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Posted by: SubtleSpartan
There is actually nothing really wrong with curse words themselves. If I say crap it isn't censored, so why should s-blam!- be?There's the idea that specific words carry a larger amount of weight to them depending from person to person. Someone could associate a specific curse word with their father beating them, or what their attacker called them when they were abused. There could be a word that they were called in school that really hurt them due to the abuse from their classmates.
It's all about the idea that we don't know everyone's story, so it's best for Bungie to just play it safe and keep it ALL clean.
Also, Harrison's mum. What if she found all these curse words on Harrison's screen while Harrison was on Bungie dot net? Yea, he's in a private group, but Harrison's mother doesn't care. All she knows is that this company, Bungie, is allowing all these words to be used in the horribly malicious fashion they have be sculpted to be used.
No, for now, Bungie wants to play it safe. They know that, while Halo is rated M, it probably should have been rated T in a way. They know the audience they were attracting was going to be a bit younger than the ESRB rating really asked for, and they wanted to make things simple, so they took the filter from Microsoft, and put it over their entire website. Lifting (loll) it from one region or another would pose too much a risk for whatever minor rewards it might bring, so I believe it really is best they keep things consistent throughout the site.