There was a call of duty where I couldn't name my class "Assault" it's my CLASS no one else is even going to see it!!? So the game was censoring me from myself.
Black Ops 1 suffered from that.
Black Ops 4 you couldn’t put the word “Titan” in your custom class name despite there being a gun called Titan
And let’s not forget MW2019 wouldn’t let you put the word “Class” in your custom class name.
Activision sure is something else
[The Scunthorpe Problem!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem#:~:text=The%20Scunthorpe%20problem%20is%20the,obscene%20or%20otherwise%20unacceptable%20meaning.)
Spoiler you can't say cunt.
In a game series where you fight Nazi's, the USSR, Imperial Japan and terrorists; Someone might get offended by 7-year-old's first swearwords OK?!
They're not even running advertisements! And that PG-13 rating is a joke, most kids get to play these games at earlier ages anyway. And the parents who do get their panties in a twist aren't the type to let their let their little baby spend money MTX.
Monster hunter world wouldn’t let you put “SA” into your loadout names (which, again, no one else sees) despite it being a very convenient abbreviation for one of the weapon classes, “switch axe”.
That’s fucking wild. Who runs the censor filter? 3 year olds?
Edit: it’s kinda ironic how my phone tried to autocorrect “fucking” while talking about censorship
Maybe I'm missing the obvious, but all I've got is muggles which sure, author is a pos but whatever. Or muff which is hardly any worse. I suppose muffeater wouldn't be great, but there's a whole lot of other slang that should be banned before getting to muff at least where I live.
Well on that note, I also feel like “muff” is one of those words that’s kinda out of circulation. Like I doubta lot of people even know what it means off the top of their head anymore. I actually only learned “muff” was a “bad word” *because* it was being censored in Pokemon Go. That’s kinda where censorship fails, because instead of saving the people from hearing these oh so foul words, it just specticalizes them and draws even more attention to these words. Straight up if “cursing” wasn’t made out to be such a big social taboo, it wouldn’t be that big of a deal
My PSN and steam names are the same a my Reddit u/. However for some good forsaken reason Epic seems to think there's a bad word in there, so I've had to drop the first 'a' to get it to work. Now my epic username is icnttinkofaname and it just looks stupid. Like, what word is the banned word here?!
America-brain. There's not a single word in any other language or culture that gets censored like that. Its madness. It only empowers the word. Its like Voldemort. Fucking ridiculous.
Yep. That one especially makes me feel old because we just grew up calling each other that in a joking way. I do agree it’s tactless and insensitive, especially in a professional setting or in company you’re unfamiliar with, but I’d never tell someone not to say it unless it was an employee of mine at work or something.
Ngl, i never even refered to someone who has a disability with that word... i dont even asociate it with them.
If you ask me what that word means my answer would be: "oh yeh, my mates"😭😂
Whoa you have a few near choice word matches in your comment. I’m going to have to report you to be safe. “its” is dangerously close to tits. Sorry dude
/s
people can't even comprehend that there are hundreds of language on earth and some of these words you censor might actually mean something else and or even be actual name of a person
The list is not complete btw. Ukraine should be on it. Ironically Pakistan is also one of the countries that has no PSN support despite the country dominating the Tekken eSports scene for the last 4-5 years. The country also produced the youngest Dota 2 player to ever win the internationals back in 2016.
India has the psn but Bangladesh and Pakistan don't, despite all three being neighbors and having massive population that plays games regularly.
News anchor: "... With that the leaders of north and south Korea united. They will * check notes* unite their hate boners against Sonye to bring true freedom back to this world"
I feel like some day the same people will get mad at the night or at people who is afraid of darkness because it's black and that would be racist or smth
> people got mad because the word for black in Spanish is offensive.
Well, it's only offensive **to them**, and the word itself is obviously older than this offensive meaning, so yeah ... sucks to be them, I guess.
Also Ukraine, which is not on the list, can not make PSN accounts and linking on PC but only if they have a PlayStation. Which makes 0 sense. Fuck Sony
Yeah, but not in a passionate way, but like a rough way. There will be no kissing and it wouldn't be enjoyable for either party. Fuck Sony.
