Chat Censorship is Utterly Insane

Sticks and stones.

I'm sure there is some tiny fringe minority of players that are extremely vocal about complaining when anyone says or does anything that remotely offends them, but the correct response is to tell those people to gtfo the internet if they can't handle something as powerless as words.

The overwhelming majority seems to hate this bullshit. Literally every single person I've asked about it in game, irl, and even here on the forums.

No one wants it to be this way. Everyone thinks it's stupid and terrible.

Why is this not at least a filter you can disable if you choose? It makes no sense.

The only explanation I can think of is that Canada as a nation doesn't seem to believe in freedom, and that maybe they have some atrocious legislation that BHVR is forced to be in compliance with? But no one I've asked knows if that would be so, idk.

I like your funny words magic man.

The fact the player can't choose to say "no thanks BHVR, I'm an adult, I can handle seeing words you don't like." is absurdly stupid.

It's one thing for BHVR to have their absolutely ludicrous levels of censorship in their chat filter. Overzealous, ridiculous, needlessly behaving like a moral busibody? All that and more, but sure, maybe some particularly weak and pathetic, emotionally insecure people really do appreciate having that. Go for it.

It's another thing entirely to have such an overreaching and restrictive system of censorship, and to NOT ALLOW ANYONE TO DISABLE IT.

That's extremely controlling, oppressive, and tyrannical. Unless you're dealing with literal children there is zero justification for not allowing people to turn it off if they want to see what other people are saying.

Seriously BHVR, who the hell do you think you are? What right of yours is it to control what I'm allowed to see? What business is it of yours what I choose to say to other players or what they say to me? Yes you made the game, but I'm the one playing it with someone else. Not you. Neither of us care what you think about what we say.

If they do, they can leave the filter on! Just put a disclaimer in when you disable it "if you choose to disable this filter, you are taking responsibility for your own emotions and you will not be allowed to submit reports about toxic chats" or w/e.

Again, my problem is not with the filter existing.

You can try fruitlessly to babyproof the internet all you want. Knock yourself out. My problem is that you won't let us choose anything other than your censorship.

But will anything be done about it? Will anyone from BHVR communicate to us the community, about this issue?

People involved with BHVR have seen it, hell one of them edited my original post somehow. Maybe it was a moderator or something sure, and I know mods most likely are not employees, but they have community managers and they have the time to talk to people about pictures of their cats or w/e.

I'm not saying that I alone am somehow special, but if you have someone like me who makes a thread about an issue with the game they feel passionately about, and it gets like a page full of people responding and upvoting one another's comments all saying that they agree and hold the same opinion about this issue, how is this not something that community managers should respond to?

What are you and I as members of this community meant to think about the community managers whose job it is to read and engage with issues raised by the community?

If I'm to be charitable and try not to presume malice i.e. that it's specifically because I am being critical in my framing of the issue, I'm left to presume ignorance/incompetence.

I'll probably try and verify that it is one or the other directly by making another thread about this putting everything as politely and simply as possible, just, directly asking for comment about the chat filter and its aggressiveness.

So far no one has touched this issue aside from editing my original post for me/without my consent, so I can't say I'm optimistic.