I have had the little virus looking non-combat pet named covid for over a year now. I was just banned for 24 hours mid Raz fight because of this pet name.
I looked and cannot find any ToS mention of this name being considered a slur or whatever you banned me for… but seeing as I am currently suffering from covid, this feels like some sort of gross misuse of a ban. If suddenly you decided you want to pretend Covid doesn’t exist, or is a slur now… Ill change the name. If you really feel I deserve to be banned on one of my sick days over this completely non offensive pet name, then I really need to reconsider supporting this game anymore.
If I had named my pet “Flu” would you still have banned me? This is rather disgusting.
Frankly u shouldve never named it after a killer disease people have died of it and are suffering long term effects because of it. To set the bar high i realy dont see any apeal being successful.
Well, it is kinda of an insensitive choice of name as people lost friends and family to it. If you got a 24 suspension, means you have a questionable history with names.
How about being a grown up and maybe rethink your name choices.
Yup, and you are quite on track to losing your posting privileges. If find it more pathetic that people make light of something that killed quite a few people.
There isn’t a conversation. You are having a hissy fit because you got caught. Take you licks and move on, just so you know, the next violation will be a bit longer.
It doesn’t have to be offensive to be inappropriate.
For something that has killed thousands upon thousands of Americans alone, never mind other nationalities, it absolutely has no place in this game. It’s the butt of a rather divisive narrative on top of that. That alone is worth it not having a place.
Just that it’s inappropriate. Someone saw your pet and reported it because it was offensive to them. It may have been multiple someones, we have no way of knowing, but it only takes a single report. Blizzard does not have a hard and fast list of what should be common sense to avoid using because things are ever fluid and changing, and we as players are creative when it comes to trying to sidle around the rules.
This isn’t anything new. I’ve found posts from nearly three years ago with someone proactively trying to get the terminology banned from being used as a name because of the havoc it’s wrecked against the human population.
There is also a history from as far back as 2020 that people were getting sanctioned for using variants (as previously mentioned, the player base can indeed get creative). You might think it amusing, but someone who lost several close friends or family members due to it aren’t going to be gaining a chuckle from your creativity.
As someone who worked in a hospital during this horrible time even I agree naming something covid was very immature and childish just because it took you this long to get caught doesn’t give you the right to have a tantrum.
Maybe this ban will help you realize covid wasn’t fun and games and by now many are just tired of dealing with anything that deals with it hell I still have memories of seeing patients die from covid when I worked at the hospital.
Enjoy your ban and come back a better person for it.