An interesting development

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We have been made aware of racist abuse and other offensive topics in the chat areas of the lobbies for Total War and Total War:Barbarian Invasion online play. Since the lobbies are community areas to support the enjoyment of the games, we regard such comments as unacceptable and restricting other users from enjoying the services.

Since it is techically not possible to ban the offending users from the lobbies, we regret that we will be turning off the chat facility in the lobbies to ensure that this forum is not used further for indecent topics and users do not become offended by such behaviour. Please note that this board for arranging online battles will remain active at this stage.

We apologise for the inconvenience caused by this action but we hope that you will appreciate that our aim is to provide an enjoyable gaming environment for everyone.

I'd like to thank all the [This word has been edited out by Rob The Bastard as he deemed the word used to be profanity... a PM was sent to Grey_Fox asking that the word be removed but there was no response in the time frame allowed... I tell you there is nothing but work!, work!, work! around here. I return you to the regularly scheduled harangue]so online that made this possible, they have apparently achieved their aims of ruining TW online.

I'd also like to say that this would have been avoidable if CA had created a ban/ignore function that actually worked permanently, instead of breaking after either logging off or coming out from a game. This action is like burning down a house to kill one or two fleas.