I’ve noticed that Funcom seems to enforce some rules and ignore others. On one of my servers, for example, I reported a clan for massive land claim abuse (lines of sandstone foundations underwater and halfway up mountains with no obvious plans to actually build there) and Funcom did nothing about it. Meanwhile, on a different server I had to change my character name because the joke name was deemed too offensive.
Let me get this straight: My naked barbarian with his massive shlong swinging in the breeze can knock out a woman, literally drag her back to base, strip her naked, tie her to an alter and ritually murder her to a pagan god by slitting her throat and watching the blood drain into a bowl, but the name Suq Madiq might offend someone’s delicate sensibilities?
He has a point tho and that is that this game is 18+. And while Americans have no problem showing violence they have a big problem with sex. It gets demonized. And you find those discrepancy a lot in video games.
Isn´t it strange that most players are ok cutting throats and murder every human npc in a video game but as soon as someone calls himself: s … my d… people get offended and call it a: “real life thing” while they are online?
I mean there is a lot I can get offended by but seriously a stupid name is just that. You will never see that person in rl. So whats the matter? Why do you even care?
But also reporting is a multiple step process, after you get the email saying “we hope this has been resolved” you have to reply and let them know if it has not.
Except that the ritual described above is also a real act “in real life”, condemnable, illegal but possible.
People find nothing to say about violence and brutal acts, there are many games, films and other content where barbaric acts are shown, on the other hand as our friend @Winthor says it so well sex or any allusion to it is taboo .
Our value system is biased, we find murders, shootings, killings in games, films normal but not nudity, strange, isn’t it?
