Try to label a chest “Demon Blood”, game says you can’t use the word “blood”. Label the chest “Demon Bloods” and all is well. How does this make any kind of sense?
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Not mention that being unable to use the word “blood” in a name, where the game graphically depicts you chopping off people’s heads and blood spilling all over the ground… well, that’s ridiculous.
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You’re not the first to recognize how ridiculous word filters have become in the futile pursuit of not offending the perpetually offended, and you won’t be the last.
What platform are you on, by the way? I’m guessing console. Someone reported similar issues with the word “cloud” not terribly long ago and I think it seemed to be an Xbox thing.
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Oh, Bloody Hell.
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I am indeed playing on an Xbox.
Glad I’m not the only one looking at my screen and going “What…Seriously? I’ve got my boobs out in the open for everyone to see, but I can’t name my chest Demon Blood?”
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This is a limitation Microsoft placed on the console.
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Just makes me look a microsoft and say “But why though?”
Like, the game’s rated M for mature. Let me be mature, xbox!
I don’t even know what you guys are talking about… This must be some kind of regional thing…
Oh… heh… it fits…
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What’s bizarre is the warning message even spells “blood” incorrectly. There is something really borked here, Funcom.
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“Biood” huh. Sounds like something messy. And smelly. 
What about Bloood? Can we name it that, Microsoft? Or is that still too bad for a mature game?
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Or Blud?
Body fluid of the circulatory system! Or just sanguis 
While I don’t think there is anything Funcom can do about this…
It is hilarious that one is censored from using a word that appears in the game itself.
I’d grumble about the nanny state, but in this case it’s nanny corporations.
Of all the absurd evils M$ engages in, they have to take the time to not let people use naughty words, as defined by Alex Comstock and the most repressed of Victorian pearl clutchers.
I’mma gonna go enslave some people, sacrifice others to my floating head on an octopus butt that I worship (it kills people by defecating on them), all with bosom (or, if one doesn’t have the US Puritan version, dick) out. But we mustn’t type out a non-slur for a bodily fluid.
Of all the things I may side eye Funcom for, I’m fairly certain this is not their fault and there is nothing they can do about it.
Edit: However, on the forum at least, the word starting with a T and referring to mammary glands is verboten.
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(I have to download multiple pictures, because the forum filters even the name of the pictures…)
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To be fair, I think its a default word in the Forum’s template. Funcom didn’t exactly create the forums from scratch. There’s quite a few weird censored words and I think the guy in charge of them has removed some of them already.
And I think he might consider removing that one if we all promise not to be sophomoric about it. There’s a few people with RL trollfaces right now, and they know who they are. 
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A promise not to be sophomoric while a polite gesture, I think we both know would ring a little false.
I mean, as a whole, and not just this forum, but the internet in general, has all the decorum of a 3 year old being denied candy. Only in brief moments of rare self awareness able to not respond to any given stimulus in the way most similar to a pair of slackers from a Mike Judge MTV series in the nineties. I’m not saying I support censorship (and yes, I know the difference between a private forum and public venue), especially when it lacks certain internal consistency, but… creating an expectation of maturity to go with the easing of restrictions means those restrictions probably are going to out live us all.
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