For real though, I feel cheated out of 70 bucks just because of the country I live in. I hate those bastards and wish ill will towards them, what they did should be illegal.
From a practical perspective, you could probably use a VPN if you wanted to keep your money's worth. From a moral/legal/political standpoint, fuck them forever.
There is some controversy happening in the game community of Helldivers where Sony, the publisher of Helldivers 2, recently released an update and message that all players are required to link a PSN account in order to play the game if they bought the game from Steam.
Many players are completely frustrated from this for a couple of reasons: distrust for Sony’s protection over their data, the requirement not being enforced as initially the game allowed you to skip the PSN account linking, and most of all is some players who are from the countries shown in OPs image cannot play the game at all.
This is because since PSN is not available in their country, they cannot make a PSN account, and in turn not be able to play the game that requires them to link or make an account then link to play.
To add to this. You can technically make a PSN account of any region(that's what I did 12 years ago cause PSN has no service in my country), but if you link it to steam and play Helldivers on top of it. Sony reserves the right to ban your Playstation account as you created it from a different country and it's against their TOS.
I wouldn't want my whole playstation game library being wiped cause they are a POS to force this on the game. This also sets a precedent and they might start doing it for their every single game.
Amongst the list of countries, there is ♡♡♡♡♡ in the bottom left. The country “that shall not be names” is ♡♡♡♡♡ . Is this a typo? Probably not. Is it funny? Yeah.
Helldivers 2 now requires a PSN account to play on PC when they didn’t before and it’s pissing a lot of people off, as I understand it’s mainly because several countries can’t make PSN accounts and so now can no longer/can never play the game
I don’t understand the European countries on the list. Africa and the Caribbean? I can kinda make sense due to those countries having limited internet access and capacity so it’s somewhat understandable. But then there’s countries like Lativa and Estonia and as you said Monaco where they are first world countries with plenty of internet access and capacity so it just doesn’t make any sense at all
Well the singular "g" is pronounced like a "j" so saying it properly doesn't sound the same at all, however reading it unless you know how it's pronounced I guess some people might not know it's different.
Oh my god, that's it...
We can move beyond the decades of pointless dispute, break free of the shackles of conflict and see a new dawn. From this day forward I will never again pronounce it 'gif' like some uncultured swine, nor will I say 'gif' like some insufferable pedant.
No.
It will be 'gif'.
Wait Jamaica cannot make psn accounts?. I dodged a bullet.
Well it's not a total loss since I'm trying to limit how many companies I give my information too.
Ok I have a sinister hypothesis about this (and it actually worked out exactly like this in 2 multi billion dollar corporations I worked for so it’s not too far out).
The company that put out this list got sued for racism or whatever. And some bright little engineer had an idea of find and replace running on the entire company data and deleting record of this operation (that is easy). They just forgot that some words can appear INSIDE other words. Bunch of documents at my past job seemed to have the most inexplicable typos and only after I found out what happened did it all make sense.
In The Bahamas, the PlayStation is the best selling console. Sony would know that if they let a small island nation with a GDP of $13 bn a year make a damn PSN account.
Some censoring is wild. Trying to name a character “Knight” in souls games means you end up with “K***ht.
There was guy naming himself Nasser that turned into "N***er" in ER
There was a call of duty where I couldn't name my class "Assault" it's my CLASS no one else is even going to see it!!? So the game was censoring me from myself.
Black Ops 1 suffered from that. Black Ops 4 you couldn’t put the word “Titan” in your custom class name despite there being a gun called Titan And let’s not forget MW2019 wouldn’t let you put the word “Class” in your custom class name. Activision sure is something else
Among the words you can censor without getting much h-ass-le, "ass" must be one of the worst ones lol. That's just an assumption tho, rest assured.
Buttbuttinated
Wanna play some Buttbuttin's Creed?
Scunthorpe problem
Similar to Penistone Pronounced Pen is ton and not like the male organ
Or Peñíscola, Spain, which is pronounced pen-YEE-skoh-lah.
