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Last week,Baldur’s Gate 3players on Xbox Series X-S were caught off-guard when their uploaded clips of romance scenes—which include full nudity—were causing them to get banned, somethingLarian’s said it’s currently working with Microsofton.
Yesterday, the Xbox Support accountreleased a statementto tackle allegations that these bans were automatic, or not taking into account the fact that Baldur’s Gate 3 (“the horniest RPG”, as our online editor Fraser Brown puts it) isn’t really porn. There’s tasteful sex scenes that aren’t really above your standard Dragon Age: Origins or Mass Effect-style bonking of bodies, they’re just combined with actual digital nudity.
Xbox’scontent policydoes include “nudity and sexual content” as part of its no-no’s, though I’m starting to wonder if that’s an outdated strategy. Surely more comprehensive age verification and filters would be the better solution?
“Our team evaluates appeals and can reverse suspensions if action was taken in error. If this was a first offence, for example, we will remove the suspension and let players know why it happened and how to avoid future issues,” says Xbox, and suggests turning off auto-upload when “sensitive content is being captured”.
Turns out,auto-upload is opt-out, as per the link provided. Under the subheader “Upload to OneDrive or the Xbox network from your console”, it reads: “Automatic uploading is standard.”
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Ultimately, it just makes me glad to be playing the game on PC where my screenshots are stored locally unless I choose otherwise—safe in the knowledge that I can take as many artful snaps of Gale’s magic staff as I please.
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