Unpopular opinion: I'm glad there's a censor filter

Yea yea, I know its frustrating when the most prosaic things come out as *** *****. My favorite is how they won't even let you say "douche" while you're getting TC dropped

But have you considered how games would look if MSFT wasn't treating us like babies? I'm relatively low ELO (worked up from 800 to 1300 and stabilized around 1200 over last 3 months), but unpleasant chats interactions have outnumbered pleasant ones like 10 : 1 for me. Yesterday, a dude tried to lame my boar, failed, got his scout killed, resigned, and started typing mad Portuguese about how my mother and his genitalia had intimate relations.

Honestly, we give ourselves too much of a pat on the back when we say "AoE has a mature fanbase". Nah, its still a competitive game. The only thing saving the game from descending into non-stop racial slurs and death threats is the fact that Bill Gates took all the fun out of cussing