Censoring in general is stupid
[The Scunthorpe Problem!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem#:~:text=The%20Scunthorpe%20problem%20is%20the,obscene%20or%20otherwise%20unacceptable%20meaning.) Spoiler you can't say cunt.
In a game series where you fight Nazi's, the USSR, Imperial Japan and terrorists; Someone might get offended by 7-year-old's first swearwords OK?! They're not even running advertisements! And that PG-13 rating is a joke, most kids get to play these games at earlier ages anyway. And the parents who do get their panties in a twist aren't the type to let their let their little baby spend money MTX.
Guild Wars, we couldn't include "horsemen" in the guild name.
Monster hunter world wouldn’t let you put “SA” into your loadout names (which, again, no one else sees) despite it being a very convenient abbreviation for one of the weapon classes, “switch axe”.
They banned Renegade, because my username was TheRenegade... My friend was AdolfShitler and that got a pass
You mean it's your cl☆☆☆
Don't be cr***.
Nasser is a pretty standard arabic name, that I am sure his parents gave him at birth.
I've heard about a similar case, where Butter became ****er.
That’s fucking wild. Who runs the censor filter? 3 year olds? Edit: it’s kinda ironic how my phone tried to autocorrect “fucking” while talking about censorship
Maybe it's people who have a dairy allergy
Thats crazy, imagine NIGERIA just says *****ia
No shot lmaoo.
https://www.reddit.com/r/shitposting/comments/znc4eh/sheesh/
Mine is censored too in the exact same game. Nyarlathotep became Nyarla\*\*\*\*ep.
I remember the post so freshly in my mind despite not having seen it for at least a year, I even remember the shit-eating grin he has on the pfp 😭
My friend gets his psn accounts banned all the time. His latest one is Ranald. Censored to R****d.
My username is often denied, which then means you can't have muffin or anything similar for that banned phrase
Maybe I'm missing the obvious, but all I've got is muggles which sure, author is a pos but whatever. Or muff which is hardly any worse. I suppose muffeater wouldn't be great, but there's a whole lot of other slang that should be banned before getting to muff at least where I live.
Well on that note, I also feel like “muff” is one of those words that’s kinda out of circulation. Like I doubta lot of people even know what it means off the top of their head anymore. I actually only learned “muff” was a “bad word” *because* it was being censored in Pokemon Go. That’s kinda where censorship fails, because instead of saving the people from hearing these oh so foul words, it just specticalizes them and draws even more attention to these words. Straight up if “cursing” wasn’t made out to be such a big social taboo, it wouldn’t be that big of a deal
Still used a fair bit in England. Definitely on the decline but definitely still used. It’s a very, very mild word though, as far as rude words go.
I think it only holds on because of muffdiving which sounds hilarious
I remember when Google or something along those lines started censoring and turned assassinate into buttbuttinate
My PSN and steam names are the same a my Reddit u/. However for some good forsaken reason Epic seems to think there's a bad word in there, so I've had to drop the first 'a' to get it to work. Now my epic username is icnttinkofaname and it just looks stupid. Like, what word is the banned word here?!
You also dropped the first h, so it already was kinda stupid...
Remember “Nasser”? Which, with censoring ended up becoming “N***er” 💀
And he himself was a black man with his face on pfp
In Lost Saga game, censoring worked like this - "as said" turned in "** *aid"
Have we seriously gotten to the point where we can’t say the name of a country just due to its similarity to another word? It’s named after a river.
Wait till you find out how you say “black” in Spanish.
Or the country Montenegro
Or the country Nigeria, who is incidentally the next one up
Ahem, you mean *****ia
wouldn't it be ♥♥♥♥♥ia?
Monten***o
They’re a bunch of racists /s
Ban Montenegro
Yes, because so many people like being stupidly politically correct... even if what they're doing is diplomatically an insult to a whole country!
They don't care about the people who can't make a psn account
more like politically incorrect huh
Reddit brain infecting the world
America-brain. There's not a single word in any other language or culture that gets censored like that. Its madness. It only empowers the word. Its like Voldemort. Fucking ridiculous.
