Haven and Hearth has shifted to, fundamentally, a pay-to-play model, and in that shift, I feel that there's a mounting pressure that this sort of controversial naming needs to be reigned in.
I arrive at this sensation, because now—rather than a free social experiment, this game and company has evolved into a business, and as a business, there comes that inherent expectation of professionalism. And in such an expectation, there is the notion that subscribers need to meet a minimum level of respect among members, as so often seen in the Terms of Service of near every MMO.
While I have always been concerned with this particular crudeness in the community, I never brought it up, because as a free player, my stake in the company attitude was essentially nil. However, as I type in my debit card info, I cannot help but resolve, that as a paying customer, I have a little more reason to suggest that: In no way, should Seatribe permit players' use of any abusive, defamatory, ethnically or racially offensive, harassing, harmful, hateful, or threatening language.
This is my initial thought on this topic, after just viewing this crossroad sign.
If I had to compromise, I would say, I could tolerate seeing this language anywhere except in institutionalized ways: i.e., naming of a building, object or structure, as shown above image. Similarly, I'd abhor to see such language used in the naming of villages, livestock, or player characters.
As you can suspect, I have a very difficult time understanding arguments that advocate using the above language.
So please, I invite you to discuss why Seatribe and this community should not, or should be held to this contemporary civil standard in Western gaming.
tl;dr: I want Seatribe to curb the use of naughty language (see bold text). Should they or shouldn't they become a little more strict?
Seatribe's current ToS: That thing you skipped over when paying for the game.