People are too sensitive. Oh no he called me a name.

What I can't believe is that ubisoft didn't bother checking whether something like that would be offensive, it seems kinda a silly mistake to me.

Yeap, Ubisoft needs to do a little more of market research

Some people are idiots, and they get offended with that

That's crazy, it's just a game, before I got the job that I have now I spent 3 years working with people with mental disabilites and I think people shouldn't be so sensitive.

Being portuguese, I find this perfectly normal, both on Ubisoft's side, and on the people who found it offensive. Truth is, for us portuguese speakers of the world, curse words on one side of the atlantic can be perfectly normal, and sweet even, on the other side.

Yeah, people do overreact, they should understand the cultural differences, yadayada, but having a close relative with special needs myself, I too find this kind of stuff can be more offensive than cursewords. I'm not offended by it myself, but it'd be a big problem if a game called my relative a retard, or something similar she could relate to. She wouldn't be offended at all, but she'd definitly be really, really sad.

Most people who use words such as retard, spaz, etc. have no idea what "special needs" really means. Stephen Hawking has ALS which is a disease that cripples muscle control but leaves the gray matter and all critical thinking skills intact. Hawking is absolutely *brilliant*, but if you were to run into him on the street and not know who he is, you might be inclined to laugh at him behind his back, call him a retard, spaz, or some other variation. How many people do you suppose would be floored when they realized who he was and had an IQ that far exceeded the name caller? The point is, curse words are one thing. They offend people who don't like dirty words, but terms that describe personal affliction are horrendous and shouldn't be used, ever. I would even go so far as to say that "affliction" insults are 100 times worse that racial epithets. Don't use 'em -- Period. To each his own both in use and in offense, but the best bet is to just avoid the term altogether.

Is it just getting pulled in the UK then? Since they have a different meaning of the word? I'm pretty sure it would be fine here in the US...not that I would even pick up this copycat game.

this thread is totally lame.