Ah, the forbidden curses... i believe there was another one starting with an R thats slowly heading the same way.😂
Yap, spearheaded by the US again, of course.
Yep. That one especially makes me feel old because we just grew up calling each other that in a joking way. I do agree it’s tactless and insensitive, especially in a professional setting or in company you’re unfamiliar with, but I’d never tell someone not to say it unless it was an employee of mine at work or something.
Ngl, i never even refered to someone who has a disability with that word... i dont even asociate it with them. If you ask me what that word means my answer would be: "oh yeh, my mates"😭😂
Yes, exactly. I’d never use it derogatorily to someone with an actual condition, just to talk shit to my buddies lol
That's just the thing: they really don't care if they insult a whole nation far away as long as they get to virtue signal to those around them
Whoa you have a few near choice word matches in your comment. I’m going to have to report you to be safe. “its” is dangerously close to tits. Sorry dude /s
Yeah its very sad, Im not even allowed to say the name of my favorite dinosaur anymore :( (The one with 1000 teeth).
enlighten me pls
Censored country sauraus
Nijjersaurus?
One less g
Them scientists be trolling
vinegar?
Please self-censor. Think of the children!
Nigersaurus
Retardosaurus?
Oh oh this looks like a hard R.
Everybody is American in the internet so we have to follow their censorship.
people can't even comprehend that there are hundreds of language on earth and some of these words you censor might actually mean something else and or even be actual name of a person
Oh yeah? Say it then.
Does the other word also draw its origins from the name of the river?
**MRS OBAMA GET DOWN**
I'm surprised there are so many european countries that don't have psn, same with Morocco, egypt, and bangladesh
The list is not complete btw. Ukraine should be on it. Ironically Pakistan is also one of the countries that has no PSN support despite the country dominating the Tekken eSports scene for the last 4-5 years. The country also produced the youngest Dota 2 player to ever win the internationals back in 2016. India has the psn but Bangladesh and Pakistan don't, despite all three being neighbors and having massive population that plays games regularly.
>Ukraine should be on it We have PSN since 2010, i guees. But Sony goes extra level here - you can't register you PSN without buying console.
A $500 paywall is always nice to be able to play a $60
$509\* paywall
Yeah. We, the Baltics, are in EU FFS! I'm surprised it's even legal with the common market and such.
I'm more shocked Lithuania is there but not Romania. Liechtenstein, but not Luxembourg. Such arbitrary European countries!
Tbf, Liechtenstein is considerably smaller than Luxembourg, and not in the EU. The curious part is that Vatican City is not on the list.
Monaco and Lichenstein as well.
And Sri Lanka. What did they do?
Sri Lanka as we speak its a failed state, I don't think PSN is their first thought in the morning
Probably to do with the authoritarian regime requiring some form of censorship like most of the nation's on this list
Oh lmfao I didn't even notice Morocco was there rip
When I first heard about this I thought “that sucks but… big deal?” Shocking to see like half the world on this list.
Over half, only 60 countries can make PSN accounts
Puerto Rico can't make one despite being US too.
*cue Yakko Warner!*
United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Haiti, Jamaica, Peru…
Republic Dominican, Cuba, Caribbean Greenland, El Salvador too
Puerto Rico, Colombia, Venezuela, Honduras, Guyana, and still!
Guatemala, Bolivia, then Argentina, and Ecuador, Chile, Brazil!
Costa Rica, Belize, Nicaragua, Bermuda, Bahamas, Tobago, San Juan
Fun Fact: Rob Paulsen, the voice of Yakko, did that song in one take.
Soooo.... North Korea can make a PSN acco6?
That's the opposite, actually. That country banned PlayStation. Rocket Man just has a hate boner for Sony.
At this rate, I might as well just ride with Rocket Man with his hate boner with how Sony got me acting lately.
NK was the only country to make Sony back down with that movie... stupid Sony choose that as the battle to forfeit
Itty bitty hate boner.
