Curse

Schorny · Jul 01, 2005, 08:29 AM // 08:29

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Originally Posted by Navaros

Guild Wars has the word Wars in the title

wars are all about killing other people and committing all kinds of atrocities

anyone who does not have the stomach for seeing a few bad text words in a video game should not be playing a game with the word Wars in the title

Sorry, but I'm not a 12 year old boy. I'm grown up. I can argue with someone and not insulting him. I can fight someone and congratulating them when they win. I'm grown up enough to see the difference between a game and rl.

I don't want a 12 year old boy to call me names just because I'm from europe and he is from the US.

I really can't understand that. Of course, many people are dumb. But it is NOT OK to call people names, curse on them etc. just for nothing. I mean, if I see for example see europe hold the Hall and it says just one more win and then an american team resets the counter by winning: of course I say "ah, **** it" But I don't curse the europe team for loosing or the american team for winning.

It's like sports: you wouldn't want all 'fans' of the different teams gang up and fight each other, call each other names and stuff, would you?

So please grow up and understand that it is not OK to curse other people when they haven't done anything.

And yes, the system as it is, makes things worse

I hate it when you play Tombs and all you hear is "****ing european" and such stuff... The koreans are better - they only type korean and some of there letters look funny. But I also have seen european teams curse the americans.

It really make me sick. In a grown up world (If I refer to the word "grown up" I don't mean "older than 23" but "people with a grown up mind, that don't behave childish") the WaW System would be great. But these bad words flooding around, it is really bad...

I got tired of telling people to stop saying "**** these koreans" after they won the HoH. I did it a few times, but I'm sick of talking to such people.

I don't want to sound too negative: when playing with my friends, guildmates and most random groups - everything is fine. But I play tombs only with local chat off.

eventhorizen · Jul 01, 2005, 09:10 AM // 09:10

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Originally Posted by Aloren

I don't think it's the worlds at war system that has the problem, but rather the human race in general. Any nationalistic/racist attitude has the capacity to turn down the wrong path. That being said, friendly competiton has been going on in the real world for a long time. The Olympics seem to be a petty good example of this.

I personally think of myself and those around me not be nationality, but rather as a human. I hate the idea of dividing a race by invisible borders/skin color/belief systems/etc..

Yet thats exactly how each every one us has our lives moulded. To be fair religion has kind of reached and past its stage of being a key discriminatory factor, as has skin colour, but borders?

Each and every one of us holds dear the ideals that all humans are born equal. Its what our most celebrated icons have taught us, and what our leaders and forefathers and creators of our society devoted their lives and efforts to improving upon. The constitution of the USA says something about all men being equal in the eyes of God. For 2000 years Western society was christian society, and the bible preached the exact same thing.

Yet where a person is born determines what kind of life they will have, what opportunities or hardships their life will encounter. Where a person is born directly determines how long they will live and their quality of life, it directly determines what diseases they will or will not die from.

You say you do not like to think to think of mankind being divided up by race or borders, but that is exactly the life we live, and considering Western society has been the richest, most powerful society since oh about egyptian times and that our countries have been DEMOCRACIES for 100's of years, whos fault is that?

Dont preach bullsh1t, thank you very much.

Christ67 · Jul 01, 2005, 09:25 AM // 09:25

You all should listen to Lenny Bruce sometime. He had some quirky ideas about racism that deserve to be heard today.

DrSLUGFly · Jul 01, 2005, 12:02 PM // 12:02

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Originally Posted by Schorny

It's like sports: you wouldn't want all 'fans' of the different teams gang up and fight each other, call each other names and stuff, would you?

you mean like football? (soccer)

unfortunately skin color and religion are nowhere near being phased out as discriminatory factors. When I lived in Canada, I suspected that they were both on the way out... but once you cross the ocean and get real world news instead of just North American "world" news the picture is entirely different. Likewise, visiting a few non-white countries (if you're white) or any country where you're a visible minority also clearly shows that our species is still all chained up with fear and xenophobia.

As for religion... as long as it exists it will promote intolerance, this is a guarantee. Our civilization is nearly 10,000 years old, maybe older... we outgrew our need for religion like 600 years ago yet it clings to us like a diseased parasite. The sooner we grow up and be done with it the better.

Mayar third Keeper · Jul 01, 2005, 03:02 PM // 15:02

Can anyone rember GW befor the WaW system? We were ONE Community and we were so tingly about GW and how it grows. But now we are just "Europen losers" "American dumbasses" and "f****ing Koreans"

The reference to Real life is the point. The whole system would change if they uncouple the WaW "realms" from the real world realms and give them ingame names, as mentioned above Grenths follower or such.

This would adjust the number of players on each realm and stop the RL obscenities. But this would not stop the challenge!

salja Wachi · Jul 01, 2005, 03:35 PM // 15:35

the answer to that is pretty simple, next time you see any of that garabge in chat take a creenshot and send it to A-net with a complaint. thre is no room in this game for ignorant people to spew racial, religious, or anything else ofensive to others. you would be doing a great service to the game but most of all to other people playing the game by sending a screenshot and getting these useless "people" banned.