Ben

I’m not bothered by the word at all, FWIW. It felt to me like they were going out of their way to prove they were “mature” by putting that in a card in the tutorial. Those aren’t random decks; every card they choose to put in them is there on purpose and sends a message.

That said, this is a free to play game that ideally wants to attract as many players as possible, and that’s exclusionary to some people the way that pre-camisole Jaina was in the Hearthstone tutorial. I just rolled my eyes at it but there are some people who will uninstall.

Might be cultural but it amazes me that people would uninstall a game over a single word.

A single word can definitely make me go "ah this is not at all the kind of game that I thought it was" especially when I just installed a game and I'm still in the tutorial. If it feels like the word is used in a gratis and provocative way, it changes my perception quickly.

Could happen to me if its sexist/racist or a rape joke (looking at you, first 30 seconds of Seven Deadly Sins) but fuck is just fuck...

And English is not our first language. Maybe that puts a distance between us and the feeling that the word is meant to produce?

There's something cultural that I can't grasp precisely. There was once a ruling by CBC/Rad-Can that "Fuck" was fine in French programs on Rad-Can but wasn't in CBC programs in English. Quite fascinating xD

Yes I remember that (actually I thought that the ruling came from CRTC and not CBC/SRC). It does make sense that a bad word has zero meaning when used inside a sentence in a different language.