It’s really making me upset that this hasn’t been fixed for months now. I really want to be able to talk with others but this censor has gotten so bad that it just feels like a single player game now. Does anyone have a potential work around? Is there any formal statement that they’re even working on fixing it?
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Well, technically douchebag is a “bad word” so…
But in general, this really should be optional
I propose devs just put a parental control / parental lock on it and be done with it, as I did in this other thread:
https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/chat-filter-should-be-a-toggle/104745/6?u=darkness01101
It’s pretty annoying when you get filtered while playing non-public, unranked games, created via friend invites only.
To help you a little bit, if you’re on Steam, you can log out of XBox Live. Doing so should decrease the number of blocked messages that occur
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I understand the need for a filter. Parents might give the game to their kids, and some people would just rather not have any obscenities or rudeness thrown their way.
However, unlike other AOE games with a language filter, it has been forced on us with DE. If I play with my friends and we want to use foul language it shouldn’t be filtered. If my opponent wants to tell me to stop downloading adult videos when I lag, he should be able to, and I should be allowed to hear it. I know the excessiveness of the filter was fixed, but it still does block some sentences that aren’t inappropriate, and even with 100% accuracy it is still unnecessary for most people.
We’re not the dev’s children, I don’t understand why they feel the need to correct our vulgarities.
Should chat filter be optional?
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Totally agree. Hope this gets some traction.
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Was always supporting this, but you really think you’re gonna manage to get some traction here, 8 months after the chat filter was implemented? So many people made requests, and they just couldn’t care less about it. They have their political reasons to keep the chat filter mandatory, and we can’t do much to change it.
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It should be optional, it censorships spanish words…you can’t even talk with ur team mates without getting ********
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Devs should just implement a parental lock feature for chat and call it good. Store the code on AoE license servers. Concerned parents will enable it, lock it with a code, and sleep peacefully.
Two or three options for parents to choose from: (1) ban any all chats except the built-in taunts (e.g., “5: Gold please”), or (2) medium filter, and (3) strong filter. Let the asterisks rain down for the strong filter setting.
More info:
- If parental lock is activated, AoE license server monitors new re-installs of the game and still sees the chat block active on the Steam/Xbox account, so continues to have chats blocked after fresh re-installation. This way, child cannot uninstall and reinstall to try and get around the chat block.
- Parent would specify an email address during parental lock setup. That email would get notified any time there’s an attempt by the player (child) to circumvent or disable the parental lock. Email would contain date/time stamps of when the occurrence(s) happened and what circumvention tactics were attempted (e.g., unsuccessful attempts at entering lock code, re-installation of game, etc.)
- Parent would specify answers to three predefined personal questions to be used if they ever forget their parental lock code and wish to turn chat blocks off or edit the block strength setting they previously set up.
I won’t go as far as to suggest an option to let in-game chat transcripts be emailed to the parent, but it crossed my mind. I’d be okay with this if it meant I, as an adult player and one who only plays unranked, un-spectatable games with friends, could turn chat filtration completely off.
There. The plan is laid out for them, and I didn’t charge a consultation fee 
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If they would just stop censoring japs that would make me happy 11. Forcing people to type out japanese is stupid 11
They claim it doesn’t filter normal chat anymore, but thats a lie
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Exactly. Most of us are at least in our late 20s to 30s.
Actually, that’s a good point. It gives anonymity.
when and where did they make such a claim?
lmfao x20 char
@anon63664082 having filter non-optional is already bad enough. do you know any reason why filter will give us chat delay? making communication in game simply non-existent when I type something takes 1 minute for it to show up.
game is becoming more and more unplayable…
No I don’t. Submit a request at support.ageofempires.com or create a new topic in #age-of-empires-ii:aoe2-de-bugs.
any new informations about this not working chat filtering? Its really bad configuration and developers did very bad job.
why czech words are filtered like *** for example yellow = zluty and you have *** for whole sentence.
This is so stupid that whole sentence is changed to ***
please devs change your mistake and fix this bug
Additionally, the most vulgar swears in my native language are not filtered at all while other normal everyday words are censored because it happens to resemble something bad in English.
My 2021 wish is for an update which makes the profanity filter optional!
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I agree, the profanity filter is oblivious to the fact that English is not the only language in the world. Benign communication gets blocked, but swear words are let through. So for speakers of other languages, the profanity filter doesn’t even protect them against profanity, but only hinders communication. Hence there should be an option to disable it.
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This issue is solved. Now only the word is censored and not the hole sentence which made communication so so hard sometimes. Just like in aoe3. Rejoice
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the last thing you want to do on the Internet is to inform everyone you’re a twelve years old
Because the message is routed through a filter, thus slowing it down. If logged in with Xbox, it will go through the xbox filter. Otherwise it’ll go through Steam filters
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Is the filter on a cloud (on some server), or is it in the installation of the game (on our hard drive)? Seems like it’s probably on the cloud currently because it makes chats so slow. If that’s the case, couldn’t they put the filtered words on our hard drive instead (even if it’s encrypted or in the .exe file so we can’t see the words by manually viewing a file)? I mean, the game can do a million things at once at lightning speed, but can’t evaluate simple text against a database table in an instant? I have an i9 processor, surely it could handle a simple word lookup in a microsecond?
FYI, the latest patch brings some joy to the filtration saga! 
(as seen in the Jan 25th patch notes)
- “The profanity filter now targets specific ##### words rather than the whole ***** sentence”
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