search for servers that allow all weapons, and try and control your swearing on other peoples servers where there might be children playing/in the same room as someone who is playing?
i've never ever had a problem with my language in an online game. no one has ever complained. it's really not that difficult.
You know I think maybe I'm not explaining myself well enough. Its not that any of these rules prevent me from playing OK?--its not that "I" need to swear or anything, but sometimes others do. And if that's what they want--then I want them to. That's what I'm saying. I live in the USA, and we're always fighting wars and killing people for real--just like now--often we "say" its so they can be "free". And what does freedom of speech mean? Well to me it means having the right to say anything I want and use any and all bad language if I want. And for parents that feel its necessary to have their children not hear certain words, then I'm fine with that, its just that they need to "control" what their children see and hear. Its not up to the rest of society to guess how each particular parent thinks regarding what their child should or shoudn't hear etc/its up to the parent to do that. Mostly the internet is a "free" place--so far anyway and when I see people try to take away that freedom in the name of "good" its not my idea of a good direction to go. Sometimes people get mad in on line games, not so much me, or want to complain or whine, or whatever, and its not allowed by some 'admins'. As I said they have all these "scrolling console rules and threats filling the screen--which to me is distracting and because of it I don't choose to play there. I'm not saying they don't have the right to. They can for sure. Its just that I dont' see any of that on the PS3--none/no rules/no scrolling "commands and threats from console etc" and like I said for "me" that makes the game so much better. By the way plenty of the little kids playing on PS3 are screaming more bad words than you and I even know. If you're a parent "wise-up". On PS3 if people say things I don't want to hear--and they do sometimes--I can choose to "mute" them--if I want. And people can use whatever "annoying" weapons they want--they can even use tubes if they choose--I myself am not a tuber/ OK?/ but others are and I like them to play however they want . That's all I'm saying. And as of now there's like total freedom on the PS3--and to "me" that's something I admire. Freedom means letting other people do things we don't like and say words we don't like and similar. If you're not having to adjust to the annoying habits of others then you're not living in a free world.
Of course there are restrictions on freedom when others can be harmed by what we say or do--we've got thousands of laws here in the USA. And for sure most are needed--not always, and of course laws change from generation to generation. But good examples of limiting freedom of speech are when for instance someone falsely yells fire in a crowded theatre or such and causes a stampede and people get killed or injured, we dont' have the freedom to steal from others, or run them over with our cars. When we "really" need to give up a freedom for the benefit of all then we do it. But people using profane language does not hurt anyone, and I've seen "racist people" in games that at some point I could no longer ignore because it was so crappy to hear all that silly hatred that I would just leave and go to another game or mute them etc. And that's how one deals with it-we just remove ourselves from that which so offends us. We don't try to control what the world says.
If we don't allow haters and racists to express themselves does that mean there is no racism and hatred? No. It just means we "think" it doesn't exist. We're better off knowing what people think and feel, than living in a pretend world and not dealing with our problems accordingly.
Sorry so long/ not a fan of "censorship".
But my point is that I appreciate PC game servers more when they limit themselves to running Punkbuster etc, and then just letting things happen for good or bad. Really annoying people will leave the game eventually or if not--then players can switch to another server--its not forever--just make the adjustment. I much prefer my PC/mouse/keyboard but way too much censorship in the name of "how its suppose to be" causes me to often move from server to server. There are some admins that "limit their super powers" and I search them out haha. By the way I don't think I've ever been kicked or banned--I try hard to get along--except once I did get banned for typing that I didn't like all their "so many" console rules regarding whining/swearing/tubers/etc . So he banned me---Ha Ha.
I hope Overclockers doesn't ban me for this lengthy editorial/sorry.