I found this on Change.org and could not resist signing the petition to bring back a beloved skeleton Captain we all love to kill! The petition reads:
"In the most recent patch to Sea of Thieves, the notorious skeleton Captain, Captain Quick Dicken was removed due to a naming filter introduced with Captaincy. We won't stand for this though! The man, the myth, the legend, he must return!"
@kakashi-lord said in Bring Back Captain Quick Dicken!:
It seems really weird to me to get rid of him. He was a positive aspect of the game with no issues whatsoever. Just seems unnecessary.
Unfortunate but necessary for leadership consistency
if people are going to face consequences for non-severe punning that needs to rise to the top.
Ideally a stronger filter system from the beginning would have saved Mr. Quick but unfortunately it didn't work out.
@animeowl0807 said in Bring Back Captain Quick Dicken!:
I loved him. He lived a simple, but good death.
Aye, that he did matey... that he did.
@fuzzypyrate said in Bring Back Captain Quick Dicken!:
@animeowl0807 said in Bring Back Captain Quick Dicken!:
I loved him. He lived a simple, but good death.
Aye, that he did matey... that he did.
@wolfmanbush honestly they should revert it and allow smart word play. It’s unnecessary censorship that sets us miles backwards rather than any steps forward.
This sort of humour is in Shrek for crying out loud. There are issues out there but seems strange to plant the foot down hard here. Only need to look at conker to see the glory of that humour in full force and honestly I respect it more because of it. One of my favourite games ever as a young kid.
The issues with this beloved quick captain were a few things.
It was an immortalization of another person with the last name of "Dicken", a fair and honorable move for the devs.
It was (un)intentionally a phrase that has consistently been interpreted as an innuendo. Yes, this was the guy's last name, but every single person that liked and remembered this captain's name knew it was a walking innuendo and a magical encounter just by the captain's name alone.
This can be considered a "harmless" innuendo. However, just going onto Twitter, Reddit, or even a Community Discord or Xbox Post, someone is posting another user's inappropriate ship name on display to shame them (and mass report them). These problematic people are making excuses and trying to bypass censors by making similarly clever innuendos about much worse things. "Caulk and Balls" (won't be surprised if I get in trouble for just simply posting the name) was the ship name of an EU content creator who later got their ship naming revoked and their ship's name changed to Default.
Anyone can defend that choice of name, but at the end of the day, it was inappropriate and Rare now has to make sure that the other assets of their game follow similar standards to ship naming. This captain's name was being used in vein for being the longest running innuendo in the game, and it would be inevitable that bad people doing horrible things can't let everyone else simply have fun.
Captain Quick Dicken will be missed, but there's nothing we can really do to bring them back. It'd be better to just simply shake our heads at the rogues of this playerbase for making a mockery of the ship naming censorship and proceeding to make arguments against it.
@nex-stargaze I see what you’re saying but overall I disagree on the concept that innuendo should have to be harshly punished and treated exponentially more worse than what it literally is. Even the example you made isn’t even bad in itself.
It’s a shame because the character itself, even by innuendo standards, is insanely tame. So much so that young kids would get the humour and move on. Think it’s one of those “here is a non issues we should address unnecessarily”.
The game needs to have better filter systems for names and should make better distinctions between innuendo and offensive content. I’d hate to get a ship renamed because someone somewhere found offence when there is no ill intent or malice, or even over harmless plays on words.
@kalgert said in Bring Back Captain Quick Dicken!:
This is a result of "Modern day sensibilities", ladies and gents.
Just look at the Saints Row Reboot and see what happens when developers get the idea that humor from even ten years ago suddenly became "Inappropriate".
That's not really what happened here
The filter wasn't any good, it prevented words it really shouldn't have while allowing combinations of words it never should have. Obvious stuff. Examining stuff I have personally found and people I know have found, very obvious stuff.
Once people start passing around what wasn't allowed/faced some form of enforcement while people see really unfortunate combinations of words being used it brings heat on the devs and humor within the game or other games the company is linked to.
This all circles back to a filter system that needed to be stronger from the beginning imo.
Quick was a victim of unfortunate filter circumstance.
If they wanted to get rid of him they would have done it before.
They have allowed multiple threads about this where people are being silly/funny with their word usage about him. Not an indicator of what "Modern day sensibilities" implies.
Can you spare a minute to help OneEyed W1lliam?
