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Hey, I noticed you undid my edit.

The reason why I wrote it off as an error is because Battle Network 3 to 5 actually fixed the mistake and correctly put the exclamation marks outside.I can provide screenshots to illustrate that the later titles actually went out of their way to fix this.

British and American English standards work the same way in regards to quotation marks.

Exclamation Marks and Question Marks go outside unless whatever they're quoting is exclaiming something or if they're referencing someone using a question.

The general rule is: If the quote is not a question or exclamation, the punctuation mark goes outside of the quotation marks. You’ll often see this when someone is referencing something another person said.

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/quotation-marks/

For example: What did you mean by "that?"

makes no sense, but it's common and plagued throughout Battle Network 2.

Because it's not quoting a question and is used as emphasis, it would be: What did you mean by "that"?

Grammarly.com and many other websites will tell you the same. One of their examples illustrates why Battle Network 2's usage of exclamation marks and question marks inside the quotation marks is actually an error.

"If they apply to the quoted material, they go within the quotation marks. If they apply to the whole sentence, they go outside it:

Sandy asked them, “Why do you guys always fight?”

Did the dog bark every time he heard Sandy say “I’m bringing dinner”? " 