'Keeping people from seeing your hate speech and obscene images on our private game service is not the same as relinquishing your constitutional freedoms in the hopes of increased personal/familial security,' Bashiok continued. But it was a rather archaic process.'Д«lizzard has a list of what will get your content removed from its service, including trademarks, advertising, and offensive content.

We did, however, actually police Warcraft III maps to a small degree if they were reported. 'It simply wasn't possible when our in-game support used to consist of approximately 20 technical support agents. We have a support department now of size and ability to enforce these types of things,' Community Manager Bashiok said on the official forums. In this way, the company can perfectly control the platform. You can't host a game from content stored locally on your computer, so it all has to go through Blizzard. There's a 25MB limit on uploaded content, which means any extensive modding with custom graphics, music, or voice acting is impossible. Because they canД«lizzard has slapped some serious limits on what we can do with user-created content. gaming content has long fallen under the control of the company that created the tools.Дoes this hurt us as gamers? Absolutely. The story is making its way around the gaming press, but this shouldn't be a shock. If your content is considered inappropriate or obscene, Blizzard can take it down. StarCraft 2 comes with a powerful set of tools for making your own maps and game modifications, but there is no local storage you have to upload your content to and let users grab that content from Blizzard's servers.

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