Why can’t we write whatever we want in chat? I sometimes like to swear at the opponent. Sometimes I even write non swearwords and they get censored too.
We’re all adults, aren’t we?
Perhaps you could have a toggle in settings for:
Because society has become dominated by oversensitive people.
It’s not like the good old days of Halo on Xbox. Where everyone constantly trash talked.
Wouldn’t that be nice? Even private, unranked, unstreamed games between long-time adult friends get the chat filter that’s seemingly developed by Playskool 
Is still interesting that Xbox Games Showcase (2024) showed tons of gratuitous, realistic, visceral violence and blood across many games, and yet adults in private AoE games need to tiptoe around an overbearing chat filter. Diablo and Gears of War – both owned by MS – try to outdo each other to win some sort of grotesqueness award, and yet AoE blocks the tamest of words and conversations, and often erroneously blocks and invents its own words to block.
There’s no reason why eSport streamers viewing recorded games should see chats. So if that’s an issue – which I think is since I heard streamers talking about chats in the latest AoE2:DE tournament – and if the chat filter was added because popular eSport streamers asked for it so their channels wouldn’t get de-monetized, I propose do the more logical thing:
peace of mindIt can’t be that hard to implement. And could also be used for in-game corpses/blood graphics.
Just found a past detailed write-up I did about Parental Lock, too:
PS: The chat filter should also be locally stored so it doesn’t have to ping the cloud and slow down chat transmissions.
Related past chats:
And seems reasonable to have a “no chat” option. Some people don’t even want a “gg”:
If chats are disabled, it seems to me that the game itself should just splash up a friendly pop-up/overlay graphic saying, “gg” or “good game!”, so the players don’t have to and so the players aren’t tempted to be toxic. This might be nice to have for all games, actually.
The best solution is to choose to enable the censor filter on your receiving end. So that you choose if you receive unfiltered or censored messages.
Keep it enabled by default because some people may be shocked by mean words in a game that features mongol skull pyramids and aztec sacrifices, but have the option to remove the filter on what you receive.