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Hey why was Cruel Confinement changed to Cruel Limits?
This is a small thing but, was it just that they didn't like the name or what? o3o
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The Original name could have lead to many "triggered" posts. BHVR just reeled in a new mass of players, and didn't want to take a chance of alienating any of them with a scandal like the infamous "Tracer's Butt" Blizzard had to deal with in regards to Overwatch. Triggered people will find any excuse to be offended, and are often offended very easily, but when a game company makes a goof in a naming convention, intentional or not, the Triggered will scream at them to change it. Quite honestly, I think they could've at least waited a few weeks to see if the Triggered would raise their voices or not before changing it, because the implications of Cruel Confinement's name reminds me of Horror movies like Hostel, Silence of the Lambs, REC, Saw, The Ring, etc... All featuring characters getting placed into small rooms where they are abused, tortured, murdered, and can't escape.
The concept of the perk is to lock survivors in by cutting off the majority of their escape routes, so the killer can corner, harm, and murder them without them getting away easily. I don't see much difference between those horror movie situations, the definition of Cruel Confinement, and the games intentions for it. In a horror game context it actually works in favor for the games genre, and doesn't come across offensive to me. Now if a perk was named something VERY offensive and out of context like [BAD WORD], Dead Baby Joke, or [BAD WORD] then I could completely understand how people may be offended.
(apparently I can't write all of these examples here, not because they have swearing in them, but because they insinuate things that might get me banned... best example I might get away with means the same thing but has to be censored to "expire by fire" and even that may be pushing it. hopefully you get what i'm getting at. sorry devs if that's going to far, i'm not aiming it at anyone, just trying to make my example clear).
Heck, I'm actually surprised the triggered aren't offended by this game itself. like its "Depictions of Violence against women", "Lack of LBGTQ representation", "Sexism in regards to how the majority of Female killers have a slower base speed than the Males", or "Lack of Tall Female Survivors and Short Male Survivors." Hopefully I didn't just give "The Triggered" ideas that will inspire them into action... but who am I kidding? I probably just unintentionally ruined the DbD forums forever. sigh...
(Seriously guys, Please don't riddle the forums with Triggered responses, even as a sarcastic joke.)
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Offensive name.
Apparently, the name "cruel confinement" was relatable to abusive ownership of living beings such as animals or humans.
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So we'll stick meathooks through them, but putting them in cages is a step too far?
Seems logical.
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I fear for the future. I really do.
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We shove hooks through their chests, brutally slash and stab them, suck off their heads, eat them, electrocute them, shove axes through them, give them diseases that are so bad they physically hurt, break their feet with bear traps, slice them with chainsaws and snap their jaws with RBT's, but the name is offensive like ######### xddd
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it was a very unnecessary nerf to the name, agreed :P
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Don't forget maps with literally dead animals hanging around
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What are you basing this on? Who from Bhvr said that?
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Google search Cruel Confinement, and see the results you get. I believe that's what BHVR was worried about. Much like how we'll never get The Creeper from Jeepers Creepers as a licensed killer, because of the directors criminal history that BHVR wouldn't want to associate with their game in any context, much less give royalties to him for the license.
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So you have no actual proof? I'd like to hear it from them directly rather than speculation.
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