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I really like the naming policy Blizzard's implementing. Especially since none of the name I've come up with have to be changed. Yay! One thing I wish they'd add is something that says you can't put numbers in your character names. They've got a "no l337 speak" policy, but that still won't keep people from having names like "Marie39". The thing I'm wondering is...what about last names? Supposedly Blizzard was going to introduce them at some point, right? Any idea if they're still planning on doing that? I really hope they are.
I find all the types of names Blizzard is restricting to be...jarring. Esspecially in an MMORPG setting. I don't think it's too much to ask for people to put a bit of extra time and effort into selecting their names, if it'll improve the atmosphere of the game world.
EDIT: I find the names jarring, not Blizzard's restricting them. :P I just reread my post and figured I should clear that up.
While I certainly approve of the sentiment, I have to say that you couldn't PAY me to try and enforce something this subjective. A slur may be punished by:
A) immediate warning/suspension and potential banning if it's racial/ethnic (and "racial/ethnic connotations"? Does that mean names that are traditionally associated with an ethnic group?)
B) possible warning/suspension at Blizzard's discretion but NOT banning if it's sexual orientation (it's the only item in the policy that says action "MAY" be taken instead of "WILL", read what you will into that)
C) mandatory warning, but no more serious action (suspension/banning), if it's "national" (I presume this means Polish jokes?) or religious
They're all essentially the same offense, yet. Why should someone get off easier because they bash (fantasy example) humans from Stormwind instead of all humans?
The pop culture rule, with accompanying MANDATORY warning, also strikes me as rather subjective. Some GM's going to decide whether "Robin" is an allusion to the sidekick of Batman (i.e. not fantasy appropriate), Monty Python's Knight of the Round (still pop culture, but at least fantasy themed), or simply the bird (a common source of fantasy names)?
Although I feel it to be a bit harsh, essp because they will enforce this on all the servers, not just the RP servers (if they have them). Not everyone likes to RP. This just meens the non-RPers will have to become more creative with thier names.
I would like to see how far Blizzard's GMs will go with this. They left it pretty vague.
Now, i can understand why they would get rid of obscene/vulgar and racial/ethnic slur nonsense, but why must the get rid of the stupid sentence names?
Those are my favourites. I mean come on, welovebeef is a great name. I had an assasin called TrappedInATrap on d2 while my brother had a necro called EatSomeBone and an amazon called TooMuchBeef (he got this because beef is the staple of my families diet). I personally think that rule will make the game have LESS creative names.
I was gonna make a character called SkeletonKiss (will be forsaken) will this not be allowed since it has two different words in it?
And i always enjoy seeing people with names along the line of Roflcopter (this one particularly is great).
in my opinion, they are being a bit strick on their policy. what would be cool is if they intergrated a 'nickname' system. they can keep this policy for regular names, but we would have a choice to have my warlock (let's say his name is Dayle Wegoro) to have the nickname of Dr.Dreadful. and they still would not allow obscenities.
I'm with Armadillo... while I think that the naming restrictions are a noble effort, I don't see how they can possibly be enforced without a full-time staff of Name ****s badgering everyone to change their names. And since about 75%+ of the names I saw on the stress test violate these rules, that's a lot of badgering to do. I would prefer that people choose appropriate names, but it's almost impossible to force them to do so, and to try is misguided. This is something that's much better confined to dedicated roleplaying servers.
Will Blizzard really ban three quarters of their customers because they won't play the game the way Blizzard thinks they should? I very much doubt it.
Can one of the beta testers find out if they are planning to have
name generators for each of the races? This would be mucho cool. I don't
care too much what my name is, I just want to sound like a tauren, dwarf,
troll, or orc name.
Can one of the beta testers find out if they are planning to have
name generators for each of the races? This would be mucho cool. I don't
care too much what my name is, I just want to sound like a tauren, dwarf,
troll, or orc name.
I saw a recent screenshot of the new character creation screen, and there was a new "Randomize" button underneath the character name (in addition to the one under appearance). So it looks like the answer is yes.\
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