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EA spent millions on the new Star Wars game and didn't filter racial slurs

EA spent millions on the new Star Wars game and didn't filter racial slurs

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I just played the PC version of Star Wars Battlefront online, and it took less than 30 minutes to discover a glaring mistake from EA. In Battlefront, like many online games, players can communicate with each other using text — and every match of Battlefront on PC has a chat room you can't turn off. It wasn't long until players turned chat into a pit of despair with vile insults and racial slurs.

If you make video games that millions of people will play online together, and you forget to fix this basic problem that any kid with a Wordpress blog can solve, you really screwed up.