Name Violation - Account suspension ( i am paying a game that i am afraid to play)

Pitagriffin-thrall · September 17, 2020, 5:56pm

Beep bop boop.

Fenny-wyrmrest-accord · September 17, 2020, 6:01pm

Thë:

I have played WOW for 13+ years , and i have many characters with strange names.

Recently, due to the Pandemic Melbourne AU is in lock down, so i came back to wow. During the past 2 month sub i received two suspensions due to name violations. (i am paying a game that i am afraid to play)

I am having trouble understanding as WHY was i able to create that character with this name in the first place, let along play it for the many levels, and in my case many years. And then was brutally told nope, you can not use that name and it is your fault and you the paying customer will be punished for it.

in total i received 6 days suspension during the 2 month sub.

First ban i was logging on after a year away from the game to move mail out of that character so i can delete it. That character has been sitting there for many years on a low pop server, i do not believe it was possible to get the amount of reports to ban that time.

Second time yesterday, druid i leveled to level 19 and was also just logged on to move mail and received an instantaneous ban. Why did i use the same name? because i was allowed to at the creation of the character.

Am i on the wrong track of thoughts or was i just stupid?

ps. I have a 3rd character with that exact name a level 120 Gnome monk on Tichondrius alliance Which i played for more than 8 years. Was wondering whether can the GMs just help me change that name also. I do not wish to get another ban. I am too afraid to log on to that character now.

I gotta know what this name is.

Verdre-silvermoon · September 17, 2020, 6:02pm

There’s an answer for that. Ok, “that name is not permitted” is a catch all category. IT doesn’t mean the name is offensive, but rather that the name is BLOCKED for some reason.

The primary reason of course is the name is offensive. The secondary reason, not so common, is that you’re trying to take a name of a blizzard employee or the like.

IE “Shane from Accounting.”

This is to avoid potential legal issues of someone taking Shane’s name and in game saying “yes, I’m Shane from Blizzard.”

You can imagine scammers would LOVE to use that.

So there are names that are BLOCKED for reasons besides being Offensive.

Verdre-silvermoon · September 17, 2020, 6:03pm

Taking the same exact name COULD actually get punishment. IE “circumventing the rules” and all that. A guy actually tried that, renaming his toon the same exact name. Blizzard gave him an actual in game BAN for trying that.

Thraus-illidan · September 17, 2020, 6:11pm

I wouldnt make character names resembling anything with profanity sex or discrimination. also if its derrogatory. Just my two cents. Good luck going forward!

Verdre-silvermoon · September 17, 2020, 6:15pm

I’ve told people that of all my names, if one of them happened to be offensive … I’d be honestly shocked. But I wouldn’t complain and I’d think even harder on how to create an even more interesting name.

Zarikas-ysera · September 17, 2020, 6:16pm

I had a pandarian monk named Anuslicker for a while…then Blizzard forced a name change.

Gentlebreeze-nesingwary · September 17, 2020, 6:22pm

My toons have always been named based on the perceived culture in which their race lives. My Tauren are named based on Native American tribes, my Highmountain Tauren are named after Native American tribes, my Blood Elves have Greek or Greek sounding names, my goblins are named after mechanical parts, sounds or made-up words. My trolls’ names sound African tribal or Jamaican. My Draenei names sound Eastern European. Except my lightforged paladin named Palidynn. My pandaren have Chinese names.

It just strikes me as so immature that people name their toons offensive names on purpose. A former guildmate named his mage Illegalalien and had it flagged for change so many times they eventually banned him, I heard. He was not a very nice person a lot of the time, so it was no great loss.

Gentlebreeze-nesingwary · September 17, 2020, 6:22pm

What the … I don’t even … You should have been banhammered.

Zarikas-ysera · September 17, 2020, 6:37pm

I mean for 48 hours I was

Valimond-earthen-ring · September 17, 2020, 6:42pm

I did have something like that happen. I have used the name Trumpkin for my dwarf characters for years. Trumpkin is a dwarf from C.S. Lewis’s Narnia works.

Thanks to a . . well. . current history. . Someone out of the blue reported it and I guess managed to get others to report it to.

Even before then I would get people sending me tells on my mage Digory if I liked Harry Potter. . I was like NO. . his name is from Narnia!!

Calmaf-sargeras-720927 · September 17, 2020, 7:05pm

They could easily just not allow the user to use the same name again. Banning for such a thing is ridiculous. Especially for such an easy and harmless “circumvention”.

Gârin-greymane · September 17, 2020, 7:08pm

I hope he renamed it to shum lmao

Brezme-zuljin · September 17, 2020, 7:18pm

I don’t think they routinely add offensive names to the list. Only the most heinous ones would end up there.

Nèmo-wyrmrest-accord · September 17, 2020, 7:19pm

The fact that you re-used the name kinda indicates that you are not getting the message.

Brezme-zuljin · September 17, 2020, 7:22pm

While they could create a routine that prevents you from taking a name that’s been reported, by the time you are kicked to the rename screen, your name has already been changed to one which has a string of numbers after it.

Nobody gets suspended the first time they get a free name change, unless the name is judged highly offensive by an employee.

Continuing to re-use the same name AFTER having gotten suspended for doing this already is out there.

Calmaf-sargeras-720927 · September 17, 2020, 8:20pm

I know, it’s what happened to me, I could just use the exact same name again and I’m still using it years later. But they person I was replying to claims that someone got banned for even attempting to use the same name again, which is ridiculous whether it happened or not, but I certainly hope it didn’t. When I got forced a rename, I didn’t even get any warning message. It just kicked me out and asked me to rename with no reason given. At that point, the player will naturally at least try to use the same name they had again and preventing that is an easy task. If they can really ban you for trying it, then they know what the name was and can simply not allow you to use it.

Autai-wyrmrest-accord · September 17, 2020, 8:22pm

Gentlebreeze:

Thë:

I am having trouble understanding as WHY was i able to create that character with this name in the first place, let along play it for the many levels, and in my case many years. And then was brutally told nope, you can not use that name and it is your fault and you the paying customer will be punished for it.

You knew it was wrong, but you created it anyway. That’s why. If you’d read the ToS, you would know that.

I had an old guildmate that seemingly wanted to get himself banned, and he finally did. He purposely chose an offensive name to see how long it took to get suspended.

You know it’s wrong, you have that same name on multiple characters so … you do get what is deserved punishment. The first time you got banned and you were told why, you should have opened a ticket, explained the problem (that you were 13 years younger and not as mature as you are now) and want to have the toons flagged for name change so as not to get another ban.

You have a great name for a Tauren

Rahkeetahp-aerie-peak · September 17, 2020, 8:38pm

what in gods name are you people naming your characters that could even get you suspended or banned?

Perìsh-moon-guard · September 17, 2020, 8:38pm

Okay, so I am curious. What did you even name yourself anyway that got you banned? Considering you’ve yet to mention that, it had to be something pretty disturbing and worthy of a ban.

Also, depending on if you are on a RP server or not you can also have your name flagged for not following community guidelines and RP etiquette. “Cobofcorn” could get you flagged for a rename for example, simply because when you think of a name someone is going to RP under, it just doesn’t fit.

Well given that there isn’t anything wrong with the name. I have a friend who named her monk Kungfufu. It had been flagged for a re-name about two years ago or so and she was pretty upset and thought that the system was a joke. So I told her she could just rename her character that again. She did and hasn’t had to change it since.

Naming your character something obscene just to make people mad or just to be disgusting, then I can see why people would be flagged for a rename, but something as harmless as that? Just seems a bit excessive.