Effectively, this can be a bit unusual. Extremely anticipated Genshin Influence rival Wuthering Waves launched late final evening, and after battling some random crashes and disconnects I used to be in a position to lastly progress and make a good friend in-game to speak with. Within the midst of chatting backwards and forwards, I requested curiously: “Do you additionally play Genshin Influence?” Nevertheless, to my shock, my message “Accommodates prohibited phrase(s)”, and subsequently was not despatched.

Out of sight, out of thoughts

At first, I used to be satisfied I had some kind of typo or a type of hidden dangerous phrases someplace in my temporary message. You already know, the explanation we will’t say murderer in most video games. However after fastidiously typing out the message once more, I obtained the identical response: one thing in my message was a prohibited phrase.

Certainly developer Kuro Sport Studio wasn’t really blocking us from saying Genshin Influence, proper? Effectively, seems they’re. I attempted sending simply “Genshin Influence“, and acquired the prohibited phrase response. Curious, I rapidly tried Genshin” and Influence, each of which went by and not using a drawback. The message turned clear: no speaking about Genshin Influence in our Wuthering Waves.

Are these even opponents?

I’ve encountered these earlier than in smaller random cellular video games that block different well-liked recreation titles in the identical style from being talked about. On the finish of the day, they don’t need gamers leaving to play these bigger-budget titles in the identical style. However to see it taking place in Wuthering Waves, some of the extremely anticipated titles within the style with over 30,000,000 (sure that’s one million) pre-registers, was not one thing I used to be anticipating.

Curious, I began spamming different video games within the style to see if any extra “contained prohibited phrases”. To my shock, it let me sort most of them with none points. Tower of Fantasy, Honkai: Star Rail (in as many variations as I may consider), Nikke, Epic 7, had been all despatched simply advantageous. Might it actually simply be blocking Genshin Influence solely?

Nope. I randomly tried World of Warcraft and to my shock, it’s prohibited. Warcraft by itself will not be, however the full MMORPG recreation identify will not be. I attempted most likely over 100 different recreation titles and actually can’t work out the willpower in what they selected to dam. Listed here are all of the prohibited phrases I encountered:

• Genshin Influence
• World of Warcraft
• Misplaced Ark
• Mortal Kombat
• Stellar Blade

The primary three I can kind of perceive? I suppose? Probably not, however possibly? However Mortal Kombat and Stellar Blade? Why? I rapidly googled to see if there have been any search outcomes for “Ought to I play Mortal Kombat or Wuthering Waves?” and whereas I didn’t discover something about that, I did discover a ton of Wuthering Waves vs Genshin Influence comparisons and questions, which is to be anticipated. Mortal, Kombat, and even Kombat are advantageous. Simply not the mixed Mortal Kombat.

It’s actually fairly random and has me perplexed sufficient that for the final hour or so I’ve been typing a flurry of random video games, phrases, and even character names to see what else could also be censored as a substitute of truly progressing. I’ll replace the above record if I discover something.