I received this email today.
" Action(s) Taken:
Account Suspended
Ghostcrawler was permanently renamed, or is going to be renamed.
Violation: Inappropriate Name
Your fellow players reported your in-game name as inappropriate multiple times.
Suspension expires on: 2021 July 05 20:13 UTC
After a thorough investigation of the evidence, we have Suspended your World of Warcraft account."
I never renamed any named pets, I didn’t even think you can rename a pet that retained it’s name after taming. I know for a fact I never renamed Ghostcrawler which I just tamed 2 days ago. I don’t know what happened but I didn’t do anything close to what it says in the email. Don’t know if I was hacked or what. Nothing like that has happened before. Can someone help with this?
You should have received an email coinciding with the action taken. Follow the steps provided to get started.
Alternatively, the link in this support article leads to the same place.
Though this suspension has already passed? Roughly 23 hours ago.
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It does seem as if it already passed but it’s completely false. What if it keeps happening I don’t know if it happened already and I don’t know how it happened in the first place. I’ll try using that link you provided, thank you.
I would still see if you can appeal it just to get the mark removed-- any future actions taken will only compound off this one.
Ghostcrawler was a very prominent figure when they were employed by Blizzard, which is probably what the report was based on. As I don’t routinely play a hunter, I’m not sure whether that mob keeps its name upon tame or not.
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To my knowledge it does.
Edit:
Originally it didn’t keep it’s name, but a change was made a few years ago to allow rare tames to retain their pre-tame names.
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It does keep it’s name as far as I’m aware. It did when I tamed it and Petopia a resource for Hunter pets says that it retains it’s original name of Ghostcrawler.
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this isn’t the first report i’ve seen of this.
someone else had their Huolon tame get a forced name change.
i think GMs need some education in regards to tamed rares retaining their names.
this is a change which was made to the game.
players don’t have the ability to give these names to pets.
it’s not really fair to make this change, and then force rename the pets and action players for daring to tame a rare.
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It looks like you have already filed an appeal ticket in regards to this. That would have been my recommendation.
We don’t allow disciplinary actions to be discussed on the forums though so I’m going to close this topic.
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