Say hypothetically someone gets blacklisted on a server in Classic by having a bad rep to their name.
This individual ninja looted, kept leaving dungeons half way through, was trolling hardcore etc. If this individual were to change his/hers character name (by using the paid feature) would they then be able to have a clean slate?
Would all the people who ignored him/her now not be on their ignore list?
You won’t be able to change your name
pretty sure name change will be added to classic and/or people will abuse multipple accounts to report themselves and/or request name changes due to player harrassment. it happened all the time in classic. name changes will happen, whether as a paid service, or via whining about being stalked/harassed. =p
And so a name change would change their behavior? Not likely.
You’d still be on people’s lists; the name would just change. You’re not going to fool most people changing the name unless they forgot about you.
And the behaviour of those harassing them?
You assume much.
Falastur is right.
If someone is that bad, they’ll almost certainly try to change their identity and fly under the radar, but if they’re THAT bad, they won’t be able to fly under the radar forever. They’ll get found out and blacklisted once again in short order.
I have to wonder if Blizzard has a way of determining whether someone has multiple accounts and tracking their behaviour. Im not a tech so I don’t know about those sorts of things really.
I guess you can always make a new toon and start again and improve your behaviour but thats a lot of work. Hopefully not too many people think its worth the effort.
I think things like ignore may be tied to your battle tag ID even though it shows the character name.
dont do s** that would get you blacklisted to begin with…you get no love from anyone…at all
Wait a sec, are we talking about the perp’s behavior or those affected by it? I don’t harass anyone that is cool and actually tolerate quite a bit of garbage before I /ignore.
That’s one aspect that gets overhyped a bit. Specially considering how large the servers will be.
You’d really, really need to be a grade A craphead to get blacklisted by an entire server of thousands of players. Guilds might be a different story though if you intend on taking raiding seriously but again, what’s going to get you kicked first and foremost from a guild is being a drama queen, which is again, rather easily avoidable if you know how to be a decent human being.
If someone has you on their friend list, I believe it will show your name change and they will probably just update the blacklist. At least I remember that being the case in WoTLK.
I actually remember we had this happen on my realm server back in 2006 with a particularly rampant ninja-looting hunter ( big shock being a hunter and all I know ).
He was that well known for it, he became the local joke topic in ironforge, before he even made it to 60. Then things went quiet for a little until he came back after a break hoping the storm had blown over and he had his name successfully changed by a GM request.
The hilarity then kicked in when there was a team in ironforge announcing his new name and the fact he had just ninja looted on a run. The funny thing was no one put 2 + 2 together until one of his old RL friends pipped up in general chat and outed him for being the other guy, just with his name changed. The ninja looter then pipped up in general himself and had it out with his RL mate for outing him over the name change, all of this going on outside the AH in ironforge, all in general chat.
It was one of those moment when you got to see karma in play. It ended with him spending over a week in ironforge trying to apologize to the server for his past misdeeds in an attempt to salvage his toon, for him to be told by countless people he needs to reroll to escape his bad rep.
No one ever saw him after that, so he either changed his ways or ditched the game, either way the server was at peace as we had got rid of the worst ninja looter iv’e ever seen.
Reputation does matter, screw yourself at your own risk.
I’ve seen that happen several times too back in vanilla. Ninja looting, trolling, getting raids wiped on purpose, scamming, the names got known and blacklisted. There would always be someone around to out the person, whether they would try using an alt or manage a name change, and that would be blacklisted too.
You can change your toon, you can maybe change your name, but if you’re a crappy person, you have to change that too, or you won’t be able to escape the blacklist.
You would still be on their list, also all your alts will be as well as far as I am aware when you ignore some one it ignores their battle tag not their toon …so if you going to ninja and think being on an alt is going to save you think again.
How it will work now with bnet and all, I don’t know, but…
if you are a jerk and ninja and overall not liked, good luck trying to redeem yourself, it mostly won’t happen.
back in vanilla, if someone got blacklisted, about the only hope they had was to reroll on a different server. Even rolling on the same one was a risk, people are very observant, and everyone has some kind of mannerism or way of saying something, typing, etc, that is going to raise suspicions. You will eventually be outed for who you were.
Not worth getting blacklisted if you want to keep playing.
Delete character
Make new character with same name
Restore character.
I give it a month before activision adds paid services like race/faction change etc.
Will make it easier for a server to find all the alts of the [insert words of choice here]… no matter what character, no matter what server, if they’re on someones friends list at a Bnet level we can get ALL their characters!
well that sounds like a real good reason not to be an idiot then 