Q&A with THQ’s Cory Ledesma
While at the event that let us get good look at what WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2010 is all about, we had the opportunity to chat for a bit with THQ Senior Creative Manager Cory Ledesma about some of the specifics of the upcoming title. What follows is a transcript of our talk:
Kombo: The WWE has been known in the past for having some pretty risque content (“two words for ya’,” some of Stone Cold Steve Austin’s mannerisms). With all of the online content and sharing that will be taking place, is there any sort of provision in place to keep people from going overboard?
Cory Ledesma: That’s a great question. We’ve done a couple of different things for that in particular; basically, what we’ve decided to do was that we wanted the community to regulate themselves, govern themselves.
So we’ve offered the ability to flag content as inappropriate. If the community starts to deem certain kinds of content inappropriate, if it gets flagged a certain amount of times, it will be removed from the server. That’s one thing that we’ve done.
Also, with the story, you can write your own dialogue. We do a language filter for that dialogue, so as you post your content, it will be run through a language filter, and we will asterisk out any inappropriate material.
Of course, there’s always ways around that, and THQ reserves the right to remove any content that it might feel is inappropriate, and that can be done through the server. But we give users the freedom to do almost whatever they want, as long as it’s tasteful and doesn’t offend a large majority of people.
We want to give freedom, we don’t really like restricting people, so we try to limit that as much as possible. We did add some things to make sure that we don’t go overboard; our fans can get carried away, they’re a very creative bunch, but we want to make sure everything is tasteful.
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