Basically how it works is that Microsoft has a automated system that recognizes inappropriate words, not allowing you to put in a normal name like you have at the moment.
The only thing that you can do is to change one of the letters into a number, this will confuse the system and allow you to select the name you wanted.
For example I wanted to make an account with the name, MyKneeGrows. This was not allowed due to the similarity of the word Negro.
So I did the following: MyKn33Gr0ws
In game language we all know that the number 3 represents the letter E.
Iād try putting your name down like this
BumbI3rTV22, and see if that works
The L is now an i so you have 2 confusing numbers for the system.
Good luck
You might find it annoying to see your name written with numbers, I hate that as well.
But note that 90% of the gamers will read your name as Bumbler, with no numbers.
Hello everyone! This is my first post in the AOE forums, I hope I donāt do it too badly and that we can solve this together.
So after the last update for the game, Iāve had my player name (Fatuous Lord) censored, and now shows up as a bunch of asterisks, like this: **** *******. It has happened in every single match after the update, and thereās seemingly no end to my problem. As far as Iām concerned, I believe that āFatuous Lordā isnāt a very offensive name, so I implore the dev team to please de-censor it.
Still no formal reply from the developers after a week? Seems like a particularly troubling issue and one that would be quite easy to fix, disabling the profanity filter by default and then having an option to enable it would take minutes, and could be released as a hotfix relatively quickly.
Lol currently thereās usually around 1/3 of the names censored in every game, mine included. And you canāt even chat properly to your teammates. Itās a joke that the same terrible profanity filter made it into another game after the AoE 2 DE disaster.
As of this moment I am reading your name as FatuousLord (On the Forums)
I do not recall anything being offensive or inappropriate.
This is what I ment with their automated name checking system, itās way off.
I think this has something to do with AOE3DE, as since none of these issues are happening in AOE2DE.
For example, yesterday I was in a Multiplayer match, we played a 3v3 game.
Somewhere in the match I messed up and said, Shitt. This was not censored, I think itās the way you type it as well. -1 T and youāll get ā ā ā ā
Think these kinds of words should be allowed, this is for starters a 20 year old game, which to be honest only gets played by the ages of 16-18+.
Exactly, Iāve been waiting for a Profanity Filter for so long, people will have their own choice in this and in overall thatās just better.
I donāt know how many more times you may change your name, but until youāve gotten a reply Iād try putting a 4 as the letter A.
Likely made on purpose, I would imagine the censorship is managed by either a generic list that Microsoft has put together that they use for various programs, or custom-implemented for Age of Empires. either way a certain person working there clearly feels like we should not be able to discuss anything related to real-life.
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