Microsoft’s resistance proves futile against Forza 2 racism

  

With high customization options, comes great responsibility – unfortunately, a few naughty players in Forza Motorsport 2 might have been sick at home when they taught that in gamer school, as racism is still very much rampant in the game despite Microsoft and Turn 10‘s best efforts. We get you all the details with this rather disconcerting abuse of Forza 2‘s best customization feature yet.

As we all know, Forza 2 lets you go crazy with artistic license with the game’s Paintjob Editor, a feature that allows you to customize the way your car looks. While this itself has produced some of the most gorgeous-looking paint-jobs we’ve seen, it’s also given rise to some paint-jobs that border from the slightly-disturbing to the downright offensive. One such example, from the source link we’ve given below, shows a car displaying “White Power” and a swastika on its chassis.

It’s not that Turn 10 didn’t see this coming, though. Since day one of the game’s release, they’ve taken measures to prevent this sort of thing from happening, closing auctions involved with these sort of cars, as well as putting up an abuse report system where eagle-eyed players can report offensive auctions. A look at the current auctions, though, will reveal that this isn’t quite working as it should.

Here’s hoping Turn 10 and Microsoft steps it up a notch in dealing with this kind of issues. Artistic license is all well and good, but when you’re stepping on someone’s heritage or condition, it’s not all fun and games anymore.

  

With high customization options, comes great responsibility – unfortunately, a few naughty players in Forza Motorsport 2 might have been sick at home when they taught that in gamer school, as racism is still very much rampant in the game despite Microsoft and Turn 10‘s best efforts. We get you all the details with this rather disconcerting abuse of Forza 2‘s best customization feature yet.

As we all know, Forza 2 lets you go crazy with artistic license with the game’s Paintjob Editor, a feature that allows you to customize the way your car looks. While this itself has produced some of the most gorgeous-looking paint-jobs we’ve seen, it’s also given rise to some paint-jobs that border from the slightly-disturbing to the downright offensive. One such example, from the source link we’ve given below, shows a car displaying “White Power” and a swastika on its chassis.

It’s not that Turn 10 didn’t see this coming, though. Since day one of the game’s release, they’ve taken measures to prevent this sort of thing from happening, closing auctions involved with these sort of cars, as well as putting up an abuse report system where eagle-eyed players can report offensive auctions. A look at the current auctions, though, will reveal that this isn’t quite working as it should.

Here’s hoping Turn 10 and Microsoft steps it up a notch in dealing with this kind of issues. Artistic license is all well and good, but when you’re stepping on someone’s heritage or condition, it’s not all fun and games anymore.