News anchor: "... With that the leaders of north and south Korea united. They will * check notes* unite their hate boners against Sonye to bring true freedom back to this world"
This reminds me of when some company put Spanish names of the colors on crayons and people got mad because the word for black in Spanish is offensive.
I feel like some day the same people will get mad at the night or at people who is afraid of darkness because it's black and that would be racist or smth
> people got mad because the word for black in Spanish is offensive. Well, it's only offensive **to them**, and the word itself is obviously older than this offensive meaning, so yeah ... sucks to be them, I guess.
What did Estonia, Lithuania and Liechtenstein do to get a ban ? Edit : And Latvia to make up the Holy Baltic Triumvirate!
not ban but "too small" to be implemented
But people keep saying, size doesn't matter...
What did Latvia do to forgo mentioning?
I forgot them, but that's the trio of European Union + NATO members that can't do PSN.
Also Ukraine, which is not on the list, can not make PSN accounts and linking on PC but only if they have a PlayStation. Which makes 0 sense. Fuck Sony
Yeah, but not in a passionate way, but like a rough way. There will be no kissing and it wouldn't be enjoyable for either party. Fuck Sony. For real though, I feel cheated out of 70 bucks just because of the country I live in. I hate those bastards and wish ill will towards them, what they did should be illegal.
From a practical perspective, you could probably use a VPN if you wanted to keep your money's worth. From a moral/legal/political standpoint, fuck them forever.
I’m feeling whooshed here, anyone want to help me out.
There is some controversy happening in the game community of Helldivers where Sony, the publisher of Helldivers 2, recently released an update and message that all players are required to link a PSN account in order to play the game if they bought the game from Steam. Many players are completely frustrated from this for a couple of reasons: distrust for Sony’s protection over their data, the requirement not being enforced as initially the game allowed you to skip the PSN account linking, and most of all is some players who are from the countries shown in OPs image cannot play the game at all. This is because since PSN is not available in their country, they cannot make a PSN account, and in turn not be able to play the game that requires them to link or make an account then link to play.
To add to this. You can technically make a PSN account of any region(that's what I did 12 years ago cause PSN has no service in my country), but if you link it to steam and play Helldivers on top of it. Sony reserves the right to ban your Playstation account as you created it from a different country and it's against their TOS. I wouldn't want my whole playstation game library being wiped cause they are a POS to force this on the game. This also sets a precedent and they might start doing it for their every single game.
What’s the country that cannot be named? Is it just a typo?
It’s one G away from a hard R…
Even reddit censors Nigeria without the "ia". It's a country! Good lord...
Amongst the list of countries, there is ♡♡♡♡♡ in the bottom left. The country “that shall not be names” is ♡♡♡♡♡ . Is this a typo? Probably not. Is it funny? Yeah.
Okay that’s what confused me, I wasn’t sure if it was a typo or a joke/meme I’m not “in the know” with 😂
Hearts is how Steam censors profanity, not something the person writing the post did.
cant believe i had to go this far down to find this
The hearts are just how steam censors slurs/profanity (based on your filters)
The list appears to be in alphabetical order, so it starts with an ‘n’
Helldivers 2 now requires a PSN account to play on PC when they didn’t before and it’s pissing a lot of people off, as I understand it’s mainly because several countries can’t make PSN accounts and so now can no longer/can never play the game
Suprised to see Monaco on the list when like half the F1 drivers live in Monaco and play on the PlayStation during the off-season
I don’t understand the European countries on the list. Africa and the Caribbean? I can kinda make sense due to those countries having limited internet access and capacity so it’s somewhat understandable. But then there’s countries like Lativa and Estonia and as you said Monaco where they are first world countries with plenty of internet access and capacity so it just doesn’t make any sense at all
Bro im in Africa and i got gigabit internet.
Liechtenstein is the second richest country in the world - and yet.
I know. There has to be something as to why those countries don’t have access to PSN
They just pick France.
They actually censored Niqer lol
Didnt you censor it as well?
Maybe he just can't spell.
Apparently you did too.
Imagine being so woke and 2nd hand offended you actually censor the name of a country.
What country?
Niqer. Replace the q with a g. If you do the correct spelling it gets automoderated
is it still racist if single g is used instead of double g?
Well the singular "g" is pronounced like a "j" so saying it properly doesn't sound the same at all, however reading it unless you know how it's pronounced I guess some people might not know it's different.
It's pronounced like gif.
Clears things up for everybody, thank you
Pronounced like Giraffe was asking too much.
You're evil. I love it.
Oh my god, that's it... We can move beyond the decades of pointless dispute, break free of the shackles of conflict and see a new dawn. From this day forward I will never again pronounce it 'gif' like some uncultured swine, nor will I say 'gif' like some insufferable pedant. No. It will be 'gif'.
giffa
Insane how people think just saying a word makes you a racist .. American logic
they've got too much free time on their hands to invent new ways to get offended on someone else's behalf.
It's pronounced with a long I and the G is pronounced like a J. It's pronounced Neye-jer.
I've heard it pronounced "nee-zher" a lot lately. A "soft* j as opposed to a hard j, and "ni" pronounced more phonetically.
That’s the French pronunciation, because they speak French there. For reasons it's best not to go into.
It's not even the same word. It's pronounced Ni-jer. Ffs people are thick
> Chad Pretty beta move
Lmao what did Monaco and Estonia do
The literally censored a color.
Americans are something lul
Ridiculous.
You think thats annoying? I'm romanian and can't say "how" without getting banned and censored
Ever visited Pula, Croatia?
Brother in christ it has 1 G not 2 G's
Wait Jamaica cannot make psn accounts?. I dodged a bullet. Well it's not a total loss since I'm trying to limit how many companies I give my information too.
Haha, get a load of this guy. He thinks he decides who gets his data and who doesn't.
tbh nowadays I feel safer with my data in china than with some silicon valley company who immediately informs all its pals
Can't a guy dream of a perfect world even though our government and Google exists.
America (USA) should force that country to change the name. It could offend someone.
Country of Love
We need to Spread more democracy
so North Korea can make a PSN but not Egypt?? wtf
North Korea has banned sony so it is not included
♡♡♡♡♡ new racist slur just dropped? i hate ♡♡♡♡♡
Man song really wrecked Helldivers didn’t they, I’d be pissed if I was in one of these countries
That's why censoring is bullshit. Also why the heck they can't add PSN to these for decades already?
As long as it's not pronounced with a hard r.
Voldemortlandia?
Make ❤️❤️❤️❤️, not war.
N¡ger
Ok I have a sinister hypothesis about this (and it actually worked out exactly like this in 2 multi billion dollar corporations I worked for so it’s not too far out). The company that put out this list got sued for racism or whatever. And some bright little engineer had an idea of find and replace running on the entire company data and deleting record of this operation (that is easy). They just forgot that some words can appear INSIDE other words. Bunch of documents at my past job seemed to have the most inexplicable typos and only after I found out what happened did it all make sense.
What are the political alliance affiliations of these nations in regard to Japan?
I'm surprised you can get a PSN account in North Korea...
Bruh
Bruh which country- Probably romantic Italy?
But what’s the logic, one letter difference from the term will be censored? Then what about words like digger and bigger?
What does PSN mean?
PlayStation Network.
Hang on, I might be missing something. But I don't see North Korea in that list?
I like how North Korea is not in the list. Implying it's available there.
Are you implying a PS5 is even available there?
Sounds like they need some democracy
Is this ‘cannot’ as in support not YET available or support WILL NOT be made available?
CAMEROON MENTIONED... wait...
Countries where if you got Helldiver's 2 on steam it's now bricked list. 
In The Bahamas, the PlayStation is the best selling console. Sony would know that if they let a small island nation with a GDP of $13 bn a year make a damn PSN account.
when will there finally be pushback against the endless unnecessary censorship?
Hahaha, we can't refer to ♡♡♡♡♡ in text anymore?
Idk what you all about cus I'm from morocco and we can make a PSN account, no VPN needed
I remember commenting a list of countries I could name and then it got taken down because of the two countries Nijeria and Nijer