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NBA 2K14 penalizes you for swearing

2K Sports rep confirms you'll receive a technical foul for using profanity within earshot of the Kinect or PlayStation Camera.

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In a bid to create a "more civilized online environment," 2K Sports has announced that if the Kinect or PlayStation Camera catches you using profanity while playing NBA 2K14, you'll be given a technical foul.

A 2K Sports representative confirmed the news to Polygon, after YouTube user "randomfrankp" posted a video (featuring language that is probably NSFW) showing how his use of profanity was penalized with an in-game technical foul.

In real-world collegiate and professional basketball, referees can call a technical foul on a player, coach, or any other member of a team for unsportsmanlike conduct, including the use of profanity on the court. Accruing two technical fouls yields an ejection from a game.

NBA 2K13 played on the Xbox 360 with a Kinect unit attached also penalized players for using profanity. 2K Sports has now expanded this feature to the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 versions, so long as the Kinect and PlayStation Camera devices are switched on.

The 2K Sports representative did not provide a list of words that would lead to a technical foul, but said, "The obvious ones are there." The representative said this feature brings both realism to the game and a "more civilized environment for our players."

Players are, of course, free to disable NBA 2K14's voice controls in the game's options menu so that they can curse at will. For more on NBA 2K14, check out GameSpot's review.

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Haters gunna hate.

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Yet another reason this motion sensing/voice activation stuff is GARBAGE. I have zero use or care for any of it.

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Can't wait to see what happens when Bobby Knight plays the game. It should be funny.

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Looks like its time to invent some new swear words chaps!


Filthy Twotstobber


Dirty Fungdungle


CoD fanboy


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How about:


Oh Fudge!

Percent Sign Amersand Dollar Sign

Boo!

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I don't think our technology is all that great yet to be given such responsibility, voice recognition improved but it's mediocre at best and when it comes to accents, you don't even need to be from a different country to speak a bit different from the rest, therefore the odds of software failure are pretty high.

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I think this is a good thing... it will teach me to come up with more clever and creative ways to completely insult and antagonize other people

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I think you're right there you donkey kissing monkey lover.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> oww ganfunataz

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a friend actually told me about this a bit ago, made me rofl

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Political correct fascists find new tools to monitor our speech. Soon it will be like in the movie Demolition Man.

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finally kinect will give these kids some disipline

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> Console users

> Civilized


haha good one.

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>Game penalizes you for swearing within an earshot of your console

I'm afraid I can't let you do that, David...

FUCKING. DROPPED.


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If it's for MP only I'm fine with this, but in SP it would require a lot of constraint :D

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<< LINK REMOVED >> dark souls and dark souls 2 omg that would be impossible to play if you got penalised every times you swore when dieing.

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Is the Kinect and the game good enough not to ban me for saying something like "That was Bucking Folk-rap?" Or "I cant stand that Polish hit song?"

Somehow I doubt it.

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I realize they mean well, but I'm really disturbed by this weak, kid gloves approach.


How is anyone ever going to respect us for the Nanny State we are, if they don't send a SWAT team to your house and kill you and your family on the spot.


I thought this was America. Why are we being forsaken like this?

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<< LINK REMOVED >> "I thought this was America." was thinking about that south park episode with stan's dad being an ass on the baseball field

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Well, it doesnt outright mute/censor you. Let alone will the game ban you from playing it.


I think this is kinda amusing and optional. It's a game.

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The new standard of NBA smack talk:

"I say, you stole the ball off me! Bad show! Piffle, and all that, what?"

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If only CoD players learned to speak like that.

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So in this wonderful next generation, I can have my game ruined by someone yelling "**** you" after a great shot?

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I would be fucked by this feature.

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I saw this last night and thought it was hilarious, so I think the first occurrence is funny and entertaining. However, at that time it should also present an option to disable it.

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Ok so I'll curse in Spanish. HIJO DE TU MALDITA MADRE!!! Lol

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For the last time people...this feature is not active during online games.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> You might not know what the phrase "for the last time" means, so I'll explain it. It means that we've been told this information before. Reread the article and you'll see that the piece of information you're talking about is nowhere in there, but this is "In a bid to create a "more civilized online environment,....", which makes most of us think that it is active during online games. Tejas?

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That youtube video is hilarious

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This feature was there since 2k13, how is it news worthy?

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Out of all the horrible things I can think of about the kinect and the eye... this is actually a feature that sits quite well with me. Now if only they could apply it to CoD and other games where the user base is a bunch of immature twelve year olds with high pitched voices.

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Or...you know...you could just play Battlefield 4 instead of CoD

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<< LINK REMOVED >> You can play Battlefield 4 really thought it was unplayable

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LOL funny and really sad.... If I wanted a realistic basketball game, I would watch NBA. But having my console MONITOR my language over a game... pretty scary, but still kinda cool.

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Can we use the word "panda"?

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<< LINK REMOVED >> I Panda hope so.

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Well, that's some bullshit. :-/

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If this shuts up those annoying players that cuss the entire game, I'm all for it. We need this in every multiplayer game, along with a feature that can auto-mute kids.

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Nice way to keep the online environment clean in a game that is rated E.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> No online game is rated E thats the problem all online parts of a game are not rated and can never be rated stop trying to tell us what we can and can't say. Sure saying it every second is BS but sometimes you mess up and say **** without even realizing it because of habit. So i don't think trying to Censor us is the way to go about it they just need a mute function in all games

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I like it because it is an innovative use of the tech.

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#nextgen

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Can I just say... that I play NBA2K14 with my friends and... bizarre how it must sound... I don't get penalized for swearing. Now, maybe it's because of the fact I play in the same room on the same couch... I'm not sure. Just saying?

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FUC|< !!!

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Hey 2K: How about you update the damn rosters. PS4 and Xbox One version still haven't gotten a single roster update. Oh and get rid of your stupid virtual currency bs. While we are at it get rid of the always online drm on it too. I loved NBA2k but 2K13 and 2K14 completely ruined it.

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