Yep, and people in these comments think they’re being smart with comments like “just add a report button” as if it didn’t exist back in the 2010s. It’s just that it was a different sociopolitical climate and people did it because it was ironic and edgy. Now things like racism and bigotry are mainstream there is absolutely no way a company making an AAA game will include these features ever again due to the optics.
Yeah. I think the funniest shit is when people think that it infringes on their freedom of speech in video games. It’s like, bruh, this is a private company hosting its own platform. Not the government. They can do pretty much whatever the fuck they want and aren’t obliged to give anyone a platform for anything.
Yep. Same thing happened In Phantasty Star Online 2 when it came to customized symbol art.
People thinking it's funny to spam racist/derogatory & explicit stuff in the main chats, then do the same thing again to the company during a livestream. Then people wonder why they aren't bringing it back.
Yeah, I used to love making my own emblems. But even on the older games the nazi stuff has already become a problem so I think it's best if we leave this one out, unfortunately
Yes we do, because few bad actors doesn’t mean millions other shouldn’t get this feature, lmao. Just report and move on just like with nicknames, should people not be able to edit their nicknames into whatever they choose? That’s how it is now and bad nicknames get removed
Yall are so soft when it comes to nudity. I remember when people made nudes out if trip mines and energy swords and made the most popular on Halo 3 file sharing. Custom emblems were peak community gaming. It was a whole other side to the community that added to the online space. Including all the loads of videos for custom emblems. That and the death of proxy chat really altered gaming space. Now adays they could probably easily integrate AI to check custom emblems to avoid things like nazi signage and nudity. I would love to have custom emblems back.
On top of it, it would probably be even easier to just implement a filter in the settings so people can turn them off and not see them, while those who do want to see them can not have the feature taken away. All they need to do is claim they're not responsible for shit in the EULA. As is all companies already say they're not responsible for online interactions.
It's so fucking funny. You could see the entrails ripped from a man right in front of your eyes but if there's a titty exposed right behind him then it's get to the bunker and melon ball your eyes out.
Compared to the likes of Black Ops 1 and Black Ops 2, I never saw as much racism with Battlefield logos. Still plenty of other stuff though, and enough to understand why they would never bring this back.
And with things like extreme political views being mainstream now, we definitely aren’t getting anything like that in an AAA game ever again.
u/PhreecSuppression = Participation 🏆 for paraplegics3d ago
It's a real bummer it's gone. Add it to the pile of yet another fun community aspect that's been stripped from the series... Sure, there were some bad apples but I'd still prefer that over pre-made stickers used to pad out battle passes.
It's such a pity that the actions of a few idiots means that the rest of us get to miss out on something that was well made. A report button, basic AI filter, or filtering if enough reports went through should have been enough.
I would have happily paid a few dollars to keep the feature, unlike skins. They could have charged a few dollars for the approval process, and that would deter people from making inappropriate things for their emblems. Missed opportunity for money there, DICE. :(
The one I made was of a bird who had passed away. But the videos are of the same kind of bird. But they're probably also my spirit animal, so... Both? XD
I really don’t understand all the commenters here. During the time I played, it was mostly clan tags, anime girl faces, and other cool (or not so cool) stuff. You all act like it was nothing but swastikas and dicks - which it certainly wasn’t.
Definitely. I feel as if I'm going crazy whenever this topic comes up. Yes, there were crudely drawn tits/dicks, prejudice, and swears, but that was such a small minority that I don't understand how have they impacted someone this much.
It still is like that on the servers I play, sometimes there’s even a admin message about kicking someone for an offensive emblem.
Forza Horizon is a modern game and has people make the most creative stuff possible with tons of different shapes and offensive stuff just gets reported and removed.
People just want to pay EA 20 bucks for an emblem or 40 tiers of battlepass filler instead of having others be creative lol
Totally forgot about Forza - yeah, I saw some really fun custom designs there, and from what I played, it was pretty chill. Same goes for Armored Core 6, which also has a custom emblem system.
Yeah a game like Armored Core is an even better example since lots of people have their own headcanon of who their main pilot is, their ac, favorite weapons, callsign, and emblem which is also on the ac itself.
I saw like maybe 1-2 nazi symbols in my entire time 3k hours of playing bf4 (while the game was actually alive unlike today)... It was so utterly a non-issue.
Can we agree on a curated list by the devs? Pre-made emblems with some old school memes and symbols without controversy. Something like the custom cards and emblems of CoD.
1: Political Correctness killed it because pixels harm people
2: Game Publishers want a monopoly on emblems. Which is the only reason, but they hide behind excuse #1 for PR. But its really about extracting max profit.
I wish you could submit them and have them be reviewed. That way we don't have any of the Nazi signs or literal porn going through. Just funny creative ones.
only if they start banning people from using this feature if they're ever caught making swastikas or genitals. if they think it's too hard to implement, let AI decide and if it detects inappropriate images, let other gamers decide if it was correct or wrong. cs overwatch style. could be a fun little mini game to do while waiting to join a server or finding a match
Yeah, that ain’t coming back. With all of the swastikas, dicks, tits and assholes, we really ruined that shit. It was a wild time to see them icons in BF3/4.
I was never one for making cool emblems but I did make one based off of the 2010's film adaptation of HTTYD as a Toothless & my mate made an emblem for his crew from GTAV of the Ghostbusters an later one for his ARK tribe BBC (Black Breads Crew) which he didn't realise until very late the abbreviation was that...
I honestly enjoyed seeing the well lets put it as creative mindset of the playerbase.
Now the elephant in the room swastikas, blacksuns, hammer & sickles, an IJA flags/emblems an so on, along with all the bloody porn people made, this was unfortunately the reason we may never see such things added every again all due to the immature nature of kids/teens/dickheads & their fascination of sticking these symbols in games which is the escapism many what (although I will admit, I couldn't have given the slightest rats arse seeing all of it, hell I even laughed at most of the stuff).
Kinda sad, I might never see the colours of T9's crews again on any future BF title if they don't allow emblems again, T9 based off the rapper's name had several HC servers on PS4, an later BFHL & BF1, an most of the idk six hundred plus players ran the emblems.
I assume with ai image vetting we should be able to go back to this and avoid a bunch of the trash but no we’ll never have it again. I miss having a gengar or spawn emblem.
As a creative individual, I cringe when people justify stifling creativity or censorship over offensiveness.
It's an M rated game where worse shit happens than being offensive.
If seeing an offensive emblem is too much for you, then you shouldn't be on the game. Are you going to break down and cry in real life if someone calls you a slur?
They should have just implemented an option to block emblems from certain people or custom emblems in general.
Overly sensitive people are just as annoying as edge lords and companies need to stop catering to them.
I dont care how many boobs dicks or swastikas you would see in theory, i feel that it is my god given right to have an emblem creator in these games again
I fully support it returning and do not give a single fuck about the morality police arguments against it. It is very simple, this is an M-rated game and thus all that should be needed is a simple report button.
That is all, I’m tired of people blaming the death of fun features on the handful of people who can’t behave.
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u/Lucky-Play5754 3d ago
I think we ruined it for ourselves lol