Wii U

It actually was a Microsoft thing that caused the entire-message censoring. You could tell if it was Microsoft or Sega's system by how your message was censored.

Sega used the same language filter they've been using since PSO. It was also present on the PC and PS2 versions of PSU. If you said a censored word, it censored just that word. They too had some really funny censoring structures, such as the word "idiot" being censored. Episode 3 of Phantasy Star Online has the censor saved client-side, so you can actually still see the the filters in effect if you play that game offline and type out words (even though there's nobody to hear you.)

It had long been suspected that the entire message censoring was from Microsoft when one week, the censoring suddenly got significantly worse and many more words were added to the filter. PSU GM Edward confirmed in no uncertain terms that it was not Sega that had put it in, but Microsoft, and that they were working with Microsoft to get it resolved. A week or 2 later, it went back to "normal".

You could definitly see the difference if you were on the PC or PS2 version of PSU, where you did not have Microsoft's added filter, and thus did not have to worry about your ENTIRE message being wiped out.

Akaimizu posted...

Actually. Microsoft didn't do that. Sega was the one that did that. They were incredibly crazy with censorship on their PSU servers. It's exactly one reason that Voice Chat was almost a MUST with PSU, if you wanted to communicate with folks.

What made it worse was that they censored various slang that might be seen as offensive in other languages which may have no meaning for you. So in that respect. Even saying something like Microsoft Xbox or something meant you crossed one of those slang expressions whether it is inside the word or separated by spaces, dashes, or commas.

Heck. For a while, SEGA even censored many numbers. So for some time, I couldn't even talk about my PM model number. PM - Personal Machine which was an assist machine you could take with you on quests.

You couldn't even confirm something with someone by saying, "Got it!"
Why? Because there is a T, followed by an iT. So Tit was out of the question. So much for Tat.

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The word "kill" is inappropriate too. Tried to use it on a comment on the CoD: BO2 board.
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Arn544 posted...

Just to add, it's not privately owned either.

[Citation needed]

Pretty sure it's owned by Nintendo.
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CranberryPSO posted...

It actually was a Microsoft thing that caused the entire-message censoring. You could tell if it was Microsoft or Sega's system by how your message was censored.

Sega used the same language filter they've been using since PSO. It was also present on the PC and PS2 versions of PSU. If you said a censored word, it censored just that word. They too had some really funny censoring structures, such as the word "idiot" being censored. Episode 3 of Phantasy Star Online has the censor saved client-side, so you can actually still see the the filters in effect if you play that game offline and type out words (even though there's nobody to hear you.)

It had long been suspected that the entire message censoring was from Microsoft when one week, the censoring suddenly got significantly worse and many more words were added to the filter. PSU GM Edward confirmed in no uncertain terms that it was not Sega that had put it in, but Microsoft, and that they were working with Microsoft to get it resolved. A week or 2 later, it went back to "normal".

You could definitly see the difference if you were on the PC or PS2 version of PSU, where you did not have Microsoft's added filter, and thus did not have to worry about your ENTIRE message being wiped out.

Hmm. That is definitely strange. The first time I've ever seen Microsoft ever step in on how a game handled messaging to each other. I wonder why no other games, that had text message, ever got that treatment? I'd like to smack whoever decided to give PSU special treatment, on that one.

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banjo kazooie posted...

Arn544 posted...

Just to add, it's not privately owned either.

[Citation needed]

Pretty sure it's owned by Nintendo.

From everything I'm reading if it's on the internet accessible to external sources, in this case wii u owners then it's public

Also why do you need citation? It's a corporation you can buy stock, NTDOY is one of the symbols in fact I own shares of it.