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lew1z2006's avatar
4 years ago

My last name is censored due to profanity

My Last name, “Tancock”  is censored across all modes on F1, meaning i cannot use it in game, especially frustrating in Career mode and My Team. Is there a potential workaround to this, as it would much improve the immersion, due to being able to use my own name. Thankyou!

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  • EA_Aljo's avatar
    EA_Aljo
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    4 years ago

    @ScarDuck14 

    I get what you're saying. I remember the days where games were played for fun. Once everything went online, people could hide behind the anonymity of the internet. Combine that with gaming being hypercompetitive and people having a lack of accountability for how they play, it's not quite the fun, leisure activity we used to have. I love a good, competitive gameplay, but people far too often take out their frustrations on others in game and foster that toxic environment. Unfortunate for sure.

  • ScarDuck14's avatar
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    4 years ago

    @EA_Aljo  Think it all stems from social media(Facebook)  I used to play rainbow six vegas,  bad company 2(ranked top 2000ish) and cod4 online and I guess as online was all pretty new everyone behaved for the most part.  Obviously it got  abit loud esp between clans but all good fun banter for the most part. Never abusive and if someone did they would instantly told to shut up  by everyone.  Rainbow six vegas was where tea bagging was invented and widely implemented 😂😁

  • EA_Aljo's avatar
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    4 years ago

    @ScarDuck14 

    I definitely understand some friendly trash talk and such, but people take it way too far nowadays. It's pretty sad for sure. I've been gaming online for longer than I'd like to admit and things have really changed over the last 10+ years. The games are pretty amazing, but the behavior of their players has gotten out of control.

  • ScarDuck14's avatar
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    4 years ago

    @EA_Aljo @I’ve been gaming since Atari days and my first home computer had a massive 16k memory 😁 Internet? Internet?  Back then only one house in the street even had a land line that everyone in the street would pop round and use.  Phone owners loved lording it over us poor  peasants who could only dream off possessing such a marvel off modern technology 😁

  • @lew1z2006 My last name is Hancock so I feel your pain. I remember a few years back Codies actually asked if your last name was in the game and blocked, got to use my last name after they fixed it. Very next year it went back to how it is now and hasn't changed since.
  • EA_Aljo's avatar
    EA_Aljo
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    4 years ago

    @ScarDuck14 

    We're apparently from the same time. My first gaming system was an Atari 2600 and first computer was an Atari 800. Things are wildly different now. Back then I could have never imagined that we'd be playing the games we do today.

  • ScarDuck14's avatar
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    4 years ago

    @EA_Aljo  What I can’t wrap my head around are posts from people complaining about 

    the trees far off in the distance are the wrong shade off green  or the clouds look to fluffy.   

    Real Racing sims like pole position back in the day had one shade green on each side off a grey line that represented a track and something on said Greg line was if you really squinted your eyes and  used tons off imagination.  Was a awesome looking F1 car😁 

    I get complaints when gameplay is effected. But seeing furious posts over fauna tickles me 

  • Could always use an o from a different language, ö, õ, ô or a ç, ć , etc.

    Whatever it takes to bypass the spam filter. 

  • ScarDuck14's avatar
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    4 years ago

    @TJPuhle if he does whatever it takes he may aswell change his name to Smith. Rather than use those funny weird characters that I’m to stupid to know their meaning. Whereas as Smith is a good solid Surname in every English speaking country. 😁👍

    having the re-read my post please don’t think I’m poking fun. Your post just tickled me. 

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