not suffer a ratings change even if its users distribute obscene user content.