I just played the PC version of Star Wars Battlefront online, and it took less than 30 minutes to discover a glaring mistake from EA. In Battlefront, like many online games, players can communicate with each other using text — and every match of Battlefront on PC has a chat room you can’t turn off. It wasn’t long until players turned chat into a pit of despair with vile insults and racial slurs.
EA spent millions on the new Star Wars game and didn’t filter racial slurs
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If you make video games that millions of people will play online together, and you forget to fix this basic problem that any kid with a Wordpress blog can solve, you really screwed